IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Market Street, FERRYHILL, DL17 8JW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Market Street, DL17 8JW 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
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (36 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Pit tubs
The rail borne mini coal-wagons that were once drawn underground by pit-ponies in the district (eg Mainsforth colliery). Here commemorating the town's heritage outside Ferryhill Town Hall.
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 6 Jun 2007
0.02 miles
2
Ferryhill flying the flag
The town hall flagpole is sporting the 'Investors in People' standard. A pity though that a fine civic building should be so excessively festooned with 'street furniture'
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 6 Jun 2007
0.02 miles
4
Market Street, Ferryhill
Looking south at the main street in Ferryhill.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 27 Jun 2012
0.03 miles
5
Ferryhill war memorial garden
Memorials to those who died in two World Wars in the garden frontage of the Town Hall. The one with the rifleman bears the names of those men of Ferryhill who died in WW1&2; the Celtic Cross is for those of 'East Howle and Crossings' [NZ2833] lost in WW1. The new Ferryhill Library and a Nursing Home can been seen in the background.
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 6 Jun 2007
0.04 miles
8
Memorial to a brave miner
Commemorating the saving of two boy's lives at the expense of his own by William Walton at Dean Bank. It stands in the memorial garden by Ferryhill Town Hall, and near the two heritage pit tubs.
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 6 Jun 2007
0.04 miles
9
Millennium stained glass in Ferryhill Town Hall
Artifact by Tony Steele, featuring Sir Roger de Fery confronting the 'Brawn of Brancepeth' (a ferocious wild boar). The motto 'Praeterita accipimus, futura condimus' suggests that history is history, but the future is yet to be made.
Image: © Courtesy Mr John Dinning of Ferryhill
Taken: Unknown
0.05 miles
