Much happier times. You walk through Newcastle now and there’s a beggar in every doorway, everyone looks fed up and people with their faces in a mobile. Please take me back to the 70s and 80s.
Best place to grow up, still better than most uk cities but will no doubt fall to demographic change like other places within next decade or 2. Shameful what we are leaving for future generations
I was 20, worked at BT at Manors at the 'telephone exchange' and I remember all of this like it was yesterday and would do anything to go back in a time machine.. we were having the best times of our lives and we didn't even realise it.
My mam died that year I was 23 then, in my fifties now, this brings back memories which I seemed to have blocked? Thank you, it is all coming back to me now, but in a good way, thank you, it has helped.
Fantastic memories, I was 20 in 1987 and loved life, loved going to town to see the match or to buy new clothes and for a night out with friends. my favourite bar was Cordwainers in Nelson Street. Christmas always seemed to have a very special atmosphere as well, the darkness coming early in early, the Christmas lights and displays, The noise of the Starlings starting to gather and Fenwicks window seemed more magical back then. Thanks for this video. Great memories of a great time, with great people, in our great City.
I was a 20 years old Geordie lad when this was filmed. In November 1987 I moved south for work and am still down south to this day. To say this film makes me nostalgic is the under statement of the year.
I was 17 then, used to love going from Morpeth into the city with my mates shopping for Kappa, Taccini, fake Lacoste, Mackenzie then out in the night starting with trebles for singles. as great crack - moved away years ago but my son will go to Uni there next year so hopefully relive my youth!
The memory of town being heaving with happy shoppers, enjoying the geordie sunshine and finishing off with a Wimpy's fish and chips. I just loved growing up in my city. Some epic memories. Thank you for your videos
I was 20 yrs old when this was made. Had me in tears of such brilliant memories, Some sad but some that would give life to go back. Your right you dont realise what a brilliant time this was. Excellent Music and video.
Me too.1987 was my last year living in the Toon before moving to London. Loved everything about it apart from not having a job. Was nearly eight months on the dole in Newcastle, but found temporary work in London in just under three hours. Thanks, Maggie - thanks for nowt...
Very Beautiful City I Love Newcastle Upon Tyne, I'am Indonesian Student, Very comfortable during stay here The Newcastle People are very nice and friendly. I Miss Newcastle Upon Tyne
Not all are friendly, the city used to have some of the worst football hooliganism in the country in the 70s, 80s and 90s until technology stopped it, it's the Viking and Saxon genes in them that make them aggressive!
@@Lat265 Viking? Vikings didn’t really settle in big numbers in the North East, Yorkshire was their main hub. And they weren’t called Saxons, they were called Angles; the Saxons settled the south of England.
This was hard to watch because now it's all gone. Used to go to the Mayfair and City Hall to see rock bands. We'd look around the record shops like Petsounds etc and buy records, tapes and it felt like finding gold when you'd bought them. Guitar shops also. There were so many shops in general, what a time and could go on. Now it's void of anything like this apart from maybe NUFC doing well which lifts the spirit but i don't know, it feels we're watching something you can't touch.
I was 10 years owld when this was recorded. I swear down when I see all the shop's n the Northumberland Street when cars could still drive down makes me proper nostalgic. Especially the The Chronicle seller's on the corners. Then "Coming Home Newcastle" kicked in. This vid was a belta mate😊😊👏👏👏
If i had access to a time machine i'd be quite content to live in a recurring time loop spanning from about the late '70s to '87. Happier times make no mistake.
Absolutely lush man... back when people where a pleasure to be around and the internet never gave so many people false ego's because of how many likes they get on a daily basis..
I was 19 and was in my third year of my apprenticeship at the old Byker bus depot on shields road . Great times and so many good memories of this era .
This morning, I watched this footage again but this time with the soundtrack muted and substituted with Black's '87 classic, 'Wonderful Life' playing over the video. A most bittersweet experience I must admit.😢
Brilliant time travel! I was 17 then tearing around on a Yamaha RD125LC. Recognise all those great 80’s cars! Where’s the time gone... seems a happier time than now and if I could go back then forever I would do it in a heartbeat.
@@hallgos7319 most definitely! I pity young people today who are growing up in this world never knowing the freedoms and carefree nature of our lives, before terrorism, bombings, mass immigration, and joblessness and widespread hard drug use, we knew a totally different world before 1997 when Tony Blair admitted he FORCED multiculturalism on the people of Britain, and every successive government since then has blatantly done nothing to stop it. Our country is WAY worse now than it was then.
