How deep is the River Wear at Sunderland?

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Jap Stammer said:
It was back in the seventies/early eighties. It was the 'in place' to go for the people in South Hylton. My mam and dad were there every weekend without fail.
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If we went down the village mid 80's we just used to gan to the Potters and then the Hycroft. We'd tried the Golden Lion first few times down there but it was a bit dead. Did it used to be a Camerons place? Potters was Vaux and Hycroft S&N.
 


Paddy O'Dors said:
If we went down the village mid 80's we just used to gan to the Potters and then the Hycroft. We'd tried the Golden Lion first few times down there but it was a bit dead. Did it used to be a Camerons place? Potters was Vaux and Hycroft S&N.
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I honestly can't remember - it might have been a 'free house'.

In the '90s we would do a Sunday night tour - Workingmens Club, Lion, Legion, Hycroft, Potters. Then repeat. Good nights them.
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
If we went down the village mid 80's we just used to gan to the Potters and then the Hycroft. We'd tried the Golden Lion first few times down there but it was a bit dead. Did it used to be a Camerons place? Potters was Vaux and Hycroft S&N.
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It was a Vaux managed Pub.
 
The rivers vary in depth as there are channels (dredged) in both Tyne and Wear.

But for the purposes of this post assume a depth of 16.4 feet - I have a nautical map of the wear but cannot begin to think of how I can get it on here.

The depth at the end of the piers is 24 feet.

I have been drinking wine - don't navigate a vessel based on this utter drunken diatribe.
 
Big Jeff said:
The rivers vary in depth as there are channels (dredged) in both Tyne and Wear.

But for the purposes of this post assume a depth of 16.4 feet - I have a nautical map of the wear but cannot begin to think of how I can get it on here.

The depth at the end of the piers is 24 feet.

I have been drinking wine - don't navigate a vessel based on this utter drunken diatribe.
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The Port is dredged to 7.5m at low tide and 8.5m at Corp Quay, for high tide add @ 5m to the earlier figures.
The post dredging survey are on the port website.


 
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Big Jeff said:
The rivers vary in depth as there are channels (dredged) in both Tyne and Wear.

But for the purposes of this post assume a depth of 16.4 feet - I have a nautical map of the wear but cannot begin to think of how I can get it on here.

The depth at the end of the piers is 24 feet.

I have been drinking wine - don't navigate a vessel based on this utter drunken diatribe.
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That must be at High Water? I've fished off there for years and it seems a lot shallower than that at Low water. As a rule of thumb, each second your weight takes to hit the bottom is 6ft. At High Water, that would be about right, but I'd say it's only about 10 - 12ft off the end of Roker at Low water, less on spring tides.
 
Jap Stammer said:
I honestly can't remember - it might have been a 'free house'.

In the '90s we would do a Sunday night tour - Workingmens Club, Lion, Legion, Hycroft, Potters. Then repeat. Good nights them.
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used to frequent all of them as well

The lion was a grand place really such a shame but it just never got the footfall

Some cracking parties in there upstairs over the years
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
Always thought the Golden Lion was in a great location but never made the most of it. Probably not helped by being at the end of Sunderland's longest dead end.

I can remember when Charlie Darby used to live behind it, the last of the Hylton ferry boat rowers. Miserable fucker he was.
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That's the rub. Good pub but getting to and from it was a disaster. No reason not to have a footbridge down there tbh. Not like anything larger than a dinghy goes by now.
 
Davyred said:
That must be at High Water? I've fished off there for years and it seems a lot shallower than that at Low water. As a rule of thumb, each second your weight takes to hit the bottom is 6ft. At High Water, that would be about right, but I'd say it's only about 10 - 12ft off the end of Roker at Low water, less on spring tides.
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Have you been or are planning to drop bodies?
 
When the river was dredged my uncle used to get some massive king rag off the dredger for fishing. I think the sludge that was dredged up was taken about 3 miles out to see and dumped.
Can anyone remember the name of the dredger? I seem to remember Wearhopper 1 and Wearhopper 2 for some reason but these could have been the barges that took the sludge away.
 
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yamar1 said:
Yeah seen that place on the north side, walked past it on the north side before and never thought anything. Passed it on the south side looking across the river and it looks derelict. Certainly didn’t look like anyone lives there now, apart from the rats.

A shame, looks a great little place.
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Where is it on the North side? I cycled to Roker and back on Sunday and it was the first time I saw the shipwreck and the remains of the golden lion, but I didn't see a boat graveyard on the North side.
 
I heard a story (no idea if it is true) that the biggest ships were made on the Wear as it was deeper than the Tyne.
 
Tuono said:
When the river was dredged my uncle used to get some massive king rag off the dredger for fishing. I think the sludge that was dredged up was taken about 3 miles out to see and dumped.
Can anyone remember the name of the dredger? I seem to remember Wearhopper 1 and Wearhopper 2 for some reason but these could have been the barges that took the sludge away.
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Found a picture on the interweb, not bad for a memory from 50 years ago.
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Pepe said:
I heard a story (no idea if it is true) that the biggest ships were made on the Wear as it was deeper than the Tyne.
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The width and bends in the river limited the size of ship that could be built on the Wear, I don't think depth was a problem.
Bigger ship were built on Tyneside.
 
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