I run a steel erecting company in Canada with my son's and our trade name is Tyneside Steel Erectors Ltd. The logo has the bridge above the name, the curve extending from the letter D. We are Prudhoe lads and the name seemed fitting. We erect buildings all over Western Canada and we are very proud of the logo.

@TynesideLife

2 ай бұрын

Oh wow, thanks for sharing g that David 👊🏻👍🏻

@user-um7ny7cv7m

2 ай бұрын

If that's true fella, Then, you might enlighten us all, how it's costing 40 million to paint the bridge and how it's taking 4yrs to complete? I expect part of that price is for re surfacing, due to the road closure down to 2 lanes. Get the right company in and that bridge could be closed and resurfaced within a few days. So, come on, once its been re tarmac'd. What's it going to be down to 2 lanes for? Carht it be painted without the need for road works? Other bridges around the world have 24/7, all year round painting AND maintenance going on without lane closures and inconvenience to motorists. I could re paint the whole bridge me sel in 4yrs, aswel as supplying the deluxe for half da price lol. Must have been a few palms greased for that contract 😂

@TynesideLife

2 ай бұрын

@@user-um7ny7cv7m I cover the full work schedule in a recent video. You have a few misconceptions and misunderstandings bud. Not least our local council was forced to obtain £35m from central government

@user-um7ny7cv7m

Ай бұрын

@TynesideLife I'd like that link to ur previous vid Ed. I don't give a rats ass who runs what. We are hemorrhaging money,left right and centre. All across the board, no matter what sector. We can find billions upon billions to help every tom dick and Abdul. All whilst our own communities are falling apart. It's a freaking disgrace!!!

Visited Geordie Land for weekend last week, my sister drove over Tyne Bridge after visiting Angel Of The North, it was quite an experience. Beautiful city you have, lovely people ❤.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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@user-ny7rt6rt2e

2 ай бұрын

Aye we’re a canny lot.

@UKpitbull

17 күн бұрын

@@user-ny7rt6rt2e 😉

My great grandfather was a crane operator who helped construct our Tyne Bridge. The famous images of the two halves being closed at the peak was just another days work for him. Amazing construction techniques for the time. ✌🏻👍🏻🇬🇧

@TynesideLife

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing Steve 👍🏻👊🏻

Love Newcastle, the Tyne Bridge is so photogenic I visit Newcastle regularly and take photos every time I go. If that bridge was in London it would have been painted years ago. Thanks for the tour and I love the Sunday market right by that magnificent structure.

@TynesideLife

2 ай бұрын

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Thank you very much, Eddie. I learned a lot. I was always told the bridge was built as tester for the Sydney Bridge, Oz. I always get a lump in my throat when I come back 'home' on the train and see that beautiful bridge. Brilliant work! Thank you for your efforts!

The sight of the Tyne Bridge always tells me I’m home. Before I see it I always know I’m close to home, but seeing it just lifts my spirit. The reverse is also true though, whenever I’m leaving home, seeing the Tyne Bridge disappear from view casts a dark shadow. I did used to like it when it was in the red white and blue color scheme for the Queens Silver Jubilee… would have been nice to revisit that color scheme for her last Jubilee.

Growing up in Newcastle in the late 50's and early 60's I spent a lot of time being dragged round the Quayside area by my father, who was a history teacher at RGS. But it wasn't all bad. Dad seemed to know Everybody, so not only did I get to visit the control cabin on the Swing Bridge - very memorable standing there while the bridge opened! - but we also went up in the lift from the quayside to the road level. It must have been the East tower on the North bank, and it was operated by an elderly lift man. There was a wooden wheel with a sticky-out handle which may have worked the mechanism, and possibly a slatted wooden bench along one side for folk to sit on. Long time ago, but quite a clear memory 60 years on.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

I’m hoping to get inside Nigel

3 ай бұрын

I remember using the the lift with my Gran, I was only a kid then, 78 now, I'll never see the Tyne Bridge again although I can go to Sydney a see its big sister.

