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Construction work well underway at Gateshead’s Trinity Square

Graham Soult December 20, 2011 Property, Regeneration, Shopping Centres, Supermarkets No Comments

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Trinity Square, Gateshead (18 Dec 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Trinity Square, Gateshead (18 Dec 2011)

It may have taken over a year to get started following the Get Carter car park’s demolition, but building work at Gateshead’s Trinity Square is now proceeding apace.

Construction of the £150m development only … Continue Reading

Ambitious Tyne Bridge mall plans to be unveiled

Graham Soult April 01, 2011 April Fool, Personal 2 Comments

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The iconic Tyne Bridge. Photograph by Graham Soult

The iconic Tyne Bridge

The retail hearts of Newcastle and Gateshead are set to be connected by a new £200m shopping mall, running the length of the iconic Tyne Bridge.

The scheme will involve building a new modern steel and glass structure underneath the existing road deck, providing a covered mall route between the Newcastle and Gateshead sides, and affording panoramic views over the existing developments at Newcastle Quayside and Gateshead Quays.

The project is also set … Continue Reading

Boyes takes over Bishop Auckland’s old Woolies – could more follow?

Graham Soult August 27, 2010 Department Stores, Market Towns, Property, Retail History, Variety Stores, Woolworths 4 Comments

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Former Woolworths, Bishop Auckland (6 Feb 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Former Woolworths, Bishop Auckland (6 Feb 2010)

When I blogged about the remaining vacant Woolies stores in the North East a few days ago, I’d failed to spot that yet another is about to be reoccupied, with Boyes – the iconic northern variety retailer – … Continue Reading

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

Graham Soult July 26, 2010 Property, Regeneration, Supermarkets 3 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 6 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 15 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 visited there … Continue Reading