Peter Foreman's Images

Dee-side mist photography travel walking motoring

Early morning .Taken by the roadside near Ballater in Deeside Scotland

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Every weekend a market in held in Tynemouth railway station . This is one of the food stalls . This is an old station and was part of the electrified coast line from Newcasle central station. It is now part of the Tyne & Wear Metro

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This dog always brought a slipper to wecome you home ,but only one she would never find the other one

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Double decker tramcar at Beamish museum county Durham

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Street gossips ,Eldon Square ,Newcstle upon Tyne,

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Entrance to quayside Newcastle on a foggy evening

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An old pub situated on waterfront North Shields

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family walking up city street ,Newcastle upon Tyne,

Streetscape night , cobble stones, Newcastle upon Tyne, travel holidays

One of the old streets of Newcastle showing cobble stones

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This is a stair leading from the castle keep down to the quayside

Sculpture bronze casting Newcastle travel holiday

Bronze sculpture of the River Tyne God by David Wynne at the Civic Centre Necastle upon Tyne

winter lough lake moorland snow ice tourism, roman wall, northumberland walking burns travel photography

Crag Lough (lake) is situted below the Roman Wall in Northumberland .It is fed by numerous burns and here seen at dusk

Walking Summer Beach Castle Photography Travel Northumberland Holidays

Low tide at Newton bay Northumberland

Games beach summer holidays

Game of cricket on empty beach

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New library Newcastle upon Tyne

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Youg boy in island villdge

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a young girl in the island village

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The village where the islanders live was normally out of bounds to sevicemen

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This is a red tailed tropicbird which had been blinded. We took it to the hospital and freed its eyes with ointment. It worked and it flew away after biting the sergeant.

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This is typical of the dense undergrowth covering parts of the island . A great cover for land crabs

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this was the swimming lagoon

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The puffer fish has an air sack which it inflates when alarmed . They then float on the surface .

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The frigate birds nest on the small islands around the main lagoon

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This crab was very upset as I had just eased him out of the lagoon with a stick.

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A view from the shore road .Across the lagoon is a small island with breeding birds

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These crabs were about the size of a human fist

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land rover crossing a ford at low tide .The shore road was only passable at low tide

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Tracks left by a land crab during the night

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This land crab made a run for it when it saw me coming . However unfortunately there was already a crab down this hole and it was just not big enough for two

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A corner of the old shore road by the main lagoon

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A bunch of coconuts growing high up in a palm tree

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Palm tree growing from nut

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These anti flash suits were worn at the time nuclear bombs were exploded

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Pig photographed at Beamish Museum Co Durham .

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Christmas Island was home to the British nuclear bomb tests in the 50s Many Gilbertese Islanders were employed on the installations ,

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Dunstanburgh is a ruin on the Northuberland coast .This was taken from Embleton beach .The castle was built by the earl of Lancaster and completed by John of Gaunt .It is haunted and very spooky after dark . The beauty of landscape does not finish at sunset

streetscape Black Gate, St Nicholas cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne, Travel , Holiday, History , winter in the city,

The Black Gate was a fortified entrance to the castle at Newcastle upon Tyne . Seen here with a light covering of snow . Also in the background is the Cathedral tower of St Nicholas

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This shows the officers tent lines on Christmas Island in the Pacific during the nuclear bomb tests

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In the late 1950s Christmas Island in the Pacific was used for nuclear bomb tests . There was a small population of Gilbert Islanders in this village . They worked on the various installations

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Little girl eating ice-cream on beach in rain

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Little boy fishing with net .Photographed in lake district

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In the 1950s & 60s Britain conducted nuclear tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific

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View of king Edward VII rail bridge taken one foggy morning 1963

Life Rebirth Armageddon Dramatic Sky Monochrome book illustrations

This shows how the photographer envisages life restarting after the end of everything

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A view of the Tyne Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne taken one foggy evening

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A morning ride on the beach at Embleton Bay Northumberland

streetscape street lights , Huntly , Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland travel, holidays

Street lights come on in Huntly NE Scotland