Lost Pubs – Newcastle Stuff

The 3 Bulls Heads

The 3 Bulls Heads stood on the corner of Sandgate and the Milk Market; the pub and everything else in the photo are long gone

James Cook was landlord of the George IV Inn, he saved around 50 people from drowning in the Tyne

The first photo was taken in 1901 at the junction of Westgate Road and Elswick Road and shows the Big Lamp

The ancient Duke of Cumberland Inn is pictured here on The Close in June of 1886

The Albion Inn on Newgate Street is pictured in 1964, shortly before it was demolished

The area behind Newcastle Central Station was a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution.

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

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

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

A mother and her children are sitting on the doorstep of a Newcastle pub in the 1890s

These bairns are pictured here playing by the kerbside on Westmorland Road, while another one sleeps in what appears to be a small wheelbarrow

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

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

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

The old Crystal Fountain pub on the corner of Cross Street and Fenkle Street has a tragic and violent past.