Type: Limited Edition Print Edition: 295 Medium: Giclee On Canvas Image Size: 21" x 27.5" Framed Size: 27" x 33.75" Signature: Yes, Hand Signed by The Artist Certificate: Yes Delivery: FREE UK Delivery. A Few Words From Alex:- "I'm drawn time and time again to the river that flows between Newcastle and Gateshead. It's full of contrasts - pleasure boats and canoeists bob about where mighty ships were once built and art galleries, hotels and bars are overlooked by the wonderfully engineered bridges. With my artist's eye, I'm also drawn to the way that the Tyne captures the amazing sunrises and sunsets that we have in the North East." ‘The Bridges of Tyne’ is produced on canvas and mounted in a pewter style frame, with a pewter slip.
Davey Pearson Photographic Archive on loan to the Ouseburn Trust: Can you help by identifying this ‘man with a cap’? As he appears in numerous photographs, his identity was undoubtedly known by the photographer. He is always wearing a cap and here he is standing on North Shields fish quay.
Davey Pearson Photographic Archive on loan to the Ouseburn Trust: Sunset over River Tyne and (former) Baltic Flour Mill, Gateshead from Newcastle Quayside.
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : Minas Geraes the Brazilian battleship passing through the Swing Bridge at Newcastle uponTyne.Ships Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 030568
Davey Pearson Photographic Archive on loan to the Ouseburn Trust: Man attending to one of several boats moored at the eastern end of Newcastle upon Tyne quayside. The surface is in a poor state of repair exposing cobbles underneath where grass and weeds are growing. On the left, just beyond the mouth of the Ouseburn, are warehouses on Spillers Quay. Spillers Mill is visible behind the boats. Above the warehouses on a higher level is the former John Porter's joinery factory site on St Lawrence Road (now the site of Ouseburn Wharf residential apartments). There are cement works on South Shore Road, Saltmeadows, Gateshead on the opposite river bank.
Davey Pearson Photographic Archive on loan to the Ouseburn Trust: Grab Hopper Dredger ‘Hedwin’ on the River Tyne passing Swan Hunter Shipyard, Wallsend from Hebburn. Built in 1969 in the Leith Shipyards of Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd the ‘Hedwin’ was used on the River Tyne for 42 years by Tyne Ports Authority until sold in 2011 to work in West Africa.
Davey Pearson Photographic Archive on loan to the Ouseburn Trust: Man in void, where wooden block supports are stored, under the structure supporting the rails of the large 180 ton swan neck traveling crane viewed from the end of Benton Way, Wallsend (adjacent to Wallsend Dry Docks). There is (left) a large naval ship moored at Swan Hunter quayside with many men on the bridge, deck and a platform in front of the bow. In the background are cranes at (left) Swan Hunter Shipyard and (right) Hawthorn Leslie Shipbuilders and Palmers shipyard in Hebburn.
The launch at the end of a Wallsend Street of World Unicorn, one of a series of oil tankers built by Swan Hunter: it opens up on the epic experience of shipbuilding communities.
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : H.M.S. Monarch passing under the High Level Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne. The caption under the photograph reads Length 581ft. Beam 88ft. 6in. ten 13.5 guns Ships Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 030558
Davey Pearson Photographic Archive on loan to Ouseburn Trust: Spillers Mill, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne including two mobile grain elevators for drawing the wheat by suction from a ships holds and depositing it in the grain silo alongside the mill.
Model of bridge for 1887 Jubilee Exhibition,Newcastle upon Tyne
The Tyne Pride was launched at Swan Hunter's Wallsend yard in October 1975. It was reported at the time to be the biggest ship ever built on the River Tyne
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A killer coffee machine, flying donkey, dancing monk and public execution all feature in this walk around Newcastle's city centre
Davey Pearson Photographic Archive on loan to the Ouseburn Trust: RB Harrison ship repairers at Bill Quay, nestled under the bank side (closed 1990). RB Harrison took over the original yard of William Boutland. Behind the shipyard is (L-R) a derelict paper mill (behind the crane), the adjacent derelict brick building was formerly the paint works site of Hoyle and Robson and later International Paints and behind these buildings is Fairfield Industrial Park previously the site of the Marconi radar factory. Behind the crane jib is the Albion Inn, Reay Street, Bill Quay and (extreme left) Harrison's former house (South Bank) at the end of Reay Street.
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : The Queen Mary leaving Jarrow Sat. Aug. 30 1913Ships Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 030556
Newcastle upon Tyne from Redheugh
Type : Lantern Slide Description : A photograph of the High Level Bridge taken c.1868. The view is from Gateshead looking across to Newcastle upon Tyne. In the foreground a group of people are leaning against the remains of a wall. Beyond the wall are warehouses on the Gateshead Quayside. The High Level Bridge is in the background with Newcastle in the distance. The spire of St Nicholas Cathedral the towers of the Keep and All Saints Church can be seen.Bridges Collection : Local Studies Source of Information : + another copy (and duplicate) filed under Newcastle. 'Description and Views'. Dating based on costume and the fact that the Town Hall built in 1858 is visible. Used in the Library Calendar for 1986. Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 046468
Courtesy of the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums.
May 2, 1969 saw the launch of the famous oil tanker on the River Tyne. Relive the event with this colour footage
Boat on River Tyne with Swing and High Level Bridges, Newcastle upon Tyne.
A general view of the Walker Naval Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne, July 1962 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/2/29400). This set of images celebrates the achievements of the Naval Yard at High Walker. The Yard was established by Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd as a replacement for the firm’s Elswick Shipyard. The size of the Elswick yard and its location above Newcastle Swing Bridge meant that by the early twentieth century it had become unsuitable for building large warships. Shipbuilding operations started at the Naval Yard in 1913 and by the end of the First World War all shipbuilding at Elswick had ceased. Between 1913 and 1928 the yard completed 37 warships, 29 merchant ships and 30 tankers. In April 1928, though, it was placed on a care and maintenance basis. The yard re-opened in 1930 to build the liner ‘Monarch of Bermuda’ but after her completion in November 1931 had to close again from lack or orders. In May 1934, however, the yard re-opened and went on to play an important role in the Second World War. During the War the yard delivered 72 ships including a battleship, a monitor, 4 aircraft-carriers, 3 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 15 submarines and numerous landing craft. After the War the Naval Yard was busy with merchant shipping. Giant tankers and famous passenger liners, such as the ‘Empress of England’, were built at Walker. From 1953 onwards the Yard also started building warships again, including the County-class destroyer HMS Glamorgan, launched in 1964. Difficult times lay ahead, though, and in 1968 the shipyards on the Tyne were merged to form Swan Hunter and Tyne Shipbuilders. On 15 February 1980 the containership ‘Dunedin’ was the last vessel to be launched at the Naval Yard bringing to an end a proud shipbuilding history. (Copyright) We're happy for you to share these digital images within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email [email protected]
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Photographs of industrial locations on the River Tyne that became part of the group's River Project of 1974.
Courtesy of the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums.
Never the most loved of bridges, it was once labelled an 'uncompromisingly ugly modern construction'
