The first of five amateur films produced by Donald Oates, a Civil Engineer for Newcastle, and Northumberland County Council, showing the early stages of construction of the A189 spine road between Westmoor and Annitsford in Northumberland. The film shows various pieces of heavy machinery working to create the foundation of the new road. Two concrete bridges are also filmed being built; one to accommodate a railway going under the new road, the second a road bridge over the new spine road. A...

The first of five amateur films produced by Donald Oates, a Civil Engineer for Newcastle, and Northumberland County Council, showing the early stages of construction of the A189 spine road between Westmoor and Annitsford in Northumberland. The film shows various pieces of heavy machinery working to create the foundation of the new road. Two concrete bridges are also filmed being built; one to accommodate a railway going under the new road, the second a road bridge over the new spine road. A County of Northumberland hording sign beside a road for the South East Northumberland Spine Road Stage II Westmoor to Annitsford. A wheeled tractor scraper flattens the route of the new road which is currently a muddy track. In the distance traffic moves along a road, another wheeled tractor scraper is parked along a section of cleared earth. A section of cleared ground that will become the spine road. Along a ditch following the new road piping has been laid, banks have been laid on each side of the new road. A wheeled tractor scraper comes along a section of new road flattening the surface. Several views along different sections of cleared and scrapped earth. A motor grader works in the near distance levelling the soil service. A wheeled tractor scraper bumps along the route of the new road, a bulldozer passes a large crane parked near a building. Two smooth wheel compactors travel along a section of road. A tipper lorry unloads its cargo near to a partially completed elevated section, a steam train pulling cargo wagons travels past. Construction of a concrete bridge along the road with scaffolding surrounding the structure and cranes nearby. Railway tracks travel underneath the new bridge. A top the bridge a wheeled tractor scraper prepares the ground for the new road to go across it. A small concrete tunnel goes under the road, a bulldozer turns and comes along the muddy track. Beside the tunnel entrance a hydraulic excavator working, two men stand atop the tunnel watching as a bulldozer pulls a wheel compactor across the road surface nearby. In the distance a wheeled tractor scraper turns across rough ground and drives passed followed by a motor grader. Another concrete bridge under construction with men working on it and a crane in the background. A wheeled tractor scraper comes under the bridge, a motor grader comes down an incline. Two wheeled tractor scraper come along a section of bumpy ground, a man stands at the front of the first vehicle. A number of wheeled tractor scraper and bulldozers work together along another section of the new road. The film ends looking down onto the road that now clearly two lanes.