River Tyne & Quayside 2018 to 2019






30th December 2019



CWS Warehouse (Malmaison Hotel).

This is probably the oldest surviving large scale ferro concrete building in the country. It was constructed between 1897 and 1900 by T.G. Guerrite of L.G. Mouchel's firm for the Co-operative Wholesale Society (F.E.L. Harris of CWS, architect) using the Hennebique concrete system.

The building was built on a ferro-concrete raft in places up to 6 foot thick due to the marshy silt ground conditions. The ferro-concrete raft achieved the uniform speading of the load and was calculated to resist the reaction of the ground at the rate of 2.5 tons per square foot.

All the external and internal columns, floors, walls and roof were also constructed in ferro-concrete. The building had eight floors. A further storey with a barrel vault roof was added in 1901.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.




Quayside, No. 9, Exchange Buildings.

Office block, incorporating No. 9-15 Lombard Street, No. 16 Queen Street and Nos. 6-10 King Street. Circa 1861 - 2 by Parnell. Rectangular block with large central light well. Basement and 4 storeys, with 5-storey central section; 3:5:3 bays x 3:10:3. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof.

Shallow central porch contains steps up to panelled double door and overlight recessed in surround of panelled pilasters and keyed arch flanked by pilasters; high plinth supports paired Tuscan columns and entablature. Above this, a tripartite window has coped balcony with Ionic columns to centre entablature breaking forward under segmental pediment; second-floor tripartite window with segmental heads and central key under pediment; shallow balcony.

Rusticated ground floor has round-headed windows, those in second bays from ends flanked by tall narrow windows in pilasters with paired brackets to first floor balustraded balcony. Ionic first- floor window surrounds under segmental pediments; floor above has similar treatment to that of centre bay.

All windows sashes, with architraves to those not in classical surrounds; those on first floor have balustraded aprons and flanking pilasters; those on second floor have segmental heads with keyed cornices; third-floor windows have round heads in the centre section, square in the outer bays, under prominent modillioned cornices on long brackets. Centre section has top cornice above plainer windows. Attics have architraves to windows except the central which is Venetian, all under alternate pediments, with intermediate balustraded parapet. Mace finials.

Historical note: the site was made available by a disastrous fire.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.










30th September 2019



Quayside East.




The Millennium Bridge.






Looking down from Tyne Street.













July 2019







The Quayside.

The Quayside looking it's best with a calm river Tyne and plenty of sunshine.






The Law Courts.




The Pitcher and Piano.





HMS Calliope, Royal Naval Reserve Unit.




Sandhill.






22nd June 2019



Sandhill.






The Quayside.





Taken outside Ouseburn School.






Quayside, No. 9, Exchange Buildings.




Quayside, Nos. 77 and 79, Baltic Chambers.




The Quayside/King Street.

City centre apartment block Hadrian's Tower rises in the background.




Pipewellgate, Gateshead.




The Quayside.

Taken outside Sage Gateshead.










17th March 2019




A fisherman near the Copthorne Hotel.









The Quayside.

All taken around the Millennium Bridge.





The Swing Bridge.






24th December 2018




CWS Warehouse (Malmaison Hotel).






Taken from the High Level Bridge.











East Quayside.






Taken from Byker looking west.




The Guildhall.




Close.

Neptune House in front then the Coroners Court and Watergate Buildings at the rear.




HMS Calliope, Royal Naval Reserve Unit.











20th October 2018



Quayside, No. 31, Three Indian Kings House.

1987 by Napper Collerton Partnership. Stone-clad with three full-height oriel windows. Source: Sitelines.






18th July 2018



Quayside, Nos. 77 and 79, Baltic Chambers.






29th June 2018



The Quayside.

A rare, largely traffic free, view taken very early in the morning,






20th June 2018



Gateshead Quays Container Village.






8th January 2018





Quayside at night.

Taken from the High Level Bridge.




The Swing Bridge.









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