Newcastle’s Victoria Tunnel Tour 

I’ve only came across your channel a few days ago and I have to say Eddy you’re doing a great job!! I’m from Teesside and obviously have been to newscast a few times but you’ve opened up a whole new side of it to me. Is it weird how you can walk past all these places and not give a second thought to the history. You’ve inspired me and my gf to come back to Newcastle soon with a new appreciation for the place. Great work with the channel Eddy, keep it up

Another great video Eddie I love seeing the old photos of Ouseburn when the photo of the four young lads playing in the culvert I was thinking that could of been me and my mates around 1960, keep up the good work Eddie it's bringing back so many memories.

Me wife suprised me with a trip down the tunnels for me birthday such a cool place to visit and the people that take you round are amazing

Brilliant informative videos, thanks and keep them coming

Another good watch Eddie and another good history lesson - Keep up the good work 👍

Another very interesting video. I've learnt so much from them. Keep it up.

Keep it up thanks Eddie.i love your history lessons!

I'm well into this now! Another great video. I'll hope to travel to Newcastle later this year and will look up some of the places you've covered.

Great insight again Ed love it!

Very interesting . Really enjoying these videos Eddy 😊😊xx

Thanks for another brilliant video, Eddie.

I swear you videos are just getting better and better Eddy really enjoyed part two. Won't be long now before you hit 10,000 subs

Thanks For Sharing The Video...Great Job, Keep Em Coming & Stay Safe

I learn something new every day. Well done eddy.👍👍👍

Hi Eddy. Another cracking video mate. Your doing a great job show casing a wonderful part of the world. Great job. Huw.

Enjoyed that Eddy. Very interesting.

Cheers for another belta video.I was sat really listening like a proper good lad when ya dog barked n me and my dog nearly jumped oot wor skin 🤣🤣thanks again bonnie lad👏

Imagine the antique bottles to be found at the lower (first) levels of tipping to cover the ouseburn culvert?

Very interesting.Thanks

Very interesting as always Eddy. Never knew about the culvert until now

Great stuff Eddie more history please

Great video Eddy. Very informative and interesting. Lived next to the City Stadium as a kid in the 80’s and used to go exploring down there. Always wondered what was inside that culvert at the bottom of the hill.

Great videos, I was a tour guide for the tunnel for a few years.

Yet again another great video, I actually did voice over work when I was in primary school for the Victoria tunnels reciting a prayer, I’ve never been so can’t say it’s being used but I’m assuming it has, keep up the good work

Another great video Eddy mate. At 1:42 I was instantly reminded of a video I watch about the WW1 Battle of Messines. This method of digging was instrumental to our success.

Great video,research and genuine empathy . You sound a really decent and genuine bloke(and Geordie) 👍 Howard the lads!

Again brilliant Eddy .

I love my history especially when it is about the North East region and the tunnel tour that you did Eddy looks very interesting and great value for money.

Again you smashed it mate love watching these with the family. You should make more of these fact videos.

Learnt lots from this…again….always wondered what the building was in the spitall too…thank you Eddie

I love these videos

Great video. Stumbled on your channel recently. Love the ouseburn, lived just along the river at St Peters basin and the Tyne pub was my local. There is actually a third tunnel that runs through the Ouseburn valley, the old LNER quayside branch. Started by stoddard st on the mainline and curved down by Tarset st under city road and came out below Tyne St. they infilled the ends of it in the 90’s when the quayside redevelopment was going on.

Yet again Eddie I learnt more from you about our history than I did at school , we just did the Romans because we had a bit of the wall near by . Nice one walbottle high the cheapest every time !

Quality vlog Eddy....👏👏

fantastic agent of the toon! thank you for representing my area.

Thank you Eddy. I know the area quite well, so the venues weren't new to me, but it was great to see everything so clearly explained. Still looking forward to the pubs 👏👏

Hitting on a winning formula Eddie, folk love to hear about their area, and with the footy taking off, the sky's the limit👏

Great stuff Eddie. Keep this history stuff going. Do my town Whitley Bay sometime please.

Great video again Eddie, thank you, enjoyed it, very interesting. Very sad to hear Mike Mould has passed away, spent time in his company, he was a close and good friend of an ex partner, lovely man. 👍😉

Your vids are great

I dig and collect old bottles of Newcastle I've a Newcastle District bottle with the old Newcastle badge on from 1888 I love all the history of the North east. I'm from blaydon and love the history of the place. Great video Eddie

Great video Eddie you make it so interesting well done need to arrange a visit to The Vicorian Tunnel.

Never been there Eddie, never knew about those tunnels. I'll definitely take a tour if I head back home .........

Brilliant

Hi Eddie I remember going to Ouseburn farm on a School trip back in the very early 80;s, pretty sure it was called Byker farm back then. Really loving your informed content. I'm an Ex-Pat Benwell lad living up in Ayrshire and am getting down to most of the Home games. You need to do one of these 5 things on Benwell, and the travesty that is Byker Grove was filmed at the Mitre in Benwell. Supposedly haunted by the Silver Lady 🤣🤣🤣

Another fantastic video, tried to visit the tunnel last year but due to Covid it was closed.

