I grew up in the 60s it was not till the 70s or 80s I worked for the coopers they were absolutely brilliant for to work for

Strawberry cheesecake anyone?

My grandma lived at the bottom of Holy avenue at the back of the Spanish city... Give anything to go back for a day❤

At least whitley is still recognisable even after 50yrs plus. Especially gong towards the amusements. Who remembers the lazer quest back in the early 90s.

"TUNNEL OF LOVE"

Does anyone know who the guys were on the biĝ wheel at that time

The precinct is struggling on since Morrisons supermarket

Cold didn’t bother us🥶

Amazing how they were brought down consecutively

Can anyone remember the old lady who used to wander the streets as kids in the late 60s if you looked at her I seem to remember she got rather abusive

Probably the greatest Geordie ever

Happy memories of the "Spannawilly" from 1950s, but unchanged on the video. The "House that Jack Built" is there, but not the "Wall of Death". Maybe that was considered unsafe, but it was fun!

Am I the only one from 2023

Great little town, and a whole community wiped out for a poxy road. CRIMINAL😮

I remember spending many days at that place, winning on some fruit machines and going to the chippy right next to the entrance and they were always served in a paper cone, ah the good old days.

I like msc curse ships it's time there come back to port of tyne its being so long since there what here last

WOWSER. 😁

it's enough to make you weep. Coals to Newcastle.

Happy days

Maybe one day the anywheres will discover somwhere with a palatable tax regime.

They should have left old Blaydon well alone😞 I remember laws stores for weekly shop, so sad they destroyed it, FOR WHAT?? Tch😕

HMS Newcastle & HMS Glasgow at the Neptune yard, i was 16 years as an apprentice. Still remember the loss of life from the two ships being fitted out. September 1976.

I wonder how many of those lost buildings would be listed today?

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So it wasn’t just Exeter that lost historic parts of the city to idiotic road building schemes and misguided attempts at modernising in the 1960s. What Hitler didn’t destroy the city council continue to do so to this day.

Never mind the comments below. I’m a North Shields kid who at 10yrs old together with my mates used to walk to Tynemouth everyday in the summer and use the outdoor pool. Never paid to get in. Didn’t have any money. Used to distract the guy on the entrance and sneak in one by one. Great times. Fabulous in fact, and the water was a lot warmer than the little outdoor pool in North Shields at Hawkeys Lane. Now that was an ice cold pool. And you couldn’t sneak in either. Simpler times. Better times. When we all had nothing….but we had it all!

Would love for everyone captured in the film to be able to see themselves, great times 🥰

Very good .. Brought back memories

Woow that's a brilliant old video mate looks awesome jan 👍👍👍👍👍💜💜

Did Mrs Wardle live in Westerhope?

Brings back many happy memories, I recall visiting there many times during the late 60s & early 70s.Thanks for the memories.

All in the name of 'progress'. Disgraceful. I believe the chip shop and cafe featured in one of the 'Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads' episodes was very near Blaydon railway station.

Thats,a shame when computer calculate demolition made bye educated personal does go wrong in this manner. The involved people should change the profession . Some mistakes are a sign to think about if its the right job...truck drivers and baker man are jobs were guaranteed is a place free and without years of studying...

I was born 2 years after this film, and despite leaving Whitley bay in 1982, this will always be my home, it has changed a bit now but going on holiday with my partner and his mam there tommorrow. Can't wait! Thanks for such a beautiful film, brought a tear to my eye....very fond memories! x

Better Days, Better People.🇬🇧

Unusual approach. Must have been a south easterly wind.

Disgusting what's been stolen from us

I look at this and so much floods back. The sun on my face. A whiter shade of pale playing at the funfair. The nags pinball machine I got so many replays on. The smell of the cars on the speedway ride. The taste and smell of the hamburgers. My awful marksmanship on the air rifles. The breeze in my face on the wet sand at the beach. In later years riding through on a BSA, or a Yamaha RD, or whatever else I was on in a given year. Sitting in one or other of the cafes listening to the jukeboxes. A cool pint at the Delaval Arms. Thank you for this and thank you Whitley Bay.

P ink Floyd crashing?

Tens of thousands of hours to build, less than a minute to destroy.

Can’t hear anything because some asshole has a loud camera…

I was brought up in Whitley and still get back there a couple of times a year. The recent investment has really improved the beach area and the restaurants have improved markedly since this was filmed in the 90s. Looking forward to my pre-Xmas fix later in the month!

A wonderful city full of some of the best people i have ever met.

Such a shame it was deliberately burnt to the ground 😢it was a lot older than what was said, and it was in fact a royal palace,once owed by the king of bernicia before the separate kingdoms became England, and there were palaces all around the world almost exactly the same as that and on beach fronts and they all burn down

Sadly I missed the demolition of the chimneys, but I do remember a visit to the power station in the late 60s or maybe it was in the 70s. My friend's dad worked there so there was an open day, so see how it all worked. OK, there were turbines etc, but what I recall most was that ice cream was free for the kids ... and you could go back for more as often as you wanted. .. Think I went 4 times .. or was it 5🍦🍦

miss the house of fun, just needed a couple of gud runners so i could stick to the barrel 1970

I was 5 when this was filmed. Brought back some good memories.

What's the music

I blew them up

Oh I blew the. Up