Corner Tower and Gardener?s cottage, City Road
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Corner Tower and Gardener?s cottage, City Road
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 15 Jan 2010
The part of the town wall here was built after 1298 and is the last remains of the town wall on the east side. The white-painted Gardener's Cottage was for the grounds of the halls of the Barber Surgeons who both practised as surgeons and earned extra money on the side by cutting people’s hair. The second hall on the site was demolished in 1851 to make way for the railway, running north from Central Station. Tyne and Wear HER (1557): Newcastle town wall, Corner Tower http://www.twsitelines.info "At distance stands an ancient tower, Which ruin threatens every hour; I’m struck with reverence at the sight, I pause and gaze with fond delight; The antique walls do join the scene, And makes more lovely Pandon Dean." From Pandon Dean, a song published in Sept. 1776, under the Name of Rosalinda. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53156/53156-h/53156-h.htm
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Image Location
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54.971331
Longitude
-1.606317