GIVEN that you are not allowed to pass the ball forward in rugby league, The Northern Echo Darlington Arena was the perfect choice of venue for Gateshead Thunder’s Carnegie Challenge Cup fifth-round ...

The times they were a-changing in 1980s North East. The old traditional industries were dying out; many of the houses which had provided homes for workers were being knocked down and rebuilt; the ...

Folk of a certain vintage will recall this view of West Street, Gateshead. It was 1975. In the distance, the unmistakable arch of the Tyne Bridge and the buildings of Newcastle city centre. And, on ...

Anyone who’s visited Gateshead High Street in recent times would have to agree it’s a pale shadow of what it was a few decades ago. Our three photographs recall the street as it was in the late 1980s ...