@@lewisbrewster8103 Speak for yourself. My ancestors have inhabited the British Isles, for at least 11,000 years, unmixed, which is one of the longest times, for any indigenous population on the planet. But why not, keep parroting dumb marxists propaganda, if it makes you *feel* more virtuous about yourself. The fact is, you are incoherent with reality, if you think non-British peoples have a right to this land, and you will be left deeply, deeply dissapointed, when this nation eventually awakens.
king of the Saxons. “Right to the land”, the British empire took much land it wasnt entitled too ruining countries in the process yet you complain when others peacefully set foot on your land utter hypocrisy. Get rid of ur arrogance and learn to love n be at peace with ppl no matter where they come from
I ran pubs in Newcastle in the late 60s, 70s and 80s and used to walk through the city every day with my son from him being a baby in a pushchair When he started school I used to pick him up and walk from Haymarket to Market St/Grey St usually taking the long way round so he could go through The Grainger Market which he loved. Everyone knew him from the barrow boys to the traffic wardens to the people in the clothes shops to the butchers and just about everyone in Fenwicks (not to mention the Wimpey) and people used to wave and speak to him. The paper sellers used to give him sweets and every now and then the flower sellers would give a free bunch to give to his mother. He died aged just 8 in1984. One of the wreaths at the funeral had a card which said "Today, a part of Newcastle has left us" and was signed "The People of Newcastle" It broke my heart but also made me very proud. This video has brought back the memories of all the walks and the great people we saw every day. Thank you so much
Thank You It's 40 years on August 3rd since my son died and I've booked a flight to Newcastle so I can take a walk (as much as is possible) to all the places we used to go. I'm sure it will be a bit painful but also happy remembering all the faces (many of whom will no longer be with us)
I was 17 in 1985 it was great knocking around with your friends of the time getting into the pubs underage on a Saturday night happy times and distant memories cant believe its nearly 40 years ago
Me too - I did my A level that year and had the entire summer mucking about, visiting the pubs, nightclubs (Tuxedo Princess) and the cinema at the city centre for late night movies. Now I get older, I miss the place more!
Such video footage should be in national film archives so a younger generation can see how the world was there at that time ,well shot and captured life as it was then
paul dean very true. It would seem like another planet to kids of today. They will never know how awsome life was for us growing up in that era. We didn’t worry about politics or other crazy things kids worry about today. All we had to do was go to work and have fun spending our wages. Communities were communities people actually talked to each other and appreciated each other. These days all of that is gone. It’s so sad.
@@leeludlowart237 well I agree with all you've said but have faith ,I don't mean religion but in the fact we are changing the world so radically the human race should pan out for better times ,in 100 years we seen 2 WW ,we slowly learned after the extreme of nuclear war that we can live together better such as the cold war (2 forces with big sticks that neither wanted to be hit ) we have found invading other countries and oppressing others won't be tolerated any more ,the only wars we have fought since has been against oppressive others and terrorism. We are learning fast to live amongst each other better with quotes like "we will all live in the promised land " or " one small step ,one giant leap for mankind " ,my point is we have evolved from clubbing each other as cave men to now ,we had ups and downs but slowly we getting to better harmony like you see in the video ,we just in a lul at the mo ,society will pick it's self up and dust itself off and be better for lessons learned
@Al Bundy for President I have to say we in a lul(rut)at present moment ,but we will come out ,society learns by mistakes an we make mistakes but that's about learning what's right and wrong ,look at in slavery or coloured discrimination, we where thinking it was OK then but we learned now that no way is it acceptable, discrimination and cruelty is not acceptable in any mannor or form .people have beliefs, mine is human race will get there in the end ,am not religious person but was brought up as a Catholic, I'm of scientific answer's about how the universe was created where as you seem to a practicing Catholic, am not going to argue about your beliefs if they not the same as mine ,just say we believe in different things and respect you as a person ,if religions could do the same where as a person can respect another saying let's say ones Muslim and other is Catholic,if they respect another as for most a person who has a different belief, if it's so that your practising Catholic then look at in Martin Luther kings words which we all will walk in the promised land ,everybody is an equal who is respected as so in the human race
Lee ludlow Art all eras are amazing when you grow up. Aye 1985 mass unemployment toon in the second division no amenities drugs taking over aye great times
This is the England I remember despite me growing up around the same time (I was 7 when this was filmed) only in Yorkshire. I lived in Newcastle for 4 years though, so I recognise many of the places and streets in this video. I'm not sure what became of this particular England or when it changed so drastically, but no matter where I go now, North to South, I just don't recognise anywhere as England anymore other than tiny little villages, I don't even recognise places like Birmingham or London as being in bloody Europe. It's so sad to see how people in this video are just sitting with each other, smiling, going about their day, talking to each other instead of at each other while being distracted by something else - such a stark contrast to what you'd find in 2023 and beyond. I truly hope my kids/grandkids don't watch something like this that's been posted in 2063 and pine for a better time like I just have - I hope by then things have improved and we've got our priorities in order, and not gone even further down the toilet because looking at this is kinda shameful as to how far we let our society fall in a few decades.
