IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Melbourne Street, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 2JB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Melbourne Street, NE1 2JB by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (474 Images Found)
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Telephone exchange, Melbourne Street, Newcastle
A fabulous building which should be better known. Pevsner somehow missed it completely. Information is hard to come by, but it must date from the late 1960s or early 1970s. One would like to know the architect.
Update: BT Archives kindly provided some information. The exchange was built in 1969-72 at a cost of £1.2m as part of the GPO/BT microwave system. The design team was Thomas Winterburn (Senior Architect at the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works), W. Freeman (Senior Civil Engineer), and E.W. Hutchinson (Project Engineer). It was, and possibly still is, known as "the Hadrian Trunk Switching Centre. A trunk switching centre is a particular type of exchange dealing with trunk calls (national calls to, or from, or passing through, the local exchange area)". The land was acquired in 1929 for the General Post Office. The first buildings were constructed in 1932 as general stores, garage and workshops. These were demolished in 1966.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 14 Aug 2012
0.05 miles
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The BT Building
Located in Newcastle's Melbourne Street.
Image: © Mary and Angus Hogg
Taken: 22 Mar 2016
0.05 miles
5
BT Building
The BT building in Newcastle.
Image: © Peter McDermott
Taken: 22 Feb 2009
0.05 miles
8
Gibson Street
Looking down towards City Road.
Image: © John Lucas
Taken: 15 Aug 2016
0.07 miles
9
Anolha House from Argyle Street
Apartment block of student accommodation. Very handy for Northumbria University.
Behind is the telecommunications building on Melbourne Street.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 11 Nov 2010
0.07 miles
10
Junction of Gibson Street and Howard Street
Aerial House Image is visible to the right. The bar on the opposite corner is called Bar Six, formerly the Sun Inn.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 11 Nov 2010
0.07 miles