Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[Jim Bell]

The Barley Mow. Sandgate, Newcastle. 

 

[RayMK]

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

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

Only just spotted this thread.  Nice to see a Stellar in the last but one post.

The blue and white car opposite the Imp is a Skoda Octavia.

[tooSavvy]

10 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

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

 

Taxi doing 'stellar' service, eh 😉

[Blake's Den]

13 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

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

 

Seeing this prompted me to Google search for this

Closely followed by this 

 

[Dabooka]

On 11/19/2022 at 7:04 PM, Jim Bell said:

Marlborough Terrace, Newcastle. 

 

That takes me back, my boozer (first as a customer then a barman) was further down the road; The Dog and Parrot although my time in the 90s it was the Tut n Shive.   Had many a takeaway from Chilli, although when it was closed after a late night ‘Scotch John’s chippy for such delights as haggis and  chips,  sausage and chips, chips and chips… happy days

[High Jetter]

15 minutes ago, Dabooka said:

Tut n Shive.

Yer gonna have t'explain that one son

[Dabooka]

51 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Yer gonna have t'explain that one son

The Dog and Parrot was renamed into one of Whitbread’s finest* chains, the Tut and Shive, until renaming back to the Dog in the mid noughties (when they sold all their pubs and focused on shite coffee).

So for the locals it’s been the Dog, the Tut and now the Dog again.

[Jim Bell]

55 minutes ago, Dabooka said:

The Dog and Parrot was renamed into one of Whitbread’s finest* chains, the Tut and Shive, until renaming back to the Dog in the mid noughties (when they sold all their pubs and focused on shite coffee).

So for the locals it’s been the Dog, the Tut and now the Dog again.

I arranged to meet the lads in the Dog once but they meant the Dog and Parrot and I went to the Barking Dog over the road by mistake and a massive transvestite with a big bushy moustache in a disco ball minidress asked me if I wanted a number on the domino card. I took two and did not win. 

 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Dabooka said:

The Dog and Parrot was renamed into one of Whitbread’s finest* chains, the Tut and Shive, until renaming back to the Dog in the mid noughties (when they sold all their pubs and focused on shite coffee).

So for the locals it’s been the Dog, the Tut and now the Dog again.

Nope, not explained those words yet.

[Dabooka]

1 hour ago, Jim Bell said:

I arranged to meet the lads in the Dog once but they meant the Dog and Parrot and I went to the Barking Dog over the road by mistake and a massive transvestite with a big bushy moustache in a disco ball minidress asked me if I wanted a number on the domino card. I took two and did not win. 

 

Ha ha! Yes a world apart those two boozers! I went in once and found myself being accosted by Danny la Rue and friends 

38 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Nope, not explained those words yet.

Ah, you mean in relation to the beer barrel? The two differing holes found on a cask, the tut being the tap aperture (well the removable bung element) and the shive being the uppermost part which is vented (tapped) and often pegged with a spike (hence the Tap and Spile chain of boozers).

It’s been a while so I may be rusty

[High Jetter]

10 hours ago, Dabooka said:

Ah, you mean in relation to the beer barrel? The two differing holes found on a cask, the tut being the tap aperture (well the removable bung element) and the shive being the uppermost part which is vented (tapped) and often pegged with a spike (hence the Tap and Spile chain of boozers).

Am very familiar with tap and spile, had no idea that is what tut and shive alluded to.

[Jim Bell]

The earlyish days of the MetroCentre. 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Top of Shields Road, Byker. 

[Jim Bell]

 

Cruddas Park. 

[gm]

14 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

The earlyish days of the MetroCentre. 

 

 

wow - i remember it opening - were there really folk still using allegros as daily drivers ? i was a bus wanker back in those days, couldn’t even afford an allegro  

[Blake's Den]

22 hours ago, gm said:

wow - i remember it opening - were there really folk still using allegros as daily drivers ? i was a bus wanker back in those days, couldn’t even afford an allegro  

It opened in 1986, alegro's were made up until 1982. So entire possible.

[High Jetter]

On 12/13/2022 at 8:44 PM, gm said:

wow - i remember it opening - were there really folk still using allegros as daily drivers ? i was a bus wanker back in those days, couldn’t even afford an allegro  

83/84, my manager picked me up in company 1500 Allagro to take me in to Caffyns Seaford. It flew, like the 1.3 Marina my area manager at Longlife had.

TL;DR Service well, drive hard, live long...

[Jim Bell]

Rose and Crown. South Shields. 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Newcastle

[Jim Bell]

[tooSavvy]

Looks like that image (^^ above) will soon repeat itself....

*Unless they push them straight into the sea.... 🤣🤣

[Jim Bell]

Seaburn

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Rocker Ave 

[Jim Bell]

Sea Road. 

 

[Jim Bell]

The Sunlin Windmills

[Jim Bell]

Roker Ave

[Jim Bell]

Bede Street, Sunderland. 

[Dabooka]

That must be behind the main Beds St I reckon?

Used to be a decent chippy on the corner too, opposite the park

[Jim Bell]

Whitburn and Boldon. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tooSavvy]

On 27/02/2023 at 13:09, tooSavvy said:

Looks like that image (^^ above) will soon repeat itself....

*Unless they push them straight into the sea.... 🤣🤣

Ahh..... 4001 carriage set is being pensioned off @Stephensons Rail museum, behind Silverlink.

*must drop by to check if the 'omage 2 Metro' will faithfully maintain the long, mournful history of 'meuggwahhhhh' ( doors now closing) trumpet.... We have been listening to it [summer only/back house windows open] for an AGE 🤐

🚙💨