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• At 2009.09.18 03:51, Bob B. said:
  

  As a picture I like it a lot. It looks as though some gigantic egg is about to be sliced! However, it would be hard to interpret without the telltale “Gateshead Millenium Bridge” sign in the middle of the picture. Not having actually been there for a while, where exactly are those words inscribed?

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• At 2009.09.18 07:14, Beth said:
  

  Thanks Bob! This is taken from the Gateshead side of the bridge. There’s one of those glass structures on either side - I guess they are where the motors are that powers it? They are just over the water, and you walk alongside them to get onto the bridge. Does that help?

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• At 2009.09.18 10:28, Daniel said:
  

  How could I not like it when it’s ben posted just for me? Thanks, luv! ;-)

  It is a nice picture indeed and would make for a good-selling postcard for sure. (The egg-slicer analogy takes it to another level!)

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• At 2009.09.18 10:36, Dave said:
  

  Excellent! Love the egg-slicer analogy, so I should say ‘egg-cellent’! (Sorry!)

  Beth that is a great shot; the angle, the sky, the signage…

  …and isn’t that the posh ‘Malmaison’ in the background?

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• At 2009.09.18 19:17, mrs K said:
  

  Nah Dave, its the old co-op warehouse with a make-over like on the telly.

  Egg cellent picture (pinched that from comment by Dave, but don’t like egg slicer - prefer blinking bridge with its double entendre.

  Folks in Newcastle would not buy this postcard - Gateshead too prominent for them.

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• At 2009.09.18 19:29, Dave said:
  

  I’d buy the postcard!

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• At 2009.09.18 23:28, Peter said:
  

  They had to put the word “Gateshead” into the name of the bridge, otherwise people would always just call it “The Millenium Bridge, in Newcastle” . . . NOW they just call it “The Gateshead Millenium Bridge, in Newcastle”.

  I’m afraid that you will never get away from the simple fact that, to most people from the rest of the UK and the world, Gateshead is IN Newcastle. It has always been like that and always will be like that - but (in my view) ‘all credit’ to Gateshead for trying to establish its own identity outside of Greater Newcastle!

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• At 2009.09.19 19:09, Dave said:
  

  Mrs K,

  I’d assumed you were joking, but do you REALLY think there are negative feelings towards Gateshead from Newcastle? I can’t honestly say I’ve noticed it.

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• At 2009.09.20 14:39, mrs K said:
  

  Nah Dave, I was joking.

  Peter, who are ‘They’ ? Gateshead started the development of the Quayside and Newcastle then had to follow suit. Could not let Newcastle People down - could they. They being Newcastle City Council.

  Peter, facts are never simple - the International Athletics Stadium put Gateshead on the map. Before that, until the bridge was built - well lets not go all the history. Lets just one cannot exist without t’other.

  Its all boring - bit like footie supporters. Me, I follow both teams and promote the North East Region like mad and just look how big it all is. Teeside, Durham, Northumberland and its all wonderful and the people are great. Diehard Geordie, born within spitting distance on the Tyne from the backyard but on the Southside of the River.

  mrs K

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• At 2009.09.20 21:21, Beth said:
  

  Mrs K - if only more people were like you!

  Daniel, glad you like your pic :)

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• At 2009.09.21 17:25, Peter said:
  

  Only describing it as it is. Newcastle and Gateshead are stronger together than they are independently, and I LOVE both places.

  Simply reporting it how it is to most people I have ever met from around the UK, over the last 30 years or so!!

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• At 2009.09.21 17:32, Peter said:
  

  PS - one added thing Mrs K, you write - “Gateshead started the development of the Quayside and Newcastle then had to follow suit”, which is quite odd. Newcastle has had a developed Quayside for hundreds of years, the “Gateshead Quays” developments are only VERY recent.

  Even if you just include recent times (say, the last 20 years or so) the Newcastle Quayside has been developed with millions of pounds ever since the Urban Development Corporation started the East Quayside project (Custon House to Spillers WharfI in the 80s. Plus, West Quayside (Tyne Bridge to 40 Bond) has had a lot happening also.

  No, nothing wrong with Gateshead, but it’s Quays have only just started to be developed in the last few (very few) years!!

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• At 2009.09.21 20:42, Beth said:
  

  Peter - yes, the Quayside has been there for a very long time, but it had got very run down hadn’t it? I think it’s less than 20 years ago that they started regenerating the whole area. Which I see now that you’ve mentioned. But I do think that was Mrs K’s point; not that the Quays weren’t there in the first place, but that they are much more now than they have been for years - if ever.

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• At 2009.09.21 21:06, Peter said:
  

  The important thing is that down on the Quayside (incorporating both sides) we now have a level of aesthetic and architectural “completeness” that has produced one of the best townscape views in the country, if not the world.

  It is great!!

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• At 2009.09.21 22:31, Beth said:
  

  And yes. noone is going to argue with that. you’re right :) i love newcastle’s quayside as well as the gateshead quays :)

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