View from Sheddon's Hill, Wrekenton, Gateshead. Looking east to Sunderland, including the Nissan factory, the new River Wear crossing and beyond the North Sea.

The site played a pivotal role in the Miners’ Strike of 1844. Led by Thomas Hepburn, on 2nd March a demonstration of 20,000 miners took place here. On 5th April a second mass meeting was held when 40,000 miners attended, along with bands and banners. The strike failed.

The struggles Hepburn led laid the ground for the formation of the Durham Miners' Association in 1869, although never lived to see it. He is memorialised on banners like this one from Westoe Lodge.

Looking west, the Angel of the North, Team Valley and beyond the Ravensworth Estate, once owned by the Liddell family which monopolised coal production locally in C18 & C19

Looking south, Blackfell, Durham House at Washington and beyond Penshaw Monument, which commemorates the coalowner, John Lambton, Earl of Durham.