Middlesbrough!

On Tuesday, after shivering on a Newcastle Station platform for over 2 hours during a conference call, it was a relief to crawl onto a warm train and head off to York via a detour to Middlesbrough.  Middlesbrough? Why on earth was I visiting that neglected, former mighty, industrial town sited on the Tees? Inevitably, it was because I had an opportunity to fulfil a specific geocaching mission, but actually, it was a mystical view of the transporter bridge in the misty gloom that really made the detour worthwhile. What a wonderful, albeit sad, legacy of a great industrial past!