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The New Redheugh road bridge over the River Tyne from Newcastle to Gateshead, as seen from a train crossing the King Edward rail bridge downstream.
©Stanley Howe
©Mr M Evison
Not for nothing is this place known as "The City of Bridges". I know, we sat on one, in the train, for about 5, or so, minutes, and I don't think that I saw any two bridges the same.
©Ron Hann
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©Mick Garratt
©Mick Garratt
The green bridge cutting across the image is the main railway line above the former Forth Banks Goods Station approaching King Edward VII Bridge (off photo to the right). Behind, from the left, are the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge, High Level Bridge and the blue Metro Bridge. The buildings visible are the Baltic, Sage Music Centre, Hilton Hotel on the Gateshead bank, and nearer at hand, the rear of Forth Banks Goods Warehouse [[2712003]] and the 15-storey apartment and office block at the bottom of Forth Banks [[1158395]].
©Andrew Curtis
The viaduct on the right, in red sandstone, takes the railway south to the King Edward Bridge over the River Tyne. On the left are the yellow sandstone arches of the remaining lower storey of the Forth Banks Goods Station built for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Directly to the right, in former times, stood Dale Street, two rows of terraced houses that were the homes of railway workers in the nearby Goods Yard. The buildings were demolished in the early 1970s. There is a modern warehouse here today and a large derelict site further west [[2714894]]
©Andrew Curtis
Showing the side and rear of [[2712003]] Pottery Lane takes its name from the former Newcastle Pottery which was started in this vicinity around 1800 by Addison and Falconer. It was later operated by Redhead, Wilson, and Co., and then Wallace and Co. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O149393/mug/
©Andrew Curtis
See description here [[2714855]]
©Andrew Curtis
King Edward VII bridge over the River Tyne was built for the North Eastern Railway Company between 1902 and 1906 http://www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/keb.html Many small businesses use the arches under the railway viaducts in this area which take their name from the bridge. The road, however, is a branch of Pottery Lane, and a cul-de-sac.
©Andrew Curtis
The building was built 1905-1906 as a goods warehouse for the Newcastle to Carlisle railway line. At the rear of the building was the huge North Eastern Railway's Forth Banks Goods Station, designed by Thomas Prosser in 1866 http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/4080142059 This was cut in two by the building of the approach viaduct from Central Station to the King Edward Bridge (1902-1906) leaving only the under-storey of the Goods Station with its arches along Pottery Lane [[2712079]]. The existing building shown here, fronting onto Forth Banks is a ferro-concrete goods shed of three storeys designed by William Bell and built by Mouchel's Hennebique Company. It is a Grade II Listed Building. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1072614&resourceID=5 http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=954973 Along with the neighbouring Kings House [[2712063]], this building is destined to become part of a new £37 million Police Station http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2011/11/11/work-begins-on-new-police-station-at-forth-banks-newcastle-61634-29757040/ http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2010/10/22/plans-unveiled-for-new-37m-police-station-72703-27525468/ http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1345643
©Andrew Curtis
©Nigel Chadwick
A building converted to offices by the railway.
©Nigel Chadwick
See description here [[2712003]]
©Andrew Curtis
Grade II listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-468847-former-goods-station-warehouse-newcastle
©Nigel Chadwick

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