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Chod North East. Spotting through time.


Jim Bell

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1 hour ago, Jim Bell said:

Market st/Pilgrim St, Newcastle. 

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Carliol House above the NEEB shop (north eastern electricity board) where my dad worked - his office was on the second floor, his window would be just above the BT van on the right of the pic :)

sadly now empty and all boarded up, no one wants big offices in the city centre anymore.

Beatties toyshop on the left with the black and yellow sign - had some cracking model railway layouts, there was one that ran on a high up shelf round the whole of the shop !

 

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15 minutes ago, gm said:

 

Beatties toyshop on the left with the black and yellow sign - had some cracking model railway layouts, there was one that ran on a high up shelf round the whole of the shop !

 

They were also the go to place for Tamiya R/C stuff when I was a nipper. Had video running on loops of the Sand Scorcher blazing the dunes and Vanessa's Lunch Box popping wheelies. 

 

 

 

 

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On 1/18/2020 at 8:23 PM, jmsguzzi said:

My bands practice room is on the end of that row, had no idea there was ever a pub there!

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Small world.

Up until about a year ago I used to play synth with a band in the building you're referring to. The band has now, er, disbanded, but the basement/cellar room was ours. Say hello to Keith for me!

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1 hour ago, Shirley Knott said:

Small world.

Up until about a year ago I used to play synth with a band in the building you're referring to. The band has now, er, disbanded, but the basement/cellar room was ours. Say hello to Keith for me!

Ah that’ll be ur booze and bong then!

Keith moved us down into the cellar for ‘2-3 weeks’ whilst he renovated Rm2....... we’ve been down there for 6 months now!!

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8 hours ago, jmsguzzi said:

Ah that’ll be ur booze and bong then!

 

*Definitely not governor.

TBH I recon that room is the best one there, loads of character with it's cobbled stone floor and vault in the back (Used to be a jeweller IIRC). We used to use it for parties/card nights as well as band practice and unbeknown to Keith even used to sleep down there sometimes after a night out on the town (Pretty grim but cheaper than a taxi)

It's perhaps before your time, but about 20 years ago Keith used to run that cellar as an unlicensed bar. I saw some great gigs down there in the late nineties when I was 16/17. Halcyon days!

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2 hours ago, Shirley Knott said:

*Definitely not governor.

TBH I recon that room is the best one there, loads of character with it's cobbled stone floor and vault in the back (Used to be a jeweller IIRC). We used to use it for parties/card nights as well as band practice and unbeknown to Keith even used to sleep down there sometimes after a night out on the town (Pretty grim but cheaper than a taxi)

It's perhaps before your time, but about 20 years ago Keith used to run that cellar as an unlicensed bar. I saw some great gigs down there in the late nineties when I was 16/17. Halcyon days!

It’s a great space and we used to hang down there all the time but then the mold got hold of a lot of our gear....

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