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Independent Media Productions YouTube - http://youtube.com/@lontower767 News & Documentaries include - A Passion for Vaux, Hollowed Ground, and Iron & Steam 📌 North East England
💚 There is hope
27.02.2026 08:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Such a fun day filming at Locomotion in Shildon as the Guinness World Records 'Doing the Locomotion' record attempt took place! Fun, energy and so many laughs. Thank you to all who took part, stars one and all 🤩
26.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A fine publication indeed. If memory serves they were designed by students as a state run initiative. Sadly the ones filmed today all looked exactly the same... a trick missed 🚌
23.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today has been about filming Bus Stops as part of a community art project in the Spennymoor area. The looks you get when you go 'bus stop spotting...' 😶🌫️
23.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Plans are finally in motion to get this incredibly important film released. The Miners' Strike in County Durham and how the fallout echoes through our communities today. 'DEFIANT - County Durham, the Miners' Strike and its Legacy'... Coming Soon!
28.01.2026 11:14 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A lot of (national) attention on Horden at the moment, which is both good and bad. Going to have to do a lot of biting my tongue and grinding my teeth to nubs reading people's glib takes on it and the people who live there, that's for sure.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Close up of a coffee cup with a naked statue in the background
Cheeky coffee time!
10.02.2026 11:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a man out of focus in the background is lifting his arm to blob molten glass onto a decorative piece of solid glass in focus in the foreground, being held by a woman who is ready to snip the molten glass off
Sadly it seems like the university is simply running down the clock on opposition to the intended closure and (I suspect, very quick) demolition of the National Glass Centre in July. But, that's not a reason to not care or stop trying. 1/4
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Lovely night with the team from Thorpe Thewles History Group in the village. A preview thank you screening of the film 'Lost & Found - The McLaren Diaries of Thorpe Thewles' for everyone who helped make it happen 😃
08.02.2026 10:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Workers... nothing is given without a fight!
From 'DEFIANT - County Durham, The Miners' Strike and its Legacy' coming soon www.imdb.com/title/tt3936...
A project we worked on last year has now reached completion. 'LOST & FOUND - The McLaren Diaries of Thorpe Thewles, the story of three found diaries from Edwardian England. More information available here - thorpe-thewles.org.uk/lost-found-t...
04.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What a wonderful night of community and revelry in St John's Chapel last night for the 'Weardale Together Winter Wassail' Huge congratulation to everyone who made it happen 😃
31.01.2026 12:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
an old railway car with a rusted orange siding, with sheep coming out of it onto long green summer grass
a partial shot of a house with some missing panes in the windows and some serious holes in the roof, but largely intact.
a house with the roof gone and holes for windows and doors, standing on a hillside with a black-purple stormy sky behind.
A house with half the roof missing and no windows or doors. To the nearest side a tree is growing next to, over, and likely through the building, and some sheep are peeping out from a corner
Time to SHEEPISHLY (see what I did there) promote my Changing Landscapes zines again. Most of you probably have one by now 😂.
Chock full of ruined buildings, former industry sites, and rusting vehicles of the North Pennines.
#Photography #Zine #ThePhotoHour
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Make that *appalling 😑
30.01.2026 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even more depressing is the use of GenAI by those who claim to be part of the creative community... 'everyone's doing it' and 'once in a while won't hurt' 😡
30.01.2026 12:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is not new news to anyone who creates 'stuff'. What is equally appauling is the casual use of GenAI by those who claim to be principled and those who claim to champion workers rights.
30.01.2026 11:54 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Agreed 100% visited Bishop, the Gala and now Sunderland ✊️
29.01.2026 11:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'Going Back Brockens' visited this exhibition in three different places now, each adding to the work. Moving, beautiful, disturbing, defiant... 100% North East.
Thank you Narbi Price, Mark Hudson and filmmaker Carl Joyce
Fabulous 🤩
28.01.2026 20:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0*VOLUME UP* Revisiting this from the fabulous Frankie Archer Music at Hartlepool Folk Festival in 2024. The festival has moved, and become Durham Folk Festival 🎻 . Frankie's folk is like nothing you have ever heard before... Goosebumps. Johnny Handle's 'Guard Yer Man Well' #Mining #Folkmusic
28.01.2026 15:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I wrote a thing that isn't miserable 🥳
'[...] as soon as we arrive in the little town of Füssen down the road from where we’ve been staying, we’re looking for somewhere to hide from the elements. Unfortunately, so is everyone else.'
mariegardiner.substack.com/p/memories-a...
Plans are finally in motion to get this incredibly important film released. The Miners' Strike in County Durham and how the fallout echoes through our communities today. 'DEFIANT - County Durham, the Miners' Strike and its Legacy'... Coming Soon!
28.01.2026 11:14 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It would be remiss of me not to promote Changing Landscapes again after such a lovely post about it 😊.
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
First zine of 2026 - a wonderfully curated experience - full of richness and depth - highly recommend @mariegardiner.bsky.social
#photography
Fun time chatting with Pete Waterman today, the 'Hitman' and rail enthusiast!
20.01.2026 17:38 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Really fun time at Kirk Merrington Primary School yesterday, as Olga & pupils worked on the new bus stop mural project for Spennymoor Town Council - A stunning sunset too 👩🎨🌇
16.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not much in the way of social media from us so far this year. We are knee deep in editing a documentary film about Stockton chemist John Walker, the inventor of the 'Friction Light' or matches as we call them now. A simple thing that revolutionised society. 2026 marks 200 years since his invention 🔥
13.01.2026 13:43 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
an old article that says: Suicide by eating matches. Press association telegram. Auckland, March 6. A woman named Emma Lilian Whittingham, about 21 years of age, died yesterday at Ponsonby from the effect of phosphorus poisoning. She was found to be dangerously ill on Wednesday night, and became unconscious until Thursday morning. In the afternoon, though she appeared to be slightly wandering in mind, she admitted that she had eaten about forty matches, and she died shortly after. The reason for suicide on her part cannot be imagined as she was generally cheerful. The deceased was a domestic servant.
The Man is currently editing our documentary on John Walker, (the inventor of the friction match) and came across an article about a woman who died from eating 40 (FORTY!) matches.
08.01.2026 14:14 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
And we are back!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🔥
