BYKER, OUSEBURN AND RIVERSIDE

In the last post, I left you looking at the railway faclities at Heaton, just outside Newcastle upon Tyne. There used to be a station here called Heaton & Byker.

 

It is to Byker that we now head. Here's Shields Road, many moons ago.

The Queens Head, on Wilfred Street, Byker. It has since closed.

Here's another pub that's now shut, the Glendale.

The Tyne & Wear Metro crosses the Ouseburn Valley in Byker.

Down below is the Ship Inn. This superb pub is still going strong.

Crossing another bridge over the Ouseburn Valley is a Newcastle Corporation trolleybus (Les Flint).

Sometime around 1976, a Bournemouth Atlantean, on loan to Tyne & Wear PTE, crosses the same bridge.

The PTE had all sorts of vehicles on hire, including this Leicester Leyland found in central Byker.

Newcastle Corporation had a big depot in Byker, once housing trams......

....and steam buses.

Byker depot later passed to the PTE. Here's a good variety of vehicles there.

Inside the depot, more buses on hire, from Southend and Leeds.

There are several good pubs in Byker. Here's the famous Cumberland Arms.

Nearby is the Free Trade Inn.

From here there are fine views looking up the Tyne.

A 1906 photograph of the two Glasshouse Bridges taken from the mouth of the River Ouseburn at Byker.

A 2013 view of the Ouseburn joing the Tyne.

Moored boats on the Ouseburn.

Not far away is the Cluny, a newish free house in an old industrial building.

On the banks of the Ouseburn, the Tyne Bar, owned by Wylam Brewery.

Tynebank Brewery is close at hand.

Hadrian Brewery was once just along the quayside.

The riverside here was once served by rail, with some of the tracks surviving, albeit disused.

The NER electric locos once shunted the quayside and the connection (via a tunnel) to the ECML.

We take a walk along the banks of the Tyne and, until the erection of the Tyne Bridge, the first crossing of the river was by the low level swing bridge.

Across it is Gateshead, but we're not going there yet (Richard Huggins).

However, there's good views of the Baltic, from the riverside in Newcastle.

On the city's quayside is the Hop & Cleaver, that once brewed its own beer, but is now shut.

So, we adjourn to the nearby Broad Chare, where I'll end this post.

Next time, we'll look around Central Station and the southern part of the city station.