@@mrpea7674 Diversity is one of the best things about Newcastle now. I grew up in Newcastle in the 80s/90s and it was horribly lacking in diversity. People from other countries have added so much to the flavour of the city
I moved to Australia from Newcastle four years ago. This video broke my heart a little inside. I don't think you realise the enormity of it at that time. The people you leave and the friendliness if home. It never leaves you. I'll miss it forever x
Hi, sorry for the random comment. I am from Newcastle myself and currently completing my masters. My current goal is to go and work in Australia for 6 months after I graduate. Do you recommend that I go through with my ambition? Also if you don't mind me asking why did you personally move to Australia?
Not a problem. I don't think its a easy as that as I don't know you. Just be prepared if you do come you'll probably never be 100% content again. I now have two homes and will never be settled 100% in either as both have things I want. Its about finding a happy medium. I came here because of family and its lighter in winter. Its always worth trying.... good luck
You did well to get out when you did . It's awful now . It's the future or at least that's what we are told . Centuries of tradition all gone in the name of multicultural progress . Heartbreaking .
I’m not even from anywhere near Newcastle (London) but I absolutely loved this, it even choked me up a bit! I think actual footage like this is so important to help us document and record our social history. I wonder where all these people are now and how their lives have been?! Xx
Its history pure and simple we will look back at this in 15 20 years time and think wow wow where has the time gone i am not from Newcastle but Grimsby and i love looking back in time and seeing how people dressed the shops pubs clubs markets houses buildings schools etc most of buildings like pubs clubs shops have long long gone but memories last forever.
I was born in 1981 i look back now and think to myself god i wish i was back in those days. People had more respect said yes please no thank you opened doors yes times was hard but it was better more polite more respectful safer more hard workers factory work was about shops pubs was open for business these days very few good pubs and shops about. They all been torn down or made into cafes tescos or some other supermarket shame really
From Gateshead. Worked at KNW in city centre when this was filmed. I was 25. We used do half day on Friday and go for drink in the Cordwainers, the Clock and the Market Tavern when we got our wages. Toon was great those days. I still go there now.
Most beautiful city, my home away from home. Very sure many international students who lived in Newcastle for 3-4 years feel the same way❤️ and thank you to the locals for making us feel welcome in your lovely city.
Brought back wonderful memories of visiting Newcastle every school holiday to visit grandparents and my Uncle and Auntie. The sandwiches in Olivers in Northumberland St...
nothing is lost, only remembered thanks to your efforts - i hope this endures on RU-vid longer than both of us. From one Geordie to another, thank you V much for this....X
These will have been my earliest memories of being dragged around Newcastle on Saturday's with the carrott of ten minutes in fenwicks toy department dangling forever over me. So thanks.
I'm not from Newcastle, but my Saturdays as a kid in the 80s were very similar.....being dragged around the shopping centres of the West Midlands by my mom and nan lol.
