Industrial revolution to modern day [Click for first larger image, second larger image and third larger image of Newcastle bridges]

1771 AD
The banks of the Tyne are devastated by a great flood. The only bridge not washed away is the one at Corbridge.
1772 AD
Bessie Surtees elopes with John Scott, who later became Lord Eldon.
1777 AD Conditions in the County Gaol.
Prisoners awaiting trial at the Assizes were kept chained to the wall. For 6d, curious townsfolk were allowed to visit the gaol and enjoy the spectacle of the prisoners’ humiliation.
John Howard the prison reformer, made a general tour of the prisons of Britain. He reported favourably on the conditions in the town’s Newgate gaol, and in the House of Correction at Manors, but was disgusted by the conditions at the County gaol in the Keep. “Men and women confined together for 7 or 8 nights…in a dirty damp dungeon…Having no roof, in wet season is some inches deep. The felons are chained to rings on the wall, shown to public like wild beasts and vulgar and curious paid 6d each for admission” .