wearsiders

Updated: May 22, 2025

No longer need vessels of heavy tonnage desert the Tyne for the Wear, as they were perforce driven to do during the first half of the nineteenth century, for the Wearsiders had set about deepening and widening their river long before the Tynesiders did the same by theirs.

Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry - Northumberland Yesterday and To-day