Exploring Dunston Staiths - Dunston, Gateshead, UK - DJI Mavic 2 Zoom
Dunston Staiths is a structure on the River Tyne, near Gateshead, which was used to load coal onto ships. It was opened in 1893 and at its peak in the 1920s shipped an average of 140,000 tons of coal a week (see website below). It closed in 1980 during the decline of the coal industry in the UK but remains open to visitors, although only at certain times during the week.
I've linked the Dunston Staithes website below for details on current opening times (which may change after this video is live) and other information.
Filmed on my Mavic 2 Zoom on a windy day.
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Dunston, Gateshead - 1960s
Archive footage including Dunston Staithes and Railway from the early to mid-1960s.
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The coal staiths @ Dunston, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, UK.
Places to see in ( Gateshead - UK )
Places to see in ( Gateshead - UK )
Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne. Gateshead and Newcastle are joined by seven bridges across the Tyne, including the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
Gateshead is known for its architecture, including the Sage Gateshead, the Angel of the North and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Residents of Gateshead, like the rest of Tyneside, are referred to as Geordies.
Formerly in County Durham, in 1835 the town became part of Gateshead County Borough. After the Local Government Act 1972, in 1974 Gateshead became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead and Tyne and Wear Metropolitan County.
The town of Gateshead is situated in the North East of England in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear, and within the historic boundaries of County Durham. It is located on the southern bank of the River Tyne. The town of Gateshead consists of the following districts. Some of them were once separate settlements that were absorbed by encroaching urban sprawl, while others consist entirely of retail, industrial and housing estates. Many of these areas overlap each other and their boundaries are by no means official or fixed. Gateshead is a Town (Urban Subdivision) in the Tyneside urban area.
Gateshead town centre
Black Hill, (High Fell ward)
Mount Pleasant, (Deckham ward)
Deckham
Carr Hill (Deckham ward)
Central (Bridges ward)
Bensham (Bensham ward)
Teams, (Dunston and Teams ward)
Low Teams (Dunston and Teams ward)
Chowdene (Chowdene ward)
Low Fell
Dunston
Swalwell (Dunston and Teams ward)
Dunston Hill (Whickham East ward)
Lobley Hill (Bensham ward)
Team Valley Trading Estate (Bensham ward)
Team Valley (Bensham ward)
Sheriff Hill (High Fell ward)
Ravensworth (High Fell ward)
Saltwell (Saltwell ward)
Harlow Green (Chowdene ward)
Wardley (Wardley and Leam Lane ward)
Leam Lane Estate
Pelaw
Heworth
Felling
Staneway (Windy Nook and Whitehills ward)
Wrekenton (Lamesley ward)
Windy Nook
Whitehills
Beacon Lough (High Fell ward)
Eighton Banks (Lamesley ward)
Old Fold (Deckham ward)
Redheugh (Bridges ward)
Shipcote (Deckham ward)
Bill Quay (Pelaw and Heworth ward)
North Felling/Felling Shore (Felling ward)
Lyndhurst (Low Fell ward)
Egremont Estate (High Fell ward)
Allerdene (Low Fell ward)
Falla Park (Felling ward)
Sunderland Road (Felling ward)
Follingsby (Wardley and Leam Lane ward)
Tyne and Wear Metro stations at Gateshead Interchange and Gateshead Stadium provide direct light-rail access to Newcastle Central Station, Newcastle International Airport, Sunderland, Tynemouth and South Shields. Gateshead Interchange is the busiest bus station in Tyne and Wear and was used by 3.9 million bus passengers in 2008.
Alot to see in ( Gateshead - UK ) such as :
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Millennium Bridge
Saltwell Park
Shipley Art Gallery
St. Mary's Heritage Centre
Dunston Staiths
Windy Nook Nature Park
Sage Gateshead
( Gateshead - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Gateshead . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Gateshead - UK
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Dunston staiths. we got caught by the police!
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Opened in 1893 by the North East Railway Company, it was built to allow large quantities of coal arriving by rail from the Durham coal mines to be taking from ships to London.
As the coal industry declined during the latter part of last century so too did Dunston Staiths, eventually falling into serious disrepair. It was then left to decay for years.
To make things worse A serious fire in 2003 inflicted extensive damage putting the Staiths on English Heritage's At Risk register. Luckily, a charity raised funds to repair parts of the staith making it safe to walk on.
