BY MARK GREEN

Last updated 11:40, Thursday, 24 April 2008

You may like to join me this weekend, standing in a queue at the top of a windy, pitilessly ugly car park in Newcastle.

There’ll be quite a few of us there and we’ll all do the same thing: gaze out at the view of the mighty city of the north and come out with a few well-chosen words.

Some will have been rehearsed. Some show-offs will probably make some kind of gesture at the same time.

The reason is to mark the demise of a landmark – the car park in the cult Brit gangster film Get Carter.

Trinity Square in Gateshead is being bulldozed to make way for a superstore, apartments and cinema.

Predictably, the site is owned by Tesco.

In the classic and classy 1971 film, Jack Carter, played by Michael Caine, kills the gangster, Cliff Brumby, played by the late Bryan Mosley (Coronation Street’s Alf Roberts) by throwing him off the building.

There was a move by a conservation group to protect what it called Britain’s most ‘culturally significant’ multi-storey car park.

Which is putting its importance a bit too strongly for me.

While it is sad that it is going, I can understand why local residents are glad to see the back of it – it is Gateshead’s version of our own Civic Centre.

But on Saturday and Sunday, the top level, which has been closed for several years, will reopen to the public one last heart-stopping, teary-eyed, lump-in-throat time.

It’s a long march up, especially for those of us who were a bit slimmer, fitter and hairier when we were first gobsmacked by the film.

Chances are, when we get to the spot at the top of the concrete monster, we’ll all say the same thing.

It could be: “I know you didn’t kill him. I know!” or “You’re a big bloke, but you’re out of shape, and I do this sort of thing for a living.

“Now behave yourself.”