nice one Mickupnorth, i am also from the north (british west hartlepool) - i have moved down south now but get up there quite alot and always enjoy going over the Tees flyover and seeing the beauty that is Portrack and Haverton Hill. i love to go to the home town of monkey-hangers. nice to see a fellow northerner in the CEG.
joking apart, that is where Ridley Scott got the inspiration for the scenes on Bladerunner, with all the industrial areas and steel works blowing flames out the chimneys late at night!
