View south along King Street
Introduction
The photograph on this page of View south along King Street by Eric Jones as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 21 Aug 2009
King Street is the oldest part of Newcastle and in the 19th and early 20thC it was inhabited mainly by fishermen, seamen and granite quarrymen. In recent decades it has undergone gentrification.