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• At 2008.05.02 11:51, Abraham Lincoln said:
  

  Gosh. The buildings look to be hundreds of years old and probably are. What are all of the squares in the lawn? Perhaps for flowers.

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• At 2008.05.02 13:15, tanya said:
  

  Gorgeous!

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• At 2008.05.02 19:28, Mike said:
  

  Blackfriars Restaurant. Your looking at the back side of it. Very posh and yummy.
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  http:// www .blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk

  This place is very old, monks or friars used to be here from the 13th century.
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  http:// en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars,_Newcastle

  Mike

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• At 2008.05.02 19:35, Mike said:
  

  Cassandra, you may like to know, as part of the EAT festival that is starting tomorrow, there will be fishing boats sailing up the Tyne to where the quayside is (which I’ve never heard of them doing before!) at 2pm. If your anywhere near, it could be some unique photo opportunities?

  EAT festival guide:
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  http:// http://www. newcastlegateshead.com/content/File/pdf/EAT!%20Brochure.pdf

  Mike.

  P.S. - As part of The Tyneside cinema comming back to Newcastle after its 2-year refurbishment, they are having an open-air showing of “Dirty Dancing” at Greys Monument at about 8pm on Sunday 4th May - may be some photos in that too?

  http:// http://www. tynecine.org/

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• At 2008.05.03 01:01, Cassandra said:
  

  Mike - You’re a little information gnome! Amazing! Thank you!

  I’m not sure about making it into town on tomorrow, as i’m feeling a bit poorly. Sunday is a wait-and-see as well.

  oh, and don’t worry about adding spaces to urls… i’ll still approve them. :)

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• At 2008.05.04 10:35, Mike said:
  

  Actually, those buildings on the right hand side could be independent cafe’s as well, I’ve never been up close to them, only round the front of the Blackfriars restaurant.

  Mike

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• At 2008.07.17 12:17, Daniel said:
  

  Abraham,

  as far as I remember, the squares show you where the pillars of the old monastery church were. The nave went from right (doors) to left (altar, choir). The church was probably taken down during 16th century reformation, the buildings in the back survived and were used by all sorts of trades later on. They were saved from the wrecking ball in the 1980s or so (thank god - it’s such a beautiful spot!).

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