Wonderful footage. I was a child in the seventies and this is like stepping back in time. A much simpler time, happy days😊

Councils demolish communitys as well as houses. When my Aunties house was demolished in Scotswood she was moved to Kenton and lost touch with neighbours she'd known for decades.🥺

No Health and Safety, Mowlem??!

That'll be more of that white privilege on show again then.

My uncle had a boat docked there in the 60s 70s we used to go out fishing on it great times

I hope they got the pronouns correct. How..how 'privileged' these people were.

Fascinating video of one of the most iconic images of the Metro network.

My Nan was born down in the ouseburn in the 1930s, they had such a hard life, not much to their names but she told me it was the best times of her life 😊

It’s amazing the difference in the river side then compared to now

Mr Lucas my dad ..❤

1976 was a different world.

absolutely lovely. How I wish I could go back to 1976.

My uncle was landlord at the old boat club. Breaks my heart to see the gentrified hipster hell it's become.

Look at the happy kids playing outside, such a difference. The community was demolished as well as the homes.

1976 a summer never to be forgotten, mind it does look a bit cloudy in places 15:13 is that Leclerc aka Jack Haig?

At 15:13 I just spotted a Ford D series truck in the black/coffee livery.. going towards Byker that was "Star Remoulds" otherwise known as Durham Rubber, from Market Lane Chester-le-Street my dad could have been driving that ! On a drop at Kwik Fit Heaton Thanks for posting !

Great video......thank you.

brilliant... i lived in the cradlewell back in the early 90s and was one of the first people to go mountain biking in the dene...i probably never helped when it came to corrosion where those trees were @ 6:11 and none of it was fenced off so used to cycle all over the place... :)

If old byker with its community, streets, shops, pubs and hotels had been modernised from INSIDE but leaving the actual buildings alone, old byker would be an absolute gem as far as history is concerned. But no- T Dan Smith etc chose to accept backhanders in return for the total destruction of byker heritage and wider areas too. So sad that a whole community of people who LIKED living there were ousted, and rehoused in awful modern byker wall type housing.

Never seems right to me when you get a commentary on the north east with anything other than that lovely Geordie accent.

I only hope and pray that Newcastle Council members from that era who authorised the demolition and destruction of whole areas of the city will be tried and punished in Heaven and then sent where they belong.....................somewhere HOT!

My Grandfather was born in Jesmond Dene North Lodge in 1896 I believe as his farther was in service to Lord Armstrong. His last job before retiring was to return to the Dene and work in the Council's greenhouse nurseries. My uncle also worked for the Council within Jesmond Dene as did I from 1987 till 1988 upon where I was transferred to Heaton Park. MillHouse which is a cafe now was just an empty abandoned house, ground floor was used as a bait cabin by the then YTS. The wife and I still pop down to Jesmond Dene now and then as I feel the family conection to the area. Thanks for the upload.

jessa dene , the giants footsteps, the lions den, the devils canyon, for gotten the rest but it was 55 yrs ago when we would play there collecting conkers and back through the culley underground tunnel to grannies park r maybe the railway bridge rope swing

That’s my great aunty Bella the old lady in the coate and walking stick with the little dog the dog was called lucky old byker was great and the people the salt of the earth

really interesting film, some risks involved for the workforce in putting the viaduct together. Hats off.

harika

What a brilliant little documentary. The area is still massivley changing as I type. Imagine what the next 10 years will bring! 2032 and we may not recognise that entire area once again.

Smash them too little bits , that's the policy even today , separate them , send them off into the void .

How can i, contact Gordon I was, in the 7th boys brigade in byker am, 61 now

We're these all over or just in the northeast, nd did people hear what he said with his wife about him getting alot of agro, so some people know what's going on 🤔🤔 what's going on 🤔maybe they were done to keep the silly geordies distracted and entertained while we rip there beautiful old city and surrounding areas down, that's what I got from the old man who mentioned old newcastle. And then at the end when he said at least his team was winning 🤔🤔

5 mins and 16 secs and theres me goin down Raby Street...lol them were the days

There was a massive demolition programme in the east end of Newcastle and the west end of Wallsend in the late seventies. Most of these houses and flats were worn out and few people would want to go back to outside toilets, tin baths and coal fires.

i hadnt realised there is a service tunnel under the trax. great bit of history

Knew it well, lived at tynemouth road - remembered graccis ? bakers - dad lived on Elvet st. and he used to tell me stories about his childhood there - he went to North View school- happy memories

I hope the British people realize that the rest of the world views them as just lazy unkempt stupid people that live in filthy run down surrounding because of their laziness , no pride whatsoever in themselves , you would think at least somebody would get off their lazy arses and organize people to clean up the rubbish from the canals , so third world .

Him in those trousers, is where the rot set in..

Why's naybody taalkin in the Geordie dialect?

What a wonderful film i work near the viaduct and must drive past it at least 5 times a day. Thank you for sharing (:

Brilliant film it would be interesting if a new one were made to see what changes had come about in the intervening years.

A truly horrible shit hole of a place, full of druggies and piss heads.

Canny little documentary as I lived round there growing up, from the Ship inn towards the Tyne it's changed a lot, full of little pubs, quayside got their luxury riverside flats, actually not a nice place at night as the new street lamps are so dull by the way, I know everyone in this vid, not really, but know all the places Am sure there was a pottery place and a lead mine, or lead-miners homes, but after a big rain fall and the river goes down, I often go down and find bits of pottery?

I was born in Denmark Street in 1955 lived in three hoses in that street 112, 116, 106, remember this well.

nigel on the theodolite, billy the joiner full ov energy

Lived on North View remember demolition.

We have a picture of the VE party taken on Ayton st I think, that has my grandmother and other family members on it.

Thanks for this, I can’t wait to show my mother your video who was born in 1936 and lived on Ayton st and continued to live in and around Byker until her late teens. She often reminiscing about the old raby picture house. Thanks 😊

Aye the 70’s 😊 Pram wheels some planks of wood and a big bolt, the great times we had with our bogie. Simpler times offering simpler pleasures where everything and everyone were included. Not to mention the amount of recycling we did. Excellent video, thank you for the memories.

The simplicity is golden

Brilliant film its great to see how these everyday sights were built . Its all pretty tecnical stuff . Thanks for posting .

I was born at 22 North View in 1965. I didn't realise that these homes had been declared as unfit for human habitation in 1953. This would be some time between 1969 and 1982 - the presence of some of the houses of the new development tells me this is late seventies.