Sophie and I went to Tynemouth today, and visited the rather wonderful ruins of Tynemouth Priory & Castle. located on a rocky headland (known as Pen Bal Crag), overlooking Tynemouth Pier. The moated castle-towers, gatehouse and keep are combined with the ruins of the Benedictine Priory where early kings of Northumberland were buried. The sun was out and it was great to breath in 2000 years of history. This is just a bit of the site, more to come on the Universe blog, eventually.
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Great detail, FR. You were lucky to get a shot with nobody else around.
Best wishes, Pete.
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This place is never awash with people Pete, I think everyone here has been to it, and it’s not a tourist destination.
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It never ceases to amaze me how these buildings have withstood the test of time so well.
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I know, me too! 😘
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That must have been a truly impressive building in its heyday.
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Still is when you’re up close and personal! Should have included a person for scale, but we were the only ones there!
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The doorways near the top of the wall give a pretty good impression of the scale.
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Such a clearly defined image, we can really see the detail involved.
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Cheers GP!
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What a magnificent structure! It looks great in B&W.
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Cheers Marland!
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🙂
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Wow!
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Yes, it is a bit. 😊
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So sharp, how lovely. It’s’ embarrassing – people from your country who came over to settle ours in its early days missed seeing stuff like this they built ruins. Built ruins! Not whole buildings, just pieces of buildings that look even a fraction like this.
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They built ruins?? Whatever for?
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An epic piece of history :O!!!
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It is, 13th century!
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