Hi Colin. This is Raymond. I am sitting on stand bye in Stromness trying to get back to the mainland. I will subscribe to your channel and send the odd message👍👍👍
@thewansbeckwanderer63433 күн бұрын
Hi Raymond, it was great to meet at Evie, I'm still laughing about your your logical question regarding who got the job. If your ever back in Orkney I hope that you get in touch because I could have chatted to you for hours. I loved your campervan, a real masterpiece in engineering.
@Aurora_Qnxz8 күн бұрын
Can you please share the location ?
@billharries433318 күн бұрын
Brought up in that Durty ole Town. Went down the Ashngton Duke pit in 1954 Coneygarth drift. Seams were running out and some heights were at only 18inches.
@billharries433318 күн бұрын
Ashington
@mikemusic821324 күн бұрын
Ashganistan at its finest land of the Shell suits😂
@iancadwallender977926 күн бұрын
I grew up in Elder Square by the college. You went right over our old house.😢
@christinedrylie80172 ай бұрын
I used to lived in orkney and my teacher stiles lived in orkney and her family and grandchildren they still loved living up there
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
Its a special place
@lornaburgess97622 ай бұрын
My Auntie lived in Chestnut St and one of my cousins in Beatrice St.
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
I lived in Chestnut street for 5 years.
@robmcginley2 ай бұрын
I love this Colin. In the deepest parts of the Fatherland. Thank you.
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
My pleasure, please make sure you like and subscribe for more local videos.
@uksanddancer2 ай бұрын
Such a shame this beautiful place is being destroyed by greedy business people it's now lost it's shopes and all the old world is being destroyed just like my town very sad to see. Love to all ❤
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
You are so right and sadly this is whats happening to most towns in uk
@POLITICAL-BIAS.2 ай бұрын
Most of these people who are saying they are homeless, are liars. Most are deliberately begging on the streets for cash.
@davidburgoine16123 ай бұрын
We were there last September. Loved it. Great video and nice to have scottish music to add to the flavour. Brilliant .We will be back, It was probably our favourite place we visited. Thank kou !!
@thewansbeckwanderer63433 ай бұрын
Thank you for the kind comments.
@maxspeed303 ай бұрын
Great video thanks. Nice to see where some of my ancestors lived in the 1860. Mostly Rendall’s and Work surnames.
@thewansbeckwanderer63433 ай бұрын
There are still family's with those surnames, especially Rendall.
@iancadwallender97794 ай бұрын
I was born in Asha,and moved to pegswood when i was 34.Lived on newbiggen road when born,then in elder square from age of 3 till 34.Sad to see it like this now.Im only 3 miles up the road,but hardly go there now.
@thewansbeckwanderer63434 ай бұрын
Very sad
@andrewcharleton72694 ай бұрын
Born in Rothbury Cottage Hospital 60 years ago and this is the first time I have flown over my beautiful home. and the weather was champion for a change. Thank you Wansbeck Wanderer
@NeilDavison-rz9mf5 ай бұрын
Cracking videos looks awesome
@thewansbeckwanderer63435 ай бұрын
Cheers Neil, its a great place to live and relax.
@NeilDavison-rz9mf4 ай бұрын
Hello fella, hope your keeping well and living your dream??
@NeilDavison-rz9mf4 ай бұрын
Gis a txt sometime I've still got the same number
@nathalierosie915 ай бұрын
great video 👌
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
Thank you
@mpkwok4495 ай бұрын
Nice weather and thank you for taking the video. I will be there soon😊
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
Enjoy your time here
@lacabenita85985 ай бұрын
como se llama el que canta,? 😀✌️
@thewansbeckwanderer63435 ай бұрын
Thank you and come and visit
@lacabenita85985 ай бұрын
WWOOO ,hermoso vídeo.y que linda música amigo.! me encantó.,🎶🎉💯👍🤩🙏
@lacabenita85985 ай бұрын
excelentísimo amigo. muy buen vídeo y muy bonito.. 👍🤩🙏💯🎉
@lacabenita85985 ай бұрын
WWOOO. ¡¡ mucha belleza. espectacular.¡ 👍🎉🎉🎉💯😁🙏
@janetaylor71875 ай бұрын
Wow the scenery is beautiful
@thewansbeckwanderer63435 ай бұрын
The safest place to be is here too
@jerryoshea31165 ай бұрын
Not the worst Market i've seen ( functional might best describe it) But a pretty characterless place ( And that's no reflection on the People) But i think n the 60's when i assume the 'Mines' & u might have had other industries were in full operation,&people were probably full of positive Vibes! But yrs of being pretty much ignored ( is Newcastle the closest Largest City?) and it appears it's been stuck in 'Limbo'. On a more positive noten.i ,hink this was the area where the ' 'Charlton' family came from? Two greats of the game!
@thewansbeckwanderer63435 ай бұрын
Its a dying town and very sad to witness
@andrewnicholson615 ай бұрын
some cracking views
@thewansbeckwanderer63435 ай бұрын
Great day oot Andy, magical place
@Steven5teven5 ай бұрын
I told some French truck drivers this story, They was gobsmacked, Some disbelieved, We had a good laugh, & more beers, I saw one of the drivers a while back, And he is stilling that story to other drivers, I like to think it's a true story,
@thewansbeckwanderer63435 ай бұрын
I love it
@subhashiscj22526 ай бұрын
Nice work
@davewakefield1036 ай бұрын
Another great video Colin.
