Then and now - it was a likely TV location
YOU might recognise our main image.
It’s a still from the title sequence to the classic BBC 1 sitcom Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads.
We reported last week how it was 45 years since the series first appeared on our TV screens.
Starring Rodney Bewes and James Bolam as old pals Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, the show charted their awkward passage through the rapidly changing world of the 1970s.
Set on Tyneside, it became an instant favourite, although the two actors fell out more than 40 years ago and never spoke again.
Rodney Bewes died last November, a week before his 80th birthday.
The theme’s memorable theme tune, written by Ian La Frenais and Mike Hugg, was accompanied by film footage capturing different areas in early 1970s Newcastle.
This particular location, for anybody who ever wondered, was down at the Ouseburn, which flows into the River Tyne in Newcastle’s East End.
The two then-and-now images show how the area has been rejuvenated over the last four and a half decades.