Fracked off: the beauty of north-east England

Cullercoats Bay
Photograph: Pete Johnston via GuardianWitness

Blooming Tyneside: 'The beaches north of Newcastle are some of the best in England'
Photograph: linto via GuardianWitness

Reflections on the Tyne
Photograph: AlanHall via GuardianWitness

Desolate north-east
Photograph: eliza95 via GuardianWitness

Sunderland: 'A city built on coal mining and shipbuilding, both taken away by a Conservative government in the early 1990s'
Photograph: Ian Burns via GuardianWitness

On a boat amongst the Farne Islands: 'This photograph was taken from a boat named Glad Tidings, last summer, among the Farne islands, off the coast of Seahouses. I was with my Saharawi friend, who grew up in the harshest corner of the Algerian desert and had moved to the UK four years before. He told me these islands were the most beautiful place he'd ever been'
Photograph: ID4046050 via GuardianWitness

Fryup Dale, north Yorkshire
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Tyne Bridge: 'Although not a Geordie myself, my girlfriend is, so I've seen first-hand the emotions the Tyne Bridge evokes in a Geordie returning home (or 'hyem'). We have nothing remotely close in Leeds'
Photograph: DarrenDelonge via GuardianWitness

Hexham Abbey
Photograph: ScalloperJack via GuardianWitness

Northumberland: 'This 'desolate' place is a mile from Cramlington, Northumberland'
Photograph: Patrick McArdle via GuardianWitness

Penshaw Monument: 'Penshaw Monument is a doric, tetrastyle folly built in 1844 on a hill between the districts of Washington and Houghton-le-Spring, in Sunderland. It is dedicated to John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham and the first governor of the Province of Canada'
Photograph: DarrenDelonge via GuardianWitness

Timeless treasure: 'A view that hasn't changed for (literally) centuries. View towards Prebends Bridge over the River Wear, in Durham'
Photograph: Quartus via GuardianWitness