manorpark

I think we will stay in the Premier League.

Prior to its 1976 re-location into the Eldon Square Shopping Centre, Bainbridge Department Store was located in Market Street. Bainbridge ("Bainbridges" as most people called it) had actually been taken over by John Lewis in 1953, and had traded as "Bainbridge a branch of the John Lewis Partnership" from that date onward. Bainbridge Department Store of Newcastle was also the VERY FIRST actual Department Store in the world - https://www.skyscrapercity.com/posts/46413021/

Bainbridge Department Store . . .

Pre-construction poster . . .

Eldon Garden was a very different animal, a poor design and a deserved failure. The Eldon Square Shopping Centre will expand/contract/change/develop (etc) over future years as requirements change. A 'monstrosity' it is not, though it is quite fashionable to say that it is.

Opened 4th March 1976 and saved our City Centre.

The marvellous Eldon Square Shopping Centre has nothing to do with T Dan Smith. Neither has most of the other stuff you mention.

The "Newcastle Skyscraper City Forum" (despite the title) is not really about skyscrapers. It is about general urban life, developments and architecture. https://www.skyscrapercity.com/forums/newcastle-metro-area.2258/

In my role as manager of Skyscraper City I (and many others) encourage and admire beautiful architecture, old and new!

More generalisations that are not necessarily true. Also, we are actually talking about architectural appearance of ONE particular football stadium.

Lots do, I would have thought a lot more than don't !!

Rubbish. Also, if you knew me you would never say generalised inaccuracies like that !

It looks better in the daylight, the photo I posted is the only one I have, and VERY spectacular it is too !! I'm sure plenty of group members on here will have a daylight photo for you.

I have always thought that the current SJP is a spectacular looking place and therefore very pleasing on the eye . . .

One of the most awful NUFC photos of all time, taken from the top of Grey's Monument in 2011. Sorry for the nightmares . . .

There will be a time, a place, and an issue, that will see our owners become more identifiably involved in the final 'sorting out' of the Premier League and their corrupt cartel. It may still be quite some time off, or it may not be, but at a time of their choosing they will sort them out for good. I am certain of it.

Exactly right, unfortunately. The two things are linked, and I think that BOTH will happen, very strongly. WHEN, is the question though!

Personally, I think the 'fear factor' of him walking into that room would be GREAT, and far overrides any of those concerns. Others may not agree, I'm used to that!

Our Chairman is here in the UK today, do you think he should stay on to attend the Premier League Meeting on Thursday? https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/prime-minister-sends-pivotal-message-30138772?

Newcastle is a place. Our football club is called Newcastle United. Who do these people think they are - SKY Sports??

Why? It's still in Newcastle, the Kingston Park area of North Newcastle is only about four miles from the City Centre, and it is on the Metro. City Centre is best of course, but North Newcastle is very good, just for a couple of years!

My point is (as I'm sure you know) that people always seem to pick 'recent people' for their choice of statues for St James' park, when we have had a very long history as a club and each era (out of the many eras) will have had equally famous and outstanding heroes who could/should be considered for statues. For a simple example (one amongst thousands that could have been picked) here is one Newcastle United team from 1948, and in that one randomly picked team there are at least a couple of names that could be chosen, so how many hundreds of other are there?

All modern-day people. I'm sure we will have had many equivalents (or better) over all the years before these four.

Yes, it will be very different for us. There is no FFP/PSR in the women's game, so it will be a bit like what it would have been for us in the men's game, without all the restrictions.

The new East Stand, opened in 1972/1973 . . .