Terry Smith Photo Walks

Looking across part of Palace Green to Durham Cathedral from the entrance to Durham Castle. Maintenance work
to stonework seen here is a continual process.

A copy of the Sanctuary Knocker on the north door of Durham Cathedral. I remember the original when it was
still in place here. It is now on display as part of an exhibition inside - admission charge applies.

Old style telephone boxes and a post box in the Market Place. Smoker on the left having a tab at one of the last places left for him
to indulge in his habit - the street!

It was in the Market Tavern (seen in the photo) in 1869 that the Durham Miners Union was formed. Next to it is Durham's indoor
market - and next to that is Durham's Town Hall.

The outdoor market with St Nicholas church on the left and Charles William Vane-Stewart (3rd Marquess of Londonderry) sat astride
his horse. He looks every inch the dashing calvary officer and the inscription on the side of the statue speaks of him in glowing
terms. Perhaps not suprisingly it fails to mention that as an immensely weathly aristocrat who owned huge amounts of land and coal
mines he was reviled by his coal miner employees as he (and for that matter his forbears and descendants on other occasions) had a
history of hiring thugs to evict them and their families from their homes which he owned, to break strikes. These strikes were
generally in protest to their wages being cut by the Vane-Stewarts.