Wooden remains on the banks of the river wear, North and South Hylton

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Another local history thread with a couple of questions.

Up the course of the river wear mostly around the Hyltons, you can see in the water on both sides a number of wooden poles on the riverbanks which obviously mark the remains of previous structures.

Were these docks or shipyards? And how far back do they date?
 


I know there was a team of archaeologists looking for remains of a roman Bridge along the banks at South hylton a year or so back.
 
MrOompapa said:
Another local history thread with a couple of questions.

Up the course of the river wear mostly around the Hyltons, you can see in the water on both sides a number of wooden poles on the riverbanks which obviously mark the remains of previous structures.

Were these docks or shipyards? And how far back do they date?
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I lived round North Hylton in the middle-late 1950's no recognizable structures there then, and thats over 65yrs ago.Anar I'm an old git. ;)
 
There were smaller shipyards up as far as South and North and Hilton, generally before steel hulls became the norm.

There was also a ferry which will have had a wooden piled landing either side of the river.

In addition the river was used far more than it is now and small boats were common to transport goods around. There will have been jetties and mooring posts along residential areas of the river.
 
Kevj said:
There were smaller shipyards up as far as South and North and Hilton, generally before steel hulls became the norm.

There was also a ferry which will have had a wooden piled landing either side of the river.

In addition the river was used far more than it is now and small boats were common to transport goods around. There will have been jetties and mooring posts along residential areas of the river.
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It's probably the ferry landing
 
A lot of years ago now, a local historian gave a talk in South Hylton's community centre.

There were apparently small boatyards all the way along the river - possibly up to and beyond the 'Gill steps'. The wooden pilings you see in the river are the remains of these boatyards and their jetties and any supporting industries.

As a footnote, he pointed out that each boatyard had its own associated Public House where the workers and their families tended to drink - not all of them properly licensed. There were, supposedly, up to 38 pubs in South Hylton alone, at one time.
 
Jap Stammer said:
A lot of years ago now, a local historian gave a talk in South Hylton's community centre.

There were apparently small boatyards all the way along the river - possibly up to and beyond the 'Gill steps'. The wooden pilings you see in the river are the remains of these boatyards and their jetties and any supporting industries.

As a footnote, he pointed out that each boatyard had its own associated Public House where the workers and their families tended to drink - not all of them properly licensed. There were, supposedly, up to 38 pubs in South Hylton alone, at one time.
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That figure alone tells us just how much the world has changed, in the past 50 years let alone 100 or so.
 
Jap Stammer said:
A lot of years ago now, a local historian gave a talk in South Hylton's community centre.

There were apparently small boatyards all the way along the river - possibly up to and beyond the 'Gill steps'. The wooden pilings you see in the river are the remains of these boatyards and their jetties and any supporting industries.

As a footnote, he pointed out that each boatyard had its own associated Public House where the workers and their families tended to drink - not all of them properly licensed. There were, supposedly, up to 38 pubs in South Hylton alone, at one time.
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f***ing hell.
Nee the wonder it bred loads of nutters down that bank.
 

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