The Black Path with Paul Smith

Thanks for sharing that 👍
I'll pass it on to my Dad. This time last year he was planning a walk along there as part of the walking festival that was subsequently cancelled by the lockdown.
 
Oh yes there were a few Black Path events planned last year - that is why I asked Gavin Parry to tell us about the Black Path and Sailor's Trod for Local History Month (last May) - I still haven't seen the murals.
You can now walk from the Transporter to the sea on both banks of the Tees - both really interesting industrial landscapes into which nature has fought back. The missing link is of course the Transporter itself.
 
It’s good that they’ve done it up... the last time I walked it I had to clamber over pipes and past a couple of dead rats.
 
It’s good that they’ve done it up... the last time I walked it I had to clamber over pipes and past a couple of dead rats.
It was held up for a couple of years at the Redcar SSI site. The paths north and south of the Tees are now being held up as examples of how industry can work with the national coastal footpath - the aim is for a footpath right around the coast and we now have a head start in this area. You can also walk this part in the Hartlepool to Whitby as St Hild's Way pilgrimage route. The very last EU money was used to augment the path with a few signs about Hild(a) along the route. Pilgrimage routes are massive in Europe and USA - so it is hoped that it will attract religious walkers. St Oswalds Way is a second such route crossing Northumberland.
 
The link Paul Smith was promoting about the petition to save the Redcar Blast Furnace and why the campaigners feel the numbers add up in to mean it is far better to retain this landmark than demolish.
 
I have to say that I’ve changed my mind and now want to keep the Redcar Blast Furnace monument . I was all for starting afresh with a level playing surface ( literally as well as a new resurgence ) but now am enchanted by the thought of it as a kind of beacon/ icon
 
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