My Main aim for the channel is to let people know about the local history of the North East of England. I also do videos of things I like around the Rest of the Country. Nature and Wildlife is also a big love of mine. My videos are just simple I leave doing Hollywood Blockbusters to other You Tubers.
I remember this bad winter I was about 5yrs old at the ,best fun ever no school plenty of play time until it got to cold ,I lived in st Agnes Cornwall at that time with mum and dad . I makes me laugh when people say look at all this snow ,what that's not snow I'd say laughing ! But ye in was hard and I don't think the youth of today could handle it ,on top of that we didn't have double glazed windows or radiators in our house either we huddled mainly in the kitchen ,in the mornings I would scratch pictures in the ice that had formed on the inside of the window .I'd say to mum it feels colder today and she would have you got your vest on ? Or put on another jumper ! I remember the snowball fights we had walking home from school when we did get back in classroom .hard times people today don't realise that with all their mod cons mobile phones , games consoles didn't have a TV until about 1965 black n white it was only 3 channels then if I remember BBC 1 BBC 2 and westward
This was well over half a century back. Climate has been changing since the dawn of time and will continue to do so - Meanwhile, the rent assist billionaires keep collecting government handouts to come up with all forms of failed attempts to alter the climate of the world, with ever-so-minuscule to no effects. Schools did not close, and everyone forged forward together.
A cracking band Colin, still listen to them today, Martin knocked about with a lad in my brothers class at St Bede's in Lanchester and got to know him, this was before the band of course, so that's my tenuous link to Prefab Sprout...🤣
I remember back '66 going from the Tyne to Oslo, Norway on the Fred Olsen line with a Gateshead boys grammar school skiing trip. Thanks for posting the videos.
Thats a beautiful Shire horse. And that tavern is how i remember the old days. The fiddlers were an early form of a jukebox. Both of you love going to Beamish. Wish we had something similar. Love to you both.
If ever a local council actually did its job its the refurb of Spanish City and the closure of the puke pits that served stag nights or hen parties in Whitley bay - congratulations.
That arcade was part of my teenage best years on a Saturday with me friends . The memories make me feel a deep loss for my past ,and for our lost city ,that has long gone ,and doesn't even look like our town anymore. And needles to say hardly a northern face around now 😢😢😢😢
I played there at weekends as a kid in the woods near Ingersoll rand then worked my apprenticeship at Rose Forgrove . Even learned to drive and passed my test there
If you walk past the church there is a turning take the road past the church yard through a new gate carry on through the other new gate an you will join the track. Improvement work on the track next couple of months
Keep them coming...a feq houses closest to the the british oxygen company only 4? One was Afflect, another Johnson or other spelling...a younger mate was george johnstone...born circa 1952
I go for triple heart bypass surgery in 4 days, so I apologise for wrong reply to explicit video...I saw your video about the Station Hotel and Birtley railway station at the end of station lane just before the hill up to Ouston. When I was in Mrs Green's class one below Mr English's class me and my mates would go down to the sidings north of the Station...climb into the wagons and found wondrous shiny stainless steel disc's a treasure trove...we traded them at George st school....bad lads, soon to be on dragons den or jail....
Next door was police station, my dad gave the Sargent he'll for frightening me fie climbing ower the wall between birtley baths and Apollo cinema short cut over Birtley welfare Footy team
Such a lovely video, Colin. So many memories, so many fun times. Especially enjoyed the Louis Grimshaw ' Grainger St'- one of my favourite paintings! Hope you and Carole are well. Thanks for the post
The video evokes memories of times gone by. We've all lived through changes no matter where we come from. Some good, some bad.Superb pictures Colin and Carole. Love to you both.
@POLITICAL-BIAS. - the medical innovations, political movements, the fashion, literature, and poetry, art and music. I would have to be wealthy, tho'! What draws you to 1840?
I commuted 30 miles each way on a naked motorbike. On a few days I had to take the ttrain instead. Rest of the time, I wore so many layers that I could hardly bend my arms. Still turned up shivering close to hypothermia! That persuaded me to find another job closer to home. Had I remained, I would have been made redundant 18 months later when the sizable 100+ year-old company went under. I would have ended up doing something entirely different. Fair to say that the weather changed the course of my life.
Interesting to see a couple of photos of Church Chare. My late mother was born and raised there, she told me that if she opened her front door she was looking straight over the road at the front door of St Mary & St Cuthbert's church, where her father was verger for a time. Any more photos of that area? Let's see them. Sadly, it's clear that if you take the market out of a market town the result is closed businesses and boarded shops.
