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The Tuxedo Princess moored beneath the Tyne Bridge, September 2005. The Glasshouse is the building in the background.. The Tuxedo Princess (ex-TSS Caledonian Princess) and Tuxedo Royale (ex-TSS Dover) were two former car ferries used as permanently moored floating nightclubs in the United Kingdom from the 1980s to the 2000s.
TSS Dover, (later the Earl Siward, Sol Express and now the Tuxedo Royale), was a British ferry.Built in 1965 as a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry, she spent much of her later life as one of the permanently moored Tuxedo floating nightclubs before being laid up, latterly on the River Tees in Middlesbrough.
The Gateshead side of the river is designated and signposted as Gateshead Quays. It is the site of the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The Glasshouse International Centre for Music . Also moored on the Gateshead side from 1984 until 2008 was the Tuxedo Princess (replaced for a time by sister ship Tuxedo Royale ), a floating nightclub ...
The entrance to the Palm Royale is portrayed by the Bel-Air Bay Club in Los Angeles. Built in 1927, the Spanish-style mansion is marked by an entry with a curved awning that leads to a doorway ...
Work began on the towers the following year: they were built on high and low ground either side of Pow burn, which flows into the Tyne at 'the Narrows' (the narrowest point of the river mouth). A keeper was paid 20 shillings a year to keep a tallow candle alight in each tower every night for a certain number of hours either side of high tide. [6]
View of the Customs House on the River Tyne (left). The Customs House is the main feature of the Mill Dam Conservation Area of South Shields and sits on the south bank of the River Tyne. [1] [2] The original building, built from 1863-1864, was designed by architect and surveyor of the borough T. M. Clemence. [3]
Second Tyne vehicle tunnel A19 road: Tyne and Wear: 25 Feb 2011: 54°59′14″N 1°29′5″W: First Tyne vehicle tunnel A19 road: Tyne and Wear: 19 Oct 1967: 54°59′14″N 1°29′8″W: Tyne pedestrian and cyclist tunnel Walkway, bike lane: South Tyneside [2], North Tyneside [2] 24 Jul 1951: 54°59′16″N 1°29′15″W [2] Gateshead ...
The River Tyne / ˈ t aɪ n / ⓘ is a river in North East England. Its length (excluding tributaries) is 73 miles (118 km). [ 1 ] It is formed by the North Tyne and the South Tyne, which converge at Warden near Hexham in Northumberland at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Waters'.