A friend of mine, John Fox, found some negatives amongst a relatives collection taken in Newcastle city centre in 1972 and 1973. John scanned the negatives and kindly allowed me to use the photos on this website. I'm afraid I don't know a whole lot about the photos but I can spot where most of them were taken.
August 1972
Pilgrim Street.
Grey Street.
Pilgrim Street/Mosley Street SW Corner.
Northumberland Street.
Hood Street.
Blackett Street YMCA.
September 1972
Grey Street.
Sandyford Road.
Civic Centre.
All Saints Church.
King Street/Quayside Corner.
Quayside.
Quayside/Lombard Street Corner.
August 1973
Prudhoe Street/Percy Street Corner.
Percy Street.
Quayside.
The Farmers Rest, Percy Street/Prudhoe Street.
Blackett Street YMCA.
Percy Street/Prudhoe Street Corner.
More old photos on this site:
- Armstrong Bridge & Craft Fair
- Bath Lane
- Byker
- Byker - Shields Road
- Elswick Road - The Gables (Hopedene)
- Grainger Market
- Grubb Parsons Telescopes
- Heaton
- Mayfair Ballroom, The
- Newcastle in the 1800's
- Newcastle Shops of the 1940's
- Newcastle University
- North Shields Fish Quay
- Odeon/Paramount Cinema
- Reader Submitted Old Photos
- Shipbuilding on the River Tyne, 1960 - 1977
- Swan Hunters Shipyard, Wallsend
- Swan Hunters - HMS Ark Royal Construction
- Swan Hunters - RMS Mauretania
- Town Moor - The Hoppings
- Tyne & Wear Metro Construction
- Tyne Bridge Construction
- Tyne Pedestrian & Cycle Tunnels Construction
3 comments:
This set of photos just show how much of the old "Toon" have been pulled down to make room for student flats. Look at all of the beautiful buildings that have been lost and replaced by square boxes, never to be replicated again!.
I could weep for what has been done to the best looking city in the UK and probably the world!.
The very last photo labelled as possibly the corner of Prudhoe Street and Northumberland Street, is really the Thomas Bainbridge Memorial Hall, at the other end of Prudhoe Street, at the corner with Percy Street.
Thank you, I will update that text.
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