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Ouse Street, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 2AG

This hole in the wall leads to the Victoria Tunnel, an old wagonway tunnel which ran under Central Newcastle down to the wharves on the Ouseburn. Subsequently the tunnel has been used as a mushroom farm, and as a World War II air raid shelter. Now a modest visitor attraction within the Ouseburn valley regeneration area.

The Victoria Tunnel is an old wagonway tunnel which ran under Central Newcastle down to the wharves on the Ouseburn. Subsequently the tunnel has been used as a mushroom farm, and as a World War II air raid shelter. Now a modest visitor attraction within the Ouseburn valley regeneration area.

Housing development of 28 riverside apartments and four new shops or offices at Lower Steenbergs Yard, on Ouse Street in Ouseburn. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/derelict-land-heart-ouseburn-finally-15527346 https://web.archive.org/web/20210604182533if_/https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/derelict-land-heart-ouseburn-finally-15527346 https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/stunning-pictures-ouseburn-development-newcastle-18809248 https://web.archive.org/web/20210604184020if_/https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/stunning-pictures-ouseburn-development-newcastle-18809248 There was a building here built around 1860. It was possibly the slaughterhouse owned by a Mr Burns. Newcastle Council bought it in 1876 and it is possible that part of it continued as a slaughterhouse, but the main part was a marshalling area for the cattle who had been quarantined for 24 hours in the adjacent Cattle Sanatorium ready for them to be collected by their owners. The Sanatorium became disused from 1900 and the warehouse building was possibly used as a store or sawmill by timber exporters Robson and Miller. On mid C20 maps it is labelled as an oil works (possibly owned by R.M. Rodgers, Oil Merchant from Elswick Court) and warehouse (owned by Steenbergs). The building was demolished in 2000 but part of the rear wall survives covered in white ceramic tiles. The wall fronting onto Ouse Street retains openings which may have been used for pipes for pumping out the finished oil. The oil business ended around 1950. Sitelines: https://sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk/SMR/11743 https://web.archive.org/web/20210604183306/https://sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk/SMR/11743

The Victoria Tunnel in 1939 was converted into a communal air raid shelter for 9,000 people. Wooden benches and bunks were installed as well as chemical toilets and blast walls; electric lighting was fitted and a new concrete floor was laid.

Built between 1839-1842 to transport coal from Spital Tongues to the River Tyne. Entrances on Ouse Street.

Work by acclaimed children’s writer David Almond in a street art trail from Seven Stories entitled 'Winged Tales of the North' for the Great Exhibition of the North in Newcastle (2018).

Looking downstream along the Ouseburn from the bridge which carries Byker Bank across the stream channel.

Within the small square is a covered display about the Victoria Tunnel Image and the entrance used for public tours Image Pre-booking is necessary via the Ouseburn Trust http://ouseburntrust.org.uk/index.php?page=victoria-tunnel