Apart from the fact that I don't know anyone on TV any more, (well, apart from the Coronation Street cast, that never seems to change), when I left London -
- Charing Cross Station was old and decrepit
- the Docklands was just being developed
- there was no London Eye
- I could still afford to travel on the Tube
- the Eurostar didn't exist
- message bikes were the only way to get documents to another office in a hurry
- the railway system was called British Rail
When I left Tyneside, ten years prior to that, -
- the Quayside still resembled something out of a Dickens novel
- the MetroCentre hadn't been built
- the Metro transport system wasn't around
- there was no ring road, so the A1 went straight through the middle of the city
- Whitley Bay wasn't quite the neglected dump it is now
- Northumbria University was The Poly, and nowhere near as fancy as it is now
- Newcastle University, on the other hand, was due for a major revamp even then
- there were only 5 bridges over the Tyne
Wow. Just wow!
