Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[Jim Bell]

What chod can you spot as we travel through time on a busy Newcastle city centre street?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tooSavvy]

I must have thrown up clinging to at least 1 of those lamp posts

 

My best m8, Mr Tickle, managed to cling to 2 - flash bastard!

 

TS

[mercrocker]

That 4th pic has some quality old BMC chod - Austin A55 MK 2 on the right. Over on the left hand side there is a bloke unpacking (or dismantling) what looks like a Series Rapier but next to that is a Series II Oxford Traveller. Not many of them left. The bird in front of that Mk 1 Eccy has fit pins too.

[scaryoldcortina]

Nice pics, takes me back...

 

 

This one is Grainger Street though...

[Jim Bell]

I was waiting for someone local to point that out.  You win.

[phil_lihp]

I'll take the white XJ40 in the bottom right of the last picture, lends a bit of class to the scene.

[tooSavvy]

Can I claim a 'what happened next..?' point by telling how I got a ticket - parking my van round the corner (behind the scrote van) in a disabled bay

 

TS

[Junkman]

 

This was pretty much the point of view I had at the time.

The combination of being in the formative years and the contemporary women's fashion sure created a generation with an entertaining outlook on bedtime activities.

But what was Peter Ustinov doing in Newcastle at the time?

[chaseracer]

Happy (and rather hazy...) student memories, 1985-88.

 

I went back a couple of years ago, and was amazed how the place had changed.  Most of the buildings had changed colour or been replaced and you could go to the Quayside without being killed.  Oh, and some bastard had burned down the Barley Mow on City Road...

[Junkman]

 

There is a Traction Avant parked next to a DS centre right. A Citroen dealership, perhaps?

[Jim Bell]

 Oh, and some bastard had burned down the Barley Mow on City Road...

 

I ran that when it was The Fog and Firkin, after it was the Barley Mow.  It was a fully wankered student pisshole by then.  Made a fortune backfiltering everything into the Dogbolter though.

 

 

 

[chaseracer]

...fully wankered student...

 

Guilty as charged, m'lud.

 

 

 

[scaryoldcortina]

I remember the Barley Mow, and had been wondering where it went! I used to drink in the Doll though.

[chaseracer]

I remember the Barley Mow, and had been wondering where it went!

 

 

 

With the rather wonderful Keelmen's Hospital behind.  Used as student accommodation when I was there.

[chaseracer]

More Geordie chod, in the courtyard of the BBC Radio Nucassel building in Jesmond...

 

 

 

The same area, looking the other way, ten years earlier...

 

[Jim Bell]

Three icons there. Nice anchor team.

[mercrocker]

And the Noddy van....the only vehicle designed by the people that had to fix it.

[Guest Lord Sward]

 

But what was Peter Ustinov doing in Newcastle at the time?

 

Didn't he have something to do with Durham Uni?

[Bren]

I can't see Michael Caine in any of the shots.

 

"You're a big man but you're in bad shape - with me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself."

 

Cue Bryan Mosley getting a twatting.

[Guest Lord Sward]

You're thinking of Gateshead.

[HH-R]

Those ex radio Newcastle buildings are being re developed and losing their lovely brutalist charm.

[STUNO]

Third pic fron the top, repeated by junkman above with the Minor and A30 van on the left.

What is the third car on the right that is a coupe. black? with fins and probably not a Sunbeam (window shape wrong)

 

EDIT...A few seconds googleing has convinced me it IS a Sunbeam, I found one with that same roof profile.

[Jon]

Had an enjoyable 15 months working in the old Tyne Tees TV building in 2007/08, after TTTV had moved to Gateshead a while before. Here's how it looked in the good old days:

 

 

And how it looked when I was there. Only about a dozen people rented office/workshop space there and the centre garage was ours, along with a 2nd floor office for my boss and a storage room with no windows that I worked out of, next to the garage.

 

 

Happy fun times exploring the myriad rooms and spaces and purloining the odd bit of stuff, like the 4 x 6ft high Dexion shelves I lovingly dismantled one day and transported to York in my AX GT.

 

Sadly the whole place was levelled in 2010, so there went the only TV studio space of any real value between Leeds and Edinburgh. Google Maps tells me there's now a shit looking hotel in the place of the car park, main studio, Tube entrance and Egypt Cottage pub, whilst the space occupied by the main building is still just rubble. Nice one.

[Guest Lord Sward]

Just out of sight in the Egypt Cottage is a pleasantly drunk Mike Neville and Kathy Secker.  (who as all Geordies know, is a Cheese Pasty).

[chaseracer]

 

There is a Traction Avant parked next to a DS centre right. A Citroen dealership, perhaps?

 

Since 1925...

 

http://www.wingrovemotorgroup.co.uk/

[chaseracer]

...a pleasantly drunk Mike Neville...

 

I remember him on Look North.  This always seemed a fairly accurate appraisal...

[Jim Bell]

Which segways U.S. Seamlessly into- random old Tyneside Bus chod. And one in Gateshead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[chaseracer]

And the Noddy van....the only vehicle designed by the people that had to fix it.

 

Appropriately, at this juncture, FPB7 and several members of the SVM will point out several generations of buses!

[Jim Bell]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]