Steve Ellwood
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Retired, Local Historian, Photographer, Newcastle City Guide. Author of Newcastle in 50 Buildings, River Tyne, 50 Gems of Northumberland by Amberley Publishing.
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Newcastle in 50 Buildings, Author: Steve Ellwood. Published 2016. Proud to put forward what I consider the top 50 Newcastle buildings.
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#newcastleupontyne
How many folk still use this term❓- Market Street, Newcastle upon Tyne 6th October 2022.
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On this day 8th November 2018 - Greggs made the smart move to reverse their Northumberland Street store sign so that it would be legibly reflected in Fenwick's Christmas Window.
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I wonder how many folk walk past 2 Old Eldon Square and don't realise that its only inhabitant is the draught relief shaft from the Metro - photographed on this day 7th May 2014. Aerial courtesy of Google Maps
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An American tourist once asked, "why did they build the castle keep right next to the railway?" 😂
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#nufc
Former Northern Goldsmith Fairy decked out in her NUFC kit on this day 5th March 2003. Corner of Clayton Street West and Westgate Road.
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#SouthShields
Revealed after storms the remains of the former Royal Naval Air Station's seaplane ramp, photographed 18th March 2018. Built 1916 during the First World War as a base for both reconnaissance and attacking seaplanes. Five hangars were built to house the aircraft.
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#NUFC
#NewcastleUponTyne
Progress of the Adidas mural on Morden Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. Snaps taken this dinner time.
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#newcastle
The Cooperage back in the days when it was just that, a place where barrels were made.
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The Cooperage, Close, Newcastle upon Tyne in better times on this day 10th April 2006.
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Newcastle central Station Portico - porte cochère on this day 25th January 2011 when traffic moved through it. Now enclosed and traffic unable to pass through.
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#Northumberland
Scanned from slides taken by my late brother Dick Ellwood in 1979 of the filming of Blake 7 on Bamburgh Beach. This was the episode Aftermath.
Paul Darrow (Avon), Josette Simon (Dayna) and Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan).
@MakingBlakes7
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#nedwcastleupontyne
One from the past - The Boken Doll on Blenheim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne from the Jack and Geoff Phillips Photographic Collection.
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Beyond contempt 😱
Heartbreak as iconic Sycamore Gap tree destroyed - live updates
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A tiny lane in Newcastle City centre but you can see a film, get a coffee, get a pint and even get a massage - Low Friars Lane
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Remembering back to the days when you could catch the ferry from North Shields to Newcastle Quayside.
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Coming back from a Tyne cruise on this day 30th October 2010. A case of point the camera and hope for the best, it sometimes works 👍
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#WhitleyBay
Demolition has commenced on the former 42nd Street on the seafront at Whitley Bay. To be replaced by residential properties. Photographed 19th March 2023.
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#RedArrows
#Tynemouth
#SouthShields
Spot on time, shame about the weather and lighting conditions, overcast and misty at sea level so well done to the Red Arrows for putting a great performance on.
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#newcastleupontyne
This appears to be a photograph taken of the High Level Bridge between Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1847-1849. Courtesy of the Jack and Geoff Phillips Collection.
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The Strawberry pub is getting a lick of paint
@theberrypub
- photographs from yesterday, 8th September 2022.
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From the Jack and Geoff Phillips Photographic Collection - the Egypt Cottage pub and Tyne Tees Television Studio, City Road Newcastle upon Tyne in 1960.
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Early image of Grainger Street and St John the Baptist from the Jack and Geoff Phillip Photographic Collection.
The days of horse drawn trams.
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#NewcastleUponTyne
1980's scan of a 35mm print showing Newcastle Quayside looking West from the Milk Market. Warehouses having been demolished.
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Original plans for the building of The Crown on Side, Newcastle upon Tyne. Now commonly known as The Crown Posada.
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The Castle Keep, Newcastle upon Tyne has to be one of the best platforms for a view over the Tyne to Gateshead.
@NewcastleCastle
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#ouseburn
A few shots from this day 15th October 2005 around the Lower Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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#Ouseburn
The Ship Inn, Stepney Bank, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne. B&W 1966 from the Jack & Geoff Phillips Photographic Collection. Postcard view from 1983.
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Top of Side, Newcastle upon Tyne, seen in three periods of time. Black and White images from the Jack and Geoff Phillips Collection, colour mine. To think that Admiral Lord Collingwood lived in one of the houses in the 1880 image.
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#jesmond
1897 cartoon depicting the expected movement of the upper class from Jesmond to Benton following the decisions to build working class homes and even a pub in 'leafy Jesmond'. Courtesy of the Jack & Geoff Phillips Clippings Collection.
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#NewcastleUponTyne
Swing Bridge Toll House, built circa 1870 to collect a toll on goods being brought into Newcastle upon Tyne. The Great Toll, also known as the Trough Toll was eventually was abolished by an Act of Parliament in 1905 which legislated that it must stop by 1910.
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#NorthShields
Such a shame that North Shields Railway Station was demolished - pictured here as the redevelopment 1890 when the original 1843 building by John & Benjamin Green was modified.
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#NewcastleUponTyne
Now this is something you don't see everyday at Newcastle's Civic Centre. Going through my father's 35mm prints - Probably taken in the 1980's.
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#tynemouth
Interesting photograph showing fish being transported by horse and cart from North Shields Fishquay to the original Tynemouth railway station at Oxford Street.
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River Tyne, Author: Steve Ellwood. Published 2015. I enjoyed driving and visiting a lot of places within 1 mile of the North, South and River Tyne.