Hear I go again. I've lost count how many times ive watched this now. Tears still keep coming of a Simple and happy life. Looking at the Posts makes me so happy knowing im not alone with my Happiness but sadness for loss also. It makes you think of the Great people that were in your life then who are sadly not hear now. Eldon square was the Metro centre of Newcastle and you went to Tiffany's happy as hell not a thought of "will someone get shot or knifed tonight" or will I. Ok im going to mention it because i was into heavy mental in the early 80s so hears to Patolli and the hippy arcade. lol, I miss you mam and little sis.
Footage like this makes me feel so nostalgic for great times back in Newcastle when I was a kid. The best city & the best people - I miss that place so much.
Me too. You'd be hard pushed to find such a compact city with so much crammed into it. Newcastle has always had a certain magic, hence why it is often dubbed the capitol of the North.
I lived up there between 1984 and 1987 whilst a student at the Polytechnic- and these images I remember and identify with instantly. Loved that city - it was my second home for several years and even when I graduated in August 1987 and left to return back to my home city of Liverpool (port / river cities tend to have their own particular distinctive character - Glasgow being another) I would still return up there frequently whenever I could just to catch up with my new student and Geordie friends (and my relatives who lived north and south of the city) for several years until 1995. Seeing so many parts of the centre changing (not always for the best either as some truly wonderful old haunts, landmarks and around the Quayside were demolished to make way for the usual gentrification) meant I would not return back for another visit until 2003.....by then the city was almost completely different from when I knew it. Seeing this footage just makes me so nostalgic I yearn for a time machine to take me back to those years - which surely are far better than what we have now.
In those days there was ship building and coal mining jobs, lower house prices, lower population, free university education like Denmark, Finland and Germany have today, easy to see a doctor, easier to get a job as there was less competition etc.
if you feel nostalgia for the place and want to revistit ...I wouldnt bother mate ..you would not recognise the place ..it is now a multi-cultural hell on earth . . ..Proper horrible, all my friends have upped and abandoned the place..its full of foreigners..most dont even speak english ..bloody awful !
@@kingshearer2 proper joke ..They wasted over 10 grand on sending a spear back to Nigeria...took out the Hancock museum ..-figure that one out . .. .lol .
@@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361 They don't even call it the Hancock Museum anymore, it's the Great North Museum or some such nonsense these days. Apparently, Hancock wasn't a fit or proper person to be remembered even on the Museum he paid for and built for the city and generations of people.
I was born within a 3 month timeframe of this and this is always how I remembered Newcastle before I moved away and then came back. Modern Newcastle needs more flowers and trees
I remember old Eldin Square, before INTU got their hands on it, when the whole square was surrounded by mature trees, and the George and Dragon was still open. I used to eat my lunch in the Square when I worked in the Grainger market, and take in the culture. Geordies Forever 👍
@@PH5221 why not. And they’re dumb. More information at their fingertips and less able to look it up and research or question anything and so easily manipulated by social media. Hardly an advertisement for intelligence. And get offended at the drop of a hat.
I love my city and the nostalgia of old videos make me both happy and sad at the same time. Unfortunately Newcastle has now been lost to foreign invaders. Much like most of the UK. 😢
It still mostly looks like that still. Most of the areas in the video were redeveloped in the 1970s and very little has changed since. Some of the shops have changed hands and there have been a few new buildings. But on the whole the city centre is very much the same as it was in 1987
I certainly can Clair. A much simpler and happier time period. Not like now. Way too many of the wrong kind of 'people' populating the city these days. Pure scum.
@@sa-ok2rf Way too many Jeremy Kyle-types out there now for my liking. Disrespectful, inconsiderate, troublesome, lazy and God knows what else. You know the kind. The 'something for nothing' mentality. I'm well aware there's good and bad wherever you go but there appears to be a lot more of the latter these days. When i was younger back in the '80s there seemed to be a lot less of them. You could live in a perfectly peaceful and quiet street and it just takes one of these miscreants to move in and the whole area is brought down in a heartbeat. Believe me, i've been there more than once.
Crackin that, I was a teen then and would never of thought videos like this would be popping up for everyone to see across the world instead of just your sitting room. Original vlogger 👌🏻
I love this, brings back memories, I must have been about 16 years or maybe 17 years old, I am now in my 50s years now. I remember the old Accordian player. He was blind but he played a mean according. I miss those days, I used to come to the toon to buy my model kits from the model shops, lovely days. I loved my models, still got some of them! But now I look at this, I wish I had collected the other kind of model! If you know what I mean?
