Mick Hartley

We had Trevor Ermel's photos of 1970s Newcastle earlier this month. Now, across the Tyne, here's Gateshead a decade later:

An InterCity 125 train heads south past St. Cuthberts Village in 1987.

Fourth Street, Bensham, awaiting demolition in 1987.

A view to St Chads Church from Hyde Park Street in 1988.

Oakwood Gdns, Lobley Hill, Gateshead, June 1982

Distorted shop Coatsworth Road 12-7-81

View down Riversdale Road, under the King Edward Bridge on 10th May 1982

Car scrapyard at the mouth of the River Team in Dunston with the old Co-op building beyond, 1985

The riverside at Redheugh in 1980, with the old gasworks building before demolition.

Wm Butterworth, butcher, is still open, even as the demolition goes on around him in 1982

Looking up Bensham Road, Gateshead in 1980, with the top of Bank Street on the left

A derelict shop front in Derwentwater Road, Gateshead in September 1980.

Armstrong St, Gateshead May 1989

Boz – Bensham Road, Gateshead 1987

Staiths Garage, Dunston in 1988

Coatsworth Road Gateshead 27-1-80

The last remnants of Bank Street in December 1980.

Looking south along a weirdly-deserted Coatsworth Road in 1980.
[Photos: Trevor Ermel]