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With a Cosina Auto Cosinon 50mm f1.7.
The day before, a coxed four of our daughter's friends capsized their boat attempting to avoid another boat and turn at this juncture.
The Durham Regatta was first raced in 1834. It's the second oldest rowing regatta in England, after the Chester regatta.
Durham 3 December 2022.
This reinforced concrete footbridge was designed by Ove Arup, founder of the companies that bear his name. Completed in 1966, it was the last ever structure of his own design, and links the main Durham peninsula (to the left) to Dunelm House, seen here and also a product of Arup inspired design and construction. It is known as the Kingsgate Bridge and is Listed Grade 1.
Ove Arup was born in Newcastle in 1895 of a Danish father and Norwegian mother, over his 92 year lifetime being regarded as one of the foremost structural engineers in the world, responsible for, or a key contributor to, such diverse projects as the penguin pool at Regent's Park Zoo, air raid shelters, Mulberry Harbours (floating harbours taken across to France to aid landing forces in Normandy in 1944), Sydney Opera House and the cantilever Van Ginkel Footbridge in St Johns, Canada. After his death in 1998 and. as was his wish, his ashes were scattered from the Kingsgate Bridge, which he regarded very highly.
The Durham Union Society building, a unique mishmash of buildings in the city centre - right opposite the magnificent Durham Cathedral.
This is probably one of the most photographed scenes in Durham City. This is an old photo I took a few years back. I thought I'd have another try and see what, if anything, I could do to improve it.
Durham World Heritage Site was inscribed by UNESCO in 1986 (among the first UK sites to be listed) in recognition of its Outstanding Universal Value. The site's architectural importance lies in the fact that Durham Cathedral and Castle are among the greatest monuments of the Norman Conquest of Britain, and that Durham Cathedral, built between 1093 and 1133, is one of the finest examples of Norman architecture in Europe.
The site is also outstanding because of its political history: the Castle and Cathedral reflect the unique status of the Prince-Bishops of Durham. The Prince-Bishops were religious leaders who also had secular powers — they governed a virtually autonomous state that formed the buffer zone between England and Scotland from the late eleventh century until 1603.
Looking back to Durham Cathedral “Photographers’ Evening” in August 2019, Here are a few pics that either slipped through the net or have been reworked.
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"Heron" was created by artist Jon Voss and debuted successfully at the 2017 Lumiere Durham festival. This wonderful art work has been place in one of the most un-photographic locations in the city. Best photographed at night!
A couple of days before the Spring equinox and the late afternoon sun hangs low in the sky bathing the riverside footpath at Durham in a rather fetching golden light. If it had been a litter warmer it would have felt more like a Summer's evening than the very end of Winter. Still, it was pleasant enough to encourage some student to sit on the grass for an inpromptu picnic!
One of my first excursions out and about with my camera since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown and it was to photograph Prebends Bridge in Durham.
Around a couple of weeks ago I spotted an item on social media, with a photograph, claiming that this historic bridge was once part of the Great North Road. It seemed that the source of the information was Durham Cathedral's website and so I thought I'd take the opportunity to point out that Prebends Bridge has never, at any time, been part of the Great North Road.
The present Grade I listed Prebends Bridge was built at the request of the then Dean of Durham Cathedral for the private use of the Dean and Chapter to gain access to the cathedral via the Water Gate at the South Bailey. It was designed by George Nicholson with building work beginning in 1772 and completed in 1778. It replaced an earlier wooden bridge that crossed the river just a few metres further upstream.
As for the actual route of the Great North Road through the city, it came up from the south of the city, through Croxdale and followed the route into the city centre via South Road. The route then went along Church Street past St Oswald’s Church and down New Elvet, passing by the Three Tuns, a former coaching stop.
It turned left here, up across Elvet Bridge, through Market Place and down through Silver Street crossing Framwellgate Bridge.
Once across the bridge, the road began heading north once again and would eventually re-join the present-day A167 via Millburngate, Framwellgate and Framwellgate Peth.
It is interesting to note, looking at a modern map, that a slightly more direct route would be to enter and exit the city via North Road, however, prior to 1831 north Road did not exist. At the time, plans were being proposed for the Great North Road to bypass the city altogether because the journey in and out via Millburngate and Framwellgate was long and steep and proving unpopular. However, in an effort, to keep the route through the city open, it was decided that a new street needed to be built and the result was North Road.
Little more than a decade later however, the railways had arrived and the days of the stage-coach were over. The last coach from London to Newcastle left in 1842 and the last from Newcastle to Edinburgh in 1847.
I since contacted Durham Cathedral and pointed out the error and they have explained that they will in due course correct the information.
Durham city
North east England
Nikon 850
Tamron 35-150(62mm)Di OSD
Nisi landscape Cpl
Nisi 4 stop medium grad
F 11
1 second exposure
Iso 64
Edited in Lightroom with Nik
A busker on Framwellgate Bridge, Durham. He's playing an Errington electric mandolin, inherited from his father and made by the same guy that made a couple of my guitars.
The Durham Heritage Coast at Easington with Beacon Hill in the background.
The Durham Coast once had a number of coal mines operating along the clifftops, mining coal from seams out under the sea.
At a time when the environment wasn't as respected as it is today, it was convenient to simply dump the mine waste directly on the beaches.
This went on for years and as a consequence, what were once beautiful beaches, were blackened by the pollution.
After the collieries closed, there was a focus on the legacy of the industry. The mining sites were cleared and landscaped, but there was another legacy that needed to be sorted.
Between 1997 and 2002, a £10 million project was carried out bringing together a number of different agencies in a partnership to clear up the blighted coast.
The partnership was given the name 'Turning the Tide' and it did wonders for the Durham coast.
Discovered a new perspective of Durham Cathedral, although I learn that this viewpoint has a bit of a somewhat gruesome history.
The place is called 'Gibbet Knowle' and in the days when public executions took place at Dryburn, this was the hill where dead bodies were left hanging from a gibbet.
Flass Vale is the name of the area, near to Crossgate Moor and it's steeped in history.
It's thought to be the route through which monks from Durham Cathedral travelled to the medieval estate of Beaurepaire, with its priory (now known as Bearpark).
There is also a Bronze Age burial mound, known as the 'Maiden's Bower' although blink, and you might miss it as it is almost entirely concealed by the surrounding woodland.
The earliest recorded mention of the listed historic monument was in 1346 when, at the Battle of Neville's Cross, Prior John Fossor of Durham had a vision telling him to take the corporeal cloth (the cloth used to cover the host during the Mass) of Saint Cuthbert and and raise it at the 'Maiden's Bower'.
Considering the close proximity of Flass Vale to Durham's city centre, I didn't pass a single soul on today's first visit!