Our Past and Our Region

About 10 years ago, the University of Newcastle completed the Structural Images of the North East SINE project.   This provides an excellent educational resource which is catalogued, indexed and mapped.   It spans several local photographic collections, including those of Grace McCombie, Stafford Linsley, Norman McCord and Thomas Harrison Hair.

Kibblesworth Crossing on the Bowes Railway, 1974
(copyright Stafford Linsley & University of Newcastle)

There are many ways to access the project.   You may find it interesting to approach via a map of structures in your favourite locality, eg around Tanfield Railway.    This shows houses at Marley Hill pit, the old bridge at Houghwell Burn, etc.   Get used to the zoom in/out and cross hairs.

These links and many others are provided on this blog - click  under the heading picture.