An amateur film produced by Donald Oates, a Civil Engineer for Newcastle, and Northumberland County Council, showing road improvement and widening taking place between Hareshaw Linn and Tarset in Northumberland as part of the construction of Kielder Reservoir. The film also shows work to replacing the old Tarset Tyne Bridge near Bellingham. Title: Kielder Water Hareshaw Tarset Haul Route Improvement An Ordinance Survey map of the Kielder area, a series of pins are inserted in the map...

An amateur film produced by Donald Oates, a Civil Engineer for Newcastle, and Northumberland County Council, showing road improvement and widening taking place between Hareshaw Linn and Tarset in Northumberland as part of the construction of Kielder Reservoir. The film also shows work to replacing the old Tarset Tyne Bridge near Bellingham. Title: Kielder Water Hareshaw Tarset Haul Route Improvement An Ordinance Survey map of the Kielder area, a series of pins are inserted in the map showing the route of the new road. A field with telegraph pole changes to the original Tarset Tyne Bridge near Bellingham crossing the River North Tyne. A construction site is set up next to the bridge and, filmed over a number of months, a replacement bridge is built. A large crane helps to install concrete supports for the new roadway. A narrow country road from a number of locations along it, the filmmakers white Austin Maxi parked nearby. A wider asphalt road passing through a rural location with vehicles travelling along it on occasion. A main road with lines down the middle passes a number of houses. A lorry turns out of junction passing more buildings. Off the main road a hydraulic excavators filling dump trucks with earth. At another part of the road other pieces of equipment including a smooth wheeled compactor work to build the new road. The film ends on a dump truck unloads its content onto the new road surface. End title: The end