Alison Stenning
@alisonstenning.bsky.social
Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
(Amusingly, Pic Collage offered me these as designs)
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
(Amusingly, Pic Collage offered me these as designs)
It’s apparently trolley season in Jarrow - looked like lots had been used (and abused) for Halloween and Bonfire Night, but also just for moving stuff round the streets - and for playing in and with.
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It’s apparently trolley season in Jarrow - looked like lots had been used (and abused) for Halloween and Bonfire Night, but also just for moving stuff round the streets - and for playing in and with.
Whilst I was in Jarrow, I popped to see this skatepark.
It’s not really been repaired, there’s lots of burnt debris - and the access traffic lights are out again.
I’ll follow this all up, but these less glamorous aspects of play provision need as much attention as the headlines.
It’s not really been repaired, there’s lots of burnt debris - and the access traffic lights are out again.
I’ll follow this all up, but these less glamorous aspects of play provision need as much attention as the headlines.
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Whilst I was in Jarrow, I popped to see this skatepark.
It’s not really been repaired, there’s lots of burnt debris - and the access traffic lights are out again.
I’ll follow this all up, but these less glamorous aspects of play provision need as much attention as the headlines.
It’s not really been repaired, there’s lots of burnt debris - and the access traffic lights are out again.
I’ll follow this all up, but these less glamorous aspects of play provision need as much attention as the headlines.
Today I attended an update from
Jarrow Forward, the board leading Jarrow’s Plan for Neighbourhoods work.
A lot of important initiatives but I’m especially excited to see our research and advocacy around play being picked up and placed at the heart of the plan.
@ncl-geography.bsky.social
Jarrow Forward, the board leading Jarrow’s Plan for Neighbourhoods work.
A lot of important initiatives but I’m especially excited to see our research and advocacy around play being picked up and placed at the heart of the plan.
@ncl-geography.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Today I attended an update from
Jarrow Forward, the board leading Jarrow’s Plan for Neighbourhoods work.
A lot of important initiatives but I’m especially excited to see our research and advocacy around play being picked up and placed at the heart of the plan.
@ncl-geography.bsky.social
Jarrow Forward, the board leading Jarrow’s Plan for Neighbourhoods work.
A lot of important initiatives but I’m especially excited to see our research and advocacy around play being picked up and placed at the heart of the plan.
@ncl-geography.bsky.social
I’m selling my Riese & Muller Cruiser 2 Mixte Vario.
It’s a lovely bike, I’m just not using it.
Full specs in pics below.
It’s 2 years old and done 2600 miles. Just been serviced.
Tyneside.
Niche so please share!
www.facebook.com/share/1AGbtx...
If you’re not on FB, can share more via DM.
It’s a lovely bike, I’m just not using it.
Full specs in pics below.
It’s 2 years old and done 2600 miles. Just been serviced.
Tyneside.
Niche so please share!
www.facebook.com/share/1AGbtx...
If you’re not on FB, can share more via DM.
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’m selling my Riese & Muller Cruiser 2 Mixte Vario.
It’s a lovely bike, I’m just not using it.
Full specs in pics below.
It’s 2 years old and done 2600 miles. Just been serviced.
Tyneside.
Niche so please share!
www.facebook.com/share/1AGbtx...
If you’re not on FB, can share more via DM.
It’s a lovely bike, I’m just not using it.
Full specs in pics below.
It’s 2 years old and done 2600 miles. Just been serviced.
Tyneside.
Niche so please share!
www.facebook.com/share/1AGbtx...
If you’re not on FB, can share more via DM.
This is Siren, the print and the mural.
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is Siren, the print and the mural.
Very happy to have got my hands on a commemorative print of Prefab77’s Net Worth. Not quite as impressive as the mural itself, but looking forward to getting it up alongside his Siren (a fundraising print of the first North Shields trail mural) in our new house soon.
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Very happy to have got my hands on a commemorative print of Prefab77’s Net Worth. Not quite as impressive as the mural itself, but looking forward to getting it up alongside his Siren (a fundraising print of the first North Shields trail mural) in our new house soon.
Really sad to see this; this is a skatepark close to the school and community with whose children I’ve been researching over the past 2 years, and just more evidence of the precarious provision of play in Jarrow. Pleased to see at least that it’s been repaired so quickly.
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Really sad to see this; this is a skatepark close to the school and community with whose children I’ve been researching over the past 2 years, and just more evidence of the precarious provision of play in Jarrow. Pleased to see at least that it’s been repaired so quickly.
At a trustees’ meeting at Shiremoor Adventure Playground last night, and the playworkers reported an average of 50-60 kids at after-school sessions through October. And a massive 422 visitors (children & adults) for the Halloween playday. It’s such an important place.
