Chod North East. Spotting through time.

[Jim Bell]

Dame Dorothy Street, Sunderland 1996

 

[High Jetter]

36 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

It's a b&w that's been colourised and fiddled with yeah. 

 

 

Original 

Y tho? Original is more...real

[gm]

7 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

Beaumont St, Sunderland 1997. 

 

1997 ? i know it’s a bit grim over there but were they not building shiney nissans just round the corner by then ?

[High Jetter]

3 minutes ago, gm said:

1997 ? i know it’s a bit grim over there but were they not building shiney nissans just round the corner by then ?

Have you looked at her legs*?

[gm]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Have you looked at her legs*?

i’d say about normal for this time on a saturday night in sunderland  

[High Jetter]

10 minutes ago, gm said:

i’d say about normal for this time on a saturday night in sunderland  

Like one is false? Or bandaged? 😀

[R Lutz]

On 11/10/2025 at 22:14, Jim Bell said:

Dame Dorothy Street, Sunderland 1996

 

1997??? Are you sure? By 2004, that was my beat. 

[paulplom]

I think he's insinuating that Sunderland is backward and behind with the times...

[R Lutz]

6 hours ago, paulplom said:

I think he's insinuating that Sunderland is backward and behind with the times...

Oh. Yeah. I suppose.  It's a wretched shithole. My bad. 

[tooSavvy]

1 hour ago, R Lutz said:

Oh. Yeah. I suppose.  It's a wretched shithole. My bad. 

Aye..... But they have a *smashing new bridge, over the Wear 😁

Likely the first person to top themselves off it will be a Geordie.....

Mackems 🙄

🚙💨

[R Lutz]

8 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

Aye..... But they have a *smashing new bridge, over the Wear 😁

Likely the first person to top themselves off it will be a Geordie.....

Mackems 🙄

🚙💨

The bridge that's lethal in ice and snow. The bridge that alleviates no congestion. 

[Jim Bell]

Woolies Newcastle. 84

 

 

[Jim Bell]

The Sunderland Riviera. 

 

[Jim Bell]

One of these appears earlier in the thread. Surely they were taken at the same time. 

Prince Regent Street, Stockton. 

 

 

[mk2_craig]

5 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

the same time

Does look like it’s the same posters in the cinema display cases. 

[Jim Bell]

Nile Street, North Shields

[Jim Bell]

Grindon, Sunderland 1990. 

[Jim Bell]

Vine Place, Sunderland 1998. 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Haymarket, Newcastle 1971. 

[Wibble]

6 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Haymarket, Newcastle 1971. 

Er, not with a 1976 Cortina it isn’t.

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

42 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Er, not with a 1976 Cortina it isn’t.

Early registration madness ... 

[Out Run]

Mags. Always obsessed with Sunderland. You'd think they'd just keep quiet, given that the money generated from the creation of Tyne & Wear was relentlessly ploughed into the horse punching capital of the NE for years, before Sunderland saw a penny.

Or maybe they are just jealous that we have a coast?

[Jim Bell]

Minus 15 points for not using the word plastic and making absolutely no reference to horse punching or an airport. 

[Jim Bell]

Oh hang on, I spotted a horse punching reference. Plus 5 points. 

[Out Run]

The Saudi's can have those much needed 5 points. 👍🏻

[Jim Bell]

Holmside, Sunderland 1997. 

[Jim Bell]

Queens Road, Middlesbrough 

[Jim Bell]

Station Hotel, South Bank 

What the fuck is this car?!

[Dyslexic Viking]

Looks like a kit car or something home built to me.

The side window almost looks like it came from a caravan.

[loserone]

9 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Station Hotel, South Bank 

What the fuck is this car?!