Byker & Lower Ouseburn – a Twitter flyby
November 23rd, 2017
Near the Stags Head I met a man who had moved to London in the early 1970s, having worked as a domestic appliance service engineer in and around the old Byker and got to know it all intimately.
Then he returned to find only the Stags Head and the church down the road standing, he was on his way to the pub with a friend when I ran into him.
#Byker flyby 1/ Build round the church. Surviving churchyard railings. City view. St Stephens. Very little C19th survives in #Byker pic.twitter.com/thEf2KJSGp
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
#Byker flyby 2/ Very little C19th survives, map. Churchyard gates incorporated into dwellings. Colour and grass. pic.twitter.com/DXPJlV5Ejv
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
#Byker flyby 3/ City from #LowerOuseburn. Former #Ouseburn schools. City from the viaduct above Ouseburn. #Gateshead #Tesco and flats in the distance. Too prominent. pic.twitter.com/4vu7LkYhOE
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
#LowerOuseburn 1/ Former TyneTees Shipping Company now hotel. Sailors' Bethel. pic.twitter.com/rrMLFZAQcn
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
#LowerOuseburn 2/ Viaduct, pub, former schools and #TomCollinsHouse in the distance. pic.twitter.com/r2Dce4POOL
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
#Byker flyby 4/ #TomCollinsHouse and green #Byker pic.twitter.com/Z0IJEHodfu
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
#Byker flyby 5/ The Wall. The cutting. pic.twitter.com/aNRM0F0ERT
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
#Byker flyby 6/ Church inside the wall. Housing. #StagsHead I met a man who'd been away 40 years and when he returned the only thing he recognised was the church and the #Stagshead. Inside the wall. pic.twitter.com/ut547Q1oSX
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
#Byker flyby 7/ Just inside the wall. pic.twitter.com/oR4VzYMQVH
— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) November 23, 2017
Goodbye
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