Newcastle Stuff

Ferry Landing disaster

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

A warm Geordie welcome awaited FA Cup winners Newcastle United at the Central Station in 1951

This drug store is where people in Newcastle bought cocaine a century ago

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

The black and white photo was taken at the top of Grey Street before the area was pedestrianised

Seven people died when a fire broke out at the old Theatre Royal on February 19th, 1823

This is the west side of the Sallyport Tower, a view you can't get today as it's obscured by buildings

The people in this picture had almost certainly gathered there for criminal purposes

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

A large queue formed outside the Stoll Cinema in 1934 to watch a movie about venereal disease

Every building in this photo would be gone the following year

The Side was about to undergo massive changes shortly after this pic was taken