was once a thriving coal exporting, fishing port and, in WW2, a submarine
base. Times have changed and it has come to rely on the import of Bauxite
for the local Aluminium Smelter.
In 2003 it the quay was restored and coal
is now imported from Eastern
Europe to the converted Battleship Dock
Once a major landmark in the area, Blyth coal-fired power station, at Cambois,
on the Northumberland coast, reached the end of its working life in the
1990's.
It was demolished during 2002. Its landmark chimneys vanished on
a bright Sunday morning in 2003
