A4 Framed Landscape Print - Penshaw Monument

Built in 1844 at the top of Penshaw Hill in between Washington and Sunderland, in the North East of England, just north of Durham, Penshaw Monument as it’s most commonly known, though the correct name of the folly is “The Earl of Durham’s Monument” is dedicated to John George Lambton, the first Earl of Durham and the first Governor of the Province of Canada.

The monument which in 1939 was given to the National Trust as a gift by the John Lambton, 5th Earl of Durham, and is a stunning 30 metres long, 16 metres wide and 20 metres high and can be seen from many miles away due the it’s size and the height of Penshaw Hill and is open to nature’s elements.

The monument is the most unnerving and supernatural place I’ve visited and photographed, it was a windy day when I tried to work away and took this image from “inside” the monument itself, but the wind was not strong enough to explain the forces at work which kept trying to snatch the camera from tightly gripped hands, after this happened for the second time the evil presence I felt during this experience, I withdrew off the monument itself and decided to put my camera away, I’ve worked in all the severest of weather conditions over the years carrying and using my camera without problems really and have never came across anything like what happened when I was “inside” Penshaw Monument that day!