Newcastle Stuff

Babies Hospital

Dr James Calvert Spence was the guiding force behind the Babies Hospital, where he was a pioneer of modern paediatrics

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

The White City roller rink and the Olympia Cinema are pictured on Northumberland Road in 1912

The Wellington Grill Room is pictured here in 1898, at the west end of Collingwood Street

Neville Street is pictured here in the late 1920s, and almost a century later in 2025 for comparison

The building in the middle of these two photos stands on the site of the West Gate — a heavily fortified entrance to Newcastle

The lower end of Pink Lane is pictured here in 1924, this prime bit of land remained undeveloped until the 1960s

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

Britain’s bicycle craze had reached its peak when this cycle club were pictured in 1910

The pair of elephants had come to say goodbye to Arthur Fenwick, a director of the nearby Fenwick’s department store

Several people died on the Quayside on May 6th 1867 when boarding a ferry after watching a boat race on the Tyne

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

One of the oldest surviving locomotives in the world stood on top of the High Level Bridge

The Quayside extension was the largest single engineering project in Newcastle