Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[tooSavvy]

Metro Centre:

 

.... long B4 it was..... my dad worked at Raine &co, steelworks - along the riverside beside the power station [see: The hearse, back lane, Get Carter] and the only road access was through the little iron bridge (still there) and over the yards railway lines...

 

The salesmen, all in cortinas or mebbies a victor, would hoon up the road - under the bridge - and 'yumpp it' over the lines. Epic sight, allegedly!!

 

 

The company rolled various profiles, from flat, out of Consett. They had a nice 'salvage' contract for the NCB. Old rail lines were delivered into the works, cut to length (various), heated and bent to a semi circle with the fishplate at the top. These went as supports for the main roadways underground.

 

H&S... err... nope. The rollers for forming the steel strips should have a Pin&LockRing in the coupling.... As the lads were always swapping the forming rollers they just hoiked a heavy wire through (not a safe ring) and a guy was doing something down at the motor/clutch end and the wire hooked into his gansie pullover... my dad said the place was closed for a 'full clean up' Gahhhhhh

 

thems was the good old days......

 

 

TS

[scaryoldcortina]

Metro Centre:

 

.... long B4 it was..... my dad worked at Raine &co, steelworks - along the riverside beside the power station [see: The hearse, back lane, Get Carter] and the only road access was through the little iron bridge (still there) and over the yards railway lines...

 

[scaryoldcortina]

[scaryoldcortina]

[pompei]

I grew up just outside Blaydon and can remember those terraces off Scotswood Road being pulled down and the hideous modernist buildings that replaced them.

 

I moved to Hull when I was 18 so I'd love to see some old pics of the area.  I had forgotten about Sven Books  -  used to live just round the corner on Sculcoates Lane  (in a paper bag).

[scaryoldcortina]

Couple more...

 

 

Newgate Street, 1965

 

 

Haymarket, 1956

[scaryoldcortina]

 

From a Newcastle Journal piece on the Meadowell riots, this was their header pic. Spot the obvious error.

[scaryoldcortina]

 

click the pic for the full set!

[HH-R]

That ain't the meadow well? I can't work out what is on fire though.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, the B1311 is Elswick Road and doesn't go near north shields....

 

I think it's the Dodds Arms pub on fire in the background. Hell of a mess the next day, I walked past it on my way into town.

[Jim Bell]

There hasn't been a good riot for a long time. I think we might be overdue.

[Vin]

 

click the pic for the full set!

 

 

Some great pictures there...

 

What are these little tykes playing on then??...I thought Talbot, but I aint sure as certain things, like those bonnet vents don't look right to me...

 

 

 

 

And Japanese I guess, but what??

 

[gm]

looks like it was once a Renault 9

[Guest Lord Sward]

There hasn't been a good riot for a long time. I think we might be overdue.

 

 

Riots work.  FACT!

[chaseracer]

There hasn't been a good riot for a long time. I think we might be overdue.

 

Witney might be a good place to start...

[scaryoldcortina]

No they don't! The pissing about and "improvements" the council did to the west end estates made them all more or less unliveable pretty quickly. We moved out in early '95 after enduring a full refit on the house without being moved out, and a serious rise in burglary during and afterwards because the pretty new doors and windows were shite.

 

Mind you, I don't think it was a proper riot. It looked more like a load of looting and some strategic arson from where I was standing.

[chaseracer]

 

Datsun 180B Bluebird estate.

[carlo]

 

I've never been to Newcastle or Gateshead but I thought knocking down that car park was criminal.

[scaryoldcortina]

it's worse when you look at what they built instead!

[Jim Bell]

Wey. If wa gannin awwa the watta:

 

 

Bensham bank/Road.

[Jim Bell]

Gateshead Sally. On ward christian shite.

[Jim Bell]

Not far from Scary Towers.

 

Consett front road?

 

[Jim Bell]

Jackson Street, Gateshead.

 

[Jim Bell]

Big bus little bus tiny bus.

 

[scaryoldcortina]

Not far from Scary Towers.

 

Consett front road?

 

 

Front street, with the Steel works in the background.

 

Raise you Stanley Front street before zombie apocalypse bypass and pedestrian presinct.

 

[Jim Bell]

Mick Jagger outside the Five Bridges Hotel in Gateshead.

 

[Jim Bell]

Whickham Post Office (its small)

 

[scaryoldcortina]

^ That's out of the domesday project. Notice how the wall is freshly rebuilt just behind the old ladies? It still gets knocked down about once a year!

[Jim Bell]

Back north of the river for the last few of the day.

 

 

 

The back of Micheal Parrish's on Shields Rd, Byker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baltic on the Quayside (north shore)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marlborough Bus Station in Newcastle (now the Centre For Life) Bonus Mk1 Cav content peeping.

[pompei]

Love these pics  -  takes me back!