The Mysteries of Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley Revealed! 

Hi Eddie, I am from Austria, but in the 2000s I studied in Newcastle for 3 years, and your videos bring back a lot of fond memories from this gem of a city, but also some very interesting new insights I wasn't aware of. Makes me wanna come back and visit after all this time. Cheers and keep up the great work!

My Dad grew up in the Battlefield, next to Ouseburn in the 1920s & 30s. He went to the Royal Jubilee School on City Road, next to the Keelman's hospital, but went to the Ouseburn school for weekly woodwork classes, maybe metalwork. Before him my Grandma had gone there for weekly cookery classes. Been on many of the guided walks in the Ouseburn area over the years (Ouseburn Trust also Newcastle City Guides) Learned a lot about how my ancestors might've lived.

The Ouseburn's a great place to go on a nice summer's day for a walk and a pint or 3! Never get tired of watching your videos Eddie! Keep up the great work bonnie lad 👍

Hi Eddie , very interesting video, my family were wherrymen , lived on Lime Street, owned the Tyne bar, when it was The Ship Tavern, one even became a famous rower and his sliding rowing seat is displayed in the Discovery Museum.

Keep 'em comin' Eddy. Your vids are great. As an exiled Geordie (living in Edinburgh born in Ramshaw Street 73 years ago just off Scotswood Road in Elswick) I keep looking out for your latest instalment of the Newcastle and district history. Well done.

Have had such a sad week family death. But I come back to these videos and I find happiness.

Thank you so much. Was at ouseburn school from 1956 till 1959. Mixed infants and secondary school age girls. Mixed infants went onto mixed juniors at raby street school alongside their mixed juniors. Secondary age boys were at raby street. I was at raby street infants and juniors then at ouseburn for secondary education. It was a good place to be. We learned a good variety of skills. That whole area is so posh now in comparison. However I still think that the planners completely ruined Byker. We all of us lost all the sense of community we had grown up with. Keep it all coming.

Last time I was in Newcastle in 2017 (I'm Australian) we walked with the kids up the Ouseburn from the Tyne to Jesmond Dene. Such a great walk with the cool little Ouseburn Valley at the start and the amazing Jesmond Dene at the end.

You're a natural presenter Eddie. Once again very interesting and I learned something else about my home town.

Aww, wow, I love your dogs. The hubby and me have had Border Collies since 1985. Very interesting about Ouseburn 👍🏼

Another amazingly insightful video about the history of our region. Thanks for making these, Eddie!

In the early 80s, I was a member of an adventure group. And we went into the Ouseburn tunnel. Inside is a hidden tunnel that you need a ladder to access. This hidden tunnel was used as a hospital in the 2nd WW. I remember seeing old bed frames but not much else. Still well worth a visit if it's still possible. Jim

Lived in NE1 for the whole of covid near this. Moved to Australia and now I learn more about the city than ever. Top content!

My dad went to that school along with his brother ernest Smith who's story is told in the Victoria tunnel when he gave his life as a boy scout rescuing a young girl from a bomb crater.

Great Documentary as usual worth sharing.

Really interesting!! Thank you 👍🏻

My Nanna went to that school, it’s such a beautiful building. At 82 she still likes to brag that one of her teachers said she was good enough to work in the post office!

Excellent video Eddy, there's certainly some great places in and around Tyneside that all have great history.

Thanks!

Fantastic video Eddy. I love Ouseburn especially in the summer. Keep up the good work matey.

Great research and presentation Thanks 👍

Fascinating, love your content, thank you.

In late 80's/early 90's I worked at Anglo Swedish along from Spillers Mill, our owners owned City Road Garage and the old Smith and Barnes building opposite the school. People used to say it was haunted but I didn't know anything about the graves or head stones until now. Thank you, seen a few of your videos and now subscribed. 😃👍

Finally getting around to binge watching these like a said a would mate! Really enjoyed this vid! 👌

💖💖💖 Another great video! Thank you! 💖💖💖

Went about 4 years ago to the cluny for a gig, loved the community gardens, had a walk to the Tyne pub and a pub that catered for vegetarians, enjoyed the area

Brilliant video mate, can't wait to see more about this great place! We go to Ouseburn all the time and never knew this stuff!! 👍👍👍

Excellent video Eddie my childhood was spent playing down there my Gran lived in south view west facing the railway we used to climb the railway bridge and my Granda had a boat on the Ouseburn the place looked nothing like it does now when you mentioned the abbatoir I have memories of watching through the open doors the slaughtermen dispatching the cattle everyday seemed like an adventure back then.

Brilliant video Eddie well done mate !

Another interesting video and stuff I didn't know .. great video mate keep it up

Great tour Eddy! Fascinating! Lol; tanneries! Aye! Gonna do the tour!

