An amateur film produced by John Scorer recording much of the demolition and re-construction work being carried out around the city centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the early 1970s. The film features the demotion of Newcastle Town Hall on St Nicholas Square as well of the demolition of the Georgian buildings along the northside of Eldon Square to make way for the new shopping centre. The film also features a lot of construction going on around the city including that of Eldon Square shopping...

An amateur film produced by John Scorer recording much of the demolition and re-construction work being carried out around the city centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the early 1970s. The film features the demotion of Newcastle Town Hall on St Nicholas Square as well of the demolition of the Georgian buildings along the northside of Eldon Square to make way for the new shopping centre. The film also features a lot of construction going on around the city including that of Eldon Square shopping centre as well as the Newcastle Central Motorway. Demolition works in underway around Eldon Square with Georgian buildings along the northside of the square all missing windows and door, men stand on what is left of the roof with tiles and supports missing. In the middle on Eldon Square the war memorial. A yellow and white double decker bus travels past a Marks & Spencer store, pedestrians walk past a number of parked cars beside a barrier, behind which a piece of derelict land. The Newcastle Civic Centre changes to the Newcastle Town Hall in St Nicholas Square between the Bigg Market and Cloth Market. Traffic makes its way along Bigg Market towards St Nicholas Street. Around the city pedestrians and traffic pass a series of buildings and a piece of waste ground possibly the result of demolition work. Scaffolding surrounds the Newcastle Town Hall on St Nicholas Square as crowds walk past along the Bigg Market. Traffic waits at an intersection and along a shopping street across the road from a Midland Bank a woman stops to look at a bouquets and flowers on sale at a market stall. Newcastle Town Hall is now partially demolished as people walk along Cloth Market. The film changes to show the building now totally demolished and an excavator crane working to clear the remaining rubble. From a train as it passes the empty site of the town hall below and the site seen from Manors railway station. From a number of different locations construction work on the Newcastle Central Motorway bypassing the city centre. Traffic moves along Blackett Street passing the construction site of Eldon Square Shopping Centre, a bus pulls up nearby. Scaffolding surrounds both The Cathedral Church of St Nicholas on Neville Street and The Castle on Castle Garth, a sign on the wall gives a history and admission price to the keep. A passenger train pulls into Newcastle Central Station, underneath the rail bridge traffic moves past along the new central motorway. From the rooftop on the corner of Neville Street and St Nicholas Street the camera pans around showing the traffic passes The Cathedral Church and The Castle. The film ends on a man and young girl look over part of the city wall followed by a series of old houses and buildings around Sandhill including Bessie Surtees House.