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Quayside, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 3DE

View of looking across the Tyne to Newcastle Quayside seen from Hillgate in Gateshead.

View towards the Quayside.

View to All Saints Church Image, a scene mirrored in the perspective distorted photo at the rear of the park. There is another photo here Image

Like a lost tooth there has been a gap site on the Quayside for almost 100 years alongside Trinity Chare Image and the Customs House Image on one side, and the brick building formerly occupied by Flynn's Bar on the other Image A concrete single storey warehouse built there in 1933 ('Finnegans') was eventually demolished c1990. It has been filled at last by a block of modern offices (57 Quayside), the front piece of The Live Theatre's £10 million development, Liveworks, which also includes a new public park, an outdoor performance space, and the conversion of an existing 19th Century alms house Image into a children and young people’s writing centre. The office building is described by its architects (Flanagan Lawrence) as a 'contemporary reinterpretation of a brick warehouse' made of natural sandstone and glass. The building would be 17 metres at the highest point, stepping down to 12 metres at the rear, and Trinity Chare would be kept as a pedestrian route to the rear courtyard area for the public. http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/plans-gap-newcastle-quayside-filled-7257679 A six week archaeological survey on the site before construction revealed mediaeval terraces built to push back the river and reclaim land on the Quayside, post mediaeval cellars of Quayside buildings along with many fragments of pottery and glass. The whole development is thoroughly documented here http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=981980

Commercial office development of one of the last free sites on Newcastle's Quayside Image The new building is separated from The Customs House (left) by the narrow passage of Trinity Chare.

The gap site on the right (57 Quayside) was tidied up with a 'pocket park' in September 2010 as a temporary feature as it awaits development http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2010/09/10/pocket-park-brings-a-green-oasis-to-newcastle-quayside-61634-27239109/

Baltic Chambers dates from c1900 and was extended in 1991 with the addition of the striking corner turret. There is a photo of the building dated 1981 here http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/4078668896/ There is a photo of the corner of Broad Chare and Quayside from 1976 on this site Image and from Newcastle Libraries http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/4080641203/ There is a blue coloured 'space invader' just visible on the corner of Rewcastle Chare Image Broad Chare opens on the right beside the Law Courts Image

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No. 63 is a brick interloper of c1800. The word "CHARTS" is visible above the second-floor windows. (At the time occupied by Flynn's Bar.) Grade II listed. Next door is Corporation Buildings, in a free Baroque style, dating from 1902. Grade II listed.