The eastern end of Newcastle's Percy Street has seen much transformation over the last three or four decades.
A new Metro station was opened to the public in 1980, while Haymarket bus station was knocked down, and a larger version rebuilt in the mid 1990s.
The last picture show at the ABC cinema took place in 1984, a year before the building was demolished.
The Farmer's Rest, a long-time favourite Newcastle drinking hole, was knocked down in 1995 to make way for the expansion of Marks and Spencer.
And then there was the venerable Haymarket pub.
For those who remember it and enjoy that type of thing, going for a pint was like stepping back in time.
The building dated back to the 18th century, and was converted into a pub in 1833 - four years before Queen Victoria came to the throne.
It was as characterful a pub as you could imagine, a Geordie survivor as the decades rolled past, but then - not for the first or last time - 'progress' intervened to obliterate a historic Newcastle building.
In January 1987, the Chronicle reported how there was fury at plans by Newcastle University to bulldoze the Haymarket and a number of other Percy Street premises to build an 80-vehicle car park.
The area would be landscaped with mature trees, shrubs and ornamental railings, behind which would be an access road and car park.
One customer said: "The Haymarket is one of the last original but basic drinking establishments in Newcastle.
"I'm very upset and very angry. Percy Street before Eldon Square was architecturally interesting. Handyside Arcade is coming down - and now this. It's a tragedy."
Protesters even formed the Haymarket Heritage Campaign to try and save the pub.
Sadly Newcastle University (which perhaps should have known better) was unrepentant. A spokesman said: "The car park is needed by the university. We have a serious parking problem."
Despite impassioned and widespread opposition, in March 1987 and after 154 years, the Haymarket called last orders for the final time.
Drinkers turned out in Victorian funeral garb to pay their respects on the pub’s last day.
But, we reported, maybe the pub would live on in spirit as regulars planned to save much of the internal Victorian barwork and re-fit it into the Cumberland Arms in Byker.
When the dust finally settled, however, the Haymarket was gone - it was yet another historical and cultural loss for the city of Newcastle.
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