Dear Lord what on earth is going on here? Well that's easy. This is the Boldon Dawes's standing next to the newly painted Groyne in South Shields. This icon on the south side of the River Tyne is somewhere I've known all my life. In fact I nearly lost my life here when the Esso Northumbria (at that time in 1969 the biggest ship ever built in Britain, as 1,143 feet in length and 126 thousand tonnes) went out of the Tyne on her maiden voyage only for the wash to flow over the Groyne pier and the massed on-lookers. Luckily we all became wet not lost at sea, Today the Tyne is much quieter and so we posed by the Groyne for a family portrait. Its not often the three of us get together so it was a nice moment just ambling up and down the prom, with Julie too. After this we ended up in the Harbour Lights pub, somewhere I'd not been for decades. An excellent lunch then home and into the car for the drive back south. Finally got home to Somerset at 9.30pm. A lovely, busy day.
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