We step back albeit briefly to the Newcastle city centre of 1970 in our latest video offering, courtesy of the North East Film Archive.
The two-and-a-half minute clip is an extract from a longer piece called Northumberland: A New Life, a promotional film made for Northumberland County Council encouraging people to move to the county, and charting the experiences of three families who had recently relocated there.
In our Newcastle extract, we see the main shopping thoroughfare Northumberland Street as it was 50 years ago, decades before pedestrianisation, and still the main North-South route for traffic rumbling through the city. Cultural venues such as the Theatre Royal and City Hall come into view, before the film turns its attention to the city's renowned nightlife.
