Weeks after taking this photograph I have noticed that it includes an entire section of the medieval Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne running alongside Back Stowell Street from Herber Tower to Ever Tower (pictured) via Morden Tower (a venue for poetry readings since 1964). I gather that this is the longest continuous section of the Town Wall still standing; the proportion of Newcastle's entire medieval walls surviving is exceeded only by York, Chester and Southampton among English cities.

Back Stowell Street extends to the right between the old walls and the line of forbidding buildings that resemble warehouses; the street itself is less than 2 metres wide for the most part, and in one place the double yellow lines used to meet in the middle. Stowell Street itself, just visible on the left, is now better known as Chinatown. That's a few of the ventilation ducts from the restaurants on the right of Version 2, taken specially yesterday in Back Stowell Street to illustrate my text, with Mrswoolybill posing demurely below Morden Tower to add scale. No need for yellow lines any more as no four-wheeler bigger than a skateboard would get through, and no skateboarder would appreciate the cobbles.

In fact yesterday's upload, Juxtaposition , was taken from a point only a few feet from this but facing the opposite way.

Version 1: 1/250th sec. @ f11, ISO 200.
Version 2: 18mm, 1/40th sec. @ f11, ISO 200; for reference only!!!

Mostly clicking and running yesterday, for which I apologise; the band was playing away last night so I had to leave early - and I'm totally cream crackered this morning. Ah, well...

Tags: Newcastle Architecture Chinatown City walls Etc Landscape and travel Town walls Ever turret