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Demolition underway – photos of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park today

Graham Soult July 26, 2010 Property, Regeneration, Supermarkets No Comments

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Gateshead car park (26 Jul 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Gateshead car park (26 Jul 2010)

In my blog post about Gateshead’s Get Carter car park this morning, I suggested that “…it seems hard to believe that the car park is finally going to disappear from the skyline after so many false starts.”

However, it really *is* going. Demolition began this morning, with quite a few bits nibbled out by the … Continue Reading

Demolition of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park starts today

Graham Soult July 26, 2010 Property, Regeneration, Shopping Centres, Supermarkets 2 Comments

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Hoardings promoting the new surround the old (18 Jun 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Hoardings promoting the new surround the old (18 Jun 2010)

Since it opened in 1969, Gateshead town centre’s Trinity Square car park has been many things to different people, but always impossible to ignore.

To some, it has been an icon of the architectural Brutalism movement; to others, an eyesore that has blighted the Tyneside skyline. It is perhaps most famous, however, as a backdrop to the 1971 film Get … Continue Reading

How many former Woolworths can Graham visit in one day?

Graham Soult September 18, 2009 Property, Woolworths 6 Comments

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How about SIX?

Former Woolworths, Redcar

Former Woolworths, Redcar (17 Sep 2009)

Stop one is High Street in Redcar, where the former Woolworths store has recently become a branch of the Yorkshire Trading Company. As always seems to be the case with old Woolies stores, it still looks and feels much like a Woolworths inside, and appears to sell a similar range of goods – homewares, gardening products, confectionery, and the like. However, when I … Continue Reading