Jim Bell Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 Top of Elswick Park or Big Lamp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 https://goo.gl/maps/RJmQpNabVKt Google maps says you are probably right - Greggs must have moved on, which puts the picture at before 1989. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Opposite the post office on elswick road, just up from the carburettor clinic https://goo.gl/maps/GrBqDTGwcDo Edit - there is a chemists where the post office was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Not much shite, but one of the only pics I can find of The Farmers, which was a great city centre beer hutch. Sure thats a smiley in front. It's really odd to think that none of that exists any more - it really does just feel like yesterday! pompei, Jim Bell, chaseracer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloth Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 ww, would you mind if i did a similar thread for hull? pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRIS1980 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Fucking Sunderland???I was born there! Still go up sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 ww, would you mind if i did a similar thread for hull?More the merrier dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I was born there! Still go up sometimes. Never mind, eh? Seriously though, when was the last time you were there? Its changed hugely in the last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRIS1980 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Never mind, eh? Seriously though, when was the last time you were there? Its changed hugely in the last year.Hmmmm banter? It's been about 5 years,that the longest I've been away. I'm hopefully going back to visit in March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 ww, would you mind if i did a similar thread for hull? As long as you include Svens Books on the Beverley Road/Sculcoates Lane/Queens Road crossroads. pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Ah... 'Ull. Lonnng drive from Newcastle and, err, VERRRY BIG Santa/Princess Ice Castle in the shopping centre - koolas. Fu#king lame Bambi for us, at the Metro Centre - wan44as! TS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 For 15 years 'we' could never go to the Metrocentre as it was in wor lasses' catchment area, meaning wretched kids recognising her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Lucky you! I had the pleasure* of spending a couple of hours in the Metrocentre this afternoon. Having said that, it used to be our nearest ASDA what with being just over the bridge and all, back when asda was the red quadrant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Just found this site which has loads of interesting photos but a total nightmare of a layout! http://www.oldtyneside.co.uk/ pompei, mercrocker and Jim Bell 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Having said that, it used to be our nearest ASDA what with being just over the bridge and all, back when asda was the red quadrant. I started my motor trade sales career selling Suzukis outside of M&S. pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Hmmmm banter? No. Just extending the hand of friendship to a MACKEM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 This is going to sound very sad but Intu have ruined the Metrocentre and Eldon Square, all those lovely 70s/80s details is now extremely dull and sterile beige/white*. I'm sure red quadrant ASDA was a Gateway at some point? Or was it Carrefour? *I know, it's just a shopping centre. Still can't get my head round Northumberland Street being the A1! Jim Bell and pompei 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Know what you mean about intu... it's wierd watching it all get torn apart while staying open! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 PS, wiki says you are right about the asda. The first phase of Metrocentre was opened on 28 April 1986 - the red mall. At the time it featured a large Carrefour supermarket, which later became Gateway and subsequently Asda. The Metrocentre also featured the first out of town Marks & Spencer. pompei and Jim Bell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 It was designed for the Co-Op until 'Sir' John Hall reneged on the deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I used to frequent The Model Shop too, they moved to a smaller shop over by The Life Centre for a bit before closing down completely. I remember buying a Minitrix 27 that had been repainted into T+WPTE colours along with a pair of Scalextrix Metro 6R4's. As far as I know the only modelshop still up in the north is down at Chester Moor next to the A167, I keep meaning to pop back in at some point, it was Deltic models last time I went. I haven't been to the Metrocentre for years, I think the last time I was up there was for a job interview at a security company based just outside. I was a bit late after failing to appreciate how long the bus would take from Gateshead and how far the walk would be from the bus station, suffice to say I didn't get it. That pathetic motorway site is brilliant, it's great to spot the gaps in modernish schemes that have been left for roads that never arrived on Google maps. pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 It might be for the best that the rest of the Central Motorways were never built? The CME is deeply unpleasant to drive on. tooSavvy, pompei and scaryoldcortina 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 It might be for the best that the rest of the Central Motorways were never built? The CME is deeply unpleasant to drive on. I just had a read through the "tyneside story" bit of the pathetic motorway site - as well as the CMW (which I knew about, F*ck the bypass save the Doll T-shirt and all...) there was an east west underground link proposed, and a planned central motorway BYPASS (yeah, bypassing a motorway!) but it all got binned because the Metro got all the funding (and it was a shit idea) pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 It was all very bizarre. NCC's attitude now seems to be *sigh* "can't you car drivers just get a bus or ride a bike?" chaseracer, pompei and scaryoldcortina 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Newcastle City Council's idea of road planning is a sick joke. pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 "50s"? With a Bedford HA and Victor FC? 1964 at the earliest... pompei and Jim Bell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I noticed that too, but the pics are in a folder marked "Newcastle 1900's". The site owner likes to caption everything even if he doesn't know exactly what/where/when it was. Jim Bell and pompei 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Here's another A1 goes up Northumberland Street pic, 1969 this time (according to the page I found it on...) Anyone remember when the A1 used to go through the tyne tunnel and the current A1/western bypass was the A69? Grundig, tooSavvy and pompei 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Hmm.... I remember watching President Clintons motorcade journey along the 'Western By-pass' [along behind De laRue printers], looking out of the offices at Crabtree of Gateshead, TVTE. TS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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