Jim Bell Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 What chod can you spot as we travel through time on a busy Newcastle city centre street? Junkman, Christine, Grundig and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 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 Bucketeer, Christine, michael t and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 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. Dick Longbridge, Jim Bell and brickwall 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Nice pics, takes me back... This one is Grainger Street though... pompei, tooSavvy, Jim Bell and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 I was waiting for someone local to point that out. You win. chaseracer and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_lihp Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I'll take the white XJ40 in the bottom right of the last picture, lends a bit of class to the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 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? mercrocker, Jim Bell and michael t 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 There is a Traction Avant parked next to a DS centre right. A Citroen dealership, perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 ...fully wankered student... Guilty as charged, m'lud. OwdChina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I remember the Barley Mow, and had been wondering where it went! I used to drink in the Doll though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 More Geordie chod, in the courtyard of the BBC Radio Nucassel building in Jesmond... The same area, looking the other way, ten years earlier... vulgalour and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 Three icons there. Nice anchor team. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 And the Noddy van....the only vehicle designed by the people that had to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 But what was Peter Ustinov doing in Newcastle at the time? Didn't he have something to do with Durham Uni? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 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. pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 You're thinking of Gateshead. pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 Those ex radio Newcastle buildings are being re developed and losing their lovely brutalist charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUNO Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 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. Jim Bell, pompei and Bucketeer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 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). pompei and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 There is a Traction Avant parked next to a DS centre right. A Citroen dealership, perhaps? Since 1925... http://www.wingrovemotorgroup.co.uk/ Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 ...a pleasantly drunk Mike Neville... I remember him on Look North. This always seemed a fairly accurate appraisal... pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted September 22, 2015 Author Share Posted September 22, 2015 Which segways U.S. Seamlessly into- random old Tyneside Bus chod. And one in Gateshead. pompei, vulgalour and Junkman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted September 22, 2015 Author Share Posted September 22, 2015 Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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