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#NewcastleUponTyne
#Gateshead
Happy 95th birthday to the Tyne Bridge, opened on this day 10th October 1928 by King George V.
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Commercial Union House, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. Planning application has been submitted for the demolition of the building @
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A piece of Newcastle history which many will pass without noticing it. On this day 29th March 2016 David Summerfield Jewellers stained glass windows at 63-65 Northumberland Street. Clocks and Cutlery.
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The Northern Goldsmith Fairy waiting to come awake at midnight on New Years Eve to dance around the City Centre.
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#georgestephenson
Birthday of the English engineer and inventor George Stephenson on this day 9th June 1781. Birthplace at Wylam, Northumberland and statue in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Restoration of the Cloth Market, Newcastle upon Tyne by NE1 and its partners. Before and after photographs. 2011 and 2022.
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#Gateshead
On this day 9th September 2001, Bottle Bank, Gateshead before the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead was built.
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A section of Hadrian's Wall outside of Neville Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne on this day 5th October 2017. It was known the remains existed but work on the building permitted another sight of the wall.
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Rear views of Nos. 41 and 44 Sandhill, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bessie Surtees House and Milbank House, taken on this day 5th February 2011. Grade I Listed. Photographed from the rear of the Moot Hall.
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#newcastleupontyne
On this day 30th August 2012, Robinsons Bookseller stall in the Grainger Market was still in operation. A fine place which I liked to browse, bought a fair few books from them as well. Sadly missed.
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If you are a football person please join the challenge of posting a football photo. Just one picture, no description. Please copy the text in your status, post a picture and look at some great memories/pictures. Missing football so much!
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The real route of Hadrian's Wall through Newcastle and North Tyneside
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#NewcastleUponTyne
A bit of a shame that The Duke of Wellington on High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne removed this panel of history - pictured on this day 28th May 2001 and what it looks like now.
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#nufc
Some water under the bridge since my time travelling away to support NUFC - 48 years ago, blimey, where has that time gone?
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#PostboxSaturday
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Redundant postbox and stamp dispenser at the former Pink Lane Post Office Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Union Club, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. Went on to be the Unions Rooms, Okana and now Liberty House. Stained glass window, 15 feet long featuring British poets and composers.
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Blue on Blue, Newcastle seen from Gateshead on this day 17th December 2013.
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#AdoorableThursday
11 Bath Terrace, Blyth, Northumberland. House, last decade of C18, altered to bath-house in early C19 and now back to residential.
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Grade II Listed 5 North Bailey, Durham. Circa 1900 central door and side panels with arcaded overlights and high shell hood.
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Perhaps only those of a certain age will remember having to polish your school shoes, or more likely your parents cleaning them.
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#NewcastleUponTyne
World War Two graffiti on the wooden support columns in Black Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne. Servicemen had been billeted in the Black Gate and left their mark
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#gateshead
One from the shoe box - Sage Gateshead under construction on this day 18th February 2003. Thanks for the heads up on the year Michael B.
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I've got my 'grumpy old man head' on, so a bit of a moan. Do we really have to use the Medieval Nuns Lane as a place for storing stinking bins ❓- Originally the entranceway to the St. Bartholomew's Nunnery, Newcastle upon Tyne which may have existed sine 1086.
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I see that the Grade II* Listed Emerson Chambers on Blackett St, Newcastle upon Tyne is undergoing some TLC - photographed this morning.
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On this day 26th December 2004, Breakneck Stairs, Town Walls, Close, Newcastle upon Tyne. That section these days is much overgrown. The stairs themselves have been lost apart from a very small section.
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1975 when the modern day Black Garter on Clayton St was two separate pubs, Black Swan and Swan & Garter, merged 1978 and opened as the Market Tavern, subsequently the Black Garter - images from the Jack & Geoff Phillips Photographic Collection. Colour mine.
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Interesting photograph from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle 90 years ago on 20th January 1933. Tunnel being built between Newcastle Central Station and the Post Sorting Office on Forth Street.
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Black Plaque in memory of the Club A'GoGo that used to be part of the long since demolished Handyside's Arcade on Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. It was unveiled earlier today 8th September 2022.
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Pandon Burn flows from Spital Tongues to the Tyne via the Pandon Dene, now culverted and one of Newcastle's 'hidden waterways'. Photograph showing the outflow on Quayside close to the Law Courts. Photographs on this day 1 April 2014.
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#newcastleupontyne
I can just about remember the footbridge crossing Northumberland St (A1 - Great North Road) at the Pilgrim St end but not the one at the junction with Northumberland Road as seen here.
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#Cullercoats
Snaps of typical the Traditional Cullercoats fishermen cottages taken on this day 10th April 2002.
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#Wallsend
The Ship Inn (Ship in the Hole) Wallsend on this day 5th April 2013 awaiting its imminent demolition.
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What a waste of a building, the long time empty Angel Heights, the former Nurses Home on Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. Opened in 1925 by Coun JW Telford, chairman of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Board of Guardians. Photographed on this day 25th November 2017.
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On this day 24th June 2001 a view from the Castle Keep. The Boat still in place and Sage Gateshead under construction. Tyne Bridge Tower office block on the Gateshead side later to be demolished.
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#newcastleupontyne
A little bit of trivia - the Pandon Burn flows from Spital Tongues to the Tyne via the Pandon Dene, now culverted and one of Newcastle's 'hidden waterways'. Photograph showing the outflow on Quayside close to the Law Courts. Photographs 1 April 2014.
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