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Lonely Tower Film & Media
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Independent Media Productions YouTube - http://youtube.com/@lontower767 News & Documentaries include - A Passion for Vaux, Hollowed Ground, and Iron & Steam
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Lonely Tower Film & Media @lonelytower.bsky.social · Nov 13
So happy to be here after... the 'other place'. Really appreciate everyone's interest in what we do. We're small, but full of fire 🔥 We share tales of community & heritage, & we get to meet the best people 👍 #Documentary #Journalism #Filmmaking It's an eclectic & brilliant way to make a living 😍
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
Would you mind if I gave my zines a little push again? Hopefully the first batch(es) have reached owners now. Maybe a good Christmas gift for someone who likes photography 👀.

Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
a large abandoned farm house from the back, mostly intact. a large abandoned farm house from the front, mostly intact. but with a collapsing left side and no windows or doors, just holes a large abandoned farm house from the front and side (different side to the other picture) on scrubby winter-looking grass. A window and chunk of side/roof is missing, as is the roof from the porch the same house but from a distance, on a summery looking day with blue skies and green frass. Sheep can be seen grazing in the background
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Happy St Andrew's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
Good morning, welcome to Monday etc etc. Once again just packing up some Changing Landscapes zines (thank you!) ready to post. You can get one here for £10 which includes postage (UK only, sadly).

#Photography #Zine #ThePhotoHour #Abandoned #Ruins

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
a very wet and green looking picture with a small ruin about 2/3 of the way up the image, in the distance. The top section is grey heavy sky and the bottom is lush green grass with longer grass in the foreground
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
lonelytower.bsky.social
Beautiful day to visit one of Stockton's most famous sons, John Walker (chemist) buried in Norton. Walker invented the friction match (1826) and revolutionised how people made fire. Instant fire whenever you needed it was a real game changer 🔥
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
Packaging up some Changing Landscapes zines to go in the post today if anyone wants to jump on the band wagon and get theirs!

40 pages of abandoned North Pennines structures to make your stomach fizzy.

£10 including UK postage.

#Photography #Zine

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Changing Landscapes Zine
Changing Landscapes – Ruins of the North Pennines is my second zine, following on from Transporter. For those who don’t know, a zine is a mini magazine, usually focused on one subject, and it…
www.mariegardiner.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
lonelytower.bsky.social
Enjoy our new short documentary 'BACK ON TRACK'. The story of how the 'Locomotion No.1' replica was brought back to life for the S&DR Bicentenary in September. youtu.be/0PM1qx21np0
#SDR200 #Locomotion1 #railwayhistory
BACK ON TRACK - Locomotion No1, Restoring a Legend
YouTube video by Lonely Tower Film & Media
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November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
lonelytower.bsky.social
Get out into the wild North Pennines... from the comfort of your own home... Stunning 😍
mariegardiner.bsky.social Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 11d
Would you mind if I gave my zines a little push again? Hopefully the first batch(es) have reached owners now. Maybe a good Christmas gift for someone who likes photography 👀.

Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
a large abandoned farm house from the back, mostly intact. a large abandoned farm house from the front, mostly intact. but with a collapsing left side and no windows or doors, just holes a large abandoned farm house from the front and side (different side to the other picture) on scrubby winter-looking grass. A window and chunk of side/roof is missing, as is the roof from the porch the same house but from a distance, on a summery looking day with blue skies and green frass. Sheep can be seen grazing in the background
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
lonelytower.bsky.social
This is what built County Durham, and this is what will rebuild it. 'Fellowship is life, fellowship for all'.
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
If you'd like one of these for £35 (including second class P&P UK only) then can you drop me an email on my website. There are only 4 and 2 might be spoken for already so first come first served really, if there happens to be a mad rush for them, which I doubt 😂

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/contact/
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Thank you to Tudhoe Colliery Primary School for such a lovely welcome today, filming with Sarah from Design by Kinship as the pupils let their imaginations run wild. Their designs will be used as inspiration by Sarah, to produce stunning community bus stop art in the Spennymoor area 🚌🤩
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A really good night in Durham!
mariegardiner.bsky.social Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 20d
So great to see @profdanhicks.bsky.social at the People's Bookshop in Durham where he was chatting about his book Every Monument Will Fall. Looking forward to reading it!
A room of people in a book shop Dan hicks talking to a room of people in a bookshop
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
Will try not to be too annoying with this but repetition is the thing that gets your work out there, so just to WANG ON AGAIN, my Changing Landscapes zines are for sale via my website for £10 including postage (UK only).