I was 5 years old when my mam worked in the city and she would take me to work then go to the grainger market for fresh veg for my rabbits, I've never forgotten these memories. Proud to be a goerdie! Wish my mam was still here to show her this video.
Thank you so much for uploading this. Quite a few familiar faces in there. I remember the fruit and veg seller at 2:08 very well; he was always really nice when my mam bought tomatoes at his stall. I still remember his style of flipping the brown paper bag shut and handing it over the display. I'm 50 now and often try to recall these details from the past. Actually being able to see it again is a joy.
wow. I was seven years old in '85. the paper men shouting 'ronnie gill' ...and wimpy, mmmmm. lots has changed, Northumberland street was pedestrianised and hippy green is gone, now paved, with added benches, the old odeon has recently bitten the dust...some has not changed at all, like the grainger market although the greenmarket as it was then is now gone, goldsmiths clock, the monument still gathers people for lunch, buskers and artists. loved seeing this thanks xx
@Zia Smith you've obviously never been to Newcastle.. Always been a vibrant city, and even more so now.. Not just the people, who are awesome, the architecture, the regeneration, the nightlife.. Its a real jewel in the UK's crown despite receiving little funding from successive governments..
Do you know, that's a really interesting point...I watched it back and you're right! I would have been 18 then and spent most of my Saturdays wandering those streets. That change hadn't occurred to me but it's a big difference now that you mention it....
@@FatherJack-b1u I used to live in Sheffield and the very first KFC was opened just down the road from us in 1981. And the rest as they say is history! Unfortunately! 😔😣😔😣
This was my childhood playground, the place, the people and feel of Newcastle was amazing. Going to the NUFC club shop before the home game was simply paradise!
Great upload takes me back to my youth in Newcastle , the fashion , the shops, the streetlife ....boy does life go by quick ! don't waste it children , don't waste it ......
@Savage Cabbage errrr so it's my fault ? lol get a grip mate , life is what YOU make it ...if you and your generation are not happy ? CHANGE THINGS the power is in your hands ... :)
@Savage Cabbage you are a bitter person , not sure why , but I know I am not to blame ...and I don't wish to waste my time getting into various troll exchanges with you as your mind is made up about your circumstances and your "poor me " attitude which will achieve absolutely nothing for you in life ...have a good day my friend :)
@Savage Cabbage how the hell you deduced that bollocks from my original post about this upload taking me back to when I lived in Newcastle and time flying by quickly ? I will never know ! you really are a grade *A* arsehole and expert Troll .
@Savage Cabbage read the guy's comment again. In contrast to a lot of the vitriol here, his comment was benign and completely innocent. You can't blame someone for the actions of others. It's very easy to blame an entire generation for fucking up the world for future generations, but plenty of them don't want to, and are horrified by the destruction being caused by their peers. He's right, to an extent, that it's up to your generation to change things. Unfortunately his generation is disproportionately large and while plenty of them smoked or drank themselves to extinction, there's still a load of them around. Later generations are smaller because they didn't have enough kids and because they also tend to be those who vote, politicians rule the country to please them. Because a lot of them are now old, no longer working and unhealthy, they need support and medical care, and because there are fewer people of working age, we've had to increase immigration to fill the gaps just as we did in the 50s. But rather than accepting this, they think that foreigners have been forced on them against their will by some imagined "elite". What's most incredible is that some of this generation arrived in the UK in the post-war period and loads of them hold this same view. According to them, "it's different". But can you use this against one person, someone who actually lived in Newcastle at the time, who was frankly just reminiscing? No.
Stunning. Judging by thr comments its really hit home with some people from generation. Life was simpler, but no doubt more complicated than even they remember it being.... As it was and ever shall be
Better times to live back then when people genuinely cared about each other ....these days it's a totally different world... beautifully filmed....thank you....
