Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Category: South Gare

  • Coal Dust and Grief: The Senghenydd Colliery Disaster of 1913

    Coal Dust and Grief: The Senghenydd Colliery Disaster of 1913

    An afternoon’s saunter on South Gare, where the Tees River meets the sea. A remarkably high tide, a strong westerly breeze, and a rainbow glistening on the roaring waves. Or should I perhaps refer to that as a ‘spray bow’? Cobwebs duly blown away, I thought about how I could relate Britain’s worst pit disaster,…

  • Tees Bay Pilots—A legacy of expertise and evolution

    Tees Bay Pilots—A legacy of expertise and evolution

    An early evening trip to the South Gare rewarded us with windswept skies and sunlit wind turbines. However, it was the western skies across the Tees bay that truly stole the show, presenting a more dramatic spectacle. A huge container ship had just passed by the Gare, en route to some distant port. Guiding this…

  • South Gare – Storm Arwen

    South Gare – Storm Arwen

    Even though Storm Arwen was abating, a north wind of 66 mph was still forecasted. A good day for blowing the cobwebs away. And a high tide to boot. The South Gare breakwater, guarding the entrance to the River Tees, was completed in 1888 as one of a suite of projects to improve access to…

  • South Gare Fishermen’s Association

    South Gare Fishermen’s Association

    An early walk on the beach this morning at South Gare, almost deserted with the sun breaking through the clouds. A few telltale plumes of smoke from the fishermen’s huts give away their occupancy. There have been recent assurances that the 101, 12ft square huts will not be demolished when the steelworks site is redeveloped.…

  • South Gare

    South Gare

    Shipping forecast for sea area Tyne GALE WARNING issued 9 December 2019 09:54 UTC WIND Northwesterly, backing southerly, 7 to severe gale 9, then decreasing 4 to 6 for a time SEA STATE Rough or very rough. WEATHER Showers then rain. VISIBILITY Good, occasionally poor. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • At the South Gare

    At the South Gare

    Enjoyed yesterday’s stroll on the beach so much, headed to the South Gare. Of course, by the lunar clock, an hour earlier. Two hours off high tide. Wave height only 7 foot but the lighting superb. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • A lone Redshank amongst a flock of sleeping Oystercatchers

    A lone Redshank amongst a flock of sleeping Oystercatchers

    A mooch around South Gare at the mouth of the Tees. Twitchers were twitching over a black-throated diver. Apparently. But it was so far away I couldn’t make out any detail. Could well have been a cormorant as far as I knew. Instead, a lone Redshank amongst a flock of sleeping Oystercatchers caught my attention.…

  • South Gare

    South Gare

    I think Redcar and Cleveland Council are missing a trick. South Gare, on a winter weekday morning was very busy. Dog walkers, bird watchers, folks just enjoying the bracing sea air, no fishermen this time though, must be the wrong time of tide. Yet the tip of the gare is fenced off, barred to the…

  • Pillbox, South Gare

    Pillbox, South Gare

    I went orienteering today … at South Gare, a complex area of sand dunes and reclaimed land created over 150 years of iron production. A bit rusty. Should have picked an easier area. A leg along the beach went past this World War II pillbox almost buried in the sand. Pillboxes were hastily constructed after the fall of…

  • Paddys’ Hole

    Paddys’ Hole

    A small man-made harbour at South Gare at the mouth of the Tees. Named after the Irish navvies who built the South Gare from slag from Teesside’s blast furnaces.