Now part of the dock is used for tourists and stalls. However, most of the staith is still fire damaged and very dangerous.
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We went to record at the Staiths but due to it being over looked by housing we were quickly chased out. We went back the next day with IA Vløgs so he could make a video here. However, quite a few of our friends from school turned up making local people suspicious. As a result police called us down and thankfully just told us to go away.
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DUNSTON STAITHS
Short edit from Dunston Staiths, using the new DJI SPARK and a CANON 70D
Dunston Staiths, on the River Tyne, is believed to be the largest timber structure in Europe. It is a Scheduled Monument, Grade II listed and is owned by registered charity Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust (TWBPT).
Opened in 1893 by the North East Railway Company, it was built to allow large quantities of coal arriving by rail from the Durham Coalfields to be loaded directly onto waiting colliers (coal ships) ready for the onward journey to customers in London and abroad. At the coal industry's peak around 5.5 million tons of coal was moved this way each year.
As the coal industry declined during the latter part of last century, so too did Dunston Staiths, eventually falling into serious disrepair. Some reprieve came from the National Garden Festival held in Gateshead in 1990, which saw extensive restoration work carried out, with the Staiths taking a leading role as a key installation with performance space and an art gallery.
Sadly, the landmark structure's luck didn't hold. A serious fire in 2003 inflicted extensive damage putting the Staiths on Historic Englands 'At Risk Register'. Fortunately, TWBPT succeeded in raising the funds required to kick start the ongoing restoration which has seen it transformed into an exciting and sustainable visitor attraction.
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Dunston Station, Gateshead, Tyne Valley Line
Its been 2 weeks since I last uploaded a video that's because of my mini summer break. However, I was never going to let you down and this video seen me revisit the Tyne Valley Line. This seen me call at Dunston. Its opporated by Northern Rail and they run a train on the hour in both directions. The weather was hot with heavy wind my apologies I managed to catch some good traffic. I hope you enjoy the video all the same. Take care for now.
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Dunston Staiths on the River Tyne is believed to be the largest timber structure in Europe, at its height, 5.5m tonnes of coal a year was taken by rail from the Durham coalfields and loaded from the Staiths onto ships waiting on the river, which transported coal around the British Isles and Internationally.
The North Eastern Railway Company opened Dunston Staiths in 1893 to meet the growing demand to export coal and to save the rail journey to the docks at the mouth of the river. A second set of Staiths was built adjoining the first in 1903 and a tidal basin dug out, providing six berths in all, where colliers could be loaded at all states of the tide.
Dunston Staiths fell into disrepair during the latter half of the C20th, as the coal industry declined. It was fully restored in the 1980’s with the gantries repaired and redecorated, but in a non-operational condition. Used as a focal point for the National Garden Festival held in Gateshead in 1990, the public could then walk along the top of the structure and view the chutes and other machinery used in loading the ships, it was also a performance area and art gallery.
A fire in 2003 seriously damaged the monument, destroying a section which detached the eastern end to create an island.
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Interview with Francis Newman - Dunston Staithes | Whickham,Tyne and Wear
Because of pressure from his family Francis Newman had to leave school when he was 15 and he got a job at the British Rail offices adjacent to Dunston Staithes close to where he lived. It was not what he wanted but doing what you were told was the way it was and, at a time when money was tight, if your parents said you had to leave school and get a job to help support the family, that's what you did.
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Dunston Station 11/9/19
Our stations from our three day visit when we ventured back up to Newcastle to just to cover the last remaining stations on the Tyne Valley Line, along with some more least used stations including Tee Side Airport and British Steel Redcar, this all took some fair planning but we pulled it off! We finish our week in Yorkshire with some more least used stations, enjoy!
What is WHARF? What does WHARF mean? WHARF meaning, definition & explanation
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What is WHARF? What does WHARF mean? WHARF meaning - WHARF pronunciation - WHARF definition - WHARF explanation - How to pronounce WHARF?
Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under license.
A wharf, quay, staith or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring locations), and may also include piers, warehouses, or other facilities necessary for handling the ships.
A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings. Commercial ports may have warehouses that serve as interim storage areas, since the typical objective is to unload and reload vessels as quickly as possible. Where capacity is sufficient a single wharf with a single berth constructed along the land adjacent to the water is normally used; where there is a need for more capacity multiple wharves, or perhaps a single large wharf with multiple berths, will instead be constructed, sometimes projecting over the water. A pier, raised over the water rather than within it, is commonly used for cases where the weight or volume of cargos will be low.
