{"id":549741,"date":"2026-04-25T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549741\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:51:08","slug":"middlesbrough-photo-exhibition-shows-loss-of-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549741\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough photo exhibition shows &#8216;loss of community&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An exhibition of photographs of a now-demolished urban landscape captures &#8220;the loss of community and emptiness&#8221;, the artist behind it has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Benson spent more than 30 years documenting the clearance of the area between Newport Bridge and the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fifty of his images, some of which date back to the 1960s, feature in an exhibition called Welcome to Teesside which opens on 27 April at the town&#8217;s Heritage Gallery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benson said: &#8220;The empty buildings, houses, garages and warehouses were like a monument to the past, that dispersed local heritage that had been lost as people were moved out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exhibition of photographs of a now-demolished urban landscape captures &#8220;the loss of community and emptiness&#8221;, the artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-549741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}