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Industry and the Coast: Images of the North East in the 1960s
Richard Gaunt
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Description for Industry and the Coast: Images of the North East in the 1960s
Paperback. Stunning and evocative photographs of the Eastern part of County Durham in the 1960s and 70s, also including the Teeside, Wearside and Tyneside industrial areas and coast Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYD; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 249 x 12. Weight in Grams: 466.
In the 1960s, many of the heavy industries in the North East of England were still busy, but facing fundamental change as better technology and foreign competition swept towards them. There is thus a singular beauty and poignancy to the shipyard cranes on the Tyne and the Wear, the towering blast furnaces, the chemical works on Teeside, infrastructure for coal shipping from Seaham Harbour and Sunderland, and home-made houseboats resting in the mud...In an era when pollution was less of a concern, dusty furnaces, smoking chimneys, and untreated waste went straight into the North Sea. Yet not too far away ... Read more
In the 1960s, many of the heavy industries in the North East of England were still busy, but facing fundamental change as better technology and foreign competition swept towards them. There is thus a singular beauty and poignancy to the shipyard cranes on the Tyne and the Wear, the towering blast furnaces, the chemical works on Teeside, infrastructure for coal shipping from Seaham Harbour and Sunderland, and home-made houseboats resting in the mud...In an era when pollution was less of a concern, dusty furnaces, smoking chimneys, and untreated waste went straight into the North Sea. Yet not too far away ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781552568
SKU
V9781781552568
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99-50
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