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Back to the ‘90s at Gateshead Stadium where rockers Bon Jovi drew a 38,000 crowd (opens the original)
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American rock icons Bon Jovi earlier this month rounded off their successful 2026 Forever tour with three sold‐out shows at London’s Wembley Stadium. For fans of the band here in the North East, it may well have stirred memories of the major concert that took place at Gateshead International Stadium just over three decades ago in June 1995. On a summery Tyneside day, Bon Jovi, supported by Van Halen and Ugly Kid Joe, stepped out in front of a bumper crowd of 38,000. The band was just one of a ho
When the final old-school pub on Newcastle’s Scotswood Road called last orders (opens the original)
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It was 1995 and a story in the Chronicle announced the closure of the last pub on Newcastle’s Scotswood Road, bringing to an end 150 years of tradition. The famous thoroughfare gained immortality in the unofficial Geordie anthem, written in 1862 by Geordie Ridley, Blaydon Races - a battle hymn favoured by generations of Newcastle United fans. Scotswood Road, which has long held a place in Tyneside folklore, runs west, close to the north bank of the River Tyne, for around four-and-a-half miles, f
Then and Now: The favourite Newcastle store that served customers for 80 years (opens the original)
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For 80 long years, Woolworth on Newcastle’s Clayton Street was a popular port of call for Tyneside shoppers. Our main photograph shows the store in 1961, just after a major expansion that quadrupled its size. It had, in fact, begun trading back in 1928, in the same year the Tyne Bridge opened, less than half a mile away, linking the city centre with Gateshead. Not that this was the first Woolworth store in Newcastle. The city’s flagship branch on Northumberland Street had opened its doors to sho
Mystery solved as Newcastle’s Ouseburn Farm finds children pictured 50 years ago (opens the original)
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A search to find the children pictured at Ouseburn Farm nearly 50 years ago has had a happy ending - after several of them came forward to share their memories. The much-loved Newcastle city farm put out an appeal earlier this year after discovering a 1978 Woman’s Own article featuring children at what was then known as Byker City Farm. The photograph offered a glimpse into the farm’s earliest years, but almost five decades later, staff had no idea who the children were or where life had taken t
How Tyneside’s spectacular Gateshead Millennium Bridge opened 25 years ago (opens the original)
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This month, one of the regions most recognisable structures turns 25. In September 2001, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge opened up to the public, making it the first bridge built across the River Tyne for more than 100 years. The story of the bridge began in 1996 when Gateshead Council sought millennium funding and launched a design competition for a new crossing. More than 150 entries arrived from architects and engineers worldwide, and from a shortlist of six, the Gifford and Partners and Wilk
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