36 years have gone so fast. I was 16 in 1985 and despite everyone having no money, we loved life. Me and my Gran used to spend hours in the town after paying the electric bill at the Leccy Board. A lot of these people are just memories now, a few inches high on a video tape. But what memories, eh? Great days.
I agree great days where life seemed less complicated. Really poignant comment from yourself which brought back some memories..... If only time travel existed.
Brilliant just love these old videos. Being born in 71 I’ve witnessed quite a few of the changes that Newcastle has made. Love the fashion of the people lol I was a dock marten victim myself lol
@@stephenbaker7344 Good one! I can't tell you the one about the pigeons high up on the window ledges on Northumberland Street, I would get banned from RU-vid for being racist! But you might know the joke, thanks mate, proper Geordie
Eye just as you walked either into or out of Elton square he would make sure you got your News, and I'm talking about our proper Eldon square, not the eye saw it is today. When yet again labour council destroyed it ,and thought let close all the shops, and in there place put a hundred eateries, SMART MOVE NOT !!!!!
Many thanks for posting this. Big nostalgia trip for me there. I was fourteen at the time and could have been wandering around there somewhere with my pals. More than likely in Beatties ratching round. Happy carefree times when life seemed much simpler.
I worked in the Grainger market, a couple of years after this, from 1988-1990. Bookless fruit shop, at the Nun Street end of Alley No 3. I also did the odd day at their shop in the underground concourse in Eldon Square too. Then I went to Fenwick's, as Bookless had the franchise in store. I was one of two shop boys in there, me and another lad called Jason. And Tom was our manager, who got sacked for dipping his hands in the till to feed his gambling habit. Ah, good times.
Was great walking round market on a Friday after work to buy bits from wages ,like new skirt and some shoes, oh not forgetting me tabs when you could get em cheaper in market, but I wouldn't thank you for a tab now, , not smoked in decades
gosh...i can see olivers sandwich shop....best ever sarnies....my wife used to get the cheese savoury super-bun..i used to get the oliver twist....unbelievable times and memories......thank you and a happy 2017 to all!!!
Love this - thank you so much for taking the time & trouble to make these recordings & to share them. I was there - 1981 - 1990. Thanks again - social history which many will enjoy, even if they don't leave a positive comment. +++++++
Ha ha that's my pals aunty serving on there fruit and veg stall near the end of this film and its still going 30+ years later what a belta thanks for putting this on loved it brought back so many great memory's I was 15 :)
I popped into the city centre this morning and was quite shocked at just how many homeless people were populating the streets. A most sobering sight to be sure.
Thanks so much for this post. '85 was a good year for me. Gone but never forgotten just like the rest of the decade. Better, nicer times to be sure. Not like now.
I remember the year 1985 so well. I was a student up there between 1984 and 1987/1988 and 1985 was memorable for a couple of things - we had a really cool / wet summer and I even remember it sleeting IN JUNE! It made the front pages of the Evening Chronicle and we were caught in it walking to lectures!!! Then in the same year Bruce Springsteen played St James Park as well, and we could hear the gig from our halls of residence at the Polytechnic. We had a proper SNOWY winter too between 1984/1985 and yes, it was white everywhere. Proper Northern climate. Snow fell again in 1986/1987 too - them were such great times, notwithstanding - and I just wish I could travel back and relive them days, despite people always saying that the 'decadent yuppie Thatcherite 1980s' were a bad time. Well, put it this way, it was a darned sight better than what has transpired in the decades since, as any people of a similar age and generation to myself (mid 50s now) would readily tell yers! I mean, for one thing, living in Newcastle then was so cheap - everything was cheap! We were very fortunate actually in spite of all of the other things going on in the world at the time. P.S. 0:12 - 0:42 The two newspaper sellers shouting 'CHRONICLE' on Northumberland Street there I remember very well - as I saw them almost every day!!! Ha ! fancy that!
