{"id":23846,"date":"2017-10-06T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=23846"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:34:39","slug":"apollo-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=23846","title":{"rendered":"On passing the Apollo pavilion &#8211; Peterlee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0965.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23849 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0965th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">2017:09:29 16:22:44<\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful warm and sunny afternoon in Peterlee and as I was taking photographs of the pavilion against the sun a teenaged girl walked past me on the footpath, underneath the pavilion, and up a staircase I had barely registered on the far side.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0957th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2017:09:29 16:18:40<\/p>\n<p>Wondering what was up there I followed. She was singing quietly and I didn&#8217;t want to disturb her but I wanted to take photographs. She stopped singing when she noticed me and I said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, do you mind if I stand where you are?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0966.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0966th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2017:09:29 16:24:11<\/p>\n<p>I took some photographs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhey are you taking pictures?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it&#8217;s famous, It appears in architecture journals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23860 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0962th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2017:09:29 16:21:07<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you an architect?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. My Father was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0967.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23863 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0967th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2017:09:29 16:24:24<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you live on this estate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, over there\u201d (pointing).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0969.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0969th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2017:09:29 16:25:30<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you come here?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it&#8217;s quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it get vandalised?\u201d (there was graffiti)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes but it gets cleaned\u201d she replied pointing to some faded lettering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0970.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23870 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0970th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2017:09:29 16:26:18<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you\u201d I said, and left.<\/p>\n<p>I left her in peace feeling slightly guilty for disturbing her singing, it was clearly a hallowed place.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Getting there<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy to find especially since a sign is missing from the Oaklands t-junction. Here are the coordinates.<\/p>\n<p>54\u00b0 44.994&#8217;N\u00a0 1\u00b0 20.733&#8217;W<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23880 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo_small_th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Small scale aerial view<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo_largeth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Large scale aerial view<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Further reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.apollopavilion.info\/history\/apollo-pavilion\/apollo-pavilion-history\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017:09:29 16:22:44 It was a beautiful warm and sunny afternoon in Peterlee and as I was taking photographs of the pavilion against the sun a teenaged girl walked past me on the footpath, underneath the pavilion, and up a staircase I had barely registered on the far side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estates-under-threat","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29620,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions\/29620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}