The River Tyne; Its History and Resources (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: published by Andrew Reid ..., London, Longmans and Co. Subjects: Tyne River (England) Tyne, River (England) Tyne and Wear (England) Tyne River History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE REFORMED CORPORATION OF NEWCASTLE. The new Town Council, elected under the Municipal Corporations Reform Act, came into office in January, 1836; and a desire for some improvement in the river soon manifested itself amongst the members. The Council comprised several intelligent, able, and earnest men, whom the Reform Act had introduced into the Corporation, and it would have been strange had a more active and progressive spirit not displayed itself in action with regard to so vital a matter as the proper conservation of the Tyne. A resident river engineer, Mr. Anderson, was appointed. Mr. Anderson's efforts seem to have been wisely directed, so far as the resources at his command permitted. In his reports he recommended dredging and other works with a view of concentrating the ebb and flow of the river on the sands and shoals which obstructed the navigation. In the year 1836 a most interesting paper of observations on the influence of Jarrow Slake on the tides in the Tyne was read before the members of the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society by Mr. Macgregor, in which he advocated the enclosure of tlie slake from the river for shipping and commercial purposes. In the same year, some observations on the improvement of the navigation, by the late Alderman William Armstrong, were published, in which he combats some of Macgrcgor's arguments as to the enclosure of Jarr...