newcastle stuff

Quayside redevelopments

These two photos illustrate how dramatically Newcastle’s Quayside has changed in recent decades

This pub on Shakespeare Street was opened almost two centuries ago by a circus clown, who named it after a horse-riding muscleman

The people of Newcastle were either freakishly tall a couple of centuries ago, or this entrance served some other purpose

The 3 Bulls Heads stood on the corner of Sandgate and the Milk Market; the pub and everything else in the photo are long gone

This cute little tank engine was crossing the Glasshouse Bridge next to the Tyne pub; the Free Trade is in the background on the right.

It’s the summer of 1883 and the builders are taking a tea break during the renovation of Newcastle’s Black Gate

James Cook was landlord of the George IV Inn, he saved around 50 people from drowning in the Tyne

The first photo was taken in 1901 at the junction of Westgate Road and Elswick Road and shows the Big Lamp

The first photo was taken at the top of Benton Bank in Jesmond around 1900, with Armstrong Bridge in the distance

The ancient Duke of Cumberland Inn is pictured here on The Close in June of 1886

This windmill on Darn Crook was pummelled by during the Siege of Newcastle in 1644

The Albion Inn on Newgate Street is pictured in 1964, shortly before it was demolished

The area behind Newcastle Central Station was a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution.

This engraving of Neville Street was published in 1887, when there were people alive who could remember this part of town as an open field

The world’s biggest grain warehouse had its own fleet of ships bringing grain directly from America.