One of the things people most associate with Newcastle after its engineering and sometimes chilly climate is its pubs and nightlife. When I created my first pub tour here, as with London, it became obvious there were just too many interesting old pubs to fit into one tour.
In the U.K. Newcastle is often depicted in police or murder tv shows, even the funky High Level Bridge I wrote about a few days ago has been in modern detective dramas such as Vera.
Perhaps the most famous film set in Newcastle is not just the most famous British gangster film but undoubtedly one of the top films of all time. Get Carter.
Get Carter is about a London gangster who revisits the city of his childhood when his brother meets a sticky end. In his own indomitable style, Carter has run ins with and eliminates those he thinks were responsible for his death along with a few other ‘innocents’ along the way before its rather famous and for the first time viewer, shocking ending.
I decided to create another pub tour that visits many of the locations that are seen in the film which includes some of the pubs too and lots of history. Kill two birds with one stone, nice and efficient… Carter would appreciate it, especially the killing part.
The top takes us to 4 great old pubs in Newcastle and around the Quayside and through the maze of alleys and Chares near the castle that most people get to see unless of course they are being chased by gangsters, perhaps I should add that as an additional option!
Then we cross over the River Tyne across a certain bridge I wrote about a few days ago. It featured in Get Carter in a number of very different scenes.
We finish off in Gateshead, in the film most famous for that epic scene in the multi-storey carpark. Sadly for tourists, the car park is now no-more but perhaps my tourists might live a longer life for that being the case.
You can find more about the tour below:
Where does Get Carter rank in your favourite Michael Caine films? It’s a tough one as there are so many good ones. I particularly like Get Carter, Zulu, The Man Who Would Be King and also his recent film, One Voice about The British Schindler Sir Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransport
Stephen Liddell 
Great idea. One cannot go wrong with a pub tour, I suppose 🙂
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