March 10, 2010 Haymarket Metro

The revamped Haymarket Metro Station which is really looking very swanky. It looks like a huge Bullseye !

Haymarket is Tyne and Wear Metro’s deepest underground station, and the second busiest on the 48-mile network, with more than six million passengers a year. After nearly 30 years’ use, the station has been refurbished below ground and the original circular surface building of 1980 has been replaced by an eye-catching four storey steel and glass building which provides better facilities for passengers and creates additional retail, leisure and office space on its upper floors. The two-year, £20 million redevelopment is the first stage in Metro’s £300 million modernisation programme led by Nexus, which owns and manages the entire system.

February 12, 2010 Haymarket Panorama

This is a view of the Haymarket area of Newcastle with lots to see from the left the white building is the Civic Centre which was opened in 1968 by King Olaf of Norway. The church is St Thomas the matyr which can be traced back to 1170 when one of the murderers of Thomas a Beckett (Hugh de Morvillle) dedicated the original church. The current church was designed by John Dobson and opened in 1830.

The winged statue is the Boer War memorial and the statue represents Victory and has been there since 1908.

Finally the glass fronted dome is the new Haymarket metro Station which has undergone an excellent revamp in the last 2 years and is part of the Tyne & Wear metro system.