Lonely Tower Film & Media

Inspiring time at Spennymoor Town Council Town Hall today for International Womens'Day. Brilliant speakers and exhibition. Thank you everyone.

Hazel (Nocciola The Drawer) working with a paintbrush on a mural

Close up of paintbrush painting on mural

Fab time catching up with Nocciola the drawer as the Spennymoor community bus stop project progresses

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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Stobs Camp with barrack huts during the First World war

The last remaining barrack hut on a hillside near Hawick Scotland

Andrew Jepson from Archaeology Scotland explaing the layout of the camp

A german memorial to fallen prisoners at the Stobs Camp cemetery

Reminded recently of a filming trip to Stobs Camp in the Scottish Borders. Andrew Jepson from Archaeology Scotland was our guide. Stobs has a history as both a military training camp, and prisoner of war camp. Film Link - www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Hv...

This would be a complete and utter betrayal by @labouruk.bsky.social. Another to add to an increasingly long list. It can not stand.

💚 There is hope

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 🤩

A 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 🚌

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...' 😶‍🌫️

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!

Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics In Horden, County Durham, Westminster slogans have long been left unmet as the population has plummeted.

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!

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 😃

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...

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 😃

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 😑

Even 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' 😡

This 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.

Agreed 100% visited Bishop, the Gala and now Sunderland ✊️

'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 🤩

*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

Memories and writing tips Chin up pet

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!

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!