WE touch down in Bensham, Gateshead, with two striking pictures of the same location taken 37 years apart. In our older image a sad-looking John’s Ale Stores on Derwentwater Road is closed down ...

Our older image is a picture postcard, dating from around 1910, and marked as 'Catholic Church, Bensham Road, Gateshead'. More precisely, the place of worship on High West Street is St Joseph's ...

Demolition work had only just got under way days before The demolition of homes in part of Gateshead ... a court order just days after work began. Seven years ago hundreds of people in Bensham ...