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Posted by Norman Dunn on 11/11/2025, 8:07 am

A nice view looking towards the Haymarket area in Newcastle between the wars.

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Posted by Mac C on 11/11/2025, 1:29 pm, in reply to "Tuesday-Wednesday Header"

What was this building ringed in Blue. It was at this point that I remember that the trolleys were turned around in the early sixties and the overhead pick ups changed over.

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Posted by Jackie W on 11/11/2025, 3:29 pm, in reply to "Tuesday-Wednesday Header"

Another lovely photo Norman. People just going about their business, love it

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Posted by Stan Wears on 12/11/2025, 11:44 am, in reply to "Re: Tuesday-Wednesday Header"
Edited by board administrator 12/11/2025, 12:00 pm

If anyone is interested, the church was designed by John Dobson and erected in 1832 at a cost of £6000. Grade II listed. What gets me is that I come across scores of ecclesiastical buildings with references to John Dobson. It is impossible for him to have designed all that people credit him for. Such is the Central Station with his design won the Paris exhibition 1854-6? That fact is Dobson had a stroke and Thomas Prosser finished it off. I reckon Dobson approved other designs and allowed his name to reap the credits!

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Posted by George on 12/11/2025, 7:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Tuesday-Wednesday Header"

That is very interesting Stan. Other famous personalities did similar. An example is Gilbert & Sullivan. They had teams of musical experts who knew the styles of both Sullivan's music and Gilberts libretto. Just how much was down to the phantom writers we will never know - and perhaps its best left that way. For certain, we are blessed with some wonderful buildings dedicated to Dobson and musical pieces to G & S. Never-the-less, in future I will look at Newcastle's buildings with a ...hmmm? in mind. Dobson and Grainger? Gilbert and Sullivan? Like the song says. "You can't have one without the other" .....can you?