South Shields Market and Seafront - August 1987 

This brings back the memories when King Street and South Shields Market had life, today it's tragically desolate. I wonder if the people in this video would be horrified if they were shown a video of what has happened to the once heart of south Shields,

Thriving, complete ghost town and dump now!

Amazing no signs of any immigrants .....what a wonderful time to be alive ..

It looks so busy! Really puts into perspective how down hill it's gone

its a shame what has happen to our town if you compare this to the current day its really sad, the town centre is like a ghost town somedays.

Was 7 months old at this point and this still makes me feel old...my kids would look at this like i look at something from the 1940s 😂

My home town..South Shields..a market town with an impressive market that brought hundreds of people three times a week...good for coffee shops,restaurants,pubs,and other business,s....killing the market killed the Town.sadley .it's no longer a Market Town...

The gooseneck crane in the middle docks brings back memories I used to work there and Smiths dock over the river I was probably on that navy boat docked. Its a shame the council ruined the town centre most of the shops are empty now. 10/8/2020

Thank you, my Uncle who lives in Australia took this footage.

I came from the yemen in1977and lived in south shields for 20 years and worked away from there . i always look at the videos and pictures to chear me up . Thanks for the videos.

Just goes to show that progress is not always a good thing =(

This was my old stomping ground as the founder of South Shields Market skins (nutty boys) we all wore crombies and trilby hats, with black sta-prest and fred perry's. Best days of my life :) :) :)

The world is a very different place now

my god i forgot how it used to be packed x ty x

I was 12 in 1987 and was a 'Shields lad at the time. Amazing to see King Street so busy :-D

goodness me i was literally just turned one when this was taken

I was born in 1991 i think i just caught the tail end of the good days of Shields I’m watching this now thinking i just wish so bad that i could go back to those times even just for one day but sadly i never will be able to damn if only thank you for the footage my friend

i was married 1st august 1987 (Saturday) that means this video was shot on a Monday! i think you'd be hard pressed to get this amount of people on a Saturday in august nowadays

This footage was filmed/taken on my eldest sister's 21st birthday-and she a'int in shot at any point in the video-shame!

Yes Sir J hall has a lot to answer for with his Metro Center, I think I heard somewhere the number of jobs created was = to number of jobs lost in Newcastle. Progress not.

very fond memories of the mid late 80s as a teenager and 10p on the bus from Sunderland got me into South shields to the beach and fair. got very vivid memories of Jason Donovan blasting out too many broken hearts. got to say, me and my brother go up north as often as we can and I love South shields it is beautiful the coastline and beaches are incredible and the walks along the leas spectacular.

wow, amazing m8 , cheers

It's not like that not nothing at all in the town centre it's completely dead hardly any jobs going at all

Three years before I was born it looks kind of the same

And this was on a monday wow theres more manky seagulls than people now sad to see the decline of our town

Oh dear. What a shit show it is now

Man i miss the trumboat from the fair :( best ride ever that was

the year i left shields as a 19 yr old,never looked back but still call it home and proud too

way I man thanks for the video .

I've worked away from Shields for the last 12 yrs now and always look at old videos and pictures to cheer me up. It'll always be home. Great video

Who is that smiley fisherman?

I remember my mum and dad and extended family members taking me through king Street on a Saturday day out to the beach. Only time I ever got to know my dad as he was joyful in those moments.

I'm sure that was me and me gran in the first few seconds of the film in Shields Market?

looks energetic!! Quite the contrast thesedays

Could you do with a d?

Well said!

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Love the shots of Mill Dam.

I love the opening shot of the Market Place with the old Town Hall in the centre plus the view down King Street from the stairs of the old Town Hall.

Great

It's a shame the town centre is now just full of junkies and alcoholics ....it once was an amazing town ...10 years time I dread to think what it'll be like it's so sad ....