Who remembers the Tanker crash on Newcastle Road in 1992?

[Deleted member 27677]

Was in a my pigeon loft when I seen the smoke,thowt another loft was a bleeze at the back of the Albion so I ran up to see the crack .
Just kept on running and following the smoke until I was Newcastle rd.

I remember still,the intensity of the heat as I ran round the corner and faced the inferno.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

Possibly.

Always thowt that was a Vauxies pub.

 

[Deleted User 2893]

It's amazing how people change. I was no angel either as a young lad.




I would have been gutted if my trainers were incinerated. Canny few cars went up in flames when looking at that footage.

I was an angel, I obviously lied in order to impress the older boys and appear cool

 

[Cheesy Feet]

I was working at Amec Offshore on the Tyne and could see the smoke from the top of one of the oil rigs,i live just off Newcastle Road and that night they had all the burnt out cars lined up up and numbered along the road,you'd think it was the aftermath of a stock car race.

 

[Falconhoof]

What pub is it then?

Colliery Tavern?

 

[JAZZMANB]

I was on holiday which was common ,Alan wicker was home more than me

 

[Wearside Wanderer II]

Worked with a lass who had went to the baths swimming and left her dog in the car which caught fire, poor dog died.

 

[Typhoonftm]

I dinnit remember it. Thered have been a few deed firemen if it went up proper. They didnt look that far away!

 

[stmoo]

I was in the swimming baths when it went up. Got evacuated in me speedos.

 

[Typhoonftm]

Oh, and Pam was a right Wad!

 

[Blythmakam]

Fuck me that was a reet inferno, lucky no one was killed.

At 4.40 is that councillor getting interviewed outside the Museam Vaults?

Remember it well mate , was working out of Newcastle rd depot at the time for the PWD !!

 

[tunstall birdman]

Remember it well mate , was working out of Newcastle rd depot at the time for the PWD !!

Must have been like looking a war zone by the look of the carnage.

I was in the swimming baths when it went up. Got evacuated in me speedos.

 

[Venkman]

Aye, I was 6/7 and at the park at Lakeside and could see it all the way from there.

 

[Beaverbrooke]

Worked in the old school yard at the wheatsheaf, didn't hear a thing, knew nowt til going home, everyone else went out to neb, nosey gits.

 

[RestlessNatives]

Colliery Tavern?

I was thinking the Albion at Dame Dot.

 

[Gravyb0y]

Was on the number 7 bus next to the grange when it exploded. Felt like the bus got pushed back. Me Mam (no!) Ended up sacking off her shopping trip and we walked back home.

 

[RichD]

Seems like a lang time ago that

 

[riffraff]

Anyone remember the fire engine turning over at the corner of the at the corner between The Greens and The Empire in the early 90s? Early sunday neeet iirc?

 

[Maxnormal]

I can remember seeing smoke all the way from high Barnes. Just thought it was the heathen north siders worshipping their fire god again. Either that or burning a south side missionary.

 

[Longy]

I'll have been 8. Think I was on Sea Road with me Nanna & remember looking up at the smoke. Me Nanna lives on Newcastle Road just up from the baths & when me dad came to to pick me up after work we walked passed to have a look & see what was left. It'd all finished by then like.