Wooden Dolly
Outside the "Prince of Wales" Tavern

This public house is also know as the "Old Wooden Dolly"
There are a few bars famous Worldwide among sailors on the Quayside, one is the Prince of Wales outside of which stand the famous Wooden Dolly, which was first raised in about 1814.
The original Wooden Dolly has long gone and been replaced many times, (1820, 1864, 1902) due to the habit of sailors cutting a piece of to keeping it in their pockets for good luck while at sea.

Hadrian's Cycleway passes this watering hole.

The New Dolphin
Corner of Union Road & Clifford Street

Situated outside the pub of the same name, there is a replica by Northern Freeform of a traditional 'dolphin' mooring post such as those which stood in the river.
These were a group of piles driven into the riverbed to which ships moored to awaiting their turn to load coal at the staithes.
The relief decorations on the dolphin are on a sea theme and well worth studying.
Don't miss the life-like replica of a cormorant on top!

Hadrian's Cycleway turns right at this junction