Newcastle Community Heritage Project

Victoria Tunnel

Newcastle's hidden heritage

PUBLICATIONS AND PRODUCTS

 Overground walks Maps and Guide

Why not use our Overground Maps and Guide to follow the route of the Tunnel through Newcastle and explore the historic buildings and townscape that lie above it?

Click here to download side one

Click here to download side two

This guide is now out of print.

We can offer this walk as a guided tour to groups.  If you are interested in booking this activity, please email admin@ouseburntrust.org.uk

Wartime Voices Audio CD

"Wartime Voices" is a unique collection of memories about sheltering in the Victoria Tunnel while enemy planes flew overhead.

A DVD* and booklet ''The Victoria Tunnel'' are also available.

Funds raised from the sale of the Booklet at £3.95, CD at £2 and DVD at £3 will support the on-going work of the Victoria Tunnel Project.  This includes the purchase of equipment for guided tours.

You can order all 3 items of merchandise by sending a cheque for £7 made payable to "The Ouseburn Trust" to:

Ouseburn Trust, Arch 6 (under Byker Bridge), Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2NP, or contact clive.goodwin@ouseburntrust.org.uk or telephone 0191 - 2616596 for individual prices.

*Victoria Tunnel Documentary DVD

Find out why the Victoria Tunnel was built under Newcastle upon Tyne, and take an exhilarating ride through the streets of the city to discover the route of this underground waggonway.  The importance of the role of the Tunnel as an air raid shelter is revealed through a series of moving interviews with people who used it during the Second World War.