Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[Blake's Den]

4 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

That's got all your major food groups represented. 

You've got your French. You've got your German. You've got your American, and you've got your broken English. 

But none of those funny little Japanese cars!

[Jim Bell]

19 hours ago, Blake's Den said:

But none of those funny little Japanese cars!

They'll never catch on. Too fiddly. 

[chaseracer]

On 28/04/2022 at 22:32, Jim Bell said:

Ocean Road, South Shields.

I see three doors and dangly mirrors.

[DVee8]

Sunderland Polytechnic

[tooSavvy]

46 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

Sunderland Polytechnic

Unlikely [anonymous] setting for George Gently.... A police station... 🤔

[Blake's Den]

2 hours ago, DVee8 said:

Sunderland Polytechnic

The old student grants have bought some good chod there!

[Blake's Den]

Tyne Bridge 14th May 1977. Some good chod and a bonus Leyland National

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Nun Street, Newcastle 

 

Percy Street, Haymarket, Newcastle

 

 

 

[chaseracer]

Bloody hell, Farnons... that takes me back!

[chaseracer]

21 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

Nun Street, Newcastle 

That's Newgate Street, marrer...

[Jim Bell]

Just now, chaseracer said:

That's Newgate Street, marrer...

Oh yeah. Well shut my mouth. Farnons was two buildings and massive. 

What a mistake-a to make-a. 

[Dabooka]

Isn’t it where Wilko’s is now, runs between the two?

[Richard_FM]

I wonder if James Herriot noticed the name Farnon from the shop when he needed an alias for his sibling co-vets when writing his books.  Almost everyone in it was based on someone real but had he changed their names to protect the innocent.

[Jim Bell]

Whitehall Road, Gateshead 1988.

[Blake's Den]

14 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Whitehall Road, Gateshead 1988.

I wasn't convinced that was Whitehall road as I never remembered a bridge going over it. But after a bit of googling I realised that it's the end at the Durham Road.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/DSs4KiGJCkTHWSzo9

[Blake's Den]

Two photos of West Street in Gateshead with the infamous 'Get Carter' car park in the background

 

[Jim Bell]

Chillingham Road, Heaton, Newcastle. 1884

[Jim Bell]

Benton Bank, Jesmond, Newcastle. Before the bypass. 

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Percy Street, Newcastle. 66. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Larkspur Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle. 70. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Brunswick Place, Northumberland Street, Newcastle. 70. 

[puddlethumper]

1 hour ago, Jim Bell said:

Benton Bank, Jesmond, Newcastle. Before the bypass. 

 

 

 

50 GB 21 seems a strange reg.

[puddlethumper]

1 hour ago, Jim Bell said:

Larkspur Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle. 70. 

 

What's the blue and white car opposite the Imp? Looks familiar but I can't place it.

[High Jetter]

Simca Aronde? (It's late...)

[Jim Bell]

Shields Road, Byker, over the years. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[3VOM]

On 9/14/2022 at 11:08 PM, puddlethumper said:

50 GB 21 seems a strange reg.

Military - had their own in those days

[Jim Bell]

Marlborough Terrace, Newcastle. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Sunderland Wimpy. 

 

[tooSavvy]

Ref: Get Carter Multi.....

I think I commented [years??ago..] on how I watched the mahoisive hole being dug [for metro interchange] in what was that 'rough land' car parking space .. and what looked like a 4 storey building built in it, up to 'street level'.

Ma n Pa shopped at the supermarket, under car park, and I loved checking out the view....

*Bonus Brucie Points, here... When the central motorway was being cut through the city.... Large cement 'voids' were created beneath the route for the [then not even begun] Metro to access the Grey's Monument station, in from the Coast via Manors station 🧐

[Jim Bell]

What Man. Next to the much missed Mayfair, Newcastle.