I am 78 years old, I did my costing in Jesmond Dean. Your tour is amazing didn't know all this was there, unfortunately I live in Shropshire now and I miss Newcastle every day. Best video I've seen in years, absolutely brilliant. Thanks from a very old geordie.

@Tinker1950

6 ай бұрын

"Costing"? Costing of what, and how much did whatever it was cost?

Thanks for highlighting how wonderful our little part of the Toon is,

I had no idea there was that path up to the Dene. Nice one 👍

Fascinating walk and appreciate seeing so many old buildings and bridges preserved and newer buildings respectful to the heritage. 👍 Used to virtually tour the Jesmond area of Newcastle finding background locations from a British tv series. Often distracted reading some of the actual history and virtually exploring the streets. Many great photos along Ouse Bank walk on google maps, Jesmond Dene is one place I so wish I could have visited. Thanks for the walk and looking forward to Part 2.

@livingonthetyne

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Enjoyed your walk. Thanks. That concrete cover you asked about leads into the Ouseburn culvert. It is possible... indeed I've done it... to scramble down to the burn at the entrance to the culvert at the last bridge just before the viaduct. You can then walk fairly easily for another few hundred metres further up the burn inside the culvert. There are the remains of air raid shelters and other structures. You'll need a good light but it's worth it.

Cheers mate Very interesting. I haven't been down that way for decades and I remember it being very pretty. RE the rectangular concrete slab: As I remember they were put over access points which were used during the building of the various tunnels, sewers, etc which exist under the city. Similar to the outdated entrance for a child chimney sweep, earlier. They're also sometimes used to prevent the erosion of riverbanks but I'm no expert. Leftovers from infrastructure building. You've had me googling madly further into lots of your info. Thanks again ❤

The City Stadium field you walked past near the end was the Ouseburn Tip. The Ouseburn was put into a culvert in that location and then a tip created above to eventually fill the valley up to make it easier to build roads from the town across the valley. It was intended to build housing and roads on it but it wasn't stable enough. So it became the City Stadium field.

@livingonthetyne

10 ай бұрын

Cool, thanks

Really enjoyed the walk . It's great down there. Will be watching more of your channel 😊

@livingonthetyne

8 ай бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Great video - perfect day for it. There is a good pub crawl you can do from quay to south g, via bluebell. Also good route for Geocaching :)

Thanks for the upload.

While walking from cook house you could go up the steps to Cumberland and turn left, you can then head to the culvert or half way round there’s a set of steps which when turning left at the top leads you round and just beneath the railway bridge saving quite a large set of stairs.

keep going mr ya doing a great job

@richardsales6996

Жыл бұрын

16.15 it's the top of the culvert that's underneath it the Ouseburn runs underneath there and comes out near Sandyford vale

@livingonthetyne

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate it thanks.

@livingonthetyne

Жыл бұрын

I thought that’s what it was when I was editing, it makes sense thank you. Id love to explore that culvert but it’s quite deep. ☠️

@richardsales6996

Жыл бұрын

@@livingonthetyne I haven't been in there myself but my friend has he lived in Shieldfield at the time and he said there was old fashioned shops from the 40s in there and there's no way out of the other end plus some people try to have a raven there a good few years ago and the police were called so I would out of l there if i were for you plus BIG rats

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My mum and grandparents lived in the pit village of Lemington on Lloyd street. It was demolished in the early 1970s. I don't suppose you would have any reference to it as I used to visit in the late 1950s to 1960s. Many thanks

@livingonthetyne

10 ай бұрын

I can certainly do some research :)

its not held together with just glue, it has massive cables pulling it all together, massive cavitiy under the track for inspection or repair

@Tinker1950

6 ай бұрын

Get your vacuous finger out and try explaining what you're talking about.