2010

NZ2563 : Painter Heugh, off Dean Street

taken 14 years ago, near to Gateshead, England

Painter Heugh, off Dean Street
Painter Heugh, off Dean Street
Painter Heugh is an old lane of medieval Newcastle which used to connect the lower part of Dean Street with the higher parts of Pilgrim Street to the east. Its line is now broken by the multi-storey car park, the railway viaducts and the busy road approaches to the Tyne Bridge. The pedestrian route is continued by NZ2564 : George Stairs
Its name is thought to be derived from ships tied up here in the tidal parts of the Lort Burn below Low Bridge NZ2564 : Low Bridge, Dean Street before it was filled in to build Dean Street LinkExternal link
Hidden streams of Newcastle :: NZ2464

In Medieval times, Newcastle was divided by several streams or burns flowing towards the River Tyne. Several of the roads have the term bridge in their names although no water is visible today. Examples are Barras Bridge, New Bridge Street, High Bridge and Low Bridge. They were often important sites for industry and settlement but hampered communications and development. As the town expanded they were filled in and now flow in culverts buried deep below the surface.

The Skinner Burn was culverted between 1840 and 1859. It flows under Bath Lane from just south of Corporation Street, beneath Thornton Street, then west of Clayton Street West, around the site of the old abattoir, and down the east edge of Forth Banks into the Tyne where there is a small outlet in the river wall.
Tyne and Wear HER(11104): Newcastle, Skinner Burn LinkExternal link

The Lort Burn rises in Leazes, between Barrack Road and Richardson Road, then runs across Richardson Road just north of the junction with Queen Victoria Road, down the north side of St. Thomas Street and bends south just after the junction with Percy Street and on beneath Grey Street and Dean Street and the Side. It was crossed by the High and Low Bridges. The Lort Burn was fully covered in 1784 because it was considered as "a vast nauseous hollow… a place of filth and dirt".
Tyne and Wear HER(11105) LinkExternal link

The Pandon Burn was a deep and wide glacial valley. It was crossed by Barras Bridge and New Bridge Street. The valley was filled in over the culverted stream in several stages, completed by 1886. Its waters are joined, before reaching the river, by the Erick Burn, which flows beneath the Laing Art Gallery. In 1977, during President Carter's visit to Newcastle, part of the infill of Pandon Dene south of the Civic Centre, subsided under the weight of the crowd.
Tyne and Wear HER(11114): Newcastle, Pandon Burn LinkExternal link

Commissions North - Tributary LinkExternal link


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NZ2563, 2029 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Andrew Curtis   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 24 January, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 21 November, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NZ 2510 6398 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:58.1888N 1:36.5674W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NZ 2509 6398
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Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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