Hartlepool's hidden world is brought to life - and it really does look spectacular

One of Lisa's photos of Seaton's spectacular sights.

Lisa Pragnell has only been a Hartlepool resident for a year after moving with relatives from Northampton.

She followed Facebook posts which suggested the rarely seen prehistoric forest was on show at Seaton Carew.

Lisa said: “I saw lots of people talking about it on Facebook but wanted to see for myself so we went on Sunday.”

Lisa took some beautiful photos of the coastline at Seaton.

She said it was the first time she had heard of the spectacular sight on the seafront.

Another visitor to the low tide was Sarah Heron who was there with family and took her own wonderful photos.

The Hartlepool Mail told of the fascination with the normally underwater sights at Seaton last week.

While many people headed to the shoreline to take a look and take photos, others stressed it wasn’t the forest which was on show but merely an area of slag which is visible at low tide at Newburn Bridge and kelp beds towards the Longscar Rocks.

The landmark, commonly known as the petrified forest, consists of hundreds of tree stumps which have turned to peat.

Experts previously told the Mail that it would take a “fairly hefty storm” and a low tide to reveal the forest which stretches for several miles, and is thought to have originated around 7,000 years ago.

In recent times, the forest has been seen in the early 1970s (as pictured here), 1987, 1994, and 2007.

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