Where the Tyne Bridge started...
Friday enrichment took another trip out into the past with a walk from Wylam Station, across the River Tyne to find the original Tyne Bridge. Covering a little under 2 miles, learners ventured along the wasgon way heading west until they came across Hagg Bridge. Resembling the Tyne Bridge, learners would not believe Mr Butler when he informed them that without this bridge, we wouldn't have had the design and plans for the Tyne Bridge, Sydney Harbour Bridge and even the Wearmouth Bridge in neighbouring Sunderland. so they found the proof.
The information sign, as one learner found illustrated that the bridge was constructed in 1876, whilst the Tyne Bridge was completed in 1928 (and Sydney Harbour Bridge was 1932). Mr Butler brought the Maths in and asked for the years that separated Hagg Bridge and the Tyne Bridge, and learners calculated this accurately and described how they calculated it.
Was that a bridge too far? Perhaps. The return journey allowed us to walk back over it!