(31 Jul 2015, 1:16 pm)R852 PRG wrote I see quite a bit of Tyne and Wear PTE-liveried double deckers cropping up. One of my favourite things from that page is of the RMS Mauritania, when it was sailing down the Tyne having been built there. Not many people will know this, but the River Tyne was the birthplace of some of the most iconic ships of the 19th century. I'm sure Cunard built the Lusitania and Aquitania elsewhere, think it was by a company with the name John in it, in Scotland somewhere. Quite fond of ships as well as buses and trains.My twitter isn't the best in the world - but dear me!
(31 Jul 2015, 1:26 pm)MurdnunoC wrote I can't remember Gateshead Interchange ever looking like that, which is strange as I definitely recall being dragged around Sheppards with my mother and blagging her (and my aunt) to buy me He-Man figures. This would have probably been around the same time.
On another note, I imagine it would have been nice sitting on the grass and waiting for your bus to come on a hot summers day in Gateshead. Then again, perhaps not...
What was Shepherds, was knocked down (and turned into the Tesco car park) around the same period as the Interchange Centre shops were built. If not the same time, definitely a year or two before the 80's were out.