Pubs – Newcastle Stuff

Quayside redevelopments

These two photos illustrate how dramatically Newcastle’s Quayside has changed in recent decades

This pub on Shakespeare Street was opened almost two centuries ago by a circus clown, who named it after a horse-riding muscleman

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

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

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

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

The bugle that sounded the Charge Of The Light Brigade was later owned by a Newcastle pub.