Our main image takes us back 50 years to January 1972, and provides a fine, unimpaired view up the River Tyne from Felling towards Gateshead and Newcastle.
It was a time when the river, as it flowed through industrial Tyneside, was still a hive of activity, its sides lined with shipyards, ship repair yards, factories, coal staiths, power stations - and flour mills.
One of those was Gateshead's Baltic Flour Mill which closed in 1981, reopening in 2002 after a £35m redevelopment as the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
