In message <[email protected]>, Tickettyboo <[email protected]> writes: >On 2015-01-16 15:35:16 +0000, [email protected] said: [] >>"Scotch Church" which is what I am going to do shortly. To be fair- >>even though there is a "great big river" between N. and S. Shields- I >>have just read that back then the river could be forded (crossed) at >>low tide...don't know if that helps at all- 'just thought it was worth >>a mention! Good luck with all your research- fascinating aint it?!!! Jane [] >I'd be really interested to have the reference for where you read the >Tyne could be 'forded' at Shields at low tide. I never discount >anything, but am very surprised to hear that. As a regular user of the "Shieldsman" ferry (and its standin) in the years around 1980, I would too; I had assumed jmisis2003 was discussing a North and South Shields somewhere in America, just named after the Northumberland/Durham pair (but your discussions of correcting things with the NA suggests we _are_ talking about the English ones). I'd have thought even in 1790-1800, big enough ships would have come in towards Newcastle to make the river even at low tide not that shallow. But like you, I won't discount it! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur". ("Anything is more impressive if you say it in Latin")

On 17/01/2015 13:06, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Tickettyboo > <[email protected]> writes: >> On 2015-01-16 15:35:16 +0000, [email protected] said: > [] >>> "Scotch Church" which is what I am going to do shortly. To be fair- >>> even though there is a "great big river" between N. and S. Shields- I >>> have just read that back then the river could be forded (crossed) at >>> low tide...don't know if that helps at all- 'just thought it was >>> worth a mention! Good luck with all your research- fascinating aint >>> it?!!! Jane > [] >> I'd be really interested to have the reference for where you read the >> Tyne could be 'forded' at Shields at low tide. I never discount >> anything, but am very surprised to hear that. > > As a regular user of the "Shieldsman" ferry (and its standin) Freda Cunningham? -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail>

On 2015-01-17 13:06:09 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said: > In message <[email protected]>, Tickettyboo > <[email protected]> writes: >> On 2015-01-16 15:35:16 +0000, [email protected] said: > [] >>> "Scotch Church" which is what I am going to do shortly. To be fair- >>> even though there is a "great big river" between N. and S. Shields- I >>> have just read that back then the river could be forded (crossed) at >>> low tide...don't know if that helps at all- 'just thought it was worth >>> a mention! Good luck with all your research- fascinating aint it?!!! >>> Jane > [] >> I'd be really interested to have the reference for where you read the >> Tyne could be 'forded' at Shields at low tide. I never discount >> anything, but am very surprised to hear that. > > As a regular user of the "Shieldsman" ferry (and its standin) in the > years around 1980, I would too; I had assumed jmisis2003 was discussing > a North and South Shields somewhere in America, just named after the > Northumberland/Durham pair (but your discussions of correcting things > with the NA suggests we _are_ talking about the English ones). I'd have > thought even in 1790-1800, big enough ships would have come in towards > Newcastle to make the river even at low tide not that shallow. But like > you, I won't discount it! The original post was about Nonconformist Registers (RG4 series) and solely to do with the NE of England. I have been looking round the web to see if I can find a reference. Nothing coming up to indicate a ford at Shields, though this site http://www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/fords.html tells of some further upriver. Nearest I can see to Shields would be Newburn which would be quite a hike ! This site http://www.twsitelines.info/smr/1295 describes it as "the lowest safe fording point on the Tyne and at (more correctly near) the head of the tideway" I am assuming that 'lowest' in this context means nearest to the mouth of the river. Hopefully jmisis2003 will come back and let us have a reference for a ford at Shields, I get nosey about this stuff :-) -- Tickettyboo