Vanished monuments of a bygone industrial age, it's 45 years since Tyne Dock arches, situated just to the east of Jarrow, were bulldozed into history.
There were four of them bridging the main Jarrow to South Shields road, each one supporting a busy railway line on which freight trains laden with coal and heading towards Tyne Dock would arrive from the numerous pits of County Durham, then return empty of their cargo.
Tyne Dock covered 50 acres when it opened in 1859. At its height in 1913 - in an age when coal was king - seven million tons of the black stuff was handled each year. By 1923 there were around 170,000 miners working in the pits of the County Durham coalfield.
