Landscape aerial photo showing the area of terraced housing replaced by the Byker Wall, the quayside and the Ouseburn Valley, view from the north. (Image from LATE 20TH CENTURY)

Structures identified:

• Ford Pottery (Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      POTTERY WORKS
  
• Newcastle upon Tyne ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      TOWN
  
• Byker ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      VILLAGE
  
• Byker Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE, ROAD VIADUCT, TOLL BRIDGE
  
• New Glasshouse Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE, ROAD VIADUCT
  
• Cluny Whisky Bonded Warehouse ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      BONDED WAREHOUSE, CHIMNEY, FLAX MILL, STILL HOUSE
  
• Baltic ( [EXTANT], Gateshead, GATESHEAD) 
      FLOUR MILL, GRAIN WAREHOUSE
  
• unnamed ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE
  
• Ouseburn Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE
  
• Newcastle Quay ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      QUAY
  
• The Grand ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      CINEMA
  
• St Silas ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      PARISH CHURCH
  
• St Ann ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ANGLICAN CHURCH, CHAPEL OF EASE
  

Image details:

 
Norman McCord Collection , Collection Ref. No.: 407
35MM GENERIC E6 SLIDES, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

 
Landscape aerial photo showing terraced housing (replaced by the Byker Wall) and the industrial buildings along the Ouseburn Valley, view from the west. (Image from LATE 20TH CENTURY)

Structures identified:

• Ford Pottery (Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      POTTERY WORKS
  
• Newcastle upon Tyne ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      TOWN
  
• Byker ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      VILLAGE
  
• Byker Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE, ROAD VIADUCT, TOLL BRIDGE
  
• New Glasshouse Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE, ROAD VIADUCT
  
• Cluny Whisky Bonded Warehouse ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      BONDED WAREHOUSE, CHIMNEY, FLAX MILL, STILL HOUSE
  
• unnamed ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE
  
• Ouseburn Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE
  
• Newcastle Quay ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      QUAY
  
• St Ann ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ANGLICAN CHURCH, CHAPEL OF EASE
  

Image details:

 
Norman McCord Collection , Collection Ref. No.: 411
35MM GENERIC E6 SLIDES, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

 
Portrait aerial photo of the mouth of the Ouseburn. View from the north. (Image from 1969)

Structures identified:

• Ford Pottery (Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      POTTERY WORKS
  
• Byker ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      VILLAGE
  
• New Glasshouse Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE, ROAD VIADUCT
  
• unnamed ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE
  
• Ouseburn Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE
  
• Newcastle Quay ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      QUAY
  

Image details:

 
Stafford Linsley Collection , Collection Ref. No.: A165
35MM SLIDES, RECORD PHOTOGRAPHS

 
Portrait aerial photo looking at the Tyne bridges. View from the east. (Image from 1969)

Structures identified:

• Elswick ( [EXTANT], Elswick, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      VILLAGE
  
• Gateshead ( [EXTANT], Gateshead, GATESHEAD) 
      TOWN
  
• Ford Pottery (Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      POTTERY WORKS
  
• Newcastle upon Tyne ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      TOWN
  
• Byker ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      VILLAGE
  
• New Glasshouse Bridge ( [EXTANT], Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      ROAD BRIDGE, ROAD VIADUCT
  
• Baltic ( [EXTANT], Gateshead, GATESHEAD) 
      FLOUR MILL, GRAIN WAREHOUSE
  
• Redheugh Gasworks: Gas Holders ( [EXTANT], Teams, GATESHEAD) 
      GAS HOLDER, GAS WORKS
  
• Low Elswick Gas Works ( [NON EXTANT], Elswick, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      CHIMNEY, GAS HOLDER, GAS WORKS
  
• Dunston Staiths ( [EXTANT], Dunston, GATESHEAD) 
      MINERAL RAILWAY, STAITH
  
• Newcastle Quay ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      QUAY
  
• Swing Bridge ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      SWING BRIDGE
  
• High Level Bridge ( [EXTANT], Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) 
      RAILWAY BRIDGE, ROAD BRIDGE, TOLL BRIDGE
  

Image details:

 
Stafford Linsley Collection , Collection Ref. No.: A164
35MM SLIDES, RECORD PHOTOGRAPHS

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