It was just another day in Newcastle's West End 50 years ago.
When our photograph was taken in May 1972, the multi-storey flats at Cruddas Park, Elswick, were around a decade old. In the half a century since then, they have become a familiar staple of the city skyline.
Not long after our image was captured, the flats became known nationally when they appeared on the title sequences of the smash-hit 1973 BBC sitcom Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? The sequence was intended to show Newcastle in transition, the show's co-writer Whitley Bay-born Ian La Frenais later pointed out. In 1996, the flats gained further TV 'fame' when they appeared in Peter Flannery's epic BBC series Our Friends In The North.
