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Description: | inscription, printing, The Escalator, Tyne Tunnel, Jarrow.
Length of Tunnel - 300 yds.
Length of Escalator - 186 feet.
Built in 1947 - completed 1951.
Tunnel 90 ft under high water mark.
Cost - 3/4 Million.
FRITH
JRW.20.
Sepia postcard entitled 'The Escalator, Tyne Tunnel, Jarrow', published by F. Frith and Co. Ltd, postally unused. The postcard shows a view of the foot of the escalators. About 1950s (the tunnels opened July 1951)
Material: paper | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.socialhistory.455523 | Go to resource |
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