Date not known.

BURCOM SAND.
Dredger built for the British Transport Commission, Hull in 1954 by Cook, Welton and Gemmell.
678 Gross.
1975 sold to D. Cook Ltd. Hull and broken up at New Holland, arriving on the 3rd January 1989.

Took me a while to work out the background as so much has changed since the picture was taken.
That berth was used for shipbreaking with vessels standing out into the river.

If the little grey cells link a few clues, I will remember at least one vessel that was broken up there.

I didn't know that there was shipbreaking on the Newcastle side Paul. Who handled that?

A fine photo of a Newcastle that I didn't really know at that time.
As Paul says much has changed, but the High Level Bridge, the Castle, Cathedral and the Turnbull building are still there.
Of the rest the building on the quayside far right may now be a pub called the Quayside, but everything to the left has been replaced with modern crap. Next along was a BT building, empty for years but now part converted into a Travelodge, then its the Copthorne hotel.

Just had a look at Google to refresh my memory.
This is the best I can do with Google Street View. Not quite the right angle but the disued oil company gets in the way.

See at the breakers New Holland

viewtopic.php?f=79&t=11595&p=41531&hilit=burcom+sand#p41531

My post on River Views, from June 13th 2015, covers this spot. No date I'm afraid.

Indeed it does. See: viewtopic.php?f=219&t=16125

Well it all started with this..and a visit to Bamburgh Castle where there is a 4" gun from SATELLITE donated by J G Potts.

Satellite became a drill ship for the Naval Reserve (not the RNVR) in November 1903. She was used as a base ship during WW1. In 1919 she became a sub division of Tyne Division RNVR and the convenient name Satellite was retained. Used for DEMS training during WW2 she was sold to Mr Potts and moved to Phoenix Wharf, Gateshead on 13 July 1947 with breaking being finished on 6 August 1948. She was replaced at South Shields by the Algerine class minesweeper Melita which took on the name Satellite. Melita was succeeded in 1951 by another Algerine - Brave. Brave remained as Satellite until 1958 when the sub division was closed and she was broken up by Clayton and Davie at Dunston.
And we were trying to work out where PHOENIX WHARF was......

Spillers moved to Tyneside in 1896 when they took over Daudson's Phoenix Mill which was on the Close just west of the High Level Bridge, on the Newcastle Side of the River, so the presumption was that the Wharf would be adjacent to it and not on the Gateshead side. Not sure if Mr Potts broke up any more vessels or if this was a one off...

Phoenix Wharf. The end. 1968.

Before the End. 1934.