This was in preparation for Newcastle hosting the Olympic football tournament, and the Olympic torch relay, in which Bear Grylls zipwired from the top of the arch, to Gateshead quayside.
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Teesside Steelworks, which stretches from Redcar, where the largest blast furnace in Europe is located, to east Middlesbrough area are Europe’s largest steelworks producing steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Tyne Bridge, Auckland Harbour Bridge and many more.
The title refers to the city's five bridges spanning the River Tyne (two more have since been built over the river), and the album cover, by Hipgnosis, features an image of the Tyne Bridge.
HMS Calliope, one of fourteen Royal Naval Reserve units, is a "stone frigate" situated on the Gateshead bank of the River Tyne, between the Tyne Bridge and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
Lait was a candidate for Strathclyde West for the 1984 European elections and the following year stood in the by-election for Tyne Bridge where she finished in third place behind David Clelland and Rod Kenyon.
The free runners tackle some of the UK's most iconic sites including Edinburgh Castle and the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, the Giant's Causeway and Derry's walls in Northern Ireland, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle and the International Convention Centre in Birmingham.
Founded by Dorman Long in 1917, the steel produced was used to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Tyne Bridge, Auckland Harbour Bridge and many others.
Another plan for a high level bridge was that of Richard Grainger, who proposed to erect a superstructure on the Tyne Bridge, consisting of a viaduct for passengers and other traffic, supported on metal tubes resting upon piers of the bridge.