The Railway Quarter
Bottle Bank
The historic route up from the Tyne Bridge: the Hilton Newcastle Tyne Bridge, Tyne Bridge House, home of the Great Run Company, and the James Hill Monument to the fiddler who lived here.
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Places
hotel
Hilton Newcastle Tyne Bridge
The hotel on Bottle Bank, entered from Curzon Place, still widely listed under its old name Hilton Newcastle Gateshead; self-parking £15 a day and EV charging on site.
heritage
James Hill Monument
Peter Coates's 2006 memorial on Bottle Bank, opposite the Hilton, to James Hill, the Gateshead fiddler known as the Paganini of hornpipe players: a stone fiddle leaning on the wall, a bronze inscription and a carved bench.
heritage · temporary
Kevin Keegan stencil: Joy, Hope, Positivity
A stencil of Kevin Keegan running the first Great North Run in 1981, in his half-Newcastle, half-Sunderland shirt, with the words Joy, Hope, Positivity, on the Tyne Bridge restoration hoarding opposite the Great Run Company's office.
gym
LivingWell Newcastle Tyne Bridge
The gym and pool inside the Hilton on Bottle Bank (in through the hotel's main entrance off Curzon Place), run by LivingWell and open to non-residents: 15 m indoor pool, sauna, steam room, gym and classes, from £54 a month or £20 for a day pass.
office
The Great Run Company
The organisers of the Great North Run, based at Tyne Bridge House on Bottle Bank, at the corner of Curzon Place, looking straight at the bridge the race crosses.
restaurant and bar
Windows on the Tyne
The Hilton's restaurant and bar, open to non-guests, with a wall of glass onto the river and the bridges: à la carte dining, a cocktail bar with sharing plates and burgers, and afternoon tea on Saturdays.
The name
From Anglo-Saxon botl, a dwelling; recorded as an early medieval settlement site in the Tyne and Wear Historic Environment Record.