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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 21h

#Gijon #Spain Church of San Pedro, Gijón Spain - Crucifixion Altar photographed 21st August 2025.

Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 21h

#Cherbourg #France The Ro-Ro Ferry Stena Vision, IMO 7907659 in the port of Cherbourg France, photographed 18th August 2025.

Usually on the Cherbourg to Rosslare (Eire) route she was removed when that route ceased in September 2025.

Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 22h

#Dundee #Scotland High Altar and Reredos at St Paul's Cathedral Dundee Scotland photographed 15th August 2025.
Reredos dates from 1867 by Sir George Gilbert Scott mosaic by Antonio Salviati of Venice.

Altar dates from 1884 and includes a slab of Frosterley marble.

Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 23h

#NewcastleUponTyne #Gateshead Happy 97th birthday to the Tyne Bridge, opened on this day 10th October 1928 by King George V.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 23h

#FontsonFriday

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#Gijon #Spain Monument by José María López Rodríguez unveiled 1891 of King Pelagius of Asturia (685-737) in Gijon Spain, photographed 21st August 2025.

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Philip Hogarth @jampacker.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting. I remember the pub, but I can't recall anyone ever using the name for an area of Elswick/Low Benwell. Mind, we used to call in a general way all the area from about the Rokeby Arms along to the cattle market Scotswood.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#LaCoruna #Spain Comic bust of Vincente Risco in Plaze del Humor La Coruna Spain, photographed 20th August 2025.

Risco (1884-1963 was a Spanish intellectual.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#LaCoruna #Spain St Vincent Ferrer Altar - Santo Domingo Church La Coruna Spain photographed 20th August 2025.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#lovegates #LaCoruna Marina Gate La Coruna Spain

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#PubSigns #PubSignThursday

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#Cherbourg #France This sign caught my eye - Kawaiink Tattoo Club Sign Cherbourg France. Photographed 18th August 2025.

Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#Blyth River Cafe Blyth Quayside now long gone but seen here on this day 8th October 2016.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#NewcastleUponTyne Problem with St Nicholas' Church Steeple Newcastle upon Tyne on this day in history, 9th October 1832.

Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#WhitleyBay Whitley Bay Micro Pub, Gilbert and Smith's, 201 Park View, Whitley Bay opened on 4th July 2018. These photographs taken 9th October 2018.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#NewcastleUponTyne High Friars Lane was notable as the birth place of Richard Grainger the great Newcastle developer. Born 9th October 1797. His father Thomas a porter on the Quayside and his mother Amelia who was born in Gibraltar where her father was serving as a soldier.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 1d

#NewcastleUponTyne Advert from the Sunday Sun of 9th October 1921. The Newcastle Picture House went on to be named Grey Street Picture House. The building is now occupied by the HSBC.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Welford's view on where the place name Crooked Billet comes from - in the Evening Chronicle of 28th February 1916.

Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 2d

#LaCoruna #Spain Ramón del Valle-Inclán Bust in Méndez Núñez Gardens La Coruna Spain, photographed 20th August 2025.

Ramón del Valle-Inclán 1866-1936 was a Spanish dramatist and novelist.

By Ramón Conde, bust in pigmented polyester resin and fiberglass on a granite base.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 2d

#Elswick Hadn't realised that there was an area in Elswick known as Crooked Billet, I knew about the Crooked Billet Hotel.
Newcastle Weekly Chronicle of 8th October 1887 indicated upwards of 10,000 lived in the area and proposals had been for its own railway station.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 2d

#Cherbourg #France Comex built 1969 the diving pocket submarine Total Sub - La Cité de la Mer Cherbourg France, photographed 18th August 2025.

Operated for the Total oil company until 1973. It is a wet type submarines its passengers and internal equipment are bathed in seawater

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 2d

#Cherbourg #France Photographed 18th August 2025, Napoleon Bonaparte Statue, Place Napoléon, Cherbourg France.

Sculptor was Armand Le Véel and was unveiled in 1858.

It is claimed that Napoleon is pointing at Great Britain over The Channel.

Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 2d

#Cherbourg #France Chapel in the Basilica of the Holy Trinity Cherbourg France, photographed 18th August 2025.

A church has been on this site since 435 but the current church is from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 3d

#NewcastleUponTyne Tyne Bridges plaque, Newcastle Quayside, on this day 8th October 2015.

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Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social · 3d

#NewcastleUponTyne Royal Naval Division Colours Plaque. This commemorative plaque is located on the west nave of St Nicholas' Cathedral, photographed on this day 8th October 2018. The colours were laid up in 1922 but unfortunately have now perished and consequently are no longer on display.

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