Peter Brabban took photos of the north east during a time of change from 1966-1982. "What I captured in the photographs was a city on the cusp of change. While… Read more
Peter Brabban took photos of the north east during a time of change from 1966-1982.
"What I captured in the photographs was a city on the cusp of change. While high rise blocks were going up in the West End the quayside was crowded with shipping and coal was still being loaded onto ships at the Dunston Staiths. Railways and industry not only crowded the river banks but also nudged right up to the centre of the city. Newcastle was not a place that people from outside the region came to visit and was still very much a Victorian city with working class terrace streets and heavy municipal buildings, but here and there you could see the modern city beginning to emerge such as in the new Civic Centre".
