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Tyne Bridge Damaged by Floods, 1771


"On Sunday Morning the 17th of November 1771 an unprecedented inundation of the Tyne occurred by which the bridge at Newcastle with the shops and houses thereon were carried away and many lives lost A great quantity of horses cattle and sheep were also drowned at various places along the river and all the bridges except Corbridge were swept away by this excessive flood." (Moses Aaron Richardson, 1846)

Source: M. A. Richardson. A Guide through Newcastle-upon-Tyne and its vicinity. 1846

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