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
At a trustees’ meeting at Shiremoor Adventure Playground last night, and the playworkers reported an average of 50-60 kids at after-school sessions through October. And a massive 422 visitors (children & adults) for the Halloween playday. It’s such an important place.
We spotted this duck yesterday and weren’t sure what he was. He looks a bit like a shoveler but his beak is white. Can you help? On the River Allen in Northumberland.
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We spotted this duck yesterday and weren’t sure what he was. He looks a bit like a shoveler but his beak is white. Can you help? On the River Allen in Northumberland.
A gloriously autumnal afternoon in Northumberland -
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A gloriously autumnal afternoon in Northumberland -
A pedestrianised street giving amazing autumnal vibes -
November 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A pedestrianised street giving amazing autumnal vibes -
Closing streets - or opening them - is so good.
November 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Closing streets - or opening them - is so good.
Nile St street party today in North Shields, after a year of resident-led activity - painting, litter picks, community building - all set up for music, stalls, food and mingling.
Come down between 12 and 4 facebook.com/events/s/nil...
Come down between 12 and 4 facebook.com/events/s/nil...
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Nile St street party today in North Shields, after a year of resident-led activity - painting, litter picks, community building - all set up for music, stalls, food and mingling.
Come down between 12 and 4 facebook.com/events/s/nil...
Come down between 12 and 4 facebook.com/events/s/nil...
I’ve got a very lovely Riese and Muller/Bosch step through ebike for sale for less than the Pashley, if you’re remotely interested: www.facebook.com/share/17LBSt...
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I’ve got a very lovely Riese and Muller/Bosch step through ebike for sale for less than the Pashley, if you’re remotely interested: www.facebook.com/share/17LBSt...
Down to the Parma Violets, Fizzers and Lovehearts…
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Down to the Parma Violets, Fizzers and Lovehearts…
At 7 this is all we have left - I had over 150!
Our street goes all out for Halloween, lots of pumpkins and decorations, and it’s quiet, dense, walkable, and close to the town centre. Oh, and we always used to run a play street on Halloween. All in all it has a bit of a 🎃👻🧛🧌 reputation.
Our street goes all out for Halloween, lots of pumpkins and decorations, and it’s quiet, dense, walkable, and close to the town centre. Oh, and we always used to run a play street on Halloween. All in all it has a bit of a 🎃👻🧛🧌 reputation.
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
At 7 this is all we have left - I had over 150!
Our street goes all out for Halloween, lots of pumpkins and decorations, and it’s quiet, dense, walkable, and close to the town centre. Oh, and we always used to run a play street on Halloween. All in all it has a bit of a 🎃👻🧛🧌 reputation.
Our street goes all out for Halloween, lots of pumpkins and decorations, and it’s quiet, dense, walkable, and close to the town centre. Oh, and we always used to run a play street on Halloween. All in all it has a bit of a 🎃👻🧛🧌 reputation.
Me too - it’s all about play, having fun, and reclaiming streets. What’s not to like!
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Me too - it’s all about play, having fun, and reclaiming streets. What’s not to like!
Whilst I’ve been working, my teen and two friends have been filling the fridge with pumpkin spice Halloween monsters 🎃
The state of the kitchen was fairly horrifying too.
The state of the kitchen was fairly horrifying too.
October 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Whilst I’ve been working, my teen and two friends have been filling the fridge with pumpkin spice Halloween monsters 🎃
The state of the kitchen was fairly horrifying too.
The state of the kitchen was fairly horrifying too.
Looks like Meet Me at the Hippos is back on BBC iplayer - it’s a lovely bit of TV with Mark Bonnar talking about his dad Stanley’s Glenrothes hippos - and, of course, a north-east connection with the four that somehow arrived in Garth 22, Killingworth.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
October 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Looks like Meet Me at the Hippos is back on BBC iplayer - it’s a lovely bit of TV with Mark Bonnar talking about his dad Stanley’s Glenrothes hippos - and, of course, a north-east connection with the four that somehow arrived in Garth 22, Killingworth.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Just catching up with this, but a mixed reaction to Chris Whitty acknowledging they should have been “more liberal” with regard to children’s play in lockdown, since so many of us pushed for this at the time.
@playingout.bsky.social @wendyrussell.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
@playingout.bsky.social @wendyrussell.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
October 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Just catching up with this, but a mixed reaction to Chris Whitty acknowledging they should have been “more liberal” with regard to children’s play in lockdown, since so many of us pushed for this at the time.
@playingout.bsky.social @wendyrussell.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
@playingout.bsky.social @wendyrussell.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
I love the metro moquette!
October 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I love the metro moquette!
Driving the train into Howdon station 😏
October 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Driving the train into Howdon station 😏
Old train home!
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Old train home!
Train terminating at Manors but the one behind was new too!
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Train terminating at Manors but the one behind was new too!