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Well, you can see the airmen posing by their warplanes, and you can see the bombers flying in formation, and you can see them dodging the flak to get to the target, but only photos such as this one make you realize what warfare does to us. Enormous losses of capital investments take place in the blink of an eye. Where do you even begin sorting out a ruin like this one?

That's the question I was going to ask, "How do you recover from this tangled mess?"

For a moment I thought it was the River Blyth! A fascinating image though and shows what an important river the Tyne was back then. (it still is) If we'd seen the other side of the river it would be buried beneath staithes loading coal for export. Here's what the above yard looks like now. It's beneath the plus in the centre. (courtesy of Flash Earth) www.flashearth.com/?lat=54.987788&lon=-1.447215&z... Thanks for sharing.

You can see the coveyor and loading gantry for the iron ore trains to Consett on the other side of the dock gates. There aren't many other pictures of it that I'm aware of.

Did two voyages on Gloxinia in 1962 a fine ship. Then I was transferred to the M.V. Camellia