How our world changed after the millennium

FOR many of us, it will seem barely conceivable that 25 years have passed since the dawning of the year 2000. Was it really that long ago? It was a year which was the gateway to a new century, a new millennium, and a new age.

- By DAVID MORTON

Ant & Dec open their new bar, The Lodge, on Mosley Street, Newcastle, February 2003

Our 10 photographs from the Chronicle archive - one image for each year - recall some of what was going on in Newcastle between 2000 and 2009.

The arrival of the new millennium was marked by a giant fireworks display on Newcastle Quayside, watched by tens of thousands who flocked there to celebrate.

Elsewhere, from 2001, we see folk crossing the newly-opened Gateshead Millennium Bridge, which linked Gateshead to Newcastle on the other side of the River Tyne.