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Comment by ChickenboneJohn on July 26, 2011 at 9:55am

The ICI plant is at Wilton..thats the steelworksin the photo..once it was the largest working blast furnace in Europe..now it's 'mothballed'...but who knows if it will ever produce steel again...

Comment by Boxy Music on July 26, 2011 at 8:55am

I got married in Saltburn, just up the road, and have good memories of walking dogs at Redcar. Ridley Scott based the look of Bladerunner on the ICI works pictured here.

Comment by Roosterman on July 25, 2011 at 10:11pm

Ah, home sweet home! :o)

I worry about the lifeboat crew though - I wouldnt have an inflatable anywhere near that beach. Too many needles....

Comment by HOLLOWBELLY on July 25, 2011 at 10:11pm

"I'm going back, back up north..." etc etc

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on July 25, 2011 at 9:25pm

wonderful story..(-;

Comment by Little Soul Eric on July 25, 2011 at 9:23pm

Me and Jan stayed ay Saltburn on sea back in June this year

thats a few miles down from Redcar, nice little place,very oldie seaside kinda place

small town centre with not much in it really

Thankful Whitby is just a bit further down !!

Comment by ChickenboneJohn on July 25, 2011 at 9:16pm

Well I wasn't going to be the one to bring up the term "Monkey Hangers".....

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on July 25, 2011 at 9:10pm

In Redcar don't mention the "Hanged Monkey"....no, that was Hartlepool wasn't it...teehee (-;

Comment by ChickenboneJohn on July 25, 2011 at 8:56pm

Well, in the other direction is Newcomen Terrace, with more than its fair share of rather sad bedsits and b&bs with crumbling brickwork. I did wonder what the burnt out shell of a building on the front with the French writing was all about..but then found out Redcar had been used as a set for the film "Atonement", where the town had stood in for wartime Dunkirk. 

One of the reasons they chose Redcar for filming is that it has a largely undeveloped seafront that could be easily 'set dressed' to represent a war-torn French coastal town. This building has been tidied up a bit, but unfortunately, it is vacant and still looks burnt out...not a great selling point to look as though it's received a direct hit by a 150mm high explosive shell.

 

Apparently the average visitor to Redcar spends only £1.70 in the town (and that includes parking), a sad reflection of hard times and the demise of the British seaside generally...so the guitar show must have boosted the average take by a huge factor, but the down side is that virtually none of this money stayed in the town.

 

 

Comment by Paul Dawson on July 25, 2011 at 1:23am

Umm, did you not think of pointing your camera in the other direction?

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