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The Tyne Bridge and Quayside in 1965 - see how the location looks today; The Tyne Bridge remains unchanged, but industry and shipping dominated the Quayside in 1965.

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Byline: David Morton

Another photograph from the Chronicle archive that hasn't been seen for many a year...

It is 1965.The Tyne Bridgeis unchanged, but both banks of the river are busy with industry and shipping.

Where today the Quayside is a leisure and cultural magnet, it was a gritty and functional location then.

The buildings on the left where restaurants and pubs operate in 2018, then provided offices for shipping and trade.

The riverside factories on theGatesheadside of the Tyne are gone.The Sage Gatesheadopened in 2004 in the midst of where they once stood.

For those who haven't visited, The Sage is a brilliant music centre which welcomes daily visitors, as well as those who turn up to watch concerts or make their own music in one of the many public workshops.

A little further downriver, the Baltic flour mill was still hard at work in 1965.

It had been built for Joseph Rank Limited.

Construction work began on the factory in the late 1930s, was discontinued during the war, before the flour mill was finally opened in 1950.

It was, in fact, a dual-purpose factory for the production of flour and animal feed.

Hundreds of people were employed there until it shut its doors in November, 1982.

Rocking all over the Toon - rare 1980s images from Newcastle City Hall and Mayfair

The Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art opened 20 years later, along with the The Sage becoming the hub of a regenerated Gateshead Quays.

The ship berthed under the bridge, by the way, is the minesweeper HMS Northumbria, which was operational between 1960...

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