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Looking down Northumberland Street, 1961

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  Would this have been the A1 at that time?

• Peter said:

  Paul - certainly the A! back then. I can remember jumping on & off the trolley buses down Northumberland St. when the conducter wasn't looking! Mind you - you could walk faster! I was 12...

• optimal chicken said:

  Ah I thought it was. I've seen photos of the trurbines for Blyth Power Station being hauled over The Tyne Bridge and up Northumberland Street. Amazing when you think about it (and why didn't they just float them there?) but could you imagine this still being the A? Naughty boy Peter!

Haymarket, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1948

from North East Museums

• Jordi Knight said:

  Wonder how much a pint of beer was back then in the Percy Arms?

• Peter said:

  I remember those tin shed bus shelters.

• optimal chicken said:

  Everything sooted up.

Eldon Square shopping centre nears completion, 1976

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  Newcastle is quickly losing its small privately owned specialist shops in favour of the bigger sites. A shame that because the diversity in the city was very special..