Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[Jim Bell]

Benton Road shops. Newcastle. 

[DVee8]

2 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

Chillingham Road, Newcastle, Heaton. 

When I worked for ScS, in the early 90's any 3 piece suites that we collected from a customer when delivering their new one. We would take to the secondhand shops in Chillingham Road,    £20-£30 a suite sometimes 2-3 times a day,5 days a week. Newcastle and the coast up to Whitley Bay was our run.

[tooSavvy]

On 27/06/2021 at 17:25, Jim Bell said:

Benton Road shops. Newcastle. 

Walkerville Garage [Skoda dealers] *showroom was behind photographer... First in row, after petrol station.

*gone

Bought/Collected both 130LSE & Rapid cooup there....

[Jim Bell]

Hylton Road, Sunderland. 2002. 

[Jim Bell]

Pallion Road Garage, Sunderland. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Seaburn, Sunderland. 

[tooSavvy]

45 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Seaburn, Sunderland. 

Don't know which looks more down at heel...... Car or frontage

[Jim Bell]

Ocean Road, South Shields

[Jim Bell]

Cronch

 

[Blake's Den]

 

1 hour ago, Jim Bell said:

Cronch

 

I hope that the Prefect driver had good insurance! I wonder if it was ice related? It looks snowy .

[Dabooka]

On 5/24/2021 at 10:34 PM, Jim Bell said:

Neville Street, Newcastle. 

Just catching up after being AWOL for a couple of months and had to comment on this.  The Dog and Parrot was a very popular haunt of mine back in the 90s when it was renamed Tut n Shive (part of a chain owned by Whitbread. Remember them?), and I also worked there for about 7-8 years or so. Part time to fit around my other work, bloody loved it.

Renamed back to the Dog again now of course, has been for quite a few years, but it's lost all of it's charm from the 90s as have many a boozer.

[tooSavvy]

Has/had the D&P a 'micro brewery' and you can see it through glass panes in the floor, into cellar?

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

Has/had the D&P a 'micro brewery' and you can see it through glass panes in the floor, into cellar?

Dunno about the underfoot visibility aspect, but... http://beermad.web-brewer.co.uk/brewery/306

[Dabooka]

4 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

Has/had the D&P a 'micro brewery' and you can see it through glass panes in the floor, into cellar?

Not any more. 

You're correct about the (heavily scratched) glass panel in the floor near the door to the ladies which allowed a view down into the cellar where the setup was. However that got royally fucked in the 80s when a relief manager whacked the heaters on without any water in the jackets. Burnt out the elements and basically killed off the gimmick as it was. The tanks needed to be cut up to be removed and that was the end of that.  It did mean the cellar was lovely to work in, three rooms and great setup for the stillage too. Best setup I've seen in an 'old' pub.

Just read the link above which is nicely detailed. I thought it stopped in the 80s, not 1990, but my memory back then is somewhat addled. Partly due to the copious amounts of lager and Castle Eden I consumed in that very boozer.

[chaseracer]

I have similarly hazy memories of the Toon 1985-88, when I was allegedly studying*.

[tooSavvy]

I used to stagger round the corner, from the Hofbrau Haus, and get the bus to Winlaton from the bus station *now Centre For Life

[Dabooka]

On 7/22/2021 at 6:52 PM, tooSavvy said:

I uaed to stagger round the corner, from the Hofbrau Haus, and get the bus to Winlaton from the bus station *now Centre For Life

That bus station, Malborough Crescent,  was also the home for various coach outfits too, including the infamous Barton Bus.  As a kid I'd be chucked on that on my visits back to the midlands to see family and friends in Nuneaton with nowt more than a few Commando comic books (remember those?) and a couple of cheese butties. It took about seven and a half hours and even now I see places like Worksop and Worsop and it brings memories back of that coach journey.

When building the Centre for Life they also discovered a load of human remains there too which needed forensic archaeologists to remove and relocate them, allegedly it was a dumping ground from a cholera outbreak. One chap in particular used to come to the Dog frequently for the months and months it took to do, it really pushed the development back. Lovely chap and always very interesting, even to a 20 something barman.  I was also responsible for the coloured lights in the mesh stairway at either end getting rearranged; I got a lift back from Sunderland one day with one of the architects on the project and I commented the sequence meant a few of them merged and looked odd (yellow and red and the green and blue). The next day she said she agreed and had arranged to get them switched to be better contrasts to each other. 😆

/waffle

 

[Blake's Den]

Lobley Hill Road, Gateshead, July 1990.

I vaguely remember the Team Valley Yugo centre.

[Jim Bell]

West Street Gateshead.

[Jim Bell]

South Shields. 

 

 

Chichester Roundabout

[tooSavvy]

Chichester? "The Chai!", m9

🧐

 

 

[Dabooka]

Just now, tooSavvy said:

Chichester? "The Chai!", m9

🧐

 

 

Moving up here I could never understand how it's pronounced.

Chi-chester or Chich-ester. I seem to get mocked regardless 😃

[Jim Bell]

Ch eye chest a

[Dabooka]

5 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

Ch eye chest a

So the second then. I think.

I may need to get the Cougar back on the road for the next meet to hear it live. We can all take a vote

[jmsguzzi]

On 6/8/2021 at 8:16 PM, Jim Bell said:

Millfield Flats? Sunderland. 

Hahnemann Court

[Jim Bell]

Sunderland Uptown Top Rankin

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Gateshead high street. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Hartlepool and Newton Aycliffe stocks?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Might be of interest to @Mally

[Mally]

Went to Aycliffe many times as a  spectatator,  tarmac with big potholes here and there. 

Only been Hartlepool watching once. Far better facilities.

I raced once at  Brough Park, Newcastle.

[Jim Bell]

I used to live behind Brough Park. There was loads of speedway but I never knew they ran cars there in the past!