Blackhall Seaside

Non-Commercial

Blackhall Seaside

13 May 2025

Hartlepool, UK

Blackhall Seaside

Once blackened by coal spoil dumped from a conveyor system linked to the nearby Blackhall Colliery, making it an industrial wasteland famously featured in the 1971 film Get Carter, extensive cleanup efforts costing millions have restored the beach to a clean, natural state, now part of the Durham Heritage Coast and a nature reserve. The area features dramatic limestone cliffs, large cliff caves, and diverse wildlife including breeding skylarks and wildflowers on the Magnesian Limestone grasslands.

A Note From TheCreative Director

"There's something strangely ethereal about this place. Sands charred by spills of the past and the striking azure waters which hem the shoreline create an obscure, somewhat hallucinatory effect of a tainted history paralleling the clean nature that seeks to heal it . These aerial views truly give a different perspective to a place on the waterfront which is both vast and meditative."

Striking blue water to the left laps over dark-shaded sands under a blue sky — FIG. 01

Striking blue water on a beachfront reaching out to the horizon — FIG. 02

Lush green cliffs to the left overlook a large body of beach-front water — FIG. 03

A large body of open water spread across the left of a beachfront — FIG. 04

Lush green cliffs to the left overlook a large body of striking blue beach-front water — FIG. 05

Lush green cliffs to the left and striking blue waters on the right — FIG. 06

A series of waves overlap the shoreline of a black-sanded beach — FIG. 07

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