Keel Crossing [opened 18.10.25] - compendium thread

[fewster1949]

Vaux/swallow hotels sold it to Tesco.Nowt to do with council(I think).Although I wish the council would have re acquired the site from tesco earlier

Wasn't it Whitbread breweries? Vaux was gone.

 

[Skylon]

Wasn't it Whitbread breweries? Vaux was gone.

Don't think so. I think swallow hotels bought or merged with vaux,then decided to close the vaux bit, and keep the hotels. Even though the brewery was more profitable

 

[bobster999]

Nah,continues onto the bridge

Are you sure? Because where it ends now is the length of the ship the keel line represents. The installation that was originally going to be built on the side of the cliff was to represent the front of a ship.

 

[Skylon]

Are you sure? Because where it ends now is the length of the ship the keel line represents. The installation that was originally going to be built on the side of the cliff was to represent the front of a ship.

Nope. It's always been in the plan to finish it on the bridge. The same length as the biggest ship built in Sunderland.

 

[bobster999]

The same length as the biggest ship built in Sunderland.

I know that man, you don't have to keep saying it

 

[Forty]

Yet some people don't want a ship on our badge because it doesn't represent present day Sunderland.

So wish we had this when the stadium opened.
Better late than never.

Deptford next please.

We were supposed to get it in 2000, for the millenium.
But someone called John Hall blocked it.

 

[Rupert The Fridge]

if another footbridge is built it should link st. Peter’s to Hendon

I would build another 3 ... St Peters to Hendon (as you have mentioned), Deptford to SSOL and a low level bridge below the one currently being built .... I love bridges, me !

 

[Skylon]

I would build another 3 ... St Peters to Hendon (as you have mentioned), Deptford to SSOL and a low level bridge below the one currently being built .... I love bridges, me !

I don't think the Deptford one makes sense. Walk across gillbridge and you are at the new bridge

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

I’d say it probably had more to do with Vaux owning the site initially

The Tesco debacle should never have been allowed to happen.

It was owned by Whitbread initially, they sold it to Tesco.

 

[Wrenthorpe Mackem]

Don't think so. I think swallow hotels bought or merged with vaux,then decided to close the vaux bit, and keep the hotels. Even though the brewery was more profitable

This.

 

[southstander]

It was owned by Whitbread initially, they sold it to Tesco.

Tesco put the city back years. If the office blocks had been built once the site was cleared we might have saved some of the shops in the city centre.

 

[Bakerlooline]

Wasn't it Whitbread breweries? Vaux was gone.

Whitbread bought the pubs and pension liabilities, not the brewery

 

[t121anf]

Hall was chair of the Millennium Fund for the North East. From what I can recall Teeside got rapids canoe thing and Newcastle and Gateshead got their bridge. Sunderland got nowt.

The Teesside Development Corporation build the Tees Barrage and i'm sure the white water centre was part of that development, it opened in 1995 so well before the Millennium.

 

[Northumberland Rocks]

The Teesside Development Corporation build the Tees Barrage and i'm sure the white water centre was part of that development, it opened in 1995 so well before the Millennium.

You are likely right - there other schemes in the NE that were funded if I recall right but nothing in Sunderland.

 

[HorsePills]

I would build another 3 ... St Peters to Hendon (as you have mentioned), Deptford to SSOL and a low level bridge below the one currently being built .... I love bridges, me !

They have plans for the third one, you can see it on the Riverside Sunderland website.

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They want to bring the river and the lower areas into use as part of the wider Riverside scheme that we're seeing with the office and housing developments.

 

[ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK]

They have plans for the third one, you can see it on the Riverside Sunderland website.

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They want to bring the river and the lower areas into use as part of the wider Riverside scheme that we're seeing with the office and housing developments.

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[Henry_Hill]

Are the other bridges? I mean,the railway bridge has a couple of tiny bits on, but I cannot see any other bridge daubed with loads of graffiti

Yeah there’s recently been some removed from QA Bridge which had been there a while, Wearmouth has bits too, abutments on Northern Spire is covered, pretty much all the interchange bridges on A1231 and A182 are really bad too

 

[Skylon]

Yeah there’s recently been some removed from QA Bridge which had been there a while, Wearmouth has bits too, abutments on Northern Spire is covered, pretty much all the interchange bridges on A1231 and A182 are really bad too

Really? I have never ever noticed large amounts of graffiti on any of our bridges

 

[Henry_Hill]

Really? I have never ever noticed large amounts of graffiti on any of our bridges

Unfortunately its all over mate and usually reapplied once its removed, costs the council thousands to remove every year

Really? I have never ever noticed large amounts of graffiti on any of our bridges

If you look at the top of QA Bridge south approach there’s currently some there

 

[Skylon]

Unfortunately its all over mate and usually reapplied once its removed, costs the council thousands to remove every year


If you look at the top of QA Bridge south approach there’s currently some there

Bloody hell. Thought that was a thing of the past.