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Quick summary
- Price
- £4 full price | £3.50 Nifties
- Running time
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Venue
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- Arts Centre Washington
Additional information
Event description
Completed the day Queen Victoria was crowned in June 1838, The Victoria Viaduct was built for Newcastle businessmen who wanted to carry coal to South Shields rather than the port of Sunderland. Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner noted that Fatfield was the only place where you could see a Greek temple (a copy) from under a Roman bridge (also a copy). The bridge made Fatfield famous – almost as important as the villages connections to Alan Price, Gordon Hughes and Bobby Thompson – and perhaps nearly as important as having a worm in a well.
Come along if you want to know more about the bridge – like what it would have cost you to transport your timber, deals, building, pitching and paving stones, flags, bricks, tiles and slates, lead, iron and other metals or your dung, compost and lime to be used as manure, and manure… or where the stone came from… or who got injured at the grand opening…