Dji Mini 2 shot over two early mornings with slightly different lighting conditions
I had zoom on when the Swans went past as not to get to close they didn't seem too concerned
Jarrow Slate
Jarrow Slake was an area of extensive mud flats between the river Tyne and the main road linking South Shield and the Tyne tunnel. The slake came into the ownership of the Tyne commissioners in the 1870s. They let it out as an area for a series of maturing ponds for timber, which was then an expanding trade on the river Tyne. This continued until the late 1930s. I can recall, as a small child, going down to Jarrow Slake and playing on those timbers.
To the east of Jarrow and built for the North Eastern Railway Company, the dock at Tyne Dock is only a tiny fraction of the size it once was having been filled in, like neighbouring Jarrow Slake to its west. Originally covering 50 acres, the dock was started around 1856 and was built by veterans returning from the Crimean War before finally opening in 1859. It had come about as a result of the Tyne Improvement Act and created more space for the loading of coal onto ships utilising four staithes and 42 coal drops. It was claimed that the dock could accommodate 500 vessels.
Ships entered a tidal basin before entering the dock via a lock gate designed by Robert Stephenson that was operated by engines designed by William Armstrong. Adding further weight to these illustrious names was Charles Mark Palmer, a driving force behind the opening of the dock. Steam locomotives attended the staithes in the dock accessed by four railways that crossed a neighbouring road by a row of railway bridges called the Tyne Dock Arches.