3 ай бұрын

typo:-and

Great film of one of my favourite places in the world. My grandfather Capt Richard Embleton, on horseback, led the opening procession across the bridge on its opening day. I have a photo of him doing this. As a child he told me a story of a golden rivet hidden in the bridge as a secret, has anyone else heard that story. I am so glad it is being refurbished. I know it is an awful lot of money but a few weeks ago we going across the bridge I could have cried at the state of it.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

That’s amazing Laura! Thank you for sharing 🙏

I love bridges. I was in Newcastle in October 2023 for a few days and walked back and forth across all of those bridges with the exception of the railway bridge - as I remember, there was not public access to cross that bridge. Great city Newcastle and great people and history. Can't wait to go back.

Loving this new production with the music. Not from around here, but these songs add that universal feeling of nostalgia. Plus, I get to discover new music that's so dear to the locals

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

Love our Tyne Bridge.A true symbol of our home:Newcastle upon Tyne. I really hope it will be fixed up soon.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

I discuss that in the video as to its refurbishment plans 🤛🏻

@davidaddison5936

Жыл бұрын

good video. I think at each end of the Swing Bridge,you can still see the remains of the Georgian Bridge? However, the Tyne Bridge will always be my number one.:)

Excellent video. As a regular visitor to Newcastle, from north of the border, I'm always impressed by the Tyne bridge.

@TynesideLife

3 ай бұрын

Cheers Ian 👍🏻

I loved seeing it coming back on leave from the army in 80s

Great podcast as usual Ed be nice to see those tower's become a feature and utilize the unique setting they're in 👍 👍

Informative and entertaining Ed. Sadly when you're on the train over King Edward's Bridge the view of the Tyne Bridge is blocked by the metro bridge. A few years ago our train was diverted over the High Level Bridge and it was amazing to see that view again.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

I’d love to see it again

Well Eddie that was a cracking video I’ve learnt so much from it as I always do from your knowledge of Newcastle etc. cannot wait to see what is next.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 🤛🏻

Ha ha yes Eddie, as an Aussie living in Newcastle I got ribbed quite a few times about us copying their bridge. Unfortunately for them I had read the Newcastle City Council web page that pointed out that even though the Sydney Harbour Bridge finished after the Tyne Bridge, it actually started construction before. It just took far longer as it was so huge. To be honest I think I prefer the Tyne Bridge because it's a more walkable human scale. I also love how the Tyne Bridge goes through and over the buildings in the Quayside, I don't know why but it just looks so good.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Great message Ealing 👍🏻

When I see the Tyne bridge in person it symbolises just how much I love where I live.

I was the same coming back from Lympstone in the late 90's, 8 hours on the train from Exeter, first you see the Angel, I didn't like it when they built it, but that train journey made me come to appreciate the Angel, and then into the city and crossing the bridge, me mother n stepfather would meet me at the station.

@TynesideLife

2 ай бұрын

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Eddy! I saw you as I drove past you on the bridge, heading over to Gateshead, early on Friday afternoon. I was going to blast the horn, but you were filming!😁 Was waiting for this video. Top work, great to know a few more things on our glorious bridge's history 👍🏻💪🏻 Regards, Mick

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for not blasting your horn 🤣

@superunknown8775

Жыл бұрын

@@TynesideLife 😄 maybe next time...!

My Grandma told me that she was there when the bridge was opened. She used to tell me that after that Lord Mayor finished his speech, she was the first to stand on the platform after him...she there fore concluded that it must mean that it was her bridge. That seems like a legally air tight claim to me. Don't worry, despite owning the bridge, she never had any plans to close it to the public.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

😂 great story cheers Patrick

@moiragoldsmith7052

2 ай бұрын

My Dad was there too, he'd have been 8 yrs old at the time. It was so good of your Grandma to let us all use her bridge. 😂💝

@PatrickStarfishman

2 ай бұрын

@@moiragoldsmith7052 She was always very generous in that way hahaha

Good content 👍I grew up in scotswood a stone's throw from scotswood bridge & always remember Jimmy Forsyth who later became famous for his amazing collection of photographs.

It is one amazing structure, and is a great credit to the builders of the day

I'm old enough to remember it when the A1 ran through Newcastle and down through Gateshead, there were only 4 bridges across the Tyne then as well back in the 60's! and no Metro of course. Nice piece.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing bud 👍🏻

Insightful and informative, as ever. Your content never disappoints. Good to have you back.