Love your videos keep them coming

I'm 60 and lived in the North East all my life. I'm gutted I've never been but I'm definitely going to go, looks amazing. Thanks, a great video.

Quality video once again eddy! Just wondering if you’d ever do a video about grainger market? To me personally it’s one of the most interesting places in the whole city the amount of stuff inside and the fact every time you go inside the whole place feels like it’s in a different layout!

What fascinated me was how the ouse would travel through the Jesmond dene Valley and then suddenly go underground and appear again at the Ouseburn. Apparently, that is where the town dump was for many years with all sorts of toxic nastiness going in there. But would love to know more. Its a wonderful area to walk and cycle.

This is so interesting! Ouseburn isn't an area I know very well - most recently visited for music gigs at the Cluny. There's a young painter in Weardale, which is my home now, called Matt Ellwood who has painted some fantastic studies of local places in the form of Towers. He's done a brilliant Tower of Ouseburn (amongst many others) which features the magnificent red brick school building which I didn't know about before watching the video :) I suspect that YT frowns on links but M Ellwood has a website (btw I'm not on commission but my daughter tells me she was at school with his missus)

My kids used to play down there in 80’s/90’s, underground in the cully, as they called it…..

Very interesting video matey. Top content!!

Haven't been for years . Thanks 🙏👍

I’ve lived in Newcastle all my life and I can honestly say I’ve never been down there. I will now though after seeing this. Cheers

Tanneries...sunbeds...😂 Didnt see that one coming! Genuine lol. But seriously folks... Sand from ballast was crucial to the Ouseburn glass industry, which had the national monopoly on window glass for the whole of England in the 1640s.

Another very interesting and informative video. Always wanted to go here. Definately will now

Nice one, very interesting and have previously wondered who designed Ouseburn School as it always stood out with its eastern influenced spires. Born & bred a few miles away in St.Anthony's!

Very interesting. My memory of there was going over it on the train in the early 70s and seeing the water the most bizarre colours. Bright green one day, orange the next. This area is of course the home of the Ouseburn Delta Blues. Made famous by that Byker blues proponent George Welsh.

Was in brinkburn st brewery Friday,top beer top place great friendly staff.cheers

Great stuff Eddy 👏

Another interesting video Eddy 😊😊x

Very interesting Eddy.

Outstanding video mate...Its done my nut in for years why the path is made up of gravestones! Mystery over. Great content mate, keep em coming!

My gran went to that school ,she was born in 1896 s0 it must have been quite new when she went there

As a wannabe Geordie, these are great vids - love watching them!

Course you're cool and funky Eddie, that's why we watch you 😄

Looking forward to hearing your views on the pubs in Ouseburn! 🍺

Great Video, used to go a lot around that area to take photos

You're right, they were 5 things I didn't know :) class vid

Another cracking vid 👌

Great video.

Great informative vid. Get one done for North Shields!

Love your videos Eddie, I live spitting distance from the old Ouseburn school and have for 15 years never knew about the grave yard so interesting cheers

That's where my dad as a kid used to knock aboot when he was a kid! 👍 Me grandad used to own a coal yard down that kneck of the woods!

Looks a great place to chill & slide a few cold one's you cool & funky dude Eddie....sound vlog 🤙

Everytime i see your vids I run to my grandparents to try and see if I can tell them something new, but they always know all the facts and more hahaha. Amazing video.

Aye great Eddie 👍

I love this channel, not so much the nufc stuff since i gave up my season ticket but i used to love going down to the river, couldn't enjoy the pubs at the time cos I was a young'un and now I live elsewhere this stirs me so much, particularly the pride displayed in Tyneside. Would love to hear about similar channels in other parts of the country

I have a couple of properties there, beautiful little area of Newcastle.

You are 100% cool and funky Eddie 🐐

Great video Eddie put it on the tele and watched it eating my lunch! Surprised you didn’t mention the Victoria Tunnels! But a video idea for you, the Victoria Tunnels do tours in the Ouseburn every weekend 👏

Really enjoy your videos - fascinating. Have you considered doing one about Jack Common and Heaton?

