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Forth Banks, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 3AN

Showing the side and rear of Image Pottery Lane takes its name from the former Newcastle Pottery which was started in this vicinity around 1800 by Addison and Falconer. It was later operated by Redhead, Wilson, and Co., and then Wallace and Co. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O149393/mug/

Viewed from a departing south bound train from Newcastle Central.

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The old concrete building of the Forth Goods Station is scrubbing up nicely to become part of the new Police Station. A fair bit to be done yet inside. See previous photo and description here Image

The building was built 1905-1906 as a goods warehouse for the Newcastle to Carlisle railway line. At the rear of the building was the huge North Eastern Railway's Forth Banks Goods Station, designed by Thomas Prosser in 1866 http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/4080142059 This was cut in two by the building of the approach viaduct from Central Station to the King Edward Bridge (1902-1906) leaving only the under-storey of the Goods Station with its arches along Pottery Lane Image The existing building shown here, fronting onto Forth Banks is a ferro-concrete goods shed of three storeys designed by William Bell and built by Mouchel's Hennebique Company. It is a Grade II Listed Building. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1072614&resourceID=5 http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=954973 https://web.archive.org/web/20200625211241/https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=954973 Along with the neighbouring Kings House Image, this building is destined to become part of a new £37 million Police Station http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2011/11/11/work-begins-on-new-police-station-at-forth-banks-newcastle-61634-29757040/ http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2010/10/22/plans-unveiled-for-new-37m-police-station-72703-27525468/ http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1345643

There is a description of the building on the corner of Pottery Lane, now renovated for the new Police Station, here Image The 1904 Grade II-listed warehouse, one of the UK’s first reinforced concrete structures, is now home to Northumbria Police Station's new custodial suite. It is a 50-cell complex, monitored by CCTV and a modern computer system.

Looking down Forth Banks. A modern building at the end of the street contrasts with the dilapidated buildings closer to the camera and the cleared site on the left. Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge is visible at the end of the street crossing the River Tyne.

Residential development in the 'Stephenson Quarter' in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Another view of Image just before its opening. The Police Station is on the right Image

The name 'Forth' is derived from 'Frith', meaning a pasture or shaded place. This refers to an area just outside the Town Walls which was used for recreation in the mid-C16th. It was bounded to the west by the Skinner Burn and was the site of Newcastle's first hospital or Infirmary which opened in 1751 http://research.ncl.ac.uk/nsa/tl1.htm Although now completely underground, the Skinner Burn is still remembered by Skinnerburn Road which joins the bottom of Forth Banks on the right. There is an interesting photo on this site from 1978 showing the Metro Bridge being built over Forth Banks Image and a more recent one from further down the hill here Image There is a c1900 photo of Forth Banks here http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/4081787082/