Keel Crossing [opened 18.10.25] - compendium thread

[Cockney Mackem]

Top observation Cockney. Any suggestions for a name?

The Sir Graeme Miller Memorial Footbridge

 

[Kevj]

The new footbridge looks like it's constructed from the same stuff as the Gateshead flyover.

Well it’s steel and the Gateshead flyover is concrete.

 

[Jack Blue]

I think the quantum gangplank

 

[Stella Spark]

Well it’s steel and the Gateshead flyover is concrete.

Good stuff. Shouldn't have painted it the colour of concrete though.

 

[Shandy drinker]

The BishopMonk crossing
Or BiMo crossing

 

[tunstallhill]

'The Northern Spire' is a shite name, pretentious and we've got stuck with it, let's hope they do.

agreed. i was furious at the time, i even wrote to my MP about it.

its an utter shite name, always has been always will be.

It should have been the Joseph Swan Bridge.. the bloke invented the lightbulb and was born about 200 yards away

 

[jaffa gaffa]

Should be a doth of the cap to the river and the industrial shipbuilding heritage so I'm going with:

Wear Honour Way

Although how you get there I don't know, how you get there I don't care.

 

[Leon Solent]

I like "The New Footbridge". As time passes, later generations will drop the word "New" from the name leaving just "The Footbridge" which many will be calling it already. If they build another one, that will be "The New Footbridge" and this will be "The Other Footbridge" or "The Old Footbridge".

Simple.

 

[andysafc85]

Fawcett Street Inn Bridge

 

[Kevj]

I like "The New Footbridge". As time passes, later generations will drop the word "New" from the name leaving just "The Footbridge" which many will be calling it already. If they build another one, that will be "The New Footbridge" and this will be "The Other Footbridge" or "The Old Footbridge".

Simple.

Might as well call it by a number. Bridge number six. Cox Green bridge isn’t included in the count.

 

[richest]

Well it’s steel and the Gateshead flyover is concrete.

well. apart from that. lol

 

[DaveH]

The 25 years late bridge

This was part of the original SoL proposal, shocking it has taken a quarter of a centaury to get there.

 

[Kevj]

The 25 years late bridge

This was part of the original SoL proposal, shocking it has taken a quarter of a centaury to get there.

Bob had the vision. Just not the combination to his safe.

 

[WHD]

The 25 years late bridge

This was part of the original SoL proposal, shocking it has taken a quarter of a centaury to get there.

Was it? At the time it would have to go through a working brewery.

 

[DaveH]

Was it? At the time it would have to go through a working brewery.

I think it was to be just to the West of Vaux, the back of where B&Q is now.

 

[Dave Herbal]

The only reason I’d ever visit the stables bridge

 

[mackem35]

agreed. i was furious at the time, i even wrote to my MP about it.

its an utter shite name, always has been always will be.

It should have been the Joseph Swan Bridge.. the bloke invented the lightbulb and was born about 200 yards away

Other than the north east, everybody else in the world thinks Edison invented the light bulb, sorry but true. A university or educational building would be better named after Swan than a bridge. I don't mind the name now but just call it the Spire Bridge,

Most brdges have very mundane names, take the A19 Hylton bridge, just says what it does on the tin. Most are just called after the area they join. I think the Cox Green footbridge is as mundane as it gets. So should be the Sheepfolds bridge and then nobody gets upset as they didn't call it the Gangplank of Light or whatever.

 

[Man About Town]

The Jimmy Jesus Bridge

 

[BiffaBeercan]

Quinnsway Bridge.

 

[martinlumley]

Brian Clough Bridge