When I had to rescue nemaritimetrust.co.uk from an attack with malicious intent by the current Chair of the North East Maritime Trust, I copied the site’s later history into a page located on my main website theharbourview.co.uk and it served very well in the restoration of the site that one sees today, though there is a great gap in the history of the Trust for the three years prior to November 2014.
Equally disturbing, from a historical perspective is the takeover of the Facebook Page henryfrederick.swan on April 23rd 2026, by a person unknown who somewhat surprisingly, linked it to nemaritimetrust.co.uk, rather than the site generated by the Chair of NEMT, Mr Alec Renwick, nemaritimetrust.org.uk. If you scroll down through the first dozen or so posts of the renamed Facebook Page one will see that there is gap in the history of the North East Maritime Trust between November 2019 and April 2026.
The page Re: theharbourview.co.uk was created in nemaritimetrust.co.uk with the hope that it would be useful for the rebuild of theharbourview.co.uk which was lost when I transferred its care from one service provider to another. FastHosts proved to be unreliable as I was unable to upload any files at all!
Mick Dawson
1st May 2026
Early on in those gap years, October 21, I produced a document concerning the loss of part of the England Coastal Path and I have reproduced it as:-
Not a Right of Way? – Long Row, South Shields:-
A public footpath was established shortly after the completion of the call centre in 2007, formally known as Garlands. It gave a beautiful prospect of the Tyne after the graving docks had been demolished and became quite well used over a period of years.
While I often used it to go to town, I very rarely used it to get home mainly because of the long stairs to get back up to Greens Place and so I will base my case, starting from the ancient landing (Comical Corner Steps), at point B on the protestors plan ending at point A (2.3 meter gate built without permission). The gate appeared in September 2017.
Plan taken from the Facebook Group: Re-Open public access to the River Tyne @ Market Dock South Shields
The first piece of evidence is in the picture of the overspill car-park, taken I guess, while it was still being used and from near to point B.
Notice the paved footpath and railings, both a feature which continued round to point A, in or about 2007 which appear to have been adopted by the Council when the Call Centre was completed.
On August 11th 2017, George Mansbridge, Head of Development Services, granted the agents for Keywest Three Ltd, Mario Minchella, permission to build their flats in accordance with the modification of the property to include the KG3 ECP. The planning officer who turned a blind eye to this loss of the ECP was Gary Simmonette.