I miss C&A and the Odeon cinema but most of all I miss the feeling of being in a city where I’m not constantly reminded that society is becoming less and less cohesive.
@@hallgos7319 I think everyone was. My mam was I Geordie from Gateshead but moved to Newcastle. I used to come up Newcastle with my girlfriend (now wife) to see her, The Geordies were great people and the city was vibrant and alive, a lovely place to be each time I visited , how ever my mam died in 2001. I came up for the funeral and stayed a few days , god what a shit hole it is now everything has changed the people are no longer friendly, they all dress the same and all the streets are grey and need fixing , Great city I had some wonderful times there but I don't visit anymore now. Not after last time , it's too depressing, In the 80s I didn't want to leave Newcastle when my trips were over, in 2000s. I couldn't wait to leave Newcastle,
I remember my Nana taking me to the civic centre where Princess Diana’s wedding dress was on display. I remember her saying “Eeee, looks like it needs a bloody good iron” 😆.
I love to indulge in nostalgia. It's one of the few things that keeps me going these days if i'm honest. I confess i prefer to live in the past as there's very little about the present i like.
Wow, I wasn't born yet at that time , now I study in Newcastle university , the buildings and streets have hardly changed and I can still recognise them
Canny dappa man - the clothes!!! I used to go shopping in the toon every Saturday with my mate Phil to buy records and visit guitar shops - those were the days!
3:34 Never saw this lass for 37 years and then there she is on film! I used to work for Swift Meat company on Marlborough Crescent and she used to walk past most days. ALWAYS wore a mini skirt ..and they weren't even in fashion!! Great to see her again! 😃
@@hallgos7319 A man came on The Nicky Campbell 9am phone in show saying his child was non binary ie. not knowing if he was male or female, if a parent had of talked like that in the past the child would be taken off him and put into care for having an unfit parent. Sick world we live in know brainwashing kids at school with gay rights etc. at a young age.
Go back and take a long hard look now and compare. The streets now are filthy and greasy, the place now has no pride of ownership, council or commercial. We had then, nothing, ignored by Westminster with mass unemployment, no industry remaining or apprenticeships, but we still had a proud identity. We haven’t even got that now. We’ve been culturally enriched with a transient student population to serve the universities and transient global brands to try their capital ventures. You might think think previous generations say the same thing… and true enough, they do. But compare this video to now 💔
Great film/video. I love the music and songs. Makes me homesick for sure. Merry Christmas to all of my Geordie friends...North and South of the Tyne. See ya, from Texas!
Great video. Love to go back to those days . It reminds me of my childhood . Ambulance rushing through the street; I remembered those types of ambulance with air horns blasting.
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. +++++++
Newcastle isn’t that friendly. I found the people to be unfriendly and miserable. Believe it or not, when I went to London I actually found people more polite and friendly
@@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361 no chav mean gutless scumbags who watches too much EastEnders and fights with weapons and gangs cause they can't use their fists , and they are all idiots who think they are smart ,
Life was quality in those days..seeing Newcastle Upon Tyne in the 80s brings great memories. I love the decade very much. Today too much rubbish. People are craving and competing for attention on social media. In those days people interacted and look so relaxed.
Hello there ....I have been there in Newcastle during my studies...lovely place very friendly for students...I wish I could visit it again with my wife ....
Thanks so much for posting this vintage footage. It takes me back to simpler, happier times before the city became infested with Jeremy Kyle rejects and Channel 5 type-scum. It really is true that people were better back then and give me the past over the present any day.
Hallgos73 has this conversation with a friend recently. I’ve lived in Newcastle for 9 years and I’ve seen a big change in the calibre if people in town over that period :(
Newcastle really isn't THAT great to be honest. I've been there a few times over the years - it certainly looks better thanks to new investment and buildings going up, but the people and way of life have changed. Noticed the same in Birmingham as well so it's not unique.
I was 5 man i have memories but being so young i could not experience what the toon was like as an adult got to see in this video lol happier times the 80s folk seem so much more at ease just enjoying life
Top shop I was 10 years old I love Newcastle my grandma would take me on the bus from her home in wallsend her friend as the face of the soap bar Camey made in Newcastle in the 1940’s miss this so much
I was 26 and working in Pearl Assurance House at the bottom of Northumberland street, before that I was at Northumbria Uni, now I'm 63 and working in St Mary's Place at the top of Northumberland street. In between I spent some time at Fenwicks. Funny for a mackem, but you all know why.
