Laszlo Torday - Photographs of Newcastle

Laszlo Torday (originally Tordai), who emigrated from Hungary to Tynemouth in 1940, was a chemical engineer and industrialist who took thousands of photographs of the centre of Newcastle and the suburbs of High Heaton,  Heaton, Byker and Jesmond in the 1960s and 1970s. His images have been bought and digitised by Newcastle City Libraries and are avilable here: www.flickr.com/newcastlelibraries

He is the father, I believe, of Paul Torday, the late novelist known particularly for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.


Bigg Market and old town hall. Remember the zoo?


High Bridge, 1970


The Side


Northumberland Street


High Friar Street


Blackett Street


Nelson Street


Haymarket


Northumberland Street


Fenwick's, Blackett Street


Swing Bridge


High Bridge


Grey Street/High Bridge


Grainger Marker


Handyside Arcade


Grainger Market


Bigg Market


Groat Market