Redcar, scene of the Teeside Guitar Fair.The show was great, really nice people...especially the really nice people who bought my guitars. I was there early, so after I'd got set-up, I thought I'd take a bracing stroll along the front...This REALLY was the most photogenic shot of the seashore I could get...honestly. Sometimes it really is Grim Up North...and I say that as a northerner.
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The ICI plant is at Wilton..thats the steelworksin the photo..once it was the largest working blast furnace in Europe..now it's 'mothballed'...but who knows if it will ever produce steel again...
I got married in Saltburn, just up the road, and have good memories of walking dogs at Redcar. Ridley Scott based the look of Bladerunner on the ICI works pictured here.
Well, in the other direction is Newcomen Terrace, with more than its fair share of rather sad bedsits and b&bs with crumbling brickwork. I did wonder what the burnt out shell of a building on the front with the French writing was all about..but then found out Redcar had been used as a set for the film "Atonement", where the town had stood in for wartime Dunkirk.
One of the reasons they chose Redcar for filming is that it has a largely undeveloped seafront that could be easily 'set dressed' to represent a war-torn French coastal town. This building has been tidied up a bit, but unfortunately, it is vacant and still looks burnt out...not a great selling point to look as though it's received a direct hit by a 150mm high explosive shell.
Apparently the average visitor to Redcar spends only £1.70 in the town (and that includes parking), a sad reflection of hard times and the demise of the British seaside generally...so the guitar show must have boosted the average take by a huge factor, but the down side is that virtually none of this money stayed in the town.
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The ICI plant is at Wilton..thats the steelworksin the photo..once it was the largest working blast furnace in Europe..now it's 'mothballed'...but who knows if it will ever produce steel again...
Ah, home sweet home! :o)
I worry about the lifeboat crew though - I wouldnt have an inflatable anywhere near that beach. Too many needles....
Me and Jan stayed ay Saltburn on sea back in June this year
thats a few miles down from Redcar, nice little place,very oldie seaside kinda place
small town centre with not much in it really
Thankful Whitby is just a bit further down !!
Well, in the other direction is Newcomen Terrace, with more than its fair share of rather sad bedsits and b&bs with crumbling brickwork. I did wonder what the burnt out shell of a building on the front with the French writing was all about..but then found out Redcar had been used as a set for the film "Atonement", where the town had stood in for wartime Dunkirk.
One of the reasons they chose Redcar for filming is that it has a largely undeveloped seafront that could be easily 'set dressed' to represent a war-torn French coastal town. This building has been tidied up a bit, but unfortunately, it is vacant and still looks burnt out...not a great selling point to look as though it's received a direct hit by a 150mm high explosive shell.
Apparently the average visitor to Redcar spends only £1.70 in the town (and that includes parking), a sad reflection of hard times and the demise of the British seaside generally...so the guitar show must have boosted the average take by a huge factor, but the down side is that virtually none of this money stayed in the town.
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