IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Craster Point, SEAHAM, SR7 7WW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Craster Point, SR7 7WW 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.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (15 Images Found)
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New Drive, Seaham
Provided access from Seaham Hall to the railway station. The land beyond the fence on the left was originally site of the Vane Tempest Colliery developed by the Londonderry Colliery Company between 1923 and 1928. The mine stretched out underneath the North Sea. The pit was closed in 1992 and demolished in 1994 http://www.keystothepast.info/article/10339/Site-Details?PRN=D3841
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 9 Oct 2009
0.13 miles
2
Footpath
With obstructions to prevent use by motorbikes.
Image: © Mick Garratt
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.16 miles
3
Seaham Harbour Cricket Club
"Establish in 1868 by the Londonderry Coal Company for their staff, the community of Seaham Harbour and in 1931 the management and miners of Vane Tempest Colliery."
According to a blue plaque on the wall.
Image: © Mick Garratt
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.17 miles
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'Wind and Fire', East Shore, Seaham
A sundial by the artist Craig Knowles created using blacksmith techniques, located as a centre piece in one of the main pedestrian arteries of the new East Shore Village housing development. It is hard to believe this land was once the Vane Tempest Colliery. The sundial is shown here Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 12 Feb 2010
0.19 miles
5
'Wind and Fire' sundial, East Shore, Seaham
Detail of the sundial by the artist Craig Knowles Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 12 Feb 2010
0.19 miles
6
Footbridge over Seaham Dene
Actually carrying a Public Bridleway.
Image: © Mick Garratt
Taken: 7 Nov 2013
0.21 miles
7
The rear of Seaham Hall Hotel
A country house built in 1791-2 for Sir Ralph Milbanke with 1861 additions by Lewis Vulliamy for Frances, Lady Londonderry. Anne Isabella Milbanke, was married at Seaham Hall to Lord Byron on 2 January 1815. Byron began writing his Hebrew Melodies at Seaham and they were published in April 1815. It would seem that Byron was bored in wintry Seaham, though the sea enthralled him. As he wrote in a letter to a friend: “Upon this dreary coast we have nothing but county meetings and shipwrecks; and I have this day dined upon fish, which probably dined upon the crews of several colliers lost in the late gales. But I saw the sea once more in all the glories of surf and foam" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaham
It is now a luxury hotel and spa.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 9 Oct 2009
0.21 miles
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Bridge which takes New Drive over Seaham Dene
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 9 Oct 2009
0.21 miles
9
Church of St Mary The Virgin, Seaham
Reputedly one of the 20 oldest surviving churches in England with history dating back to Saxon origins, the church is Grade I listed.
Listing info. from Historic England: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1232116?section=official-list-entry
Image: © David Robinson
Taken: 20 Dec 2022
0.23 miles
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St Mary's Church, Seaham
From near Hall Bend Car Park.
Image: © Irene Marlborough
Taken: 11 Sep 2007
0.23 miles