I have lived here all of my life and rarely do i visit the Town centre, The labour council have no idea what they are doing to this once great town, so please come back it 5 years to see what i mean.
Brilliant video Eddie, born and bred in Wallsend as a yunun, because of pit closures in the early day's, the family left the area for graft, like many, many families from the NE, emigrated to the Midlands, you have brought back so many memories mate ❤
Sunderland fan from Thailand here. Loved your tour around Wallsend. I was born in Willington Quay in 1971. Changed a bit since that time. Love your videos Eddie.
Agree with you Eddie I just love seeing them old buildings but then you turn the corner and have a. Vape shop. Mcewans best scotch " the one you've got to come back for "
I don't know if you've seen this recently, but rewatch the film 'Get Carter' as it's both a great film and serves as a time capsule of early 1970s Tyneside, (I was born in '74, so it's a really, really distant memory).
Herons use to be woolworths aka woolies and use have a massive co op 2 floors that's gone now it's and the home bargains ritzs use to me a massive bingo hall pound bargains was called greenaways
Cheryl Cole, is a local lass her dad loves a bit of karaoke in the local. It’s also where Viv Graham got shot and murdered outside The Ship pub that you walked past. 👍🏻
There’s always negative comments from some locals about Wallsend. It’s nice to get an outsiders opinion. I’ve said for years that there’s much worse shopping centres than Wallsend. Ps Peter Ware Higgs isn’t from Wallsend. It’s a wiki mistake. I spoke to his PA a few years back. I made the same mistake with wiki.
8:25 i was waving at you in my silver taxi lol but was too much glare to see me never mind , yeah wallsend is great just normal down to earth people and the nicest people you can meet
Great video Eddy 👍Wallsend has a fantastic Park, 5 mins from the town centre heading north up station road. Well maintained and a great space for local families, dog walkers etc.
I love the friendliness of proper Northerners....... Proper Gadgies. I left (Northumberland) in 1991 when I was 18, used to go to the Toon every weekend, shops, pubs, footie, loved it, loved it, loved it. My kids are grown-up now & busy making their own lives. This past year I've been up about 4 times looking at properties, I've had the itch that I can't ignore to get my backside back to the Motherland. I cannae wait man, cannae wait. Great vid Eddie. ATB
@@johnoldie1 It's funny....... I'm 52 & left the N/E when I was 18, have lived where I live for 34yrs, almost twice as long here than the 18yrs in the N/E....... But, my accent is still as strong as when I left and I still use all the local slang etc. I always greet people as 'Gadgie'. Great word.
@@totomesch1940 Dear Gadgie, Me too - can still speak Oxford - Walker - Rochester Dwellings Geordie after leaving Tyneside 68 years ago. However, it is unintelligible to non Geordies. My generation had to do 2 years National Service - me in the RAF. Bring it back - stop young men `clartin on`. Jack.
Eeeeee Eddie,....this is wonderful. I was born in Wallsend Green hospital and know that town so well, but its been years since I've been back. My father worked at Swans for years, I wonder where everyone finds employment now? This video has made my day,...thank you so much. PennyXxx
The original Anson Pub which was sadly demolished a good few years ago had a very well known local customer. He was a Jack Russel dog and he had his own seat at the bar. His owner would drop him off and he would be served beer from a dog bowl. Sometimes he'd have a few too many and fall asleep and have to be carried back home. If anybody tried to nick his seat they were told that it was the dog's seat or if anybody nicked it when the dog came in he would growl and jump up to get it back!
Great video. Living here for 70 years always felt quite negative about it in recent years since the shipyards closed. Lots of charity shops and struggling businesses but that was quite positive. About 5 minutes away you would have discovered Wallsend Park which seems to have improved a great deal from my younger days. That would have been another positive. Was quite a shock to find Roman remains under my house when they knocked it down. Never saw any Centurian ghosts in the 12 years we lived there, thankfully. Enjoyed that Eddie, thanks.
Yes got some good memories of times spent there as a child. The old putting green was well used :) Family took the bairn there recently. Think it's fortnightly but lots of activities for the little ones and they were very impressed with the catering etc. Worth a look :)
Cracking Vid Eddie. I live just behind the forum and it's safe to say the town centre has its ups and downs. Local folk are generally nice but can say over the years the age range is on the higher end. The younger people are more on the outskirts past the high street. There is a corridor to the left of New Look inside the forum that has a bit of a "Memory Lane" with pictures of the old high street and forum etc. Used to be Woolworths and Blockbusters etc. A nice touch with the metro station too is the signs are also written in Latin too with the english ones to keep with the Roman theme and further up the road from the fort there is a "mock" rebuild of what the wall looked like. Anyway, great content as usual m8
Wallsend is dead now Eddie. No footfall, lack of investment and prices etc sky high for retail units. The forum used to be buzzing with people when I was a kid. The area is also becoming more multi cultural these past few years. When you were at the ship pub you were not far from the new Wallsend boys club too and also Wallsend buffs club just had £250k bar revamp all Newcastle utd and Wallsend history on the walls it’s beautiful
He does one with Sting called Haddaway which I'd very good, and another called 'The Water Of Tyne' which is another personal favourite. Jimmy and Dire Straits, to me, are the sounds of this city, they capture it's beauty and spirit in their songs about it
A small gripe eddy!! As you walked up station road to the traffic lights. You passed the place where "sting" grew up, on the right!! I believe it was above what was or is a Chinese takeaway away. As pointed out by a smithsonian channel called "Arial Britain".
