IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Guisborough Road, MIDDLESBROUGH, TS9 6DJ

The mini island is a recent innovation but there are discussions as to whether it should be removed and the T junction restored.

Taken from Cliff Ridge and viewed south west. The northernmost half of the village (to the right) is the part in the subject square. The houses just above the trees were built in the seventies. To the left of them can be seen the local primary school.

Morning exercise over and I was mellowing out in the garden after lunch when I noticed this halo around the sun. It’s a sundog I thought remembering something I read somewhere. Why is it I don’t know what I was doing two days ago yet an insignificant fact from twenty years ago pops into mind? Anyway my memory proved wrong as it turned out not to be a sundog but a similar solar phenomena called a “22º Halo”, a rather boring name. 22º Halos are formed by the refraction of sunlight in ice crystals in clouds in the upper atmosphere. The ice crystals are found in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds and are hexagonal in shape. Cirrus and cirrostratus clouds may foretell the approach of a warm front and a deterioration of the weather. Sundogs are formed by the same mechanism but are concentrated areas of light either side of the sun (at 3 and 9 o’clock positions). They are rarer than 22º Halos which are actually quite common but rarely noticed. From my blog https://fhithich.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/22o-halo/

Fields on the left, the last of the housing on the right.

An early wander with the dog up Cliff Rigg. Fog creeping up from the Tees Valley, its duvet not quite reaching the village. In an hour’s time, there’ll be sufficient heat in the sun for it to dissipate. From my photo-diary for 30 April 2019 see http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=21092

The Cleveland Search and Rescue Team come to the rescue of an ambulance stuck in the snow.

This small section of tarmacked path allow access from Roseberry Crescent to the fields and Newton Woods and is notorious for dog shit in spite of there being a dog waste bin present. It is particularly bad in winter when the fields are muddy and owners cannot be bothered to get their shoes dirty.

Formerly The Tilesheds because on the nearby brick and tile works. It has stood empty for about four years now (at 2014) and one of only three pubs in the village. Rumour has it that the plan is to convert into residential accommodation.