IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Birkdale Drive, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 4QH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Birkdale Drive, DH4 4QH by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (13 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
1
Mining sculpture at Elba Park
Elba Park is the new name for the reclaimed site of the former Lampton Coke Works and Colliery near Shiney Row. The sculpture represents a miner hand hewing coal from a typical low Co Durham coalfield seam.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 24 Apr 2013
0.13 miles
3
Locomotive, signal and box, Bournmoor Junction, 1968
With a further signal box down the line, and another loco approaching across the level crossing on the A183. Nice finial on the little building.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: Unknown
0.21 miles
4
Steam locomotives, Bournmoor Junction, 1968
This view of a pair of locomotives working at Lambton Colliery looks across the old LNER line, running behind the brick hut on the right, towards houses at Bournmoor on Carnation Avenue. There are now nearer houses on this side of the estate at Lambourne Close. A couple of horses are in the meadow nearby.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: Unknown
0.21 miles
5
Steam locomotive, Bournmoor Junction, 1968
Numbered NCB 42, this was "built by Robert Stephenson, works number 3801, in 1920 and sadly scrapped in May 1970" http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_christie/6760491975/in/set-72157628852916163/ Here it is working at the Lambton Colliery.
The houses in the background are on Briar Lea, Shiney Row. The tiny scrap of light grey building on the horizon on the right, above the right-most gable and to the right of the tree, is the Penshaw Monument http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=39705471 .
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: Unknown
0.21 miles
6
Steam locomotive, Bournmoor Junction, 1968
Another view of Image], with, in this direction, the sweeping curve of the railway line heading off eastwards towards Philadelphia on an embankment past spoil heaps and, I think, waiting coal wagons. The housing on the extreme left is on Briar Lea.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: Unknown
0.21 miles
7
Steam locomotives, Bournmoor Junction, 1968
Looking in the other direction from Image], with a pair of locomotives (51 and 63) at work and a water column; elevated tanks on the right. Off to the left down the tracks is the conveyor system at the coke works at Lambton.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: Unknown
0.21 miles
8
Pond at Elba Park
Elba Park is the name of the reclaimed site of the former Lampton Coke Works and colliery, near Shiney Row. Work is still in progress and new homes are being built as can be seen behind the pond.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 24 Apr 2013
0.23 miles
9
Taking on water, Bournmoor, 1968
NCB steam locomotive no 42, also shown in Image], taking on water at a column near Lambton coke works.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: Unknown
0.23 miles
10
Road Junction
Junction between Golf Course Road and Blind Lane
Image: © Gary Fellows
Taken: 25 Jan 2013
0.23 miles