StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Dunston Staithes

An aerial photograph of Dunstan Staithes and the housing development on the "Riverside" site of the NGF90 / Gateshead Garden Festival site. {Feb 2022} Some of the surviving re-planting is doing well ! Sadly, it also shows that the Staithes Basin has silted up again and that the arson damage to the wooden staithes has not yet been repaired, despite the Staithes being Grade II Listed ... . Not my Image ; fair use & public information

Pretty sure that this was taken during the later stages of the construction phase, well before May 1990. I'm looking across the R.Tyne, from near the eastern end of what is now Newcastle Business Park. The structure of the extreme right is "Dunston Staithes" - the means of loading coal onto ships for export. It was restored for the festival, and it's centenary ! [Very unfortunately, parts of it have been cremated by idiotic vandals, on more than one occasion, and it is now badly damaged]

Dunston Staithes as a backdrop to our escort boat, which was also filming the "William Riley". The arson damage is just about to come into view from behind the camera's POV.

Water dripping off the oars ... The gap in the Staithes is the result of an arson attack in 2003.

Our escort boat, following at a discreet distance. Filming in progress.

The Dunston Staithes are Grade 11 listed and on "Heritage At Risk Register" , primarily as the result of an arson attack in November 2003. The fires have cut a large gap into the structure, also the metal work making up the coal loading chutes which collapsed into the river is still partially submerged, even at low tide. Having had much of the paint burnt off in the fire this will now be rusting away.