I had been told about Steetley by a few other UE people and decided that as I was up at The Farm for the weekend anyway that I would take the extra hours drive out to Hartlepool and have a look for myself.

The place was wide open and the day was beautiful. I haven’t seen such a stunning run of coastline that was so deserted. Steetley stands there, crumbling but generally unmoving as it is battered by the wind.

A long peer runs out to sea and off it men who once worked at the site now fish on the good days. Several attempts have been made to start to clear the site but the larger settling tanks, a chimney and a few shells of buildings remain.

The colour of the water in the tanks is an awesome shade of blue. It matches the sky that day and so I set about with my tripod to capture the site in HDR, a technique that was very new to me.

Here were the results:

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