"Eric's Cafe"
The painting below by John is of a fish & chip shop in Blaydon that was demolished, along with most of the rest of the area, in the early 1970s. Thanks to the Lemington Facebook Past & Present Group & the Winlaton History Society we now have photos of Eric’s Cafe. It had been part of a terrace of shops (hence the joist sticking out from one side) near the Blaydon railway crossing on Tyne Street & Robinson Street. Apparently the cafe was the last building in the street to be demolished. One photo shows a still from the film of The Likely Lads in which Terry & Bob visit a demolition site where their favourite pub used to stand. Another photo is a lovely one of the women who used to work there. John’s painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2009.
