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The patterns and shapes you get from the ‘top down’ aerial shots are always mesmerising 🤩Queen Elizabeth II bridge, Quay...
01/06/2026

The patterns and shapes you get from the ‘top down’ aerial shots are always mesmerising 🤩

Queen Elizabeth II bridge, Quayside 📌

Did you know that Lemington’s iconic Glass Cone is old enough to have survived through:🇫🇷 The beginning and end of the N...
29/05/2026

Did you know that Lemington’s iconic Glass Cone is old enough to have survived through:

🇫🇷 The beginning and end of the Napoleonic Empire (1803-1815)

🇬🇧 The Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo (1805, 1815)

🛤️ Opening of the world’s first public railway, Stockton and Darlington (1825)

🚂 Stephenson developing the ‘Rocket’ train which revolutionised rail travel globally (1829)

🧨 The three other glass cones at Lemington Glass Works being demolished (1837)

👸The Beginning and end of the Victorian Era (1837-1901)

🏛️ The er****on of Penshaw Monument, Washington (1844)

🌉 High Level Bridge, Newcastle, the world’s first rail and road bridge was built (1847)

🇺🇸 The American Civil War (1861-1865)

☎️ Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone (1876)

💡Mosley Street, Newcastle, became the first public road to be lit by electric light bulbs (1879)

✈️ The Wright Brothers achieved the first ever powered flight (1903)

🛳️ The sinking of the RMS Titanic (1912)

⚔️ World War I (1914-1918)

🦠 Deadliest flu in history, Spanish Flu, which killed an estimated 50 million people globally (1918-1920)

🔫 World War II (1939-1945)

🕸️ World Wide Web becoming publicly accessible (1991)

⛔️ The Lemington Glass Works site officially closed (1997)

Isn’t it quite incredible, to think of how often we pass this iconic landmark of our history, and fail to appreciate just how much local and global change it has witnessed?

Does this look familiar?🤔It’s the Lemington Glass Cone, and is thought to have been built in 1797 - making it around 230...
29/05/2026

Does this look familiar?🤔

It’s the Lemington Glass Cone, and is thought to have been built in 1797 - making it around 230 years old.

Many locals pass this iconic brick structure every day, with its stature blurring into the normality of every day life - but perhaps we should pay it a bit more notice.

It is the only glass cone remaining out of four from the Lemington Glass Works. The other 3 were demolished after a handful of decades in 1837, meaning the outlier we still see today has outlived its compatriots by a further 180 years or so. It is also one of only four glass cones remaining in the UK - and is a Grade II Listed Building.

Tunnels and flues were built beneath the cone, allowing fresh air and oxygen to be channeled in to the central furnace, helping to feed the fire. The tall 35-metre height of the cone acted as a chimney, creating a considerable updraft, which helped channel fresh air from under the cone, and also in pushing smoke and toxic fumes upwards and out the top of the cone.

Considerable temperatures were needed in the central furnace to melt raw materials and shape the glass. Smaller auxiliary furnaces were on the periphery of the cone to store glass at less extreme temperature, so that it didn’t cool rapidly and break from thermal shock.

Did you know about the history of Lemington’s Glass Cone?

28/05/2026

There’s no place like home 🖤🤍

How many key landmarks can you spot in this one photo?🧐👀
28/05/2026

How many key landmarks can you spot in this one photo?🧐👀

Ronda’s iconic ‘Puente Nuevo’ bridges over the 120-metre deep El Tajo Gorge, connecting the Old and New Towns of Ronda a...
27/05/2026

Ronda’s iconic ‘Puente Nuevo’ bridges over the 120-metre deep El Tajo Gorge, connecting the Old and New Towns of Ronda amidst a jaw-dropping landscape of mountains, steep cliffs, waterfalls and back gardens hanging off the edge of the gorge 🇪🇸

Kind Edward’s Bay and beyond towards the Mouth of the River Tyne 🏖️🏰
27/05/2026

Kind Edward’s Bay and beyond towards the Mouth of the River Tyne 🏖️🏰

Victoria Viaduct in Washington, on a moody winter’s morning ☁️
26/05/2026

Victoria Viaduct in Washington, on a moody winter’s morning ☁️

Check out this £1.5 million Darras Hall property, available to rent:🤩👉 🏡 Fully detached, large driveway and double garag...
26/05/2026

Check out this £1.5 million Darras Hall property, available to rent:🤩👉
🏡 Fully detached, large driveway and double garage
🛌 5 spacious double bedrooms, 3 en-suites
🛁 Hot tub, outdoor gym annex and large patio area
🪞Central staircase with an open-galleried landing
💡 Cascading chandelier
🛋️ Spacious front reception room with log burner
🍴Open-plan kitchen diner with booth and island
🎥 Second reception-cinema room with bar and wine cabinet

📸 If you want some aerial photographs and video content of a property, DM .motion.uk or email us at [email protected]

One of my favourite views from Heddon-on-the-Wall across the Tyne Valley 🤩
26/05/2026

One of my favourite views from Heddon-on-the-Wall across the Tyne Valley 🤩

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