Interesting thought. My first reaction was no, Parsons & NEM were on the same side of the river. But then I thought about the bend at Wallsend.
So I looked on Google Maps and I attach a section of the area around Parsons & NEM. Of course very little remains to position either company, but I have marked my best guess. So there is a bit of an angle on the NEM quayside, but is it enough to see the gap between the first group of ships and the second?
I think there was more angle on the shot and it would have been taken somewhere around VIEWPOINT or of course on the river itself.
But then again this could be a load of old tosh.
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