IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Praetorian Drive, WALLSEND, NE28 6RQ

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Praetorian Drive, NE28 6RQ by members of the Geograph project.

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The Carville
Image: © Mac McCarron Taken: 20 Oct 2007
0.06 miles
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Former route of Hadrian's Wall
Into Wallsend. Looking to Plantation Street from Neptune Road.
Image: © Stephen Sweeney Taken: 7 Jan 2009
0.06 miles
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Remains of Hadrian's Wall, off Buddle Street, Wallsend
A reconstruction of the Wall has been built on the left. The stakes on the right were placed in an array of pits found during excavation on the north side of the Wall and may have been additional defences known as 'cippi pits'. Archaeologists have never had proof that the top of the Wall could be walked on, because there is no place where it survives to full height. Since 2000, north of the Wall, between the wall and its ditch, three rows of large post holes have been found at Wallsend, at Shields Road, Byker, and over a 1km length between Throckley and Heddon-on-the-Wall. Rather than being man-traps (lilia) these pits were emplacements for an impenetrable entanglement of forked branches (cippi). Their purpose (described by Julius Caesar) was to slow down attackers and make them vulnerable to projectiles thrown by troops on a defensive rampart, holding up the attack for long enough for reinforcements to arrive. These obstacles would only have been effective if the ditch and berm of Hadrian’s Wall could be commanded from the Wall-top. The discovery of the obstacles supports the view that there was a wall-walk and battlements along the top of Wall from which defenders could fight off attackers. http://www.hadrianswallquest.co.uk/did-you-know
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 28 Jul 2013
0.07 miles
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Replica of Hadrian's Wall
Exact copy of how the wall would have looked, located right beside its original route.
Image: © Stephen Sweeney Taken: 7 Jan 2009
0.07 miles
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Remains of Wallsend Colliery
Image: © Gareth James Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.07 miles
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Route of Hadrian's Wall in Wallsend
Image: © Gareth James Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.07 miles
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Remains of Wallsend Colliery
The site of Wallsend 'B' Pit opposite Segedunum Roman Fort was excavated in 1997. It was one of several shafts of Wallsend Colliery originally opened in 1780. The stone walls date from 1780 to 1847 and housed winding and pumping engines. The round brickwork walls housed 'haystack' boilers used to produce steam that powered the engines. When the pit closed in 1847 it was maintained as a ventilation shaft until 1969 for the Rising Sun Colliery which opened in 1908. The shaft itself was sealed with a concrete cap which is now part of the viewing platform below the railings on the path above. The coal from Wallsend Colliery - 'Best Wallsend' - had such an enviable reputation and was in such demand in London and elsewhere in the early nineteenth century that soon all top quality coal from Tyneside pits was given that name. The Colliery itself had a reputation for innovation and good management - the famous inventor and entrepreneur John Buddle was Viewer at one time. The main road behind is named Buddle Street in his honour. But his and the colliery's reputation suffered, along with the men and boys, and their families, in the afternoon of Thursday 18 June 1835, when a disastrous explosion occurred at the colliery. 103 miners, as well as 11 horses were killed.
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 28 Jul 2013
0.07 miles
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Remains of Wallsend Colliery
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Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 28 Jul 2013
0.07 miles
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Remains of Roman fort in Wallsend
Between Plantation Street and Carville Road.
Image: © Stephen Sweeney Taken: 7 Jan 2009
0.08 miles
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The Salvation Army
Image: © Mac McCarron Taken: 23 Oct 2007
0.08 miles
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