The Burn Closes bridge or the
Burn Bridge as it is/was locally known was a well used
traffic and pedestrian bridge that linked the people from
the Wallsend areas of Howdon, Holy
Cross and Battle
Hill to the main part of Wallsend in North Tyneside.
Erected in 1912 as a
bridge over the Wallsend Burn and a stream that fed into
Willington Gut in Willington Quay in Wallsend.
This less well known but
just as memorable local Tyneside listed bridge which was
built across the Wallsend Burn from Holy Cross to the
junction of High Street East and Church Bank has now been
demolished as it was no longer deemed safe to use.
It was temporarily replaced by a footbridge which has now
been replaced by a new foot, bike and road bridge at a cost
of £4.2 million in a project that was originally
estimated would take up to two years to complete.
The faults in the bridge
were actually spotted early on after it was built and could
have been put right then it is said at a cost of only
£11000 at the time.
The following slide shows and videos will help you to see
how the new temporary footbridge across the Wallsend burn
was erected and how one of one of the oldest listed example
of Tyneside
Architecture was demolished and then replaced in less
than 1 year from start to finish.
The Construction Of The
New Burn Closes Bridge.
The following
slideshows shown below take you from the beginning of the
construction right through to the opening ceremony of the
completed bridge on March 26th 2009.
