They must have been rebuilding and or extending the North pier around then.

The Tyne entrance is very wide in that photo compaired with today.

There are 2 cranes on that Pier doing the extension I suppose

The lighthouse on the Pier may have been on the old pier which was damage by a storm.

If I remember correctly the old Pier had a bit of a curve to it and was to the seaward side of the new straight one.

I don’t have my Admiralty charts of the Tyne entrance now which did show some remains.

Again if I remember right, there was an old shipwreck about where they are working on the seaward side of the South Pier not far from where the crane is.

Dived about 5 x on the 2 wrecks just off Frankie Cafe until a scrapper came and removed a lot of their remains

We often picked up 0.303 and 20mm ammo.

Remember the propellers off the Liner Oslofjod , the other was the Eugen Chandries spelling a bit off.

There are films on U tube of dives on them.

Allan C.