112-118 Pilgrim Street*, NE1
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112-118 Pilgrim Street*, NE1
Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 7 Aug 2014
Buillt c 1902 by C E Oliver for the Consett Iron Company. The building's appeal lies in its basic simplicity without pavilions or any set backs, but with a strong rhythm of diminishing sized windows up the building, and alternate pointed and curved window heads across the first floor frontage. The building is Grade II listed http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1355281 . * Pilgrim Street, running north-south down to cross the Tyne, could be the oldest route in Newcastle. The name has traditionally been connected with the crowds of pilgrims from all over the country who passed along it and through the Pilgrim Gate in the Town Walls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_town_wall to visit St. Mary’s Chapel in Jesmond. After Image was opened in 1928, all the A1 traffic between London and Edinburgh was channelled up Pilgrim Street. The Buildings of Grainger Town - No.26. See Image
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Image Location
Latitude
54.971613
Longitude
-1.61022