IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Low Friar Street, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 5UG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Low Friar Street, NE1 5UG 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.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
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 (1886 Images Found)
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Galen House, corner of Low Friar Street and Dispensary Lane
Built around 1901 as a medicine factory and named for Claudius Galen, an accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen
Three corners of the building feature squat octagonal towers with round windows. It has recently been converted into 62 furnished apartments Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 21 Jan 2010
0.01 miles
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Galen House, Low Friar Street / Dispensary Lane, NE1
Built c 1901, by Matthew Horner Graham for G G Laidlaw, as a handsome Edwardian medicines manufactory and offices; the name is after the famous Greek physician of the 2nd C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen . Red brick piers rise up from a very tall ground floor of stone arches and columns; the two main sides are flanked by tall bay windows, and at each corner there is a squat octagonal tower with round windows. The building has been converted into shops and around 60 housing association flats. The building is not listed.
The Buildings of Grainger Town - No.199. See Image
Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 19 Nov 2013
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Galen House, Dispensary Lane
Built within the courtyard of the old medicines factory Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 21 Jan 2010
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4
Modern apartment block at Blackfriars
This is Blackfriars Court on Dispensary Lane in Newcastle city centre. As can be seen, in backs on to the ruins of the 13th century friary of Blackfriars, demolished in 1539 after Henry VIII closed the monasteries.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 10 May 2022
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Dispensary Lane
Showing the western wing of Galen House Image
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 21 Jan 2010
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7
Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.
This photograph was taken from the junction of Grainger Street.
Image: © Bill Henderson
Taken: 15 Oct 2006
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Dispensary Lane and Galen House
This lane opens off Low Friar Street, in Newcastle's city centre. Galen House at the top of the street was built in 1901 as a medicines manufactory and offices. Galen was a famous medieval doctor. The building was converted into flats in the late 20th century.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 2 Jan 2020
0.02 miles
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Low Friar Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
A narrow city centre street. Many of the buildings on the left side of the road have their main frontage on the busier and wider Clayton Street.
Image: © Graham Robson
Taken: 6 Apr 2021
0.02 miles
10
Shops on Low Friar Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
A variety of public facing businesses including shops and a massage parlour occupy the ground floors of the buildings on Low Friar Street. This photo was taken during the last week of restrictions imposed by the government during the COVID-19 outbreak that meant non-essential retail stores were unable to open. These restrictions would be lifted (not for the first time) on the 12th of April.
Image: © Graham Robson
Taken: 6 Apr 2021
0.02 miles