Afternoon Eddy 👋 after the homeless video, I have watched your Tyne Bridge, it has cheered me up no end! Very interesting facts on the worlds 'best' bridge 😉. That lick of paint cannot come soon enough! Have a great weekend and look forward to any NUFC match report you compile 👍👊

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Glad that cheered you up Graham 👍🏻

Another great Video Eddie. I haven't been back to my birthplace (Gosforth) since visiting North Shields in 2004 on HMS Invincible.

Like you Eddie, coming home on leave by train in the 70s and seeing the Tyne Bridge let me know I was home. Great video 👍

Amazing Eddy very informative my friend keep them coming mate

Fascinating!! Would move back home to the north east in a heartbeat if we could.

Brilliant video. Thank you! ❤❤❤

Aah that train journey home....Durham Cathedral, Chester-le-Street then the High level and home. Oh and what bridge inspired which, look at the old railway bridge at Wylam which I believe was in use before any of the 3 you mention were even built. Great video and thanks

Good video Eddie, I can see a lot of thought, planning and organisation has gone into it. Well done and thanks 👍🏻

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Excellent Eddie. I'm from Blyth, live in the south now but travel to see family often and ran over it a few times for the GnR!

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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Wow!! Brilliant vid Eddie… keep them coming 😀👍

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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Fantastic video eddie Loads of info.keep up your great work

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Appreciated Scott 🤛🏻

Gr8 facts aboot WOR bridge, I left Newcastle in 1992 @ 21 years old and I too experienced folk in Bristol, London, Liverpool who couldn't understand me and every single time I come back by train I love seeing THE bridge and it makes me smile! I will next experience this on Saturday enroute to WOR Cathedral on the hill for the match! Keep up the ace work Eddy😎

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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Great video, Eddie. Really good watch.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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Great video and very informative. Many thanks.

Another great video mate

Great Infomation Top video , thanks so much eddy for this mate

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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Loving the videos and Ive always thought the same as you that only one man was killed during construction but in the recent book 'The Tyne Bridge" by Paul Brown he names two others as having been killed.

@TynesideLife

3 ай бұрын

Cheers John, I’ll check that out 👍🏻

Class stuff mate. Keep it up

Walk the whole of the Roman Wall for charity every year and love the last day when we’re walking the Quayside Thanks Eddie

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

I’ll be doing it this spring Alan 👍🏻

Cheers bonnie lad.. Great video

Beard suits you, video very imformative Eddy, another great video😊

@chrisdawson6156

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jayne have you walked down the Tyne before

Loved this Eddie thank you.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Will be moving there soon so excited. To explore

@TynesideLife

Ай бұрын

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Very interesting as usual,landmark known around the world. Walked over Sydney bridge and it’s huge! 👍👍

Well done was great

You defo put me right on a few facts ed!!! 😊👍

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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Another great video mate👍

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Love the sights of the city for those of us who live far away.

the exact video i need to show to my wife to be why our honeymoon will be at Newcastle - and this from someone who's not even British.. great content as usual! and the production levels gone up a few notches eh.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

She’s a very lucky girl then Calvin 🤛🏻😃

Missed these eddie. A nice distraction from tonight's game. Big up eddie

When I saw the workers building the bridge I thought it's a miracle that only one life was lost building that great structure.

Cracking video as usual mate. Amazing history! I knew some of it i knew about the A1 and that the bridge used to be blue.I also knew about the Sidney harbour bridge.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Did you know about Hell Gate Bridge?

@Flukey_1970

Жыл бұрын

@@TynesideLife no mate haha i knew about the designer and the Sidney. Very interesting about the Hell Gate bridge though

You see the bridges, and now The Angel as well, and you know you’re home. Cheers Eddy.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the tip Richie 🙏

Coming back from college in York in the 70's with those views! But don't forget the big blue star a bit to the left. Always a lump in my throat. Daft but true.

There is a film that was made at the time called The Construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge on KZread. It is worth a watch as it shows the method used to build it. The Tyne bridge would have been built using the same method.

