Penshaw Monument - Again

I've more photos of Penshaw Monument than you can shake a stick at, but I've not seen this particular cloud formation, matching the hill below, before and I couldn't resist yet another photo.

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Things on the beach - Seaham Harbour

I like Seaham, and they are currently spending a wad of money to create a marina in a part of the old harbour, which is great. These photos indicate a link to the past perhaps, not the way that the town is generally moving.

These two gloves were lying on the sand - no human intervention on my part!

This is coal dust on the beach. I don't know if it due to the, now long discontinued, practice of tipping mining spoil into the sea or because there is an exposed seam underwater somewhere.

Here's a couple of rather more pleasant pictures.

The church of St Mary the Virgin, Old Seaham.

Effluent Entering the River Wear

These two photos show the discharge from what I assume to be Northumberland Water's sewage treatment plant in Barmston into the river Wear, adjacent to the Wildfowl centre in Washington. I sent these and other photos to the Sunderland Echo, but not a peck of interest from that quarter (31-1-11). The environment section of Sunderland Council did show some concern however and contacted the national agency whose responsibility it is to monitor river water. I await their comments with interest.

Edit - I had better get the phrase river water pollution UK in here so that it can be picked up by search engines.

So is this a one off incident? Apparently not, the next time I walked that way the stuff was still pouring out (7-2-11)