Come Friends and Citizens, Walk Fort to Fort, Arbeia (South Shields) to Segedunum (Wallsend). Saturday 21 July 2007, 10am-5pm. Join the guided history walk. A lunch stop at Bede's World. FREE EVENT, BOOKING ESSENTIAL.



zz Fort to Fort Walk 2007

Fort to Fort Walk 2007

Come Friends and Citizens, Walk Fort to Fort, Arbeia (South Shields) to Segedunum (Wallsend).

Saturday 21 July 2007, 10am-5pm.

Join the guided history walk.  A lunch stop at Bede's World.

Walk through the Pedestrian tunnel, part of the Tyne Tunnel.  Opened on 24th July 1951 as a public right of way (open 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, is free of any toll).  The tunnels are 900ft (275M) long and have a vertical descent of 85ft.  The escalators are 200ft long, each escalator has 306 steps making them the longest single span wooden escalators in the world.

FREE EVENT, BOOKING ESSENTIAL.

Tel: 0191 236 9347 or 0191 456 8740