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Reminiscences
‘Scotswood Road was known to ‘have a pub
on every corner’ and whilst it is true that
there were pubs all the way along one side
of the road, on the river side, the factory
took up most of the space. The last pub on
Scotswood Road was the Hydraulic Crane
which stood on what is now the entrance to
the Newcastle Business Park.’
Doug Little
The Hydraulic Crane pub was named after
the machinery which was used in the fitting of the huge naval gun
mountings:
‘The turret was fabricated and was about the size of a three bedroomed
semi. The gun mounting was assembled over a large hole in the floor of
the factory, as like an iceberg, most of it is below and cannot be seen.
When completed, the mounting was lifted bodily from the hole and
dropped into the waiting naval vessel by a massive hydraulic crane that
was previously designed by Armstrong. The pub with the same name
only disappeared when the road was first widened.’ Sidney Jones