Another fun (albeit personal and not terribly relevant) fact about the farm at Ousburn. I helped build the duck pond out the back when I was leading a team of people volunteering for the princes trust.

Thank you eddy you try your best

I love these videos. I'm from Gateshead and it's always interesting seeing the history of Newcastle :)

Can't wait for the Wallsend one

The culvert aka Cully... has an entrance right where you were standing that you can still access although it's been made a little more difficult. Theres a river directly beneath you and you can go inside the cults entrance and walk as far as Jesmond Dene. Used to do it quite often in the 90s and took my teen daughter through only 2 year ago. But its wet and full of holes and wouldn't recommend it to anyone without past experience as it's a little dangerous. Great video per usual.

Hi Eddy, I think your videos are very entertaining! 🔥👍 Just wondering, did you shot a video of the win against Leeds?

Another great history lesson .I'LL have to try that tunnel walk,looks awesome .Are you looking forward to Everton game Eddy?Some major players coming in.

Hi Eddie another great video, I drive past “soup kitchen” everyday on quayside it still has a smoking chimney, you got anything on that?

The Cully and Tip were great adventure sites

Done the tunnel trip a few years ago and was well worth it. Real tough men in those days doing a proper day's graft!

Hi mate I’m AGM at the City Baths in Newcastle it would be interesting to see a video on all the public bath houses and their history:)

I remember walking thru the cully from byker to jezza dene pants tucked into our socks so rats couldnt run up 😂 stuff like that was an adventure as a 11/12 year old kid, great memories. There's some good places of interest in walker as well down walker Riverside and pottery Bank areas

The farm was great in the 80’s, had cows, pigs, donkeys, goats and birds, used to take my kids there regularly…

I lived at a ground floor flat 18 Albion Row with my parents and went to Ouseburn Infants school. I was 4 in 1962 and was enrolled in the infants at Easter 1962. It must not have closed in 1960, or I may have been wrong and you mentioned shut in the 1960’s. Both sides of my family the Youngs (Byker Buildings) and Heads (Battlefield) used the culvert during ww2 air raids.

I am originally from Consett .There is plenty of industrial history there for a video..keep up the good work.

the cluny brings back memories in the year 2000, when mike ask for a price to do the first stage revamp and open the cluny as a venue, me bro grinded and pointed the brickwork, horrendous job, while I fitted the aluminium gutter and timber snow board as you can see, and the velux window to gain access out the window the snow board was for safety while cleaning out the gutter used to get filled with pigeon crap, yer we did quite a bit there inside and outside, we were promised stage to later if we did it at cost, just a con never did get stage 2 where the money was, but its good to see our work is still in good stead the day we left it complete, theres not much a dont know about byker and the ouseburn

You should do one for South Shields

Been down the Tunnel a couple of times doing Light Painting with the camera

Good stuff Eddie, wrong to suggest the Luftwaffe only dropped ordnance on the Toon so they didn't go home with bombs on board. The city was targeted in mid 1940 - 41. Where the Northumbria campus now stands was a huge rail yard that iirc was hit in Sept 41, a train had arrived loaded with sugar and other flammable materiel fritz dropped his load and the goods station burned for 4 days. Source. My old lady was a 10 year old resident of Shieldfield at the time

i read that queen victoria when she went through newcastle on the train going to scotland she used to close the curtains .she hated the look of the place

Dya kno about the cully ?the tunnel that goes from Stepney bank to jesmond dene?

Also I know it’s gateshead but you could do dunston staithes to raise awareness and the charity may receive donations to fix the vandalism. Keep up the good work

Not a review coming on the Leeds game or anything Eddie?

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How do you book the tour?

You should Hav mentioned the rave that happened in the cully a few years back and how well organised the kids were that put this event on. I understand the dangers and I’m not wanting to promote this type of activity but a mention about it wouldn’t been too naughty? 😊

Another bit of gruesome history about the pub over the road from the Cluny (can’t remember the name off the top of my head) But its directly underneath the bridge and the roof has been repaired several times…… You can draw your own conclusions as to what came though the roof.

6:28 so is this the case of the only area of Newcastle destroyed by T Dan Smith that ended up being a net positive in the end? They built a park on what was a massive pile of rubbish and didn’t bother erecting a really ugly gray tower block. First time for everything 😂

Eddy, can you put subtitles on? My Mam is had of hearing!

10:12 jump scare

The Cluny burger....man

There's another hidden tunnel next to Ouseburn Farm

Eddie did u see the black silhouette of the coal train that marks the spot where a bloke died trying to sell the tunnel ? What a awful way to die crushed by a train

Would walk through the cully as a kid with fire lighters on sticks

Did you hear the story of ernest Smith the boy scout who died rescuing a young girl from a bomb crater on tarset street he was my uncle.

Miss the 80s, used to gan doon the cully with a catty or a 2.2 rifle looking for rats. Nowt worse than your torch batteries running out 😂

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