Photographs Of Newcastle: Quayside (2024 onwards)

25th July 2025

'Go with the flow' Mural.

A 90 metre hand-painted mural, believed to be the largest piece of temporary street art in the UK, has been installed on the Quayside just west of the Millennium Bridge.

Artists HalfStudio, who created the design, explained: 'This floor mural draws inspiration from the movement of the River Tyne and the energy of Newcastle’s ever-evolving identity. The bold typography flows across the Quayside like a current, surrounded by dynamic colour fields and rhythmic wave forms. Echoing the city’s bridges and industrial past, the design reflects a sense of motion, adaptability, and the spirit of going forward together.

8th July 2025

Whitewashed Mural.

The mural 'Nothing Serious' has been painted over in anticipation of something new..

The Port of Tyne's Clearwater.

Clearwater removes around 400 tonnes of debris from the river between Blaydon and the piers each year.

13th June 2025

The James Cook.

Built in 1986 James Cook is a 22 meter steel ketch. In addition to her annual appearance in The Tall Ships’ Races, James Cook provides sailing opportunities for young people that include weekend taster trips, week-long RYA Competent Crew qualifying passages and cross-North Sea trips to the Baltic Sea and the Netherlands.

River Escapes boat.

Looking a bit worse for wear.

H.M.S. Calliope.

8th June 2025

St. Ann's Quay.

Taken from City Road looking south. I'm not the most observant person but it feels like scaffolding has been up on this building for way too long.

30th May 2025

Hadrian's Wall Path, Skinnerburn Road, Collapsing Jetty.

A couple of hundred yards west of the Redheugh Bridge opposite Dunston Staiths is a jetty that is breaking away from the main path. It started a few years back and has worsened considerably in the last couple of years. A crude attempt at filling the gap with concrete achieved little except maybe a chance to delay the inevitable, but costly, repair.

11th May 2025

None Shall Pass.

I'm not sure what is going on here but there have been a few different barriers installed in recent years at this point seemingly to deter cyclists. Seems a bit mean to me but as I said earlier I don't understand the situation.

Seats and Swings.

1st May 2025

The Golden Globe Monument.

The Swirle Pavilion, with its golden globe, is part folly and part sculpture. It was made by Raf Fulcher in 1998. The names around the inside are some of the cities with which Newcastle regularly traded from boats on the Quayside. The Swirle, and the short street that runs down towards it, are named after the Swirle (or Squirrel) Burn, now hidden, which used to separate the two towns of Newcastle and Byker.

Seats and Swings.

30th April 2025

17th April 2025

St. Anns Wharf.

Striking U-plan office building featuring two high central stone arches. Stone top storey with long brackets supporting extended eaves. Part of Quayside regeneration from 1987 to 1998 by Tyne and Wear Development Corporation.

The Dakota Hotel chain has been granted permission to redevelop the vacant offices which have been empty since 2022 when former tenants Womble Bond Dickinson moved to a new base at The Spark at Helix.

Source: Sitelines.

26th January 2025

Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service.

10th December 2024

Boats.

A pleasure craft called Chubbs and Clearwater.

St. Anns Wharf.

11th November 2024

Outside The Copthorne Hotel.

10th October 2024

St. Anns Wharf.

6th October 2024

29th August 2024

Quayside Gardens.

St. Anns Wharf.

Quayside, no. 63.

House with shop now public house. Late C18/early C19 with c.1983 public house front. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 4 bays. Yard entrance at left.

Wedge lintels and sill bands to sash windows, glazing bars to second and third floors; eaves band and gutter cornice. 2 end brick chimneys banded at left.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.