Some pictures of Middlesbrough. The first (and possibly last?!) time I've been there.
A bottle sculpture. It was in a square that had a sign leading to a "Cycle Centre", but there were no further signs so we didn't find it. I don't know what we missed.
There was some fairly bling cycle parking outside the Transporter Bridge Visitor Centre. I didn't even recognise that they were Sheffield-type stands; they looked like posh bollards.
Cars on the bridge! There weren't many. It does seem a fairly slow and laborious way to cross the river.
Another sculpture, with two bridges surrounding it. This one was near the transporter bridge and the football stadium. I looked it up afterwards and apparently it's called
"Temenos".
At one point, NCN 1 took us though a park in the middle of a housing estate (or it might not have done - the signs weren't very clear). In the middle of the park was this door:
And on the other side was this inscription:
I forgot to take any more pics after that (though there are some on the bridges thread). But we went on to the cafe at
Redcar Beacon, which, very disappointingly, *isn't* a helter-skelter. It really should be.
Then the rain came, en-route to Saltburn (and a road called "Windy Hill Lane", which really isn't a very encouraging name at all). We dried out in a cafe before heading for the train. I'm not sure exactly how far it is between Redcar and Saltburn, but it has to be one of the shortest cafe-to-cafe stops on a ride I've been on.
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