Always very interesting history lessons Eddy about the area. Some people of a certain age will say ah the good old days and what you have just said about death from all sorts of diseases I don't think so and it was a tough life for so many people. Yes indeed the wall to keep out the jocks its a pity it wasn't still there to keep the Rangers fans out when they've played friendlies in the past and take over the town. The real reason was the wall was built to mark the roman empire in Britain ends here because there was a shortage of men and many were needed in other parts of the empire mainly on the eastern borders.

hey Eddy love the videos of newcastle! lived in byker as a child rough times ! moved to nyc in the 60s no and people would ask ARENT YOU SCARED? i would say HAVE YOU HEARD OF BYKER

Had a recording studio down there and DJed at many of the illegal raves and the legal ones that the council gave us permission to do. Plus my favourite pub in….well anywhere will always be the Tanners. I don’t drink like I used to so don’t get down there these days but the whole Ouseburn area holds a special place in my heart

Yeah , Ouseburn is cool and funky, Hadrian went and got his Larn Yersel Geordie book ,before building the wall,classic Eddy.Another great history lesson .By the way, we were so wrong about Leeds game ,lol.

top job, good informative video, I can remember when everything except the Tyne pub was derelict, the Cluny warehouse had an acid house party in it about 1980 and after that everything started to happen, the council realised they had a gem worth keeping, the buildings were literally falling into the Ouseburn, it was the chemical centre of the UK at one time and a lot of Italian immigrants lived there, much of it was owned by lord Armstrong-Mr Newcastle,

Another great video although I did spit my coffee out when you mentioned sunbed shops in relation to tanneries!😂 Keep up the good work!

I just caught your excellent video Eddy. Everyone from my Gran onwards went to Ouseburn School. My Gran's (born 1896) uncle was the first caretaker. I did see one error though. I went to Ouseburn infants from Easter 1960 to 1962 after which we progressed to Raby St Juniors so it did'nt close in 1960.

Very interesting video enjoyed it , mind that beer looks a bit cloudy..🙄🙄

Lived in the area all my life, played in Grannies park, still frequently walk around the quay side but oh I absolutely hate the graffiti!

Just subbed, Great video, Didnt know this place existed, We live sheltered lives in Gateshead lol, Will make a point of coming over for a look. Cheers mate. Sam.

Class vid, always thought the old school used to be some kind of Japanese embassy from the style of the roofs from the old shipping days

Ouseburn Farm is open now, btw. And watch yourself walking on those headstones in the damp, they're canny slippy!

Favourite part of Newcastle

I love your dogs

Hi Eddie, great video, if you do another about ouesburn? Mention about the TUNNELS and tour ran by the same guy’s from the trust? There excellent, and it starts around by the toffee factory, and that chimney there was in the opening scenes of the likely lads where terry is wondering off to the bus stop? Of what is called bolham way.

i played down there as a child. my dad helped in building byker farm, as it was known then.

would be nice if you did a video about the victorian tunnels & the history

Dee a video about the tunnel that goes from there under the toon centre

I came across the old graveyard last year by accident last year taking my durg out and was abit taken aback at what i was walking on but the old gravestones 😁

the byker viaduct metro bridge, a know everything about it, from casting the concrete units, in the casting yard, next to kfc, the stainless steel bearings on top of the columns, stressed macaloy bars, and steel cables, a worked on it from start to finish, grannies park was a good place to knock about in the 60s, rope swing, and skemies hoults yard, me friends dad use to be manage cumberland arms and his mum used to be manageress at the ship tavern under ouseburn bridge, back in the days, the best swing was railway bridge, 2 fractured wrists and a week in the rvi, we used to walk through the ouseburn cluny tunnel to jesmond dene with old paint tins set alight and used as torches. kids haven't got a clue nowadays

Interesting video. Thought you might have mentioned the seven stories boat. Also the big mural under the arch (I have forgotten the artists name). Both were in your video footage. p.s. I was the one who asked about Queen Victoria closing the blinds when her train passed through Newcastle, I done some checking and it would seem to be that it is an urban myth.

It was people like myself(riff raff) and my ancestors were kept out of england by hadrians wall for good reason lol great video eddie very interesting

my mam went to that school she lived in brock street in byker me and my mates youse to play there in the 60es and play on the graves very scary school at night

Have you been to Di Meos Eddy? Best ice cream in the region by far. Tynemouth one is great too especially the Paninis

Sad to see your last upload was removed while I was watching it, do you have an alternative place to view the full version?

Certainly need to take a walk to the pubs

Hi Eddie, do you have any videos talking about the history of the turnbull building?

Oi oi.here this was canny, bonnie lad.a proppa enjoyed it n av just hit like n subscribe..🐜 Ps am from prudhoe me dad's from walker mam's from seghill n a used to live on st Lawrence square...back Wen it was abit of a clip .the Tyne bar Doon the bottom there was and is my favourite drinking den .anyway inabit wor kid.🐜

Very entertaining only been to this area years ago to Byker farm .where do you come from .

When the Ouse burn was covered up, what was the in fill? What was put over it? Refuse?

When I was a kid in the 1930s we were told that the school sank a few inches every year

I heard there is an underground shopping center down in the Ouseburn, closed off in the 60’s have you heard of anything like that there?