IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Coast Road, NORTH SHIELDS, NE29 8ND

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Coast Road, NE29 8ND 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

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Image Listing (11 Images Found)

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1
Billy Mill Convenience Store & Post Office
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 18 Jan 2018
0.04 miles
2
Roundabout reconstruction at Billy Mill
Roadworks on the busy Coast Road A1058, causing considerable disruption to traffic .
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 5 Aug 2016
0.06 miles
3
Playing field alongside Heaton Terrace
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 5 Aug 2016
0.12 miles
4
Semi-detached houses in Queen Alexandra Road West
Image: © Roger Cornfoot Taken: 26 May 2015
0.12 miles
5
Public Footpath near Billy Mill, North Shields
This public footpath follows the western boundary of Preston Cemetery and leads to the A1058 (Coast Road). It also gives access to the adjacent Allotments. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk
Image: © Geoff Holland Taken: 16 Feb 2021
0.14 miles
6
Recreation Ground off Heaton Terrace
The notice board on the right shows the start of the Preston Waggonway discovered by pupils at Collingwood Primary School in North Shields in 2005. Preston Waggonway carried coal from the small Preston pit, which used to lie roughly where the bowling club and Heaton Terrace are located today, to Tynemouth Gas Company works in North Shields. The gasholder in Minton Lane, at the end of the Waggonway Trail, was dismantled in 2009. http://www.jimscott.co.uk/Local/LH_440_waggonways.html
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 18 Jan 2018
0.15 miles
7
Preston Colliery War Memorial, Preston Cemetery, North Shields
This First World War Memorial, which is Grade II Listed, was designed by the firm of Cackett and Burns Dick of Newcastle who also designed the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1672772 and the Spanish City, Whitley Bay https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5943761. It was unveiled in June 1924 and commemorates the 65 men from Preston Colliery who lost their lives in the 1914-18 conflict. It was originally sited at the junction of Queen Alexandra Road and Billy Mill Lane, but was moved to its present location in 1964 due to road development. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk
Image: © Geoff Holland Taken: 16 Feb 2021
0.16 miles
8
Derelict site off Morwick Road
Previously occupied by The Cedars Resource Centre, a residential care home. The two storey building was demolished and the site cleared at the end of 2017. There is another photo here Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 18 Jan 2018
0.20 miles
9
Soil & Trouble
Discarded supermarket trolley out of place on cleared and frozen land Image "you might think that those trolleys you see out in carparks & under sapling trees are sight-seeing. they aren’t. they’re trying to avoid having things put in them." From 'Shopping Trolleys', a poem by Jenny Boult, from Rattling in the Wind: Australian Poems for Children (1987).
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 18 Jan 2018
0.21 miles
10
Hole in the (painted) Wall, Heaton Terrace
The wall with the ATM cash machine surrounded by striking artwork (seabirds and fish - 'feeding frenzy') is adjacent to Image The mural is the work of Kourosh Edalat, artist, painter and illustrator, operating as KED Studio in Gateshead. The piece was commissioned by Verne Newsagents in October 2017. Its design identifies North Shields as being the most important fish quay of the north of England since 1228. http://www.kedart.org/
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 18 Jan 2018
0.24 miles