Upper Town – Newcastle Stuff

Saved from destruction

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

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 north side of Bailiff Gate is pictured here in 1880, seven years before it was demolished

This newspaper lad was standing at the top of Pudding Chare in 1898, with the Groat Market on the left and the Bigg Market on the right

The old photo shows the Head of the Side in the 1920s, the colour photo shows the same scene today

The Bigg Market used to be Newcastle’s Hyde Park Corner, a place where people could rant at the public about politics or religion

This long-gone corner of Newcastle is pictured in the 1880s

This 1897 photo shows a group of people posing next to a derelict medieval building in Newcastle city centre

Every building in this photo would be gone the following year

A drinking fountain on Newgate Street is a remnant of the Gallowgate Baths & Wash Houses

This 1924 photo gives a rare glimpse of a second entrance to the underground toilets at the bottom of the Bigg Market

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

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

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