Ouseburn Viaducts Newcastle Upon Tyne

A super day of North East urban discovery with Ian Nutt who, having shot his images on on film has already processed, scanned and uploaded his images. A pleasure to show Ian around this very special city and see him so overjoyed at discovering the city's stunning bridges and buildings for the first time. 

My Photos.
A truly unique and wonderful urban area in Newcastle Upon Tyne. The river Ouseburn cuts a graceful gorge a mile or two east east of the city centre, spanned by three magnificent viaducts. In view we have the 1978 Metro Viaduct which carries the regions light rail system, behind it we have the 1838 East Coast Mainline Bridge. Out of shot, and above me, we have the traffic and pedestrian 1878 Byker Bridge. You can see all three from beside Ouseburn City Farm in my Extra Photos. 

I think it's a stunning and special area with a history of pottery, boat building, glassmaking, flour mills, wharves and the river a conduit for coal inwards and manufactured goods outwards. Today its an area of creativity, of regeneration, an urban farm, some of the country's best city pubs and music venues. Everything here informed by the patchwork of the areas heritage. 

My other shot in Extra Photo's of Newcastle Upon Tyne's legendary Central Motorway. A 1972 concrete thread that strangled the city centre, but still it has its poetry in the curving concrete and double decked drama not to mention the views its affords of surrounding buildings. Rather like the M1 and M69 in Leicestershire, this urban motorway is a little landscape of my life. But an isolated fragment of that same landscape, scything through places of the Toon that mean so much to me...