newcastle stuff

Newgate Street Gamblers

These man gathered here every week to make illegal bets on horse races

Hundreds of gold coins were found in rubbish removed from the Grey Horse Inn on the Quayside

The bugle that sounded the Charge Of The Light Brigade was later owned by a Newcastle pub.

This ancient pub on Westgate Road was pulled down before it fell down

The home of Newcastle's most famous architect was looking neglected in 1911

Nannie Dick was part of a small army of Cullercoats fishwives who travelled by train from the coast to sell their wares on the streets of Newcastle.

Two houses in the Bigg Market date from the 1750s, one was occupied by a Lord of the Manor

The bandstand in Leazes Park is a modern replica of the original Victorian one

Built by John Smeaton in 1782, this windmill was still working over a century later

The Beehive is the third pub of that name to stand in the Bigg Market

A Jacobean mansion on the Quayside survived floods, fire and a siege

Newcastle's last men-only pub defied the Sex Discrimination Act but closed down in 1980

Several arches were built for a royal visit to Newcastle in 1884

A canon on top of the Castle Keep was the first in the country to be fired by an electrical signal

A huge office block rose from the ruins of the Great Fire of 1854