The Ambitious Plan to Concrete over the River Tyne

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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

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  • @thomasrutter824
    @thomasrutter824 26 дней назад +21

    For any urban studies student this is highly informative. Thank you.
    Anyone living in Newcastle there is an exhibition at the Farrell Centre that explores this idea - concrete dreams

    • @137Rita
      @137Rita 26 дней назад +2

      @@thomasrutter824 Thanks for reminding me - must go to that!

    • @JordanReeve
      @JordanReeve  26 дней назад +4

      great recommendation, would recommend anyone interested in my films to check out the Farrell Centre

    • @GeordieHandle
      @GeordieHandle 26 дней назад +1

      Hey i had absolutely no idea about this place!! thank you for the recommendation.

  • @137Rita
    @137Rita 26 дней назад +24

    A model for the deck was shown at the Baltic during the Great Exhibition of the North in 2018, not sure if it was original. It looked horrendous - but your suggestion that it was never intended to be built but that the underlying principles have been followed, is a very accurate analysis of the outcome. Spot on as usual Jordan. I look forward to more content from Perth....

  • @johnosborne9271
    @johnosborne9271 26 дней назад +26

    Given the recent news of the Gateshead Highway; it’s lucky this never happened

    • @davidwhitton9050
      @davidwhitton9050 25 дней назад +3

      Concrete cancer was something we were instructed on when I was at university over 30 years ago it's baffling these schemes even got as far as they did.

    • @Yorkshiremadmick
      @Yorkshiremadmick 11 дней назад

      @@davidwhitton9050
      We were taught about concrete cancer back in the 70’s The Romans brought concrete here 2000 years ago at Richbourgh Roman Fort. Still standing.
      We tried to be too clever and save money.

  • @TeamCGS2005
    @TeamCGS2005 26 дней назад +6

    Fascinating stuff Jordan as always. Thanks for this and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!

  • @Tinker1950
    @Tinker1950 26 дней назад +4

    Many thanks Jordan. This was some new information completely unknown to me.

  • @simbar1959
    @simbar1959 26 дней назад +5

    Always interesting and informative Jordan.

  • @MBrady1970
    @MBrady1970 26 дней назад +5

    Thank god that never went ahead! 😯 great video Jordan, first I've heard of that scheme. Merry Xmas

  • @SC_14
    @SC_14 26 дней назад +5

    You should do a video on the redevelopment plans for the old Wear Port at the mouth of river wear.

  • @toi_techno
    @toi_techno 25 дней назад +4

    Cool vid
    “Comparable to Durham and the major sites of Europe” is a phrase I thought I’d never hear

  • @vince6466
    @vince6466 24 дня назад +5

    Lol I have never heard anyone from Peterlee describe it so enthusiastically.

    • @AbandonEarth911
      @AbandonEarth911 16 дней назад

      The place is a dump, the only growth industry is shoplifting.

  • @robertcawthorn8318
    @robertcawthorn8318 26 дней назад +2

    love your content

  • @Minecraft-pj4hm
    @Minecraft-pj4hm 25 дней назад +3

    The River is a River and deserves respect as such. Sad when they get trashed and people turn their backs on them. Lucky where I am - there are two.

  • @Commonsense-u1h
    @Commonsense-u1h 26 дней назад +4

    It´s good it wasn´t concreted over, I couldn´t imagine Newcastle without the Tyne.

    • @davidwhitton9050
      @davidwhitton9050 25 дней назад

      It's OK it would have all collapsed and crumbled away by now.

  • @1258-Eckhart
    @1258-Eckhart 26 дней назад +1

    Hi Jordan, I always enjoy your well-informed videos. I find the Tyne Deck proposal too mannered and self-conscious and am in favour of keeping the river open.

  • @JohnLavender
    @JohnLavender 26 дней назад

    I never knew or heard anything about this, therefore I disbelieve. Lived here 30 years almost.

  • @smarttseluvka
    @smarttseluvka 26 дней назад +25

    Stupidest idea ever. You can tell that the people designing it weren’t engineers but artists when they want to build tower blocks over a coal mine… this is the trouble with architecture these days form over function and the form doesn’t even look nice

    • @firestarter1888
      @firestarter1888 25 дней назад

      Cost > everything

    • @MichaelCampin
      @MichaelCampin 21 день назад +2

      Yep, they built the new Sunderland Stadium of Light over the top of Monkwearmouth Colliery , how long before it falls down the shaft

    • @menshevik1012
      @menshevik1012 21 день назад +1

      They’re not artists.
      Developers and designers a match made in hell.

  • @stephen8468
    @stephen8468 26 дней назад +8

    That heavens that monstrosity was not constructed

  • @SC_14
    @SC_14 26 дней назад +4

    The glasshouse? Is it not called the sage anymore?

    • @johnosborne9271
      @johnosborne9271 26 дней назад +1

      I was thinking the same thing, I’ve never heard it called the glasshouse 😂

    • @MexicanSeafood88
      @MexicanSeafood88 26 дней назад +6

      the sage group sponsored development on land right next to the sage, which will take on the name sage. so the original was renamed The Glasshouse International Centre for Music about a year ago now.

    • @davidgorman7911
      @davidgorman7911 26 дней назад +3

      The current name is the sagesorryglasshouse.

    • @jonathanlee5907
      @jonathanlee5907 22 дня назад

      @@davidgorman7911this is accurate

  • @makumjeff2257
    @makumjeff2257 22 дня назад +1

    Tyne & Wear development was great! Unfortunately they forgot about the ‘Wear’ part! Fortune spent on the Tyne ‘0’ on the Wear. The Wear (Sunderland) should have stayed as part of County Durham! Anything outside the bounds of Newcastle is left out of the big spend!!
    Ps, building over the Tyne was an April fool stunt!

