Lost Buildings – Newcastle Stuff

Sandhill East in 1866

This is the east side of Sandhill in 1866, across the road from Bessie Surtees' House

This busy scene was photographed around a hundred years ago on New Bridge Street, with Blackett Street beyond

This shop was the scene of a shocking tragedy when a mother cut her young son's throat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Pearl was part of Newcastle's early 20th century building boom

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