'Coal Staiths of the Tyne' exhibition
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- An exhibition of rarely-seen photographs by one of Tyneside’s most important documentary photographers opens at St Mary’s Heritage Centre in Gateshead on Wednesday 9 September.
‘Coal Staiths of the Tyne‘ features photographs by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, who is best known for her 1983 book ‘Byker’, a portrait of a Newcastle community which was soon to be relocated by the Byker Wall.
This audio slide show offers a sneak preview of the exhibition, and is accompanied by a soundtrack in which Sirkka talks about the inspiration behind her photographs and the process of capturing the images.
Fantastic - thank you.
Brilliant video and memories of growing up in Dunston.
Did you get to know how the staithes worked? The clever way the coal trucks got from pit head to riverside, the coal from truck to ship? I experienced it as a boy of nine in 1963 on my first sea voyage taking coal from Dunston to Battersea power station. I have a question, what are those shaped pieces of wood so in abundance between the rails under the trucks? I don't remember seeing those at the time.
Fascinating pics.
A living record of industry at the time.
Now a history of times gone .
Grew up in Dunston in the 60s 70s remember all the coal ships
I played there as a child but back then all the tracks and fittings were gone