Newcastle Arts Centre's Series of historic pictures of
Newcastle upon Tyne 

Many of these have not been published before,


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Stephensons Lagacy - Exhibition

Four Bridges at Newcastle, about 1930 (from a contemporary postcard)

Sunset over Swan Hunter's shipyard, 1988 - Kodachrome by Mike Tilley

Newcastle Quayside about 1910, before the construction of the Tyne Bridge in 1926-28, from an original photo

The Official Opening of the Swing Bridge, from an engraving in the London Illustrated News

Tyne Bridge seen from Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge, April 1999 - digital image by Mike Tilley

North Shields Fish Quay, December 1998 - digital image by Mike Tilley

Boys swimming off the lifeboat ramp at Clifford's Fort, North Shields - photo R.W. Swinburn, about 1925

Children playing outside a Victorian sweet shop, from a Lantern slide

North Shields Fish Market in the 1880's.

Tyne shipping, from a Lantern slide, circa 1910/20

Children collecting coke from a North Tyne gasworks during the 1926 General Strike, from a Lantern slide by R.W. Swinburn

The first North Pier nearing completion, 1893.

A Victorian view of Newcastle Quayside, looking up river towards the High Level Bridge

Gang at work on the North Eastern Railway in the 1920s - photo by R.W. Swinburn

A 1920's view of men and women preparing fish for market at North Shields Fish Quay

Spanish City, Whitley Bay, about 1930

Newcastle 1750
Cloth Market & Cathedral

Castle Garth , Newcastle

Central Arcade & Grey's Monument

150 years of the High Level , feature & exhibition

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Stephensons Legacy 2000

Riverscape Exhibition 2001

William Downey Exhibition 2005

London Shadows Exhibition 2002

Colin Gifford Exhibition 2005

Restored from original Photographs and Prints.
some New Prints are now available framed or in mounts from our Frameshop.
The pictures on these pages are low resolution screen files for reference only,
they are copyright Newcastle Arts Centre 1999/2006.

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