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The previous bridge on the site was demolished in 1868 to enable larger ships to move upstream to William Armstrong's works. [3] The hydraulic Swing Bridge was designed and paid for by Armstrong, with work beginning in 1873. It was first used for road traffic on 15 June 1876 and opened for river traffic on 17 July 1876. [4]
The Swing Bridge in Newcastle. In 1876, because the 18th-century bridge at Newcastle restricted access by ships to the Elswick works, Armstrong's company paid for a new Swing Bridge to be built, so that warships could have their guns fitted at Elswick. In 1882 Armstrong's company merged with Mitchell's to form Sir William Armstrong, Mitchell ...
The (now closed to road traffic) iron-constructed Armstrong Bridge spans the south end of the Dene and hosts Jesmond Food Market every first and third Saturday of the month. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The building of a replacement road and tunnel, the Cradlewell By-pass , was the subject of a road protest camp around 1993, due to the destruction of many 200 ...
Old Armstrong Bridge, left, with the new bypass beyond. The historic Armstrong Bridge emerges into Cradlewell with Jesmond Dene to the north and Jesmond Vale to the south of the bridge. In 1993 work began on a bypass for the Cradlewell area, replacing the very steep Benton Bank as the main thoroughfare.
It has other recreational green areas, housing, allotment gardens, and a pub. It also includes a street named 'Jesmond Vale'. The locality is a mainly wooded and grassed area between The Cradlewell and Armstrong Bridge to the north and Burnville (left side) Stratford Road (right side) leading to Stratford Grove to the South.
The Armstrong Building, now part of Newcastle University. In 1849 a new bridge was built across the river at Newcastle. This was the High Level Bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson, and slightly up river from the existing bridge. The bridge was designed to carry road and rail traffic across the Tyne Gorge on two decks with rail traffic on the ...
William Armstrong was born on 26 November 1810 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of a corn merchant. [4] Trained as a solicitor, he moved to London before he was twenty. Returning to Newcastle, in 1835 he met and married Margaret Ramshaw, the daughter of a build
The A1058, known locally as the Coast Road, [1] [2] is a major road in Newcastle upon Tyne and the adjoining borough of North Tyneside in the North East.It runs from the Newcastle Central Motorway to the coast, terminating between Whitley Bay and Tynemouth.