Multistorey Car Park

Apart from the recent additions of the Angel of the North and the Millennium Bridge, Gateshead's best known building is its concrete 1960's multistorey car park - which had a starring role in the 1971 Michael Caine film "Get Carter". For a number of years it has been little used, the top floors have been blocked off and the building has been allowed to deteriorate. It had been announced that it would be demolished in 2001 (along with the indoor market) to make way for a new shopping centre, though it now looks as if the demolition will be somewhat later.

Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 1 Photos taken August 2000	Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 2	Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 3
Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 4	Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 5	Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 6
Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 7	Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 8	Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 9
Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 10	Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 11 Photographed 29th December 2000	Gateshead Multistorey Car Park 12 Photographed 13th September 2002
Indoor Market Entrance Gateshead indoor market is sited directly beneath the Multistorey Car Park, this is the ground floor entrance to the east of the building. Photographed 29th December 2000	Indoor Market From Above The roof of the indoor market complex viewed from the Multistorey Car Park. Photographed 13th September 2002	The Restaurant The large room on top of the Multistorey Car Park was originally supposed to become a restaurant, and it was with this proposed function that it was used in the film "Get Carter", but it never opened and remains unused and derelict. Photographed 13th September 2002
The Restaurant	The Restaurant	The Restaurant
Inside The Restaurant Photographed on 13th September 2002 during the Heritage Open Days, one of the few occasions on which the top of the Multistorey Car Park has been open to the public in recent years.	Inside The Restaurant	Inside The Restaurant
Inside The Restaurant	Inside The Restaurant	Inside The Restaurant Showing the superb view which diners would have seen had the restaurant ever opened

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