#ThePhotoHour #zine #Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
an amphibious car/boat with a green underbelly, sitting in long grass in the middle of the countryside in warm sunny weather a large chimney on a hill in nice weather with moorland all around and blue skies a chimney in the distance, with yellow scrubby grass in most of the picture, with a strip of water to the middle-left. The sky is very blue with white wispy clouds The same amphibious car/boat with a green underbelly now sitting in lots of snow
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Stills from past filming expeditions to the Western Front of the Great War. Now a quiet place for reflection. #remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
lonelytower.bsky.social
Gone but not forgotten... 'Once described as the beating heart of Teesside' - Cold Steel #Redcar #Teesside
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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A really fun time at Spennymoor Youth and Community Association this week, filming Nocciola The Drawer. This is a community project with Spennymoor Town Council to create artworks for local bus stops. A warm welcome from some lovely folks - Thank you all 😃
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
lonelytower.bsky.social
For anyone that loves romantic ruins and northern splendour, this is a must. 😃👍🎄
mariegardiner.bsky.social Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 23d
The second print run of Changing Landscapes is with me, so it's back for sale via my website at £10 including P&P (UK only I'm afraid). Good for gifts for Christmas, dare I suggest. As always, appreciate how much you've got behind this project.

#Photography

www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Changing Landscapes Zine
Changing Landscapes – Ruins of the North Pennines is my second zine, following on from Transporter. For those who don’t know, a zine is a mini magazine, usually focused on one subject, and it…
www.mariegardiner.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
My zines have arrived 😀 they'll be back on sale tomorrow at some point priced £10 inc postage (UK only I'm afraid). Will update you when they're live.
mariegardiner.bsky.social Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 26d
My Changing Landscapes zines (second print run) should be with me this week, so here's a nice early autumn ruin to celebrate.

#ThePhotoHour #NorthPennines #Landscape
a ruined house largely intact is standing on scrubby grass on a slight incline, with a reservoir below it, and low hills in the background. The sky is blue with wispy white clouds
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
Hard to even know what to write when I see things like this. Look at it, here's your North/South divide. What's labour doing to address this? What did the Tories do? What have successive governments over the years actually done to address this?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
North-south divide on deprivation levels Proportion of neighbourhoods in each English region that are highly deprived A bar chart showing the proportion of neighbourhoods in each English region that are highly deprived. The North East is top on 21.5%, followed by the North West on 20.2%, Yorkshire and The Humber on 18.5%, the West Midlands on 16%, the East Midlands on 8.2%, London on 4%, the South West on 3.9%, the East of England on 3.9%, and the South East on 3.3%.
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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mariegardiner.bsky.social
If you feel like hearing (and seeing!) me talking about my photography, life, and more then you can do so here on @grantswinbournephotography.com's lovely podcast.

#photography #photographer #thephotohour #podcast

youtu.be/zl_JMQnQBog?...
Exploring the North Pennines with Marie Gardiner
YouTube video by Grant Swinbourne Photography
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October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
lonelytower.bsky.social
Perfect for Christmas 🎄 😍
mariegardiner.bsky.social Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · Oct 27
I've ordered a new run of Changing Landscapes zines and they should be with me next week, so if you fancy getting one for someone as a Christmas present then I'll have them ready to order very soon.

#Photography #ThePhotoHour
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I'm on Grant's photography podcast next week if you fancy listening to a Mackem wanging on about the North Pennines 😁

#thephotohour #photography
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In a world of darkness... be more choir!
At the WOW - Women of the World Festival in Durham last weekend, we caught up with the Girls, Theys and Slays choir.
🎤'We might not all have it together, but together we have it all'
Brilliant 🤩
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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'Our Darling Boy'. Sometimes the simplest inscriptions are the most impactful. Peter Williams was one of 116 children killed in the Aberfan disaster 59 years ago, along with 28 adults. The pit heap collapsed, burying the school as well as people's homes.

#Photography #Aberfan #History #Wales
a white grave marker with pillars either side, the writing says 'in loving memory of Peter, beloved son of Thomas & Margaret Williams, 38 Aberfan Road, Aberfan. Died 21 October 1966 aged 10 years. Our darling boy.
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Fab time this morning at King Street Primary School in Spennymoor with Nocciola The Drawer. The pupils were sharing their artistic talents for a new project with Spennymoor Town Council and partners. Watch this space 👀
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM