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The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Norman Dunn on November 20, 2022, 9:12:12

The weekend header photo shows the Wooden bridge under construction 1946. It was a puzzle for one of our board regulars as she used the bridge many times before 1946. On the aerial view the original bridge had been removed and a new one was about to replace it with sloping paths either side that made easier access when pushing a pram or riding a bike..
Below is a newspaper cutting showing the original wooden bridge sent to me by Lilian & her late husband Eric Flack many years ago.

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by James Goring on November 20, 2022, 9:56:26, in reply to "The Wooden Bridge"

This is a video I did a couple of years ago
'A Walk through Hebburn' It takes you over the wooden bridge.
Hope you don't mind seeing it again..

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by John Shearer on November 20, 2022, 10:13:49, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Thanks again James. I remember the old wooden bridge and was born in 1945?

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Elizabeth on November 20, 2022, 11:15:47, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

lovely to see that again James. made me nostalgic being a wartime kid, I used to use those routes all the time right through the war years even though I was still so young being born 1937. Arthur Street was our home 1940/47

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Tony Morrow on November 20, 2022, 15:02:02, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Excellent video James.

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Sheila on November 20, 2022, 18:17:40, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Thank you James, , just watched it. So many happy memories of Hebburn.

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by James Goring on November 20, 2022, 18:20:41, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Thank You All...

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by geordieboy ns on November 20, 2022, 23:30:01, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Thanks for the viewing James , enjoyable to watch ., Well done .

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Alan Young on November 21, 2022, 10:29:53, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Thanks for the slide show James - brought memories. Remember playing football on the Pyro pitch for Glen Street Boys Club. What a pitch !! - don't think grass had been invented then !

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Margaret McD on November 21, 2022, 22:20:59, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

I would have expected a message from Bob Noble here. Where's he at then?

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Marian Stead on November 21, 2022, 22:51:18, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

I remember the bridge well, born 1949 Swindon St & as a kid was sent to the allotments (Campbell St. side) to get mint for Sunday dinner. Mam was 'Peggy' Thomas & she made the best mint sauce ever! must have gotten a lot of mint cos there was Dad Charlie, and anothe 7 kids besides me. Very happy childhood. Had to go over the bridge to get to the Lakes and the park. Great video. Thanks.

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Bob Noble on November 22, 2022, 21:18:38, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

I is here ! , and the wooden bridge in it's original angle iron and wooden planking was there in all it's grimy glory when I moved away back in 1943. A lot of character built into that bridge.The hills either side where our equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme,,jumping ,rolling down their bankings , digging a trench to defend against an enemy ,a bit like trench warfare, the ammunition? anything you could lay your hands on!. We had to cross the old bridge everyday when, going to the new Clegwell Senior Boys School,( as it was first named) officially opened just a few months before war was declared 3rd September 1939. That Wooden Bridge holds tons of memories for me and all that was happening in an around Hebburn U D C ' YEP' !

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by geordieboy ns on November 25, 2022, 12:42:08, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Bob Noble ; A simpler time when as a child your imagination was your best life time toy . Not so much in this electronic age for todays children I'm afraid , what as they age will they look back with an inner smile at the forts/wooden sword fights/ piggy back tussels in the school yard/ making paper chain christmas decorations etc ., Rarely now do you see two children at play rummaging spontaneously in the dusty autum leaves or building sand castles on the beach,if their eyes were open to watching a kitten at play they could look back at the best things in life at that age , their imagination , wonders of all things it was free.

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by geordieboy ns on November 25, 2022, 12:54:24, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

PS ; Norman and Bob - Every child should have a wooden bridge .

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by geordieboy ns on November 27, 2022, 13:35:24, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Normans site " Hebburn and Neighbours " It appears to me looking from afar , the towns of Hebburn & Jarrow , are being flattened like a tube of tooth paste/paved over into history creating or enlarging buisness hubbs like Newcastle and tourist sites like South Shields ., " Dormatery housing in between " Keep up your excellent historical review Norman orlike the Old Wooden Bridge the towns as they were will be forgotten as will the residents of yesterdy .ppp

Re: The Wooden Bridge

Posted by Lilian on November 29, 2022, 15:11:07, in reply to "Re: The Wooden Bridge"

Geordieboy
the old wooden bridge had four flights of metal stairs when I was young in the forties,in the fifties the bridge was changed to a path on top of the hil which made it easy to push my pram over to Hedgely road from Campbell street
I think that it might stil be in existanse but we left Hebburn forty years ago,and Hebburn has dramatically changed but the bridge will still be needed to be there to cross the railway line.

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