Walker - St Anthonys Estate and Welbeck Road
Walker is a residential suburb just east of the centre of Newcastle. Walker's name is a hybrid of Old English and Viking Norse, "Wall-kjerr", where "kjerr" is Norse for "marshy woodland". The name therefore means "marshy woodland by the wall", where the wall in question is of course Hadrian's Wall.
Most of the photos on this page are taken in an area between Welbeck Road and Walker Road which is only a small part of Walker. Other parts of Walker will follow at some stage.
Walker is notable for Walker Park, the Walker Riverside Park, and the Lady Stephenson Library.
Walker is also the birthplace of Eric Burdon lead singer of The Animals & later War. The Animals recorded a song called "Gonna Send You Back To Walker"
Another Walkerite, the author, journalist and broadcaster Keith Topping, titled one of the chapter's in his novel The Hollow Men, The St. Anthony's Chinese Takeaway Massacre.
The Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi grew up in Walker and played his youth football for the local team Walker Central.
Text harvested from Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne - Wikipedia
r.jpg "The Rec' - The home of Walker Central FC")
r.jpg "The Rec' - The home of Walker Central FC")
And finally a couple of photos taken at sunrise in the area a while back.
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Thanks for another great collection.
I grew up in Walker, just round the corner from almost all those pics you did.
Regards
Angelus71
I also spent a lot of time around there in the 70's as a lot of my family lived just off the Rec.
Would it not be good to take a photo from Walker road across to Gateshead and Newcastle now that the houses are down before they are re-built
excellent site
They started building the new houses while they were demolishing the old ones. I have a few photos of the construction and they should appear here sometime soon.
Have you seen my Walker Riverside and Walker Road Demolition pages?
ahhh my old stomping ground looking for pics of old east walker school bottom of welbeck road/bath street where i went in the 50s n 60s great little school and wanting to show my kids where i went to school and lived in bath street any one help//?//
Would I be right in saying it was demolished in recent years?
You could try a search on Structural Images of the North East as they have a lot of old photos.
I would love to have some old photos of welbeck rd, White St Neptune Rd area from the 50s and 60s - when the Riverside line was operating, paticularly East Walker School (my old school) that long ramp-line of long steps down to Welbeck Rd and Calabountin's Fish Shop on the opposite side of the road, the off-liscence and betting shop a little further north, and the timy little green shack near the Neptune yard (where I worked) at the bottom of Welbeck Road, and the Gents and Ladies toilets at the bottom of Welbeck Rd. (Still there at beginning of 80s although not for us)
Actually, thats a point. There were public toilets on Church St, behind a Welbeck Rd church I remember, there was public toilets all over the place. Handy if you were caught short. Walker Park had them, Glasshouse Bridge, Opposite the old Gibson St Baths on New Bridge St (That's still there, but theres TREES where the urinals used to be now - you can see them as you pass on the bus towards the town after St Dom's catholic church)
Actually, got me thinking that. A subject for discussion tonight over a few jars !
I do have some old photos of West Walker School but not East Walker.
Send me an email and I will send you some old photos of Walker.
It would seem, according to the authorities, that the more time goes on the less we need the toilet! :)
I think I can remember the ones on New Bridge St, just.
Hi,
A very impressive set of photos.I'm not from Newcastle myself but my husband is.He has told me that you did give him permission to use some of your photos.His name is George Carr.
Thanks. :)
I grew up in the early 1950's in a Prefab in Greenford Road? Anyone else do the same? Lived really close to the Gasometer?? Would love to see some old photos of that street/area. Moved to Fawdon to the new estate there around 1954.
I was the caretaker's son of East Walker School - happy days!
Sandy
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