Isn't it funny how we get selective memories as we age. There was very little of the "decadent Thatcher yuppy" in the north east. It was a period of mass unemployment, communities torn apart by the miners strike, rampant poverty, violent crime spiralling out of control (massively worse than it is now), football hooligans, racism, homophobia, AIDS, threat of nuclear war. Do we forget these things as we age, or is it just that when we're young we live in a bubble and don't have a clue what's actually going on in the world around us?
When Newcastle still had some heart & soul & lot's of character. A ghost town now thanks to Newcastle city council engineering it's deliberate demise making it very difficult for some to shop there due to its anti vehicle policy. Closing roads, introducing cycle lanes, bus lanes & no free parking. You can't blame shoppers for choosing out of town retail parks & online shopping.
The past was always so much better for certain generations without a doubt. I wish I could transport myself back to those days when councils were at least half decent and civilised, unlike the showers that we have now. It's kind of depressing to see how bad modern life has sunk, despite all the advances in technology and everything else. No sense of community, pride or morals anymore in today's society, more's the pity.
NEWCASTLE like most cities in england have now got zero character left , cos the councils seen to that, destroying all of our victorian buildings snd putting up loads of tin sheds that they call buildings, they where all thrown up in a second ,and will never with stand time all rubbish
I think the city has changed so much for the worsed I cal it the Campus today I dont go there now as i dislike it so much Glad i was young when i was life was simple at this time not perfect but simple
I was 12 in 85,and remember all of these places.This was when the toon had character and was full of geordies.Not the overpriced, mostly frequented by Southern posh students,party dump it has become.
I was 12 in '85 too and lived in a top floor flat in Gosforth at the time. Such a secure, cosy time for me and i have some good memories associated with the place.
mate subcribed best vid of newcastle here , i was 17 then went to paris that year etc blonde at 2:05 fu@king lush and fing amazing upload saved on ytd if that's ok.
They were f'ckn awful. Mass unemployment. Violent crime through the roof. AIDS. Constant threat of nuclear war. Riots. Football hooligans. Child sex abuse widespread. NHS falling to bits. Poverty widespread. Poor schools.
Eye every other second there ramming it down our thrats for last 5 years, same adverts ,saying these people are in desperate need ,well I tell u what if adds Bern going for 5 years, they must have made a few billion by nuh also they should start make g these adds for us in england, saying folk in enhland in desperate need of food and shelter, as we give it all away to these who are crying charity on adds 24/7 12 month a year for past 5 years
I visited the city centre earlier today and all the ignorant idiots with their heads hopelessly buried in their mobile phones was making my blood boil to no end.😡 Walking while oblivious to everyone and everything else around them. Such staggering stupidity.😖
I came here to see fond memories of the toon and I totally found that BUT!!! ( and I'd love feedback on this) I didn't see many obese people at all and I put this down to the fact that this was before the yanks got involved with all the fast food places. Before you say it, yes there's a wimpy but that was the start and! We only had a wimpy as a treat not like now where maccyd's, kfc, and krispy kreme are a stable diet for so many. I personally think the Americans have a hell of a lot to answer for when it comes to the health of the rest of the globe.
The only people to blame for being fat is yourselves.... nobody force feeds people the shite they sell these days, that's on them as a person to be responsible enough to know what to put past their lips. Passing blame never helped nobody get healthy.
D4RSKYDE CAFF I agree completely but I feel that society has become so brainwashed as a whole that a lot of stupid parents out there feel they can justify force feeding their beloved children constantly with the shite that's wrapped up like little gifts of death and send them on their merry way when they reach the age they should! Have some idea how to look after themselves but all they do know is that fast food is love because mammy said, which means unfortunately that these misguided, unhealthy, fools will do the same to their own precious beloved children. My daughter is 3 now and she hasn't been inside a McDonald's never mind been poisoned by it and I hope she knows that I love her and I hope she can carry on and live and make good choices. This world is fucked and I refuse to be a sheep following the rest of the herd to slaughter.
Ah the TheTre Royal .As s teenager i used to watch gang shows there .As i was a member of the City Brass Band we played in Aida once .Im fairly sure we were dreadful .😂 Haven't live in the NE for over 40 years