    • @yenyeng6867
      @yenyeng6867 14 дней назад

      There no money pumped into anything in the north east in general you absolute cabbage. The further you go up from London the lesser money there is. Been like that form the get go what drugs you taking? And let’s be real isn’t there a lot of money being pumped into the Sunderland City Centre area and along the river Wear new businesses etc. Least the city stopped pumping money to that backward football team and spending it on the city as it needs it desperately.

  • @johngamba4823
    @johngamba4823 26 дней назад +5

    What happens when architects egos get out of control

  • @andymoss2490
    @andymoss2490 24 дня назад

    The river brought life and wealth ,deserves a future ,would seem criminal to even consider concreting it over .

  • @shadowsinstatic
    @shadowsinstatic 20 дней назад +1

    Hi Jordan, I’m a street photographer and local history nerd from the North East and really enjoy your videos. If you're ever interested, I think it’d be great to collaborate on something like a photo-documentary or a project exploring how lost spaces have changed over time. I’d love to combine our skills to showcase the history and life of the region. Let me know if you’re interested. All the best.

  • @simonhodgetts6530
    @simonhodgetts6530 25 дней назад

    Although their rivers are nowhere as wide as the Tyne, both Coventry and Stourbridge had the rivers crossing their city / town culverted and built over during the 60s.

  • @harr_6068
    @harr_6068 22 дня назад +1

    I am a huge fan of modernism and brutalism but this would have been bad in two ways
    1. Concrete cancer may have affected this
    2. It would look terrible, and future developments such as Newcastle Quayside or Gateshead Quays, Sage etc. may have never happened

  • @jonathanlee5907
    @jonathanlee5907 22 дня назад

    I’m a fan of brutalism but looking at their house designs would never have a flat roof in a cold wet temperate climate (there it snowed heavily global heating)

  • @bensouthwell1339
    @bensouthwell1339 24 дня назад +1

    I mentioned the new stadium of St james should be built on the banks of the Tyne spanning half the river. Some where near Elswick with easy access from all areas and still in the city. Alas Lampooned was I, a head full of shit was I yet so nice to learn others were there before mem Maybe not a stadium but then they did not have Saudi funding behind them.

  • @petersmith9470
    @petersmith9470 4 часа назад

    Let's look at it today......
    Millennium bridge needs maintenance
    Tyne bridge needs no introduction
    Swing bridge doesn't swing
    High level just bodged up again
    This even before your get away from the river where degradation is plentiful

  • @50brian50
    @50brian50 18 дней назад

    Funny i was born on the banks of the Tyne Wallsend bye swan hunter's shipyards pulled the terrace houses down in 1976 now there building posh house on the banks of the Tyne

  • @XTSu-sl1bb
    @XTSu-sl1bb 22 дня назад +1

    So glad this was never built. It was a terrible idea like many of them in the 60s.

  • @JohnKobaRuddy
    @JohnKobaRuddy 26 дней назад +3

    Lets be honest the North east just north of Gateshead feels very isolated from the rest of England and also from Scotland and the River Tyne is a massive reason for it. Even walking down northumberland street past pi;lgrom srtereet onto the main road that leads to the Tyne bridge has a feel of 'the rest of the world awaits beyond those hills in Gateshead' feel to them.

    • @firestarter1888
      @firestarter1888 25 дней назад

      😂😂😂 even the internwt is black and white!

    • @r1bew42
      @r1bew42 25 дней назад

      and that's a bad thing why???

    • @gibsonduvall
      @gibsonduvall 22 дня назад

      JohnKR: And the actual point of your comment is?

  • @carlstewart2442
    @carlstewart2442 20 дней назад

    what a mess that would have been

  • @AbandonEarth911
    @AbandonEarth911 16 дней назад

    Have you been to Peterlee. the place is a dump. The original concrete flat roof houses cheap fling them up crap, the town centre shopping centre is full of boarded up shops, with pubs closed down and shoplifting rife.

    • @JordanReeve
      @JordanReeve  12 дней назад

      The reality compared to the original vision is definitely an interesting topic.

  • @-Katastrophe
    @-Katastrophe 25 дней назад

    The issue wasn't that they wanted to bridge the river but what they wanted to bridge it with. if they had of proposed a large green space, like a really really wide wildlife overpass it likely would have been built.

  • @55north17
    @55north17 25 дней назад +1

    Some ghastly architecture. Devoid of innovation and imagination. Sold to uneducated clients.

  • @robertcawthorn8318
    @robertcawthorn8318 26 дней назад

    comments arnt working

  • @MichaelCampin
    @MichaelCampin 21 день назад +1

    Gateshead is part of Sunderland not Newcastle

    • @fatelvis121
      @fatelvis121 20 дней назад

      What have you been smoking?

    • @momachine74
      @momachine74 20 дней назад

      ​@fatelvis121 well they were both part of County Durham at one time

    • @MichaelCampin
      @MichaelCampin 20 дней назад

      @fatelvis121 the truth

    • @harr_6068
      @harr_6068 11 дней назад

      it may have used to be but it doesnt use SR postcodes or is even managed by the same council

    • @MichaelCampin
      @MichaelCampin 11 дней назад

      Now Washington has an NE postcode but part of Sunderland, Newcastle has 220k population but Sunderland over 230k.

  • @CS-zn6pp
    @CS-zn6pp 19 дней назад

    Can't believe how ugly modernist design was, truly concrete hell.
    It's a blight on our towns and cities to this day and should be removed completely.
    I can't believe how much of the rich history of our country was destroyed by these "visionaries"...
    More damage was done to Newcastle in the 50s, 60s and 70s than during the war.

  • @privatechannel8462
    @privatechannel8462 26 дней назад

    I assumed this had been done, not that you could tell the difference