The North-East's only surviving pleasure pier became an open air art gallery.

The display features large-scale photographic panoramas of Britain's 54 remaining pleasure piers by Salford University lecturer Lawrence George Giles.

The photographic artist has spent three years creating the exhibition, taking more than 10,000 separate images.

Taken on and around each one of the piers over a period of hours, the photographs are then fused together to produce timescapes.

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, working in partnership with the Friends of Saltburn Pier, has commissioned the exhibition, which will run until August 9.

The council's mayor Councillor Madge Moses officially opened the exhibition at the pier entrance today.