There are many examples of historic buildings and monuments that highlight the the architectural heritage that is available in both the Geordie capital city of Newcastle Upon Tyne and the towns and villages of Northumberland, Tyneside & Durham.
The Tyne Bridges.
Geordies take great pride in knowing that the world at large takes an interest in the fact that they have so many different types of bridge spanning the river Tyne.
The most famous of the Tyne’s seven bridges is of course The Tyne Bridge which incidentally celebrated its eightieth birthday in 2008, however, the reputation of the relatively new but extremely impressive tilting Gateshead Millennium Bridge is also going from strength.
In July 2008 there was for a short time an eighth bridge across the river Tyne with the erection (for 3 days only) of a bamboo bridge across the river.
Sadly 2008 also meant that Tyneside Geordies lost another piece of their architectural heritage with the demolition of the listed Burn Closes Bridge in Wallsend which was built a full 20 years before the famous Tyne Bridge.
This much less well known road and pedestrian bridge was built across a small estuary of the River Tyne called Willington Gut which was demolished and a new bridge being constructed over it’s foundations.
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