FINDING AN ABANDONED WEAPON ARMAMENT FACTORY IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE...

We’re on a bit of a mission today to find an abandoned old armament factory hidden on the banks of the river Tyne in Newcastle!
I found it once whilst shooting some content for Tyne & Wear Museums in the depths of winter but wanted to explore it properly and show you how to get to it!
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Newcastle City Guides Facebook Page
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[@bensouthwell1339]

Born bred and worked at Armstrongs factory and still learnt a hell of a lot from this video. Many thanks bonny lass.

[@Davy.J.Y]

What a great video , it was great seeing a detailed look around the swing bridge .

[@DeadAirTV]

That building at 8:27 is a place I’ve been trying to get into to record content for ages! It used to be the old river morgue and it’s meant to be haunted 👻 Also, the cellar of one of the restaurants on the other side of the road still has foundations and stone work from the old Tyne Bridge in it. Someone posted a pic of it on a history page I follow. Apparently if you ask, they let you go down!

[@northernhorror8212]

I uploaded photos of this for you, I work at the west end photo archive. They are on our website.

[@seansmith445]

2:49 Lovely patches of tarmac in the road. Newcastle council really know how to look after the city and make it look it's best.

[@TC-qd1zw]

My paternal granddad worked at Vickers, Scotswood worked as Fitter and Turner, followed by my dad same works same trade. Spent time in 27 Shop. Dad ended his working life, 14 to 65 in the Training School at Scotswood, just across from the old canteen. Then was asked to return to the new school in Michell Bearings about two mile# along the road. Great memory’s of that place and attending on public opening days, seeing dad at his lathe. Pipewellgate Police Station. The river morgue was just across the river beside the old Fish Market. Sad to see all the silt used to remember big ships up that part before Port of Tyne ignored it

[@Poliss95]

My dad worked at Elswick Works. It's changed a bit since his day. 😁 I knew about Mosely Street being the first in the world being lit by electric lamps. The world's first electric lamp was demonstrated at the nearby Lit & Phil next to the Central Station. Did you know that the world's first electric light bulb factory was in Benwell. I climbed up Dog Leap Stairs last year. They certainly are steep! Admiral Lord Collingwood was born on the street named simply 'Side'. The street has the Lort-Burn river running underneath it. The Lort Burn was fully covered in 1784 because was deemed "a vast nauseous hollow… a place of filth and dirt". There's a Victorian coroners on the Quayside. It still has some of the slabs they used for laying out the bodies fished out of the river. It's a bike hire shop now. 😁 The High Level Bridge has always seemed to be in the wrong place to me. Trains entering the Central Station had to reverse to continue their journey on to Scotland. The location of the King Edward VII Bridge seems to be a much more sensible place to put a bridge to serve the station.

[@Poppins-ut3bs]

Fascinating, lots of interesting facts . Beautiful architecture too. Keep these videos coming x😊

[@davewiseman9233]

Love it thank you always love my local history. Also you got a canny break in the weather whilst filming

[@POLITICAL-BIAS.]

Interesting upload. Many thanks.

[@gerardtom5722]

Brilliant 👌

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Thank you!😁

[@Paggerd]

Another cracking video, thanks. 👍

[@rock_dinosaur]

I certainly did enjoy this video, and I have 'liked' and subscribed. Excellent work indeed! Maybe a minor point, but I liked the backing music too.

[@diggmore1362]

Thanks for the video at least a small part of the Armstrong works still survive if only a small bit. I think the vickers vigor bulldozer was built in the one part of the works ?

[@foodmadewithlove324]

Thank you so much for sharing ❤

[@bamboocarman2335]

Great video, thanks. The warriors head is the Tyne God.

[@mikewilson631]

My understanding is that the engine in the swing bridge was driven by the same water that drove the hydraulic cranes. Hydraulic cranes were very successful for Armstrongs as a company. There was even a pub called the Hydraulic Crane on Scotswood road until (relatively) recently.

[@littlebull8881]

Lord Armstrongs roots are from the Border clans of Scotland, the crest at the ex factory show a Hammer has been added to the Clan Armstrong crest as it is without hammer on the family coat of arms' and what could be the Green man underneath, I am not 100% sure if it is the green man but if so it would tend to suggest as a reminder of Man's mortality.

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Oh I didn't know that! That makes sense!

[@o8oo0880oo8o]

I want a Shaun the Sheep statue in my city. Best I get in Fargo, ND is street art bison.

[@aaronhall65]

Stephenson house Newcastle

[@paulmc6940]

Iv never seen the town do empty

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

This was filmed yesterday from 10am - 12pm but not a lot of people go along that part of the riverside so it does seem quiet 😅

[@paulmc6940]

@@northeastnostalgic5071 even the town centre was quiet, maybe everyone was home with a hangover 🤣

[@thebritexiteer7956]

I don't think anyone would be booking tickets on a steamliner in 1943 because it was in the middle of ww2?

[@johnwinter5597]

Thanks great

[@aaronhall65]

Do you know about the tunnels under of the student unions they were used to hide the amout of bodies coming back from ww1

[@simonrawle7885]

its funny to think that hydraulics where invented in Newcastle

[@royksk]

It's pronounced Red yuff bridge not Red hugh!

[@paulmc6940]

Looks like we are heading in the wrong direction, we,v went from building beautiful things with high skill levels to building ugly cheap crap.

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

I know! Especially for an utilitarian factory, it still looks ornate and high quality compared to the metal boxes our factories have now!

[@paulmc6940]

@@northeastnostalgic5071 and in 100 years they will still be standing strong while our metal boxes will be long gone.. if klaus and the WEF get their fourth industrial revolution we,l all be herded in to smart cities and irradiated with electromagnetic radiation. We are definitely heading in the wrong direction I think.