A camera roll produced by Doug Collender showing various views around the centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a focus of many of the city’s distinctive buildings. Banners for ‘Newcastle 900’ which took place in 1980 hang from a number of lampposts around the city. A view of Commercial Union House on Pilgrim Street followed by buses and other traffic moving along Pilgrim Street itself with the junction of Northumberland Street in the distance. A banner hangs down from a lamppost for...

A camera roll produced by Doug Collender showing various views around the centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a focus of many of the city’s distinctive buildings. Banners for ‘Newcastle 900’ which took place in 1980 hang from a number of lampposts around the city. A view of Commercial Union House on Pilgrim Street followed by buses and other traffic moving along Pilgrim Street itself with the junction of Northumberland Street in the distance. A banner hangs down from a lamppost for ‘Newcastle 900’. Looking up at the Pearl Assurance building on the corner of Pilgrim Street and New Bridge Street West, another banner hangs from a lamppost. Nearby on Blackett Street Emerson Chambers with a crane in the foreground. The feet of pedestrians walking along a busy street with traffic moving past along the road. A number of double-decker bus are parked at stops along Westgate Road, in the distance the spires of St John the Baptist church. Pedestrians and buses travel along Grainger Street, in the distance Grey’s Monument. The Cathedral Church of St Nicholas, across the road on Groat Market views of a modern office block. A large crane hangs over buildings on the Cloth Market. Around the corner on Mosley Street the Scottish Provident Institution building, the sun glinting off the windows. Traffic moves through the intersection Collingwood Road, St Nicholas Street and Groat Market with more views of the modern office block seen previous. Views around the Black Gate and Newcastle Keep on St Nicholas Street including sections of the old city wall. Bulldozers and other heavy equipment work on a building site. Traffic moves along a busy road on the other side of a fence, nearby The Adelaide Bar pub. Traffic moves along the Central Motorway heading in and out of an underpass. Above, more traffic travels around a roundabout. In the distance three high-rise apartment blocks and a church with a spire. In the distance the top of the Tyne Bridge and spire of All Saint’s Church above the Manors Multi-story car park. A double decker bus comes around a roundabout followed by the exteriors of the Laing Art Gallery on New Bridge Street West, a modern office block for the Guardian Royal Exchange and a number of other 1960s concrete office blocks. The camera looks at the buildings, in the background a commercial airliner leaves a contrail across the blue sky. In the middle-distance workmen on a building site for a high-rise building, in the background the top of Tyne Bridge and spire of All Saint’s Church. A man sits on a concrete bench near to Newcastle City Library, in the background a high-rise building. Three ‘Newcastle 900’ flags fly from poles nearby and at the base of a statue or monument the stone carving of the Newcastle coat-of-arms.