Thanks for this commet lovely to know that people these days are thoughtful and kindness goes a long way really nice commet I loved the 1980s we had some really great neighbours everyone help each other if in need respected each other to
Thanks for sharing. Everyone looks well dressed . The people look largely from the same socio economic group. They certainty do not now. It's clear the gap between the "haves and the have nots" has widened
You reckon? I think it's the difference between the younger people in this video being brought up by people who were children during the war. They were the last formal generation before we got decades of increasing casualwear in public. The guys in overalls in the video are certainly not part of the haves. These days they'd probably be wearing a company polo shirt or hi-vis polo with trousers or shorts.
Wow, that was so lovely to watch. Completely took me back to my childhood. All the shops that are not there anymore, even Mr Whimpy .. something to be treasured & keep the memories going.
One of the best videos I’ve seen on RU-vid. This should be shown in every school to show how life was then. Nobody staring at their phones, the women dressed how they should be dressed, people actually talking to one another. I miss those times.
@@foodlover6531 the north is the last bastion of true english men,i appreciate your concern over the misuse of taxpayers money(benefits)but that also happens in the south,i work with a guy from camden and he's a right girls blouse,soft as shite,that's not to say you are,you might be an exception...but i very much doubt it.
It could have been any town in the UK, the site would have been similar. Life was so much sweeter in the 60's - 70's - 80's and now we have progress !!! I certainly lived through the best years.
As a Londoner, born and bread I don't know why this came up on my recommendations. Glad it did though. I loved it. My brother lived in Newcastle for a while. It's truly fascinating to see the change to styles, cars and the environment that occurs over time. Good music and slow mo's too. I would have like to see a bit more of that kid break dancing at 1:26 though. It looked like he was just getting going when the scene switches.
Back in the days when Newcastle had character. It's a city nowadays that caters for tourism and doesn't feel the way it did.i will always love Newcastle with being a geordie, even the quayside on sundays isn't the same,times change I know but ?.
I was born in Newcastle and have lived in Northumberland all my life. What a place!! The excitement of going to see the Toon play every Saturday, not Sunday or Monday or Friday, 3pm every Saturday, sometimes midweek depending on my shift. In the bookies for 10, then the Farmers, the Bulls and the Strawberry for pre game apperatifs, and back to the pub to drown our sorrows. Then back home on the X24, escaping the mania of Newcastle city centre and returning to the idyll that is Northumberland, God's own country. The best of both worlds. You can keep your poncy London, Newcastle is a city with soul, an identity, pride. Love the film and the memories it evokes, love the people, love the fact that your dad was (is?) a proud Geordie. Will add this video to 'All this time' by Sting, 'Home Newcastle' by Busker and 'Run for home' by Lindisfarne as the inspiration behind the deep grained love I have for this wonderful city. Ashley out!! (soon, I hope).
A different city from the 1950’s when i was young,i remember the tram buses and that big fire at the Central station,going to Mark Tony’s with me mam.lots of memories of tough times.not much money,me dad paid on a friday skint on a Sunday.🤘
I remember the days. I still often go to the town, I am Wallsend, thanks, the town, I go back to the seventies I still live in Wallsend and come to the toon! Mind, you get some lovely looking lasses here. Not as good as the seventies, but still nice!
Almost everyone there would be considered skinny these days and other things I noticed is that everyone's faces look the picture of health compared to today and there was no egoistic muscle gym freaks, just real down to earth looking people with a much healthier mind set, obviously society has went down the shitter in the past 34 years.
I'm 60, born in Newcastle and I was living there in 1985 so this was wonderful to see. There was a small chance that I might appear in it but no ... The interpolation effects were nicely done! 🙂
Oh how this brought back so many wonderful memories of me home city the Toon in all its sunny majesty, I was 14/15 in 1985 and I loved how this film captured a summer day with us smiling Geordies ❤
Whenever I get to visit the city I feel I've come home. I was born further up the A1 near Belford but Newcastle is where my soul soars. It's a Northern thing.