@TynesideLife

3 ай бұрын

Will do pal. They were built by the same engineering company so the construction would have been very similar 👍🏻

Amazing video very interesting I was sucked right in your best video yet mate for me class ⚫️⚪️

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Appreciated mate 🤛🏻

Love this so interesting my da worked for dormund long he was born in Newsham Blyth 💕 loved the video xx

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Maria. Was he involved with the building?

hi Eddie thanks for another interesting video, i once worked with a relation to Nathaniel Collins a guy called Bob Collins also from south shields.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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Love these videos too Eddie 🖤🩶❤️

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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Interesting Eddy.

@TynesideLife

9 ай бұрын

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I hope they don't spoil the look of the bridge by adding barrier spikes.

She went to the Middlesbrough v Everton match at the Riverside Stadium In November 2008 with me... ...From Then On I Was Dooooomed Eddie Hope my Good-Man...

Heres another little bit of info about the tyne bridge. The last rivet that was put in the bridge was solid gold. Which was put in place for the opening with the royals.

@TynesideLife

3 ай бұрын

I think that’s a myth Derek but if you can provide a reference I’d love to learn more 👍🏻

Great video eddy what colour are they painting it. , I wish they could reopen Gateshead East railway station especially with the great little footbridge over the top, especially as you have the Hotel right next to it. As well Eddy do a piece on the possibility of the reopening of the Leamside line. 👍

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻great message mate

I’m coming home Newcastle 💪 👏

Spot on again Eddie Thanx

It take long for a refurb than it took to build...wow

Thanks for video Eddy. I'd heard so much stuff re the Tyne bridge and the Sydney harbour bridge, much of it rubbish it's nice to get some facts. I've spent a lot of time in Sydney and their bridge is huge, but it's no more valuable to them than ours is to us. If that makes sense? 😂

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

We have 6 more 😅

I have a 3D model if the Tyne Bridge but I haven't started building it yet.

I've Zipwired off there, amazing experience and would recommend anyone giving the opportunity should (Jump) at it Have you considered doing a video on Tynemouth outdoor pool ?

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Im definitely trying that next time. I don’t think I’ll do a video just on the pool but I bay include it in a larger video about Tynemouth 👍🏻

Discussed the Tyne Bridge with my late uncle ( 30/9/19 - 5/8/19 ) on several occasions

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Nice meeting you today Angela

@angelavasey5083

Жыл бұрын

@@TynesideLife Was nice to meet you & the lovely Helen

2 of my great uncles from South shields worked on it one on eirher end .

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Amazing. Thanks for sharing Jonathan 🤛🏻

Interesting video. Any ideas if any of them bombs lay in the river unexploded?

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Not that I’m aware Chris. One obviously hit the flour mill

I can understand the wanting to put spikes up to stop suicide jumping. But that will spoil the bridge. The might try other places like high bridge. Or somewhere else. So no to spikes . It like have a nic day and watch someone come and spoil it ?? And it will not look good.. it should remain as built. That's my opinion. Good video. Top marks.

I crossed it today, it needs a lick of paint

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

What did you think of point 10?

@naturalborncerealkiller

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed every second of this video, point 10 is really 3 different points, 40 million for a paint job, traffic flow reduced by 50 percent and the gulls, answer, I don't know

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

@@naturalborncerealkiller it isn’t £40m for a paint job bud. Here’s a fuller explanation- The full programme includes steelwork repairs, full grit blasting and re-painting, concrete repairs, drainage improvements, stonework and masonry repairs, bridge deck waterproofing and resurfacing, parapet protection and bridge joint replacement. All aspects of the programme are being developed in consultation with wildlife groups to minimise the works around the towers on the bridge and other nesting sites during the six-month kittiwake breeding season, with nesting provision maintained throughout the works to minimise disruption to this protected species. Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻

@naturalborncerealkiller

Жыл бұрын

@Tyneside Life in my memory that happened about 30 or so year's ago and it was a nightmare for traffic. Thanks for your videos bonnie lad

Remember the lift in the towers in the bridge

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

I’m doing a separate video about the towers 👍🏻

@guineagirl5078

Жыл бұрын

Lift?