Smashing video Eddy! Back in the 60/70’s the two best social clubs in Wallsend were the Lindisfarne and the Miners. Both still exist but in very different forms these days. My fave was the Miners and I’ll never forget playing there at Xmas 1976. Bobby Thompson was top of the bill. Brilliant night.
I used to go busking in Wallsend in the mid 1980s when I was a student. I played in what is now the covered in precinct before the roof went on. I have to thank my patrons from those days who were VERY generous in their donations. Thanks you too Eddy. Stay cool young man. Love - as always - from Mexico. Also Wallsend precinct features in an episode of "The Likely Lads" in the 1970s.
Another enjoyable video, Eddie. I'm from Surrey originally but am a big Newcastle fan (long story!) and moved to Wallsend last year and don't regret it. Like every town, it has it's nicer bits (especially around Richardson Dees Park) and it's rougher bits. It's an affordable place to live with all the essentials, great transport links and loads of friendly people as usual. Also a really convenient location being right in the middle of the town centre and the coast.
Canny video.... Manhattens was originally called the Black Bull and the Ship Inn was originally the Robin Hood. The Wallsend customer first centre used to be the CO-OP when the forum first opened (1967 that part opened) now it's a library, council offices and also has a community police area included. A lot of the shops high street east aren't open until the night time. Coach and Horses is a listed building, currently up for sale, been closed quite a few years now.
The fact that no huge supermarket is in walking distance gives the high street a real fighting chance which allows the community and pubs a chance to thrive
@davidhartley219 yeah but aldi is not like Asda, it doesn't open a huge store on the outskirts of town and entice everybody away from the high street, infact you can use the free carpark and nip to other shops as well
Thanks for this, Eddie! I was born in Wallsend in the mid-'60s. I have lived in Canada since the early '70s but have been back to the NE (not often Wallsend, sadly) every couple of years since then. My grandad was in charge of the fire station in Wallsend when I was little. I look back on my early days very fondly (maybe with rose-coloured glasses?). I was hoping you were going into Dickson's for a peas pudding sandwich, but we can't have it all. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thanks for your efforts. Cheers, Mark, on Vancouver Island.
I've been watching Julie's Wallsend videos for a couple of years. Well worth a look for both her videos on Wallsend history and her crime videos. Highly recommended!
Same in Canada now born Northumberland but lived in Wallsend. nice seeing it hasn’t really changed in the almost 7 years that I left, everything you need is on your door step 👌🏼
I used to work for Ritchi who owned a second hand shop on that high street, we picked up furniture from al awa the place carrying geet settees up flights of stairs and loads of heavy stuff, a ownly got paid 15 pund for working me knackers off all day, still, he done me favours like lending me doe and getting stuff from his shop on chucky, canny bloke but tight as a fishes arse. Great vids mate there is no place like the Toon and the people in it.
Aye he did...was thinking tht when he did 😁 wallsend is nothing like it used to be ...am born and bred and still am ...bk in the day in early 80s/90s ...was mint ...and thriving properly ....its a little on its arse now to say the least ...i know the local glen from my early days ..sound kid and hes right we all know most eachother ...anyway eddie noce upload regardless 😁😎
Great to see you covering wallsend Eddie, you were only a stones throw from me, would have been great to see you. Back when wallsend was in its best. We would start a night out at the very bottom of the high street at a pub called The new winning, (now houses) then on to the East end club (now houses) then onto the Coach and Horses ( now closed) the Anson the ship the anchor and at the very top The Duke of York. There's also the wallsend buffs club and there was also another bar at the metro station called the Carville (flattened now) it's a canny night still now, but back then it was jumping. Great video, great content. Thanks Eddie.
The 'Customer First Centre' is basically the local council offices for Wallsend, a public library, a tiny police office and a few rooms for community services. Used to be the old Co-Op supermarket building until around 2012 if I've got my years right. You also missed out on the visible part of Hadrian's Wall just a tiny bit outside of where you stopped, it crosses the public footpath that overlooks the Tyne
I remember boxing at the old Wallsend Boys Club in 1972. I boxed a lad there called Dougie Johnson from United Services Club in Hartlepool. Dougie was tall for his weight 8st 10 pounds and I'd lost twice to him by majority decision. I was determined that this time it would be me walking out the winner so, when the bell sounded I went after him and forced him into a corner where I threw some power shots to his midriff then followed them up with hooks to his jaw. I had him going and it was only the intervention of the bell that saved him from being stopped. In the second round I used my jab to great effect and began countering his lead. I slipped and moved as he tried to rally. The bell sounded and I was certain I had two rounds in the bag. I was leaving nothing to chance in the third and completely outboxed Johnson. He had no answer to my double left then right cross. The crowd were cheering as I went to work on his body. Johnson was tired and trying to hang on but my hands were like pistons as they pumped away until the final bell. I won the fight by a unanimous decision and also the boxer of the night award. It was presented by John McNamee the Newcastle united player.
