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Description: | Crowds line the old Tyne Bridge, watching the massive fire of 6th October 1854. Ships are moored in mid-river to avoid the flames. The fire had started in Gateshead, but the explosion of a chemical works hurled burning timber and chemicals across the river to Newcastle. The Quaysides at Newcastle and Gateshead were some of the poorest, most crowded, and most disease-ridden areas of the two towns. After the fire, hundreds of families moved to the expanding suburbs. Newcastle Quayside became a predominantly trading and commercial area. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East events buildings and views Gateshead Newcastle | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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