Where did Byker Go! Part 2 of 2 

My dad grew up in old Byker. It must’ve been an amazing place, with all the old style pubs & hotels. The Byker people loved living there. It was ruthless property developers giving backhanders that spelt doom for everyone who lived in that great community. It was illegal what they did. So much of Newcastle’s historic buildings have gone the same way. Today, only around 50 years later, they’d be treasures of the town.

Love your videos I grew up in parker street my mam n dad would have loved watching these x

I lived in Corbridge Street in the 50s until I was 7 then we moved to High Heaton. We were poor but very happy. Thanks for the photos. They were happy days.

Work went , spirit went , byker went!

what a sad Video Byker had its heart ripped out of it and its all down to city planners in the 1960s

a keep looking a 1.56 i used to have a 150 ld lambretta and my mate had a 125 li, and we would visit my sister at byker in 70, 71, does anyone know when the photo was taken we use to call in at dougies bike shop raby street, or brian spencies motorcycle shop tynemouth road ( later he moved to sheilds road next to the apollo )the 150 lambretta was a very rare scooter and i doubt anyone would own one it was 1956 model and most would of been scrapped by then, it cost me 5 pounds, today for a restored £4,500

gone but never forgotton 🤫

The guy at 0:17 looks like Wilfred brambel from steptoe and son, .good video 👍

This film is like Part 1 - no voices. We need to hear the old voices, the dialects.

Brilliant

Where are the photos of the kids in the streets from? They’re photos of my dads sisters and brothers (my aunties and uncles)

Where did Byker go? Benwell, IIRC ...

Such a shame, it's happened all over the country.

I live in byker it's full of drink ,drugs and broken souls 💔

T Dan Smith, say no more, put it in a brown paper bag please,