@jimmyoconnell6167

Жыл бұрын

@Guinea Girl yes lifts om both sides they been closed for 30 yrs now

@guineagirl5078

Жыл бұрын

@@TynesideLife you knowledge and passion about your home city is amazing. So interesting are your videos. I will look forward to the next one eagerly 😊 😀

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

@@guineagirl5078 thank you 🙏

Missed this one originally but loved it. One thing about the kittiwakes, is it true that the bridge is the farthest inland that they nest? and lastly, are you the poorer brother of Peter Gabriel? Only joking.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Not sure on the first one and for the second, I’m the wealthier brother of Jeff Bezos 😃

I’ve zip lined off awa Tyne Bridge 😁

Good vid but I feel the need to point out the air raid was a mistake by the Luftwaffe due to poor visibility by mistake, they dropped bombs over the river drive bridge south shields bridge and acutely hit the south shields market.

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Those were two separate bombing raids John 👍🏻

@johnshaw975

Жыл бұрын

@@TynesideLife I stand corrected Eddie keep the vids coming 👍

11: there is man access under each footpath wherein are housed large diameter water mains, gas pipes and numerous small utility lines. You’re welcome x

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

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DJ John Britain's got talent TV show says you deserve a medal for all your hard work respect Eddie DJ John Geordie legend says he loves running over the tyne bridge in the great North run thanks Eddie haway the lads toon army Newcastle Geordies respect Eddie let's see you waving those hands in the air like you just don't care thanks for the film of the tyne bridge fantastic haway the lads toon army thanks again Eddie DJ John Britain's got talent TV show respect 😅😅😅😅

is it true theres a gold rivot in the tyne bridge ? as i was told there was

@TynesideLife

3 ай бұрын

No mate, but I heard one of the Kittiwakes laid a golden egg… 😅

cracking

If it's going to be painted next year, why not go for black & white this time. 😁

@kenh3344

Жыл бұрын

Humbug no. Buckingham green. Or Brunswick green. Na not humbug. And certainly not pink.?

Never knew you are shearers twin

I’m sure the image of British Paints shown was actually on Stoddart Street in Shieldfield, Newcastle. My mother worked in their factory. Be interesting if anyone else spots that and can correct me? Now known as Stephenson House and is student accommodation. Check google street view? ✌🏻👍🏻🇬🇧

@TynesideLife

11 ай бұрын

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I Drove Over The Tyne Bridge To Pick My New Everton USA Chairwoman 2009 Bride Up from Newcastle International Airport... ...I Wish I Had Crashed Into A Lamp-Post on the Journey to Collect her Eddie Hope my Good-Man...

You didn't mention the lifts.

@TynesideLife

8 ай бұрын

I did

@user-cg4ws1wi8f

8 ай бұрын

​@@TynesideLifeyou didn't.

@TynesideLife

8 ай бұрын

@@user-cg4ws1wi8f I mentioned that I would be doing a separate video about inside if the towers and the lifts

@user-cg4ws1wi8f

8 ай бұрын

@@TynesideLife OK my mistake. I look forward to watching it.

I too past the Tyne Bridge today! 🚶‍♂- kzread.info/dash/bejne/rI6K2Kx6ZtS_gbQ.html

Would love a pint with u Eddie. ever come over her, get in touch .

@TynesideLife

2 ай бұрын

Will do 🙏👊🏻👍🏻

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@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Clarky 🙏

I Drove-Over the Tyne Bridge to pick the Everton USA Chairwoman 2009 Up As My New-Bride at the Start Of 2009... ...Young-Love and All-That-Fucking-Stupid-Carry-On Eddie Hope my Good-Man... ...She has Sodded-Off After She Got Her English Citizenship...Can You Believe That?... ...Newcastle United Will Never Leave Me Son...Toon Toon Black and White Army...Howay the Mags...Eddie Howe's Black and White Army...

Needs a new coat like

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

Now which of the ten points did I discuss that one?… 😆

@MrNelliboy

Жыл бұрын

@@TynesideLife 🤣😘

Fact number 11 it needs a good paint 😆

@TynesideLife

Жыл бұрын

It’s always apparent when someone makes a comment without watching the video 😆

Havent been home for nearly 10 years, thanks for these videos, even if they do make me yearn for hyem.