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toonsarah Says: Behind the small modern shopping centre, on the east side of the High Street, is Gosforth Central Park, a pleasant green space where locals like to unwind, walk their dogs or take the children to run off steam. The park was developed in 1932 on land which had been...
toonsarah Says: The first records of settlement in Gosforth go back to the 12th century, although it is thought that there may have been a church here (in what is now South Gosforth) as far back as Saxon times. But most of modern Gosforth was first developed in Victorian times, and a walk...
toonsarah Says: This restaurant is situated in a former United Reform church, and the interior design makes great use of the space, with the large window above the entrance attractively framed by wine racks, and an imposing staircase leading to the upper gallery. We have eaten here several...
Rosie's: Great for coffee or lunch
toonsarah Says: Tucked away at the back of the unprepossessing shopping centre on Gosforth High Street is this lovely new coffee shop. Displays of tempting “home-made” cakes drew us inside, although we did manage to resist these and just have the coffee we had been promising ourselves! The...
toonsarah Says: These premises were previously home to an Indian restaurant and before that my husband's dentist, but in its current incarnation as an Italian restaurant it has become a firm favourite with our family. Its spacious and airy interior has been tastefully decorated (I...
toonsarah Says: A little to the north of Gosforth High Street, on the corner of the Great North Road and Hollywood Avenue, is a large branch of Asda. This was built on the site of a former greyhound track demolished in the 1980s. I remember my father-in-law being rather annoyed by this...
Thorpes: Good old-fashioned service
toonsarah Says: One of the nicest features of Gosforth High Street is the number of traditional family business shops here, still surviving among all the ubiquitous chains, and of these none is more idiosyncratic, charming and downright useful as Thorpes the ironmongers. As the local...
toonsarah Says: A parade of shops on the west side of the High Street are housed in the former tram sheds, and you can still see the sign that showed that the trams were operated by the local council, Newcastle Corporation. Originally the buildings would have been stables, as the early...
toonsarah Says: The Chinese restaurant which dominates the start of Salters Road (and which we have never visited) was once the Globe Electric Theatre, was Gosforth’s first cinema, which opened in 1910. It closed in 1961 and became a bingo hall, which itself closed in 1990. For a while the...
toonsarah Says: Until recently there were three “free” churches within a few yards of each other on the High Street, but today only one of these still operates as a church. This is now known as Trinity Church (photo 2), as it brought together the congregations of all three to worship under...
toonsarah Says: A pub in St Nicholas Road, the Job Bulman (in the former Post Office), acts as a reminder of an earlier name of this part of Gosforth, Bulman Village.Early in the 19th century most of the land in this area belonged to two estates. Job Bulman owned the Coxlodge Hall Estate,...
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These premises were previously home to an Indian restaurant and before that my husband's dentist, but in its current incarnation as an Italian restaurant it has...
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My mother in law lived in this pleasant Newcastle suburb, just three miles north of the city, and it has become almost a second home to me. It has a busy High Street with a good mix of chain and...
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