Smaller and more modern wharves are sometimes built on flotation devices (pontoons) to keep them at the same level as the ship, even during changing tides.
In everyday parlance the term quay is common in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and many other Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, whereas the term wharf is more common in the United States. In some contexts wharf and quay may be used to mean pier, berth, or jetty.
In old ports such as London (which once had around 1700 wharves) many old wharves have been converted to residential or office use.
Certain early railways in England referred to goods loading points as wharves. The term was carried over from marine usage. The person who was resident in charge of the wharf was referred to as a wharfinger.
The word wharf comes from the Old English hwearf, meaning bank or shore, and its plural is either wharfs or wharves; collectively a group of these is referred to as a wharfing or wharfage. Wharfage also refers to a fee charged by ports for the cargo handled there.
One explanation is that the word wharf comes from the Old Saxon word warft or the Old Dutch word werf which both evolved to mean yard, an outdoor place where work is done, like a shipyard (Dutch: scheepswerf) or a lumberyard (Dutch: houtwerf). Originally, werf or werva in Old Dutch (werf, wer in Old Frisian) simply referred to inhabited ground that was not yet built on, or alternatively to a terp. This could explain the name Ministry Wharf located at Saunderton, just outside High Wycombe, which is nowhere near any body of water. In support of this explanation is the fact that many places in England with wharf in their names are in areas with a high Dutch influence, for example the Norfolk broads.
In the northeast and east of England the term staith or staithe (from the Norse for landing stage) is also used. The two terms have historically had a geographical distinction: those to the north in the Kingdom of Northumbria used the Anglo-Saxon spelling of 'staith', southern sites of the Danelaw took the Danish spelling of 'staithe'. Both originally referred to staithes in the sense of jetties or wharves. In time, the northern coalfields of Northumbria developed coal staiths specifically for loading coal onto ships and these would adopt the 'staith' spelling as a distinction from simple wharves: for example, Dunston Staiths in Gateshead and Brancaster Staithe in Norfolk. However, the term staith may also be used to refer only to loading chutes or ramps used for bulk commodities like coal in loading ships and barges.
Quay, on the other hand, has its origin in the Proto-Celtic language. Before it changed to its current form under influence of the modern French quai, its Middle English spelling was key, keye or caye. This in turn also came from the Old North French cai (Old French chai), both roughly meaning sand bank. The Old French term came from Gaulish caium, ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Celtic *kagio- to encompass, enclose. Modern cognates include Welsh cae fence, hedge and Cornish ke hedge.
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River Team
The River Team is a tributary of the River Tyne in Gateshead, England.
Its source is near Annfield Plain, where it is known as Kyo Burn. Then changing its name again to Causey Burn as it flows underneath the famous Causey Arch. It then flows past Beamish Museum in County Durham (where it is known as Beamish Burn) then crosses the border into Gateshead flowing through Lamesley. Continuing on into the Team Valley, the river flows through a culvert in the middle of the roundabout underneath the A1 road, it then continues through the Team Valley Trading Estate through a covered culvert, before emerging to the surface halfway along.
It then flows through the site of the 1990 National Garden Festival, before finally discharging into the River Tyne in Dunston. This area is known as Teams, after the river.
The River Team has long been regarded as one of the most polluted rivers in the area due to the discharges from Sewage works near Lamesley and heavy industry in the Team Valley. It is called The Gut by the residents of Dunston. However considerable improvements have now been made and the river is relatively clean.
Prior to the last Ice Age, the lower part of the River Team actually formed the lower part of the River Wear, with a combined Tyne-Wear river continuing to the coast from Dunston. The ice diverted the River Wear to its current course towards the coast at Sunderland, with the smaller River Team flowing along its former course towards the River Tyne.
'Coal Staiths of the Tyne' exhibition
An exhibition of rarely-seen photographs by one of Tyneside’s most important documentary photographers opens at St Mary’s Heritage Centre in Gateshead on Wednesday 9 September.
‘Coal Staiths of the Tyne‘ features photographs by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, who is best known for her 1983 book ‘Byker’, a portrait of a Newcastle community which was soon to be relocated by the Byker Wall.
This audio slide show offers a sneak preview of the exhibition, and is accompanied by a soundtrack in which Sirkka talks about the inspiration behind her photographs and the process of capturing the images.