“I start­ed tak­ing pho­tographs in my school days in the 1960s, as a means of record­ing my inter­est in rail­ways,” says Trevor Ermel, whose pho­tographs of New­cas­tle take us back to when the city was still syn­ony­mous with heavy industry.

pho­tographs of my home town tak­en in the 1970s most­ly. may or may not be inter­est­ing to you, but for any geordies out there d’un âge cer­tain they’ll bring back a flood of memories.

33 Pho­tographs of New­cas­tle in the 1970s — Flashbak