The Tube - at the Discovery Museum

I've ran along City Road many times over recent years and have seen the gradual demolition of the Tyne Tees TV studios and Egypt Cottage pub next door, but I have never stopped to take a photo.  So it was with a little regret that I ran passed last week to see most of it gone and a shiny new apartment block has been built on part of the site.  It did get me thinking about the Channel 4 music show Tube TV show from the 1980s as I was trying to work out where the covered entrance would have been (the tube-shaped perspex awning which gave the TV show its name.




Coincidentally, a new exhibition about show The Tube has opened at the Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle and runs until 31 March 2016. The Tube was produced by Tyne Tees Television for Channel 4 and ran for five series, from 5 November 1982 to 26 April 1987.

On display at the Discovery museum is a small cabinet containing memorabilia from the show, a 8-minute video presentation, and the famous neon light Tube logo.  It is a small exhibition, but I found it interesting and it is free to get in the Discovery Museum.

LS Lowry Sailor's Bethel Newcastle

A new exhibition of paintings by Manchester artist LS Lowry will beheld at the Tate Britain, London, from 26th June 2013 to 20th October 2013.  I'm not sure if this picture is included, but it was one of the paintings that Lowry painted when visiting the North East. 

This picture of an old chapel is the Sailor's Bethel in Newcastle which is located on Horatio Street, just off City Road directly opposite Hotel Du Vin. Its one of my favourite Lowry paintings, probably because the building still exists and I run past it very frequently, as it lies on one of my usual Quayside-Ouseburn- Byker running routes.

Below, is how it looks today.