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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'.
John Chambers, artist; Sheila Graber, animator, born South Shields, [1] made an outstanding animation about the river Tyne. [2]James Kirkup (1918–2009), poet [3]; Tish Murtha, documentary photographer born in South Shields, best known for her work documenting marginalised communities, social realism and working class life in Newcastle upon Tyne and The North East England.
The Ouseburn Valley is the name of the valley of the Ouseburn, a small tributary of the River Tyne, running southwards through the east of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.The name refers particularly to the urbanised lower valley, spanned by three impressive bridges, which is nowadays a cultural and social oasis close to the centre of Newcastle.
Tynemouth Lifeboat Station is located on the River Tyne, at Fish Quay, North Shields, in the county of Tyne and Wear.. A lifeboat was first stationed across the River Tyne in South Shields in 1789, with a second lifeboat placed in North Shields in 1798, both operated by the Tyne Lifeboat Institution (TLI).
Tynemouth Pageant is a community organisation in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, devoted to staging an open-air dramatic pageant every three years in the grounds of Tynemouth Castle and Priory, by kind permission of English Heritage who run the historic monastic and defensive site at the mouth of the River Tyne. [68]
The river was shallow at this point, and the bridge would have been at a low level, only 20 ft (6.1 m) above high water. The line would then have climbed to a terminus at the Spital, near Neville Street and the east end of the present-day Newcastle Central station.
Ships built on the River Tyne (4 C, 729 P) T. Tyne catchment (13 P) Pages in category "River Tyne" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
At Newcastle upon Tyne the middle arch and two of the arches near the Gateshead side of the Tyne Bridge collapsed in the early hours of November 17. [3] [4] Like many bridges of the time there had been houses and shops on the bridge. [3] [1] Upstream, most of the village of Styford on the north bank was destroyed. [1]