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Low tide on a meandering stretch of the River Wear, just a short distance downstream from Queen Alexandra Bridge in Sunderland, NE England.
The low tide exposing banks of silt on either side got me thinking – has there always been this amount of silt exposed at low tide?
They used to build some big ships in the yards either of the river just past that bend, so I'm assuming the river must had been dredged back in the day.
My other thought is, if the silt is slowing building up, does it affect the overall dynamics of the river in terms of height at high tide and river flow?
The Earl of Durham, on behalf of Queen Alexandra, officially opened the bridge on 10 June 1909.
Prior to the bridge, road traffic crossing the river had to use one of two ferries, one of which operated from the spot where I took this photograph.
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