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Dist:0.2km<br/>A view over Seaham Golf Course taken from the edge of Fox Cover
©Graham Scarborough
Dist:0.5km<br/>General view of a changing landscape.
©Irene Marlborough
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.7km<br/>One of the Chain Home Low (CHL) sites, an early detection radar warning system, detecting enemy aircraft movement at lower altitudes, often used with the fixed Chain Home system operated by the RAF during World War II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Home_Low There is anecdotal evidence that there may even have been a very early WWI acoustic mirror early warning system here similar to the one in Sunderland http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors/locations/sunderland/ Recent evidence, however, suggests the Seaham mirror was located about 2km to the north-west [[NZ4148]] although nothing of it can be found there today http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors/locations/seaham/
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.8km<br/>On high ground above the industrial sites of Dawdon, Easington and Seaham this monitoring post would have been in a fine position to observe nuclear destruction of Durham's coastal industry. Characteristically a line of telegraph poles terminate at the site providing a communication link. It was built in 1962 at the height of the Cold War and closed in 1992. Several other ruined buildings nearby are associated with a WWII RAF radar station and possibly even earlier acoustic mirror early warning system from WWI like that in Sunderland http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/Public/Editable/Themes/Environment/scheduled-monuments/acousticmirror.asp. Details and photographs of this particular Cold War bunker can be found here http://www.subbrit.org.uk/cgi-bin/webdata_roc.pl?fid=988093720&query=pagenum=1&cgifunction=Search&County=Durham&cgifunction=form General information on the ROC and these posts is on the same site here http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/index2.shtml
©Andrew Curtis
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©Alex McGregor
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©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.8km<br/>New 'industry' between the railway and the site of now restored Dawdon Colliery.
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.9km<br/>View of ex-colliery houses immediately following renovations paid for by EU project.
©Irene Marlborough
Dist:0.9km<br/>The houses shown were demolished in 2002. They had been colliery houses divided into flats.
©Irene Marlborough
Dist:0.9km<br/>This photo taken on Longnewton Street shows where houses on School Street and Longnewton Street had been demolished. Parkside is in the distance.
©Irene Marlborough
Dist:0.9km<br/>The listed building is a late C18 or early C19 gazebo in the form of a squat tower made of random limestone rubble with sandstone window surrounds. Derelict but relatively intact in 2004 it suffered collapse during a storm in 2006. Work is currently in progress to underpin its walls with concrete and rebuild its ruined walls. A photograph prior to its collapse is shown here http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRNMAP=D12588
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:1.0km<br/>Man made feature and may have had something to do with a former colliery.
©Les Hull
Dist:1.0km<br/>The view from nose's point down into the national trust reserve
©Colin Keightley
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>This is part of the Kinley Hill Farming Complex. This section seems in ruinous abandonment - the tractor is dead, so are the trees and the house is slowly falling into disrepair
©Chris Heaton

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