Monday, June 06, 2005
Fire
Breaking News - Huge Fire
Curly is enjoying a long weekend off work before returning tomorrow and this morning I was taking a walk to the West Park again where I captured some pictures of "Sid Jame's Park" the other day, you know that place where they try to "Carry On Football". Unfortunately it was difficult to make out the ground because I found a huge pall of smoke hanging over it and heading towards Gateshead. The source of the smoke was one massive fire somewhere on the northern outskirts of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at the time of posting I don't know exactly what was on fire, but, as you will see from the pictures, it does look major.
Just as I post, I've been informed that it's an old Northern Electric Building in Slateyford Lane at the junction with Silver Lonnen, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, that's about 17 miles from here!
According to local shop worker Amanda Smith who works just a hundred yards away from the building "the fire was huge and caused quite a few traffic problems for those heading west out of the city, luckily we weren't affected too much, I'm not sure if anyone has been injured or not, the ambulances are just leaving the scene now, but the fire engines left about half an hour ago."
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Curly is enjoying a long weekend off work before returning tomorrow and this morning I was taking a walk to the West Park again where I captured some pictures of "Sid Jame's Park" the other day, you know that place where they try to "Carry On Football". Unfortunately it was difficult to make out the ground because I found a huge pall of smoke hanging over it and heading towards Gateshead. The source of the smoke was one massive fire somewhere on the northern outskirts of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at the time of posting I don't know exactly what was on fire, but, as you will see from the pictures, it does look major.
Just as I post, I've been informed that it's an old Northern Electric Building in Slateyford Lane at the junction with Silver Lonnen, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, that's about 17 miles from here!
According to local shop worker Amanda Smith who works just a hundred yards away from the building "the fire was huge and caused quite a few traffic problems for those heading west out of the city, luckily we weren't affected too much, I'm not sure if anyone has been injured or not, the ambulances are just leaving the scene now, but the fire engines left about half an hour ago."
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