Tag: Marine ecology
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Dredging Up Trouble on the Tees
The tanker Stolt Auk slips past a derelict wooden jetty at South Gare, heading for Rotterdam. The jetty is older than the Gare itself, built before 1888, and once served the North Riding (Fortress) Royal Engineers as part of the river’s coastal defences. It now stands abandoned, a relic of an industrial past that never…
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Paddy’s Hole
A small man-made harbour on the river side of the South Gare Breakwater. Brightly painted boats bob in the breeze and ‘quaint’ boat-houses, once the home of salmon fishermen, align the shore. It is assumed the name, Paddy’s Hole, comes from the large number of Irish navvies that helped build the breakwater between 1863 and…
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Cove Harbour
A quaint harbour just down the coast from Torness Nuclear Power Station. In the summer of 1984, about 200,000 tons of rock from the construction of the power station were dumped about three-quarters of mile offshore from Cove to create an artificial reef about a half-mile long and 200 yd. wide, at the time the…