As the saying goes, here today and gone tomorrow!
Friends in the Pub
On paying a visit back to Tyneside I was quite shocked to see that a large amount of public houses seemed to have disappeared. I’ve made a list, comparing my memory of the pubs in 1958 with the way they were in 2005:
The White Brick, Dock Road Gone
The Wolsington, Appleby Street Gone
The Chain Locker, New Quay Gone
The Jungle, New Quay Gone
The Golden Fleece, New Quay (The Port Hole)
The Dolphin, Fish Quay OK
The Low Light Tavern, Fish Quay OK
The Corvette, Charlotte Street Gone
The King’s Head, Tyne Street OK
The Prince of Wales, Liddell Street OK
The Crown and Sceptre, Stephenson Street Gone
The Albion Inn, Norfolk Street Gone
The Hope, Norfolk Street (Bell and Bucket)
The Central, Camden Street (Magnesia Bank)
The Half Moon, Union Street Gone
The Colonel Linskill, Charlotte Street OK
The Garrick’s Head, Saville Street OK
The Alnwick Castle, Saville Street (Irish Pub)
The Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Bedford Street Gone
The Fountain Head, Bedford Street Gone
The Telegraph, Nile Street Gone
The Railway, Nile Street Gone
The White Hart, Bedford Street Gone
The New Claradon, Appleby Street Gone
The Mariners, Saville Street OK
The Ballarat, Borough Road ??????
The Neville, Rudyard Street OK
The Berwick, Trinity Street OK
The Stanley, Rudyard Street OK
The Victoria, Upper Borough Road OK
The Royal Arms, Nile Street OK
The Queen’s Head, Albion Road OK
The Old Hundred, Albion Road OK
The Top House, Albion Road OK
The Tyne Inn, Tennyson Terrace Gone
The Phoenix, Duke Street Gone
The Clock Vaults, Bedford Street Gone
Sir Colin Campbell, Saville Street OK
The Wellington, Wellington Street Gone
The Black Bull, Clive Street Gone
The General Havelock, Saville Street Gone
The Gardeners, Rudyard Street Gone
The Lambton Castle, Wellington Street West Gone
The Victoria, Tynemouth Road OK
The Albert, Tynemouth Road OK
The Coberg, Tynemouth Road OK
Oddfellows, Albion Road OK
There are more than likely a lot more I have forgotten about but when you leave an area then return you get a shock as too just how much it has changed over the years. Still as the saying goes, here today gone tomorrow.