Steve Ellwood

River Tyne, Author: Steve Ellwood. River Tyne - Amberley Publishing (amberley-books.com) Published 2015. A trip down the North and South Tyne and onwards to the North Sea.

@FrancescoFvfbw Hadn't realised it was the former Salty Sea Dog. flickr.com/photos/steve-e…

@TyneSnapper There’s one on the fish quay now Steve, ruined what was good pub.

#NewcastleUponTyne Katie O'Brien's 20 Collingwood Street Newcastle upon Tyne photographed 14th May 2026.

@TyneSnapper Got to be, too much of a coincidence

@FrancescoFvfbw Wonder if the Fishquay one Penelope O'Shea's is a relative to the one in Whitley Bay.😱

@FrancescoFvfbw Got a newly opened one in Whitley Bay as well, Kerry OShea's. Not been in yet though 🥸

@nickdonaldson3 @ClintScotswood @GrahamScott2026 @VinnieSull1van @gm_stone @IRVCHESTER @armstrongj73 Thought so, still a shoe shop there but not Curtess. 👍

@TyneSnapper @ClintScotswood @GrahamScott2026 @VinnieSull1van @gm_stone @IRVCHESTER @armstrongj73 Next door. Grainger market entrance between them.

This is Gregg's second ever shop/bakery to exist in 1974. Firstly, you'll notice how much better quality it used to be. It had to be to compete with the abundance of bakeries that existed at the time. Little did the people using it know that like supermarket chains, etc, it would undercut and slowly destory the vast majority of Britain's family run bakeries before dramatically lowing its standards to what's essentially just another form of McDonald's. Back when it made scones, buns, bread, and many other things that actually look like they belong in a bakery. Nowadays, many people have no idea as to the difference between a good sausage roll and a bad one. ⏳️

Looking towards the Cloth Market & a soot blackened old Town Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1970. By Peter Haling.

@billy6715 Wonder if the address on the front passengers door is Forth Street ❓

Federation Brewery delivery van. Undated. The brewery was based in Dunston & sadly went the way of the regions other large breweries.

@ClintScotswood @nickdonaldson3 @GrahamScott2026 @VinnieSull1van @gm_stone @IRVCHESTER @armstrongj73 Don't think so but might have been caught in a shot, just along from the Black Garter weren't they❓

@nickdonaldson3 @GrahamScott2026 @VinnieSull1van @gm_stone @IRVCHESTER @armstrongj73 @TyneSnapper Any pictures of Curtess’?

@FrancescoFvfbw Been a while since I was in the town so was quite surprised to see two Irish themed pubs on Collingwood Street and that The Union Rooms has also changed into one too. 🇮🇪

@TyneSnapper Just what we need another plastic Irish pub, said nobody, anywhere, ever!

@TyneSnapper The state of that sign alone is a sad and almost ironic reflection on urban municipal decline……

@TyneSnapper What a contrast

@NobbyTrumpet @McGowan_NUFC @ClintScotswood Robinson's Pet Shop had a leopard - Journal report from 8th March 1968.

@McGowan_NUFC @TyneSnapper @ClintScotswood I know some older people than me swear blind there was a pet shop in the bigg market that sold leopard cubs up to the late 60s

#NewcastleUponTyne Grade II Listed Market Lane, Pilgrim Street Newcastle upon Tyne, covered in scaffolding when photographed 14th May 2026. No. 70 and Market Lane Hotel G.V. II House, now public house and shop. Early C18. Painted brick with painted ashlar dressings; coursed squared sandstone left return under brick gable; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Giant pilasters at ends and flanking central bay have string at second floor sill level. Renewed ground floor has public-house entrance to left of centre and house entrance at right end. All windows plain sashes in moulded architraves with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. 2 end brick chimneys. Left return gable shows fragments of lower shaped gable brick coping.

@solidbond Thing I cannot quite understand is how many folk are actually going to see them lit up - night time in the city centre doesn't appeal to all.

@TyneSnapper Those poles still look horrendous.

#NewcastleUponTyne Works continue on the upgrade of Northumberland Street Newcastle upon Tyne. Photographed from the southern end 14th May 2026.