old mill 10.jpg built in 1933 by Justin Matthews. The mill was designed to appear as if it been built in 1800s Arkansas and features sculptures by the famous Mexican artist Senor Dionicio Rodriguez (1893-1955). Old mill featured in the opening scene of Gone With The Wind.
Tallulah11.jpg The swinging bridge over Hurricane Falls, it swings as you walk on, and from the bridge you can see the magnificent and powerful top view of the Hurricane Falls.
Former Toilets - Gateshead.jpg Former Toilets - Gateshead
"Newcastle & Gateshead Architecture and Heritage" by Thomas Faulkner, Peter Beacock and Paul Jones - ISBN 1-904438-29-6.
"This small building of 1928, by Arthur Bashford, Architect to the Gateshead Borough Engineers, carefully respected the design of the 'pylons' of the adjacent Tyne Bridge. It is of concrete block construction, giving an appearance rather similar to that of the granite used in the bridge approach. In addition, it cleverly exploited its position to provide an upper-level entrance to a reading room, square in plan with set back chamfered corners, as well as access at the lower level to a larger plinth containing public toilets.
On each projecting face of the upper level is a round-headed opening. Those to the east and west contain panelled doors with fanlights above; those to the north and south take the form of large windows. The alternate, recessed faces of the structure feature smaller, rectangular windows.
The reading room was lit b
