Richard H
Western Thunderer
The North ferry Point picture is very atmospheric - super inspiration - almost a blueprint! I think there would have been parts of the Low Lights which had similarly jumbled old vernacular and industrial buildings in the mid-19thC, although the shoreline itself was different.At the risk of hijacking your thread with my own SBB, I've had a hankering after a 19th Century north-eastern harbour scene for years and your own project just hits the spot (although a little later in its time period). There are many inspirational photos around but these are two that have stuck with me - admittedly one's not a harbour scene but has a quirky north-easterness all of its own.
This is a ballast quay with narrow gauge waggonway on the north bank of the Wear - I really like the tumbledown buildings and randomness of the whole scene and have mulled over a NG scene for years based on this. I'd guess the building styles in North Shields would be no different at that time.
North Ferry Point, Monkwearmouth, 1879 by Sunderland Museum, on Flickr
I've no idea of the attribution of this one so can't credit it - it hangs on the wall of a pub in Gateshead and I've asked Beamish about it, but it's not know to them or in any of their collections which cover much of the colliery histories. It shows a splendid selection of stock lettered for the Earl of Durham's colliery railway but I don't know the location. There's something attractive and modellable about the outside framed, inside bearing stock and the small scale mine buildings.
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The picture of the Earl of Durham stock and the mine is also on the Durham Mining Museum website (Durham Mining Museum - Gallery (Margaret)), their image reference number L-01336-13-0001-11; it is identified there as Lambton Mines, Margaret Shaft, and dated 1894.
Forgive my ignorance, but what does SBB mean?
Richard H
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