A compilation of video clips of Fenham and surrounds from the early to mid1980s. Includes:- Fenham Hall Drive, Cedar Road, Hadrian Road, Bolbec Road, Newminster Road, Two Ball Lonnen, West Road.
And you have to ask yourself why. The answer is that those times were thoroughly depressing with huge amounts of unemployment. Few people could afford a car.
I just love watching this all my memories of back then ,I miss those days ,its changed for the worst, people not the same now, enough said wish we could bring good old days back ,good memories.
Filmed from two different cars, one of them is a Volvo 345 & he mentions it at the end of the video, the Volvo has windscreen wipers for a left hand drive car, obviously it was too expensive to alter them for a better right hand drive build. Halfway through the video the cars windscreen wipers are in the more usual right hand drive configuration & the later it swaps back to the Volvo 345.
Just found this and thank you so much. As you drive up the West road at the beginning past the Denton, I know it’s a Sunday morning because my White Triumph Stag WLX135S, is beside my Father in Laws Volvo 265 GLE estate outside our baker Williams Pies next door to the Fox and Hounds.
Eye !!we used to get pennies a ride fella on a Sunday morning , if yi had a penny you could get a short journey down the road ,on his little poney and track oh happy childhood 😢😊
Fantastic memories! I lived (when I was a student) at St Mary's College on Fenham Hall Drive in the early 1980's.. Fond memories also of Arnold Ogilvies Fish & Chip shop. We used to to call in occasionally after a night out for 'chip flavoured grease!' :-)
This just appeared on my suggested videos thingy in August 2021. I got really excited when you drove past the Alfa Romeo Alfetta at 2:31 because it was the same colour as my dad's 1978 GTV. Plus... I used to live in Fenham in the 1990s. :)
Fantastic videos! It's like going back in time, fascinating seeing Fenham back in the 80s. I lived just off Fenham Hall Drive then on Two Ball Lonnen (was hoping you would drive past my house, but not quite lol) Thanks for sharing!!
Great to see two ball lonnen kenton bar Cowgate etc its changed so much since then loved the 80s growing up around there going to school at English martyrs school and then St Cuthbert high school with the famous Declan Donnelly in my year happy days.
I lost my bearings at times but I recognised Kenton Bar - I went to Kenton School . Lovely to see the yellow bused .I remember the 12, 32 & the 2 to Montague Est
Eee I lived in the Nurses home on west road in the 80’s as worked at the General hospital , Happy Memories So safe ! Wouldn’t even walk down there now ! So Dangerous !
The nurses home was used to house nurses, there was even a tunnel connecting the home to the General however the nurse home was later used as immigrant housing, so sad
According to some people watching vid ,they saying it was an awfull place and violent, they must be wearing blinkers today, cos it is bad today ,it was bad back then but not as bad as today. Horrid today
Eye it's like going to the fun fair now ,when your on the roads it's either dodgem cars or the wall of fear, with all bloody speed bump just wondering how long it will be before they put speed bumps the council on motor ways ,using OUR COUNCIL TAX !!
Fabulous time capsule film , I recognise many of those streets and buildings . Love these type of uploads a real living history . Thanks for the effort of uploading this many more people than have commented or given the thumbs up have enjoyed it I'm sure of that .
0:29 oh, a Lada Estate! 1:23 oh, another Lada! 1:32 oh, and a Lada again! 6:41 Lada detected 7:14 yeah, that's a Lada 8:24 it's a Lada, don't turn away! 8:36 two Ladas in one spot! 11:07 Lada or not?I guess it is
I used to go to Lumley ,the dentist . A big house on the corner of 2 Ball Lonnen & the West Road. Mam used to cut her hand on the door knocker every time It was turned into a nursing home ,maybe early 80's
Used to live in Denton Burn and sat on the seat at the end of Broadwood Road and collect car numbers in the late 50s . Have to say did not get many had more luck naming the models. My uncle Charles used to work in the Fox and Hounds before the war, sadly lost at sea on minesweeper HMS Ganley, just off coast at DDay landing site. My mam, his sister my mam, worked with him.
I remember when I got me first car journey, as I had only been on buses , in this area .me and a friend tried thumbing a lift to Ponteland , and got pur first very safe !!! Lift , cos in those days it was common to see people thumbing lifts, and I couldn't work out what a seat belt was, and how to fasten it. I look back with embarrassment 😊
Grew up in the west end of Newcastle and spent a lot of my life on both the west road side and Cowgate in the 1980s including I was born at the General hospital and went to Pendower school. Thanks for all memories do you have any more?
It's very striking how few people there about and how few cars there were on the road. The mid 80s was a very grey, desolate time in Newcastle. Huge employment and a lot of people simply couldn't afford a car. It was very much like the Smiths' song, "Every Day is like Sunday". Silent and grey.
@@jean2740 Fond memories, I remember my late mother driving me to the beach as a kid in that VW Beetle. I go back to Fenham every few years just to reminisce.
@@CaptainCryptographer I don't think I'm on that video, I'm Graeme Murray, went to Stocksfield Avenue Primary and then Rutherford. I'm on another RU-vid video, entitled "Neighbours on Newminster Road" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mJ1JBNqD5mw.htmlfeature=shared
Shame on all you racist commentators - lowering what is a pretty moving and obviously a family film - the thing that is most interesting about this film is the people driving about - the everyday conversations and normality of it all. This bit of West End (Fenham Hall Drive end) today is much the same - and what bit of West Road are you remembering as not being a bit run down or shit? The 80s/90s when car crime was proper rampant, riots, house break ins? or in the 50s/60s/70s when folk were living in absolute squaller in Arthurs hill and Benwell/Elswick? Or do you hark back to the even better days - mass unemployment and even worse living conditions. Sorry you must mean when it was all fields? the late 1800s?
56.41 million people in the UK in 1984 & 66.04 million people in the UK in 2017. Immigration does have something to do with the increase in people in the UK. Why is it racist to comment about this? It's a great video & shows what society was like thirty five years ago, I like seeing all the old cars & the lack of litter most of all! :-)