It's always emotional looking at everyday life from yesteryear. The fact many in those scenes are now long dead. Others who were young and vibrant walking past the lens now pensioners or at least late middle aged...etc a reminder that life is a Fleeting visit only. You are just passing through the lens..don't waste it
This is superb, no RU-vid back then.. Clearly your dad was way ahead of his time.. Its brilliant he documented this, clearly our great city meant alot to him..
I would have been 1 year old, I do miss the way the toon used to look, even back from the late 90s when I’d be going over with mates to the odeon and that
Not sure you were poorer but Thatcherism had only being eroding workers wages for six years then. Now you’ve had forty years of it. I do agree that they were happier days but I believe that is because we’d only had half a decade of the destruction of society, look after number one etc. And yet we blame the EU , the only organisation that has tried to protect workers . Yes, the EU is “neoliberal” but compared to our greedy establishment, the European establishment are enlightened.
@@desplatt842 the EU is fairly obviously a power-grab by a bunch of politicians who would be *far* harder to remove then our lot. I wonder that anyone thinks one set of politicians would be better than another - but I suppose people want something to believe in... Its incredible how the wool has been pulled over people's eyes. Vetoes disappearing all the time, presidential candidates hoping to remove a few more in the next 2 years. Vetoes might be replaced by QMV (and then what?) Such has been the openly stated plan for 60 years. But no, no Remainers insist were not giving away sovereignty! Ordinary people fought rather hard to get the vote, and a say in how things are run. And now a bunch of rich dorks are demanding all the power back and there are a substantial number of twits supporting the idea. What a world.
Harry Lagman I’m not a natural European at all and there’s a lot I don’t like about the EU. I wouldn’t have voted in in 75 when I was only 17 and didn’t have the vote. However, anyone who things British workers would be better off under Johnson, Fox, Farage etc has to be mad . Our politics has stunk for four decades ; all about draining money away from workers and into the country estates of the top one per cent. The EU may be “ neo liberal ; I prefer the term economic fascism but they are less extreme than us. I also think that when their politicians and negotiators speak on Tv , they speak better in English than our own shower do in their own language.
@@desplatt842 difference is we can get rid of our politicians, as I said. And don't forget we had to struggle pretty hard to get to that stage. Rich people don't want to consult us & the EU is clearly taking that power back. Farage isn't as bad as he's painted, but he's not a genius and is just a good figurehead for getting us out of the EU. How "the workers" fare is dependent on our economy and I certainly wouldn't trust the EU with that. I'm not voting to get Boris into power (he wouldn't last long anyway, would he?) But to keep the power of my vote. Votes for MEPs are pretty worthless. That's how it seems to me anyway
Takes mr bsck ,oh my beautiful yellow buses .we used to get on the12,32,2&4 .Back in the 70's i was a girl guide there - played for the city brass band -&orchestra.All of my relatives in the NE are long gone
Wow this is beautiful! Theres something about it being shots from a place I know that makes me realise that it is real. Like these are all people with their own lives and stories-makes me wonder what happened to them and where they are now ❤️
@@inappropriate The first immigration wave to Britain occurred in 1947, this was 1985, so the ethnic replacement of Englishmen obviously wasn't at as an advanced stage as it is today in 2019.
king of the Celts. There always has been immigration, however it was for many years controlled. Since the Blair era, and today there has been far too much uncontrollable immigration
Brought tears to my eyes. How I long back to those days. Kids these days think they know everything they think they are so mature. They have all the information at their fingertips. I wish they knew the true freedom of innocence we knew with nothing but the word of your elders to go on and the trust that all will be revealed in good time. Your only concern was what you and your mates will get up to on the weekend or maybe what film was showing at the cinema
I was 16 in 1985 and although I have still never managed to visit Newcastle I was totally captivated by this. Some very nifty video effects that deserve credit
Its great 2 see no mobile phones hey :) I was on strike 1984 to 1985 no coal mines left now , just a few old miners lol but i was only in my early 20s then :)
I wad born in that year and sincerely love my little City in the North, i remember so many of those places from childhood and I see them almost daily now, people seemed more friendly then, jeez we need to bring that back