@thewansbeckwanderer63436 ай бұрын
Thanks Dave.
@EricLehner6 ай бұрын
Hello from Canada. Well done!
@thewansbeckwanderer63433 ай бұрын
Hello to Canada
@susanofhullhumberside47537 ай бұрын
It's being overwhelmed with new demographics just like Blyth and Workington in the past 12 months
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
Its very sad, especially with the amount of revenue taken out of the town by countless governments.
@stephenwilkinson9498 ай бұрын
A treeless eyesore ...typical of those towns ...no idea of asthetics even a plant box is exotic .....er its a sh... Hole ...i know i come from there.
@annemccabe17148 ай бұрын
Generally the people living in Ashington are amiable, humble, & down to earth, we go there now & again in the summer when the Market is on, and have fish and chips, from the corner chippy, absolutely A1 delicious!
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
Ashington folk are what you say, amiable, humble, & down to earth, I met some lovely hard working people.
@r1bew428 ай бұрын
I lived at 250 Milburn Rd (next to Woodwork Shop) until I was 7 then we moved to Ellington. My Grandma had the shop at bottom of Milburn Rd, S&I Bewicks. My Grandad Stan Bewick was a bit of an entrepreneur in the old days. Was a great place to grow up. Lot of Meadowell scum moved up to Ashington after the riots in 1992. Pits closed before that,drugs,no hope........doomed.
@thewansbeckwanderer63438 ай бұрын
I lived in Ashington for 8 years and it was incredible the speed of its decline. Very sad
@stottybox31858 ай бұрын
Labour Party stronghold.
@thewansbeckwanderer63438 ай бұрын
Shame they haven't fought to improve it 😕
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
It's a shame that all governments have taken the money from the coal and not reinvested it. Ian Lavery is a big talker but has only lined his own pockets just like the rest of them.
@thewansbeckwanderer63436 күн бұрын
Slavery Lavery, Parasite of the Ashington people.
@sirpagandetyptoft67939 ай бұрын
You passed the bird at the burger van when you passed Wilko the first time
@dianeandderrickhenderson4759 ай бұрын
Closed the Pits killed the town,
@thewansbeckwanderer63439 ай бұрын
It's very sad to witness a dying town especially when the UK government made billions of pounds from it in its hay days.
@dianeandderrickhenderson4759 ай бұрын
@@thewansbeckwanderer6343 like every pit village up and down the Northeast coast...ghost towns.
@dianeandderrickhenderson4759 ай бұрын
I live 10 miles north of Ashington originally from Pit villages. Ashington was our regular Saturday visit for shopping , Pictures and Swimming bath's. My Mam and Dad would go to the Auction every Saturday and my older Brother would take me and my younger Sister to the pictures. There was a choice of three. The Regal, The Buffalo and The Wallaw We would have a look in Mains toy and cycle shop. The indoor market , Woollies and down to Crisps toy shop. Ashington had everything you could want shopping wise ...Many, many happy memories from a child in the 60's
@Lydia194110 ай бұрын
It is changed so much since I left in 1973
@thewansbeckwanderer634310 ай бұрын
Its a dying town very sad to witness Lydia
@kissofjudaz10 ай бұрын
The film is fine, soundtrack good, it proves the old saying "distance lends enchantment to the scene"
@steveforster976410 ай бұрын
0300 here in Canada I'm a Newbiggin lad justseen my mom on Ashington main street
@HereIStandICanDoNoOther10 ай бұрын
im from Newbiggin as well lad, my name is stevie foster i was brought up on the moor estate side of Newbiggin, i went to moor side school then middle school with Mr Lynn and Mrs Guthrie and then Hirst High School till 1994, but i moved away to Nottingham when i was in my early 20s and have been here ever since but going to save up some cash and go for a drive thru maybe stay the night at a cheap Hotel
@thewansbeckwanderer63437 ай бұрын
I know of Stevie Foster from Newbiggin, have you checked my video out regarding Newbiggin@@HereIStandICanDoNoOther
@janetaylor718711 ай бұрын
Congratulations🎉 Colin. Glad you have found your happy place x
@thewansbeckwanderer634311 ай бұрын
Thanks Jane, its where I need to be x
@janetaylor718711 ай бұрын
@@thewansbeckwanderer6343 I hope you and your wife have a blessed ❤️🙏 life x
@BERTLEWEED11 ай бұрын
Brilliant. It looks even worse on film. You should send it to Aunty Beeb with an invite to make a documentary. Surprisingly little dogshite though; but then, we've smelt and stood in quite enough of that... ;-)
@williamdavies624111 ай бұрын
BOBBY AND JACK CHARLTON GOT OUT. . . . . . .
@thewansbeckwanderer634311 ай бұрын
Anyone can get out if they really want too just like the Charlton's lol
@patsybrookes279511 ай бұрын
My daughter lives here !! Wish she would come home to the Midlands ,what a socially deprived area
@thewansbeckwanderer63432 ай бұрын
I don't blame you wanting your daughter to come home
@suesmith9202 Жыл бұрын
Omg that was amazing. The water was so green
@thewansbeckwanderer6343 Жыл бұрын
The water is crystal clear and the whole place is beautiful
@suesmith9202 Жыл бұрын
Well the council did well planning that out didn't they 😂😂😂
@suesmith9202 Жыл бұрын
Subscribed
@thewansbeckwanