South Gare

sadgit

sadgit

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Just here right now and have been camping in the dunes and near the lighthouse, plus sleeping in my car a few times. (Might be again this week) shocking to see the destruction of the works here. Like a land that time forgot now. I never worked here, but I used to love the smell and used to take in the amazing sights at night.

If you are ever here at night, the ships at stupid am are amazing.
 
I love South Gare, the drive there and the fisherman huts, I can't remember the 1st time I went there but I must have been in my mid teens and it was a total suprise for me, my only other point of reference to the marshes and the gares being the train journey to and back past the industrial ovens of British Steel. I always wonder what that area would be like if they could revert it to pre industrialization, the Tories are giving it a good go.
 
exeterboro said:
I love South Gare, the drive there and the fisherman huts, I can't remember the 1st time I went there but I must have been in my mid teens and it was a total suprise for me, my only other point of reference to the marshes and the gares being the train journey to and back past the industrial ovens of British Steel. I always wonder what that area would be like if they could revert it to pre industrialization, the Tories are giving it a good go.
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The view from the Gare looking towards Huntcliff is to die for.

The first time I went to the Gare was as a child and we would play for hours in the sand dunes. When we use to go down there were still the remains of the gun turrets.

My dad was in the South Bank Sea Cadets and he said they use to have a cabin down there and would camp overnight. He laso told us about the Italian prisoners of war being billeted down there.

sadgit - We use to fish there overnight and with the lights from the works and around the end of the Gare, it was always like dusk. I have always been amazed at the ships going in and out and always wondered where they were coming or going from. My wife, who works in careers sailed from Teesport on a cargo ship chaperoning a group of young girls (not sure who chaperoned her ;) ) and they sailed to Rotterdam, Riga and St Petersburg. It was an experience of a lifetime and one she will always remember.

I took her to the ship to board and then went and sat at the Gare to watch her sail out. When the ship passed it sounded its horn. I had taken my dad with me and he thought it was brilliant when the ship did it.
 
I have a camper and often thought of a stopover down at the Gare to watch the sun rise. Is it a safe place to be overnight.
 
sadgit said:
I love the view looking north to Seaton. It is strange how many people I say about south, and north gare who say, where?
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It's always been a big part of my life and somewhere I go to get my head together. I think I have spent more hangover days on that beach than anywhere else.
 
must have been 15-20 on Thursday... though I noticed they've installed a boardwalk down to the beach & fewer 'doggy bags' littering the place. One from a very warm & sunny 2016... it's a good walk South Gare to Saltburn & back... done it a few times & it always seems to be into the wind on the home leg :-D

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sadgit said:
I love the view looking north to Seaton. It is strange how many people I say about south, and north gare who say, where?
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My sis lives in Hartlepool, I was up there a couple of years ago and took her dog for a walk down on North Gare, not as stunning overall but still incredibly beautiful. If we could ever get local authorities (red and blue) who could see the potential of this area they just wouldn't leave big metal buildings just to decay to a horrible rusty brown. I know Teesside has a industrial landscape but as a child and Teenager places were just left to fall into disrepair and ruin by whoever was responsible. You get the bus from Redcar to Boro and see Grangetown just appearing dirty and run down , 10 years ago I did the Camino del Norte ( a Camino de Santiago) along the north Spanish coast and you have a difficult day walking from Gijon to Aviles mostly industrial( steel plants with the coke towers), I was shocked by how parts of Aviles were run down and really dirty, it was Grangetown, in Aviles they had a problem with drinks and fights, the only place in Spain I have seen it, there is a connection between those places that are neglected and left to be run down and unemployment as well.
 
Been going there since I was a kid. Used to take the kids regularly on the beach up until last summer but stopped due to the amount of discarded dog poo bags you had to navigate past on the steps to get to the beach. Absolutely disgraceful the sheer amount there was.
 
Discovered it as a teenager and when I do rarely visit Teesside it’s the one place I make time to go to - unlike various relatives who still live up there…
 
It was a regular walk as a child, usually Boxing Day/New Years day. Used to love it out there. And Paddy's Hole.
 
When I wasn't walking the dog up Eston/Normanby hills I'd be walking it from the gare to Marske. It has a place in my heart as big as the hills. And way before then the scuba club was a regular place to visit.
 
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