Councils demolish communitys as well as houses. When my Aunties house was demolished in Scotswood she was moved to Kenton and lost touch with neighbours she'd known for decades.🥺
My Nan was born down in the ouseburn in the 1930s, they had such a hard life, not much to their names but she told me it was the best times of her life 😊
At 15:13 I just spotted a Ford D series truck in the black/coffee livery.. going towards Byker that was "Star Remoulds" otherwise known as Durham Rubber, from Market Lane Chester-le-Street my dad could have been driving that ! On a drop at Kwik Fit Heaton Thanks for posting !
brilliant... i lived in the cradlewell back in the early 90s and was one of the first people to go mountain biking in the dene...i probably never helped when it came to corrosion where those trees were @ 6:11 and none of it was fenced off so used to cycle all over the place... :)
If old byker with its community, streets, shops, pubs and hotels had been modernised from INSIDE but leaving the actual buildings alone, old byker would be an absolute gem as far as history is concerned. But no- T Dan Smith etc chose to accept backhanders in return for the total destruction of byker heritage and wider areas too. So sad that a whole community of people who LIKED living there were ousted, and rehoused in awful modern byker wall type housing.
I only hope and pray that Newcastle Council members from that era who authorised the demolition and destruction of whole areas of the city will be tried and punished in Heaven and then sent where they belong.....................somewhere HOT!
My Grandfather was born in Jesmond Dene North Lodge in 1896 I believe as his farther was in service to Lord Armstrong. His last job before retiring was to return to the Dene and work in the Council's greenhouse nurseries. My uncle also worked for the Council within Jesmond Dene as did I from 1987 till 1988 upon where I was transferred to Heaton Park. MillHouse which is a cafe now was just an empty abandoned house, ground floor was used as a bait cabin by the then YTS. The wife and I still pop down to Jesmond Dene now and then as I feel the family conection to the area. Thanks for the upload.
jessa dene , the giants footsteps, the lions den, the devils canyon, for gotten the rest but it was 55 yrs ago when we would play there collecting conkers and back through the culley underground tunnel to grannies park r maybe the railway bridge rope swing
My partner is in his 50s and everything you said in your comment he’s mentioned about his childhood , I’m 12 year behind so didn’t experience the underground tunnels through to grannies park 😂
That’s my great aunty Bella the old lady in the coate and walking stick with the little dog the dog was called lucky old byker was great and the people the salt of the earth
What a brilliant little documentary. The area is still massivley changing as I type. Imagine what the next 10 years will bring! 2032 and we may not recognise that entire area once again.
We're these all over or just in the northeast, nd did people hear what he said with his wife about him getting alot of agro, so some people know what's going on 🤔🤔 what's going on 🤔maybe they were done to keep the silly geordies distracted and entertained while we rip there beautiful old city and surrounding areas down, that's what I got from the old man who mentioned old newcastle. And then at the end when he said at least his team was winning 🤔🤔
There was a massive demolition programme in the east end of Newcastle and the west end of Wallsend in the late seventies. Most of these houses and flats were worn out and few people would want to go back to outside toilets, tin baths and coal fires.
Thousands of 'tyneside flats' remain and have been modernised with bathrooms and central heating. Not everyone wants to live in them but they can be modernised.
Knew it well, lived at tynemouth road - remembered graccis ? bakers - dad lived on Elvet st. and he used to tell me stories about his childhood there - he went to North View school- happy memories
I hope the British people realize that the rest of the world views them as just lazy unkempt stupid people that live in filthy run down surrounding because of their laziness , no pride whatsoever in themselves , you would think at least somebody would get off their lazy arses and organize people to clean up the rubbish from the canals , so third world .
Canny little documentary as I lived round there growing up, from the Ship inn towards the Tyne it's changed a lot, full of little pubs, quayside got their luxury riverside flats, actually not a nice place at night as the new street lamps are so dull by the way, I know everyone in this vid, not really, but know all the places Am sure there was a pottery place and a lead mine, or lead-miners homes, but after a big rain fall and the river goes down, I often go down and find bits of pottery?
Thanks for this, I can’t wait to show my mother your video who was born in 1936 and lived on Ayton st and continued to live in and around Byker until her late teens. She often reminiscing about the old raby picture house. Thanks 😊
Aye the 70’s 😊 Pram wheels some planks of wood and a big bolt, the great times we had with our bogie. Simpler times offering simpler pleasures where everything and everyone were included. Not to mention the amount of recycling we did. Excellent video, thank you for the memories.
