The second of five amateur film 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 Annitsford to Bebside in Northumberland. As well as work on the early stage of road building, this film also features a solid base and tarmac being installed at later stages of construction. A map showing both new and existing road through southern Northumberland including the A1, a close up the...

The second of five amateur film 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 Annitsford to Bebside in Northumberland. As well as work on the early stage of road building, this film also features a solid base and tarmac being installed at later stages of construction. A map showing both new and existing road through southern Northumberland including the A1, a close up the south-east spine road with sections around Killingworth and Cramlington highlighted in red. A County of Northumberland road hoarding for the South East Northumberland Spine Road Stages three and four from Annitsford to Bebside changes to shows a new roadway under construction with heavy machinery working in the distance. A man walks along the track towards camera. A yellow crane and van are parked on separate sides of a road barrier, a bus drives past along a road in the near distance. A solid base has been laid along a section of road, a crawler loader travels along a track beside the road. Three tarmac paver work together to lay the road surface, a man looks over one of the machines. Two other section of the road with solid bases changes to traffic moving under a concrete bridge over which the new load is being laid. A trench is laid beside the road, one lane of the two-lane highway has been tarmacked. Traffic moves along a road through a village changes to shows another section of new highway under construction. Two lanes of one section of the highway have been tarmacked, a section of waste ground with a trench through it nearby. At another section of roadway, the other side of the road bridge seen previous construction continues, traffic passes underneath along an existing road. Another section of new two-lane highway with two concrete bridges passing over it in the distance. A wheeled tractor scraper works along the roadway. Looking down from an overpass a tarmacked road below and a car going past. Another view of the two-lane highway with two concrete bridges. A number of hydraulic excavators work along another section of road at an earlier stage of construction. The concrete pillars of another bridge crossing the highway below. Views of sections of roadway with trenches on one side in which steel lattice girders have been installed as well as road barriers down the middle of the road as well as on both sides of the highway. Two men walk along a section of highway towards heavy machinery in the near distance. An excavator fills a tipper truck with earth beside another smaller bridge crossing over the highway. A second excavator works nearby by as a tipper drives past along the highway with its load. A smooth wheeled compactor drives along the section of compacted road towards a bridge. At another part of the roadway hydraulic excavators fill tippers with earth from an embankment. Nearby men unload metal girders or similar from a lorry. A crane works to install a girder into the ground. Traffic moves along one lane of completed highway, work on the embankment near houses continues. Men work on the construction on an off ramp from the highway to the road above over which a bridge has been built. A solid base has been installed on one lane of the highway, machines completing the work in the distance. The film ends on the County of Northumberland road hoarding seen at the start of the film.