The Claremont Buildings are opposite the Civic Centre and next to King’s Gate on Percy Street. (and on this first photo you can see a sliver of the Great North Museum - also known as the Hancock Museum.)
The Claremont Buildings are opposite the Civic Centre and next to King’s Gate on Percy Street. (and on this first photo you can see a sliver of the Great North Museum - also known as the Hancock Museum.)
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Brilliant photos and somebody cleaned the copper - wonder if they used ‘Daddies’.
Claremont Buildings is one of the very few remaining “soot-stained” uncleaned buildings left, in the City Centre today!!
Most of the blackened buildings were cleaned to reveal the warm ‘Newcastle sandstone’, during the 1960s.
Coincidentally, one of the other (of the very few) uncleaned buildings is actually located virtually opposite this one - St Thomas’ Church, Haymarket.
While I prefer to see all the classical architecture revealed by a clean ‘Newcastle Sandstone’ building, there is something to be said for the “grand old blackness” of the early Twentieth Century in the City Centre!
I have some great photos of a very dark ‘Grey Street’ (for example) from those long-gone days.
Beautiful buildings!
Peter, I do remember a lot of the buildings being sandblasted as you say. You’re right; some of them (like St Thomas’) are better left.
You don’t realise how beutiful some of the buildings are in Newcastle, every time I look up you see something new.
Chris
Photography Courses Newcastle