Great video Jordan, nice to see you out and about in our fine city. I used to work at a restaurant called Gershwins back in 2000 which was in the basement of the building on the corner of Dene street opposite Miller and Carter and whenever there were any bad storms the water used to drip down the walls! This was I was told from the old Lort burn. There some drawings of the old high bridge in books on Newcastle’s history. 👍🏻 I didn’t realise the tidal reach was so high! Cheers again for a great video
The Newcastle 'summer floods' of 2012 - The video footage shows the flash flood following the natural route of the culverted Lort Burn river, from Grey Sreet, down Dean Street and into the Tyne : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mXfS03V7N7I.html Also presumably, pressure from the flooded culvert blowing the manhole cover creating a fountain! footage here: ru-vid.comHVHM5VXg2tk
Hi Jordan can you do a video on the new bridge street mixed use skyscraper development and tower proposals (37 storey gainford tower) cheers bud,video was excellent👍
You missed the head of the Lort burn,it is not in the park but just outside on the moor.In wet weather you can see and hear it running.For the Lort burn to be tidal up to High bridge,the sea level would need to be about 75 metres higher than it is.
yes correct, however it was originally called 7 wells head as there were 7 springs that fed the lort at leazes. and the reason it was tidal up to highbridge is because at that time the topographical profile of the lort was a COVE up to highbridge. this cove fed commerce to the bigg market directly on its western side via warehouses that ran up to the big market from the lort. this cove/stream at this point became a sewer dumping ground for all sorts of filth from the various markets around it; meat markets and fish markets etc. until it became known as being "a vast nauseous hollow". whence it was permanently infilled from the 17th century until the 19th century when grainger town was built over the top of it. so, as you stand on grey street between the two highbridge streets, you are actually standing on 100ft of rubble beneath the road (which still has the partially intact highbridge within it.)
There is a great book called “Newcastle upon Tyne mapping the city” you can get from Waterstones in newcastle. Great for all old maps demonstrating this
