Favourite Places on Tyneside

[Patty]

Best place without a doubt on Tyneside is Saltwell Park. One of the best parks in the UK right on your doorstep. Have some great memories of Saltwell Park both as a kid and adult. The fair ground used to be great in the summer and the bonfire night bonanza was great too.....Anyone else have fond memories of Saltwell Park.?:)

[Gatesheed_1]

Hey Patty,

Great Park Mate, Definatly me no 1 place in the area. Salla park was great for me - walking along Brinkburn Avenue bouncing my ball excited to get into the park, those were the days...I think it's mainly full of dog walkers now though and people going to sup coffee...it's a better looking park now though than what it was, although it's always been a nice park.

[PRESS GANG]

Surely some others must have memories of other places like bars and clubs but sadly like the others i ahve had some amazing times in Salla Park.

On was when for a few years in a row the RAF ROYAL NAVY AND ARMY POLICE too, had exhibitions on (probably recruitment fairs on) these included displays of the bike guys standing on each other the dog handlers but my favourite thing was when they put a false scar on you arm leg or head which mad it look like you had been shot.

My mothers face when i got home was a classic she thought i had really done something bad.

what a HOWL

[Delboyjim]

One of my favourite places was the Grainger Market when I was younger, had my first job as a saturday lad in there on a butchers stall---used to be loads of lasses coming through and boy did we have a ball.

Hustle and bustle , a few cafes loads going on and the crack was great. Its a shame it's not as busy anymore.

[tommyteams]

This is cruel but true, The park like most things has been sterilised these days and there are things that you can and can't do and parts of the park where you can d o some things that you cant' in others.


I was walking from the swings to the west park road/saltwell view exit a couple of months ago when a very large woman cam running from the pathway that leads from the path circling the lake to the gate, seconds after seeing her and thinking go on girl i noticed a sign with an arrow pointing in the direction she had come from IT SAID.....

wait for it ........

Dog exercise area.

LOL LOUDER

[CHeezer]

but i always loved climbing up the hill to get to the steps your not supposed to at the ruins at the tynemouth monastary it is the best sunrise ever with stunnign scenary across the rest of the monastary. a bit dangerous though.

[CHeezer]

Well i'd like to think i am so here goes

I like the LIt and phil in the city centre its a secretive gem. I had never heard of it until reading about it in another thread.

[Deckham-Den]

The Quayside and it;s view of the Tyne Bridges!

No question!

[harry]

Gets a bit busy with the surfers tehse days but it;s such a beatiful beach - onlways enjoy going down the steps to the beach.

[PRESS GANG]

I suppose there exposes the myth that the only thing that matters here is Newcastle united. After about ten posts this is the first to say SJP

I loved salla park as a kid but theres a match even though it's away i'm getting that feeling.

I however are one of those who just love the toon even now when i walk up the steps to enter the seating area i get a bit excited.

I do have other favorite palces though

[PRESS GANG]

The eaterie at blackfriars bills it self as the oldest existing restaurant in England i can never stop myself from wondering the sort of things which went on within this great city of ours once up on a tyne (geddit) it was such an influential place.

yes i know i'm from Gateshead but you know what i mean

[Baldy Bill]

NO Not the religeous type Numpty

the fish and chip shop at north shields

The fod is fab and andits great sitting on the benches to scoff them watching stuff going on on the river:)

[Lee M]

Just love it here peace and tranquality yards from the thunder of city life so relaxing.

[bensham-ben]

I love the view up dean street and gret street. It has to be the best street in the toon, and when the monument comes into view I know Im getting to the city centre and the heartbeat of Newcastle. I couldnt live anywhere else.

[heaton1979]

Definately my favorite haha- full of classy people!:D

[Cuteypie Kate]

BUT also LA Riveria to start the night then Chase Flynns, and a whole host of other bars on the Quayside

[tommyteams]

Still for me Saltwell Park the snow of the past week has got me thinking of the near ice like bank down that path in the middle of the main field at Salla park if you went fast enough you could get your sledge to go right into the paddling pool remember that pool.

[Neil Downs]

the story of the Turbinia always facinated me when i was a kid nowadays i always pop in to see it and it brings back memories of the stories the history teacher gave about its story and how Parsons helped put Newcastle on the map as a power house of engineering

[bensham-ben]

haha, that was a blast from the past, it never had water in it! And when it was kids were always falling over and running crying to there mams.:)

Just remember ! Didnt they have a jumbo jet in the park as well, I think they flew it to poland tho after poeple in gateshead got fed up with it!

[tommyteams]

I remember being there the day it came only to be disapointed cos it was the one i had been on just weeks earlier at Lambton lion park which i think was near washington, what was great about it though was that you could get on it and they would do a fake take of and then pretend it would crash and you all had to jump down the buncy inflatable slide to get off, just like being in the Hudson river ha ha

[bensham-ben]

Dont you just love that place---Washington Galleries was my favourite !!???!!! HAHA

I try to stay away from the place - it cant make its mind up Newcastle or Mackems/

[martin R]

For those who don't know its name its the rail bridge that brings you back to toon.

It has to be light preferably sunset you can see for miles down Tyne Valley, but turn to your right (presumably you coming from the south into the toon) and there are all the toons Gems SJP of course the Tyne Swing High level and other bridges, the Baltic, Sage, St Annes church which you can just make out, St Mary's Cathedral, the Steeple of St Nic's, the top of the civic centre ( which is thank full for the rest is carp 70's design.

Almost everything good can be seen from here but most of all you know your home

Brilliant place