Newcastle Town Moor from Race Hill overlooking the city
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Description
"The embankment to the right was part of the old race course curving round behind the camera position towards Grandstand Road - where the Grandstand was! The race course on the Town Moor took over the race meeting previously held at Blaydon - before the races were again moved to Gosforth Park. In this 1964 picture the lamp posts on the footpath across the Moor can just be seen. The Civic Centre has yet to be completed and many of the Newcastle University buildings of today are still to leave their drawing boards. Exhibition Park is at the edge of the Moor, the dome of buildings left from the North East Coast Exhibition of 1929 to one side, the tents of the Tyneside Flower Show to the other. The Town Moor is owned by the Freemen of Newcastle who may have rights to graze cows here. It's a wonderful area of calm very close to the city centre. That said, it's nothing like as calm as it was in 1964. The North West Radial route dual carriageway has carved a swathe off the north-western side in front of the trees in the distance, right hand side, including part of the park." Photo by Chris Morgan, 1964. -
Owner
Chris Morgan -
Source
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License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2840706
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 2 days, 12 hours ago
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Picture Taken: 1964-08-00 -
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