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SOUTH EAST NORTHUMBERLAND SPINE ROAD STAGE FIVE KITTY BREWSTER NORTHWARDS: NORTH SEATON/WOODHORN JUNCTION
1973
1973-01-01
DetailsOriginal Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 4 mins 34 secs Credits: Donald Oates Genre: Amateur
Subject: Transport Industry
Summary The fourth of five amateur film produced by Donald Oates, a Civil Engineer for Newcastle, and Northumberland County Council, showing construction work taking place on the A189 spine road north from Kitty Brewster Bridge featuring construction work taking place around North Seaton and Woodhorn junctions.
Description
The fourth of five amateur film produced by Donald Oates, a Civil Engineer for Newcastle, and Northumberland County Council, showing construction work taking place on the A189 spine road north from Kitty Brewster Bridge featuring construction work taking place around North Seaton and Woodhorn junctions.
A dusty roadway under construction, two bulldozers travel along it. Traffic moves along another road adjacent to the building site.
Title: North Seaton Junction
Heavy machinery including...
The fourth of five amateur film produced by Donald Oates, a Civil Engineer for Newcastle, and Northumberland County Council, showing construction work taking place on the A189 spine road north from Kitty Brewster Bridge featuring construction work taking place around North Seaton and Woodhorn junctions.
A dusty roadway under construction, two bulldozers travel along it. Traffic moves along another road adjacent to the building site.
Title: North Seaton Junction
Heavy machinery including two wheeled tractor scrapers help to prepare a roadway by flattening it. An existing road passing around a bend or roundabout. A wooden fence follows the line of a new roadway built beside an existing road. There is a gap for a junction turning left off the main road. Various field and roadways being built near to them. Asphalt and road marking been added to a road across which a man crosses.
Title: Woodhorn Junction
A roadway goes under a bridge, the chimneys of the Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter in the distance. A single lane road makes a bend, a wooden fence follows it. Another single lane road passes through an embankment followed by views of various roadways under construction. The film ends on the coat of arms for Northumberland County Council.