Waygood’s Crane a feature on Newcastle’s Skyline

Waygood’s crane was installed on the May Bank Holiday Weekend in the car park next to our redevelopment of the former Wards Print Factory on High Bridge.

The crane is a Potain E10-14C, 30m high, with a 40m jib, and can lift a maximum of 4 tons, and is fully radio remote controlled.

It will be used by site contractors Rok to lift materials into the site and is especially needed as the historic lanes around High Bridge are too narrow for large deliveries. It will be a feature on the skyline until the end of the year.

(Photo John Jones)

Launch Waygood Art Boutique

On April 30th we launched Waygood Art Boutique, as a small shop selling contemporary art, it was a very lively launch event with drinks at the Duke of Wellington pub opposite.

An online portfolio of work by artists included within the Boutique can be seen at http://www.waygood.org/boutique.php

Creating Waygood Art Boutique

Work began transforming what had been the Little Jewel Cinema into Waygood Art Boutique. This was to be a small selling gallery and information office on High Bridge whilst the development continued on the warehouse behind. The shop front of 31 High Bridge was to be shared with the Rok site office.

(photo Topsy@waygood.org)

Redevelopment Announcement

On 27 February Waygood and Newcastle City Council appointed Rok building Limited as the
redevelopers of our building on High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

We held a press launch, attended by representatives from Rok, Cllr Maureen Allen, staff from Newcastle City Council and staff and board from Waygood.

Work will begin this spring to create a new city centre cultural venue comprising of Galleries, artists studios, a learning centre, café bar and club and office space.


Animation of the redevelopment by Paul Symth

The capital redevelopment programme has been generously supported by both national and regional funding sources including Tyne Wear partnership, via Single Programme Funding from ONE NorthEast, lottery arts funding through Arts Council England, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Newcastle City Council, Northern Rock Foundation, the Sir James Knott Trust and The Barbour Trust.