These images were captured from the sky above the River Tyne today ... amid 'difficult travelling conditions' Featuring the Tyne Bridge, Swing Bridge and Redheugh Bridge and Millennium Bridge ...

(It would predate the Swing Bridge by five years and the new Tyne Bridge by 57 years ... Bridge became the sixth major bridge across the river on Tyneside. The next - and latest to date ...

We step out at Sandhill on Newcastle’s Quayside in July 1978, taking in a striking view of the Tyne Bridge with Gateshead on the opposite side of the river ... The Swing Bridge stands at ...