FOR anyone fascinated by old photographs of the city, which is quaintly described on the book cover as ‘the metropolis of the Northern Coalfield’, this compilation offers a selection of more than 180 photographs illustrating how Newcastle has changed and developed over the past century.
Subjects include the Central Station, the Tyne bridges, the shops and shoppers drawn to Northumberland Street over the past hundred years, and bustling scenes in city centre streets in the area around Grey’s Monument featuring horses and carts, trams and trolley buses.