Sixty-five years ago - and the heavy industry that had come to define Tyneside still held sway on both sides of the River Tyne.
Our latest video offering, courtesy of the North East Film Archive, might not possess 21st-century high-definition - but the aerial footage, captured from a plane flying the course of the Tyne from the North Sea, still vividly recalls the shipyards, factories, workshops and smoking chimneys that once lined the river, and the myriad vessels that sailed on its waters.
The silent colour film Bridges On The River Tyne was shot around 1957 by amateur cameraman Milton Newton. Beginning at the mouth of the river, with both piers clearly visible, our footage shows North and South Shields, before much shipping and industry appears as the aircraft flies inland westwards above the Tyne