Aye, we lived round the corner from the park, practically lived there playing football on the bit that runs along along Prince Road in all weathers and cricket in the summer. Also the fab putting green, the tennis courts and the bowls, we wanted for nowt back then!
Excellent memories, born and bred in Wallsend. Lived in Gerald Street which was demolished in the late 70’s as houses had seen better days. Found more ruins of Segedunum Roman fort when houses were cleared. Great years living there while the super tankers were being built, my father worked in Swans nearly all of his life. Thanks for this video, reminded me how much I really miss the place.
Wallsend is definitely better than Gateshead. I was born in Wallsend, Rosehill gardens. But moved to Gateshead in 1962 was alright then, but now it's disgusting, hardly any shops open, full of druggies and alcoholics
That junction is the main crossroad in Wallsend, The shop on your left used to be Boots the Chemist, straight over the road was Woolworths which moved there from a location where you entered the Forum.
My Grandad(Mattie Wightman),and me Dad (Joe Mole) were stalwarts of the Coronation. Both were Leek Show judges and went “doon the clerb” for a game of billiards or snooker all the time.
The place is loads different from when I was a kid I moved to Northampton when I was 12 and I was lucky enough to call Wallsend my home before then I live in a small estate called railway Terri's sorry spelling is crap but it backed on to the docks and had an abandoned coal mine on the left of the road I absolutely loved it there I did return after some years away and didn't recognise the place witch was a shame
Great stuff I lived in wallsend for 6 years from 94 -2000 I worked in the coach and horses for a year till the manager left to manage the Raby shields rd he wanted me to go with him to train to be deputy manager but couldn’t afford to quit my day job. I could tell some stories about the brief period working there
Hi Eddie, thanks for the trip down memory lane, Wallsend has changed a lot since i moved from there 30 years ago and i think like all town centres its went down hill, but great to see the flat i was born in 60 years ago down by the town hall. Keep up the good work, love the channel.
Hi Eddie love your channel! As a native Wallsender in exile, gotta say I find the decline of the High Street very depressing, all those boarded up shops was a very sobering sight. This used to be a vibrant town centre back in the 70s and 80s where you could get almost anything you wanted, you didn't have to go to town. I know your thoughts on your visit were quite a positive but from my point of view it was sad to see the place looking on its knees. Lovely to see the blokes at The Anchor, that was my favourite part of the video. Awful to see the historic Coach and Horses closed and everywhere looking in terminal decline, I say this with a heavy heart 💔 😢
The Newcastle in Australia has so many Newcastle (UK) related places. Obviously there is Newcastle itself, but Wallsend (as you mentioned), Jesmond, Hexham just to name a few.
Impulse studios were in High Street East. Home of the record company NEAT. Heavy Metal bands such as Tygers of Pan Tang & Venom recorded there. NEAT also published "John Kettleys a Weatherman". Another example of an album recorded bY NEAT at Wallsend was by local Indie band the Crisis Children during the 90s ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AbL0be0bxoE.htmlsi=km7VKieQBK6ou3gi
Me too! We went as a family to see the Ark Royal and I remember being over the moon because a man came on the tannoy and announced "Will the Thompson family please vacate the ship!" My dad laughed , he obviously had a friend/colleague who was a practical joker as much as he was ❤
Wallsend !!I I worked in Wallsend many many moons ago , I met me very best friend while working there . I tell you it was a smashing place back in the day. I was canny young then . I don't recognise the place now , oh me brother inlaw worked at the said ship yard for over 20 year. The ship yard gone , me very best friend passed away. And by looks of it Wallsend is gone down the pot pardon the pun. And I now live over the water in gateshead , but loads and loads loads of really happy memories of Wallsend I wouldn't want to go there nowadays spoil all my good memories. And looks an entirely different place now very sad😢😊
On the corner of the Coast Road and Prospect Avenue was a pub called the Rising Sun, maybe still there. The Animals rehearsed there before they were famous. Coincedence or what ?
I worked in Wallsend after the Shipyards closed. It is still a big hub for Subsea Engineering, although you need to look slighty away from Wallsend Centre - think Hadrian Road or Walker. I worked on the same Ind. Estate (Oceania) where Geordie Shore was filmed after the initial season and swish it was not. I will say those folk in the show were always nice and polite whenever our paths crossed though. Riseborough is a Whitley Bay lass although she is not too complimentary about the area..The "Armpit of the World" I do remember her calling it?
