Carved heads, Prudhoe Chare
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Carved heads, Prudhoe Chare
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 24 Jan 2010
Prudhoe Chare provides pedestrian access to Eldon Square Shopping Centre from Northumberland Street. It was built on the line of Prudhoe Street which linked Percy Street to Northumberland Street. There was a pub here from about 1855, the Northumberland Arms, which was demolished along with the other pubs in the street when the shopping centre was constructed in 1976. A pub of the same name was built for the new centre and the external wall decorated with stone carvings salvaged from the old library, town hall and YMCA in Blackett Street. The heads at the top of this panel include Thomas Bewick (engraver), George Stephenson (railway pioneer) and Admiral Collingwood on tapered keystones (from arches) and a semi-circular panel with '1881' in the middle of foliate carving. The other heads are those of various gods and goddesses. Tyne and Wear HER (10829): Newcastle, Northumberland Street, Northumberland Arms PH http://www.twsitelines.info
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Image Location
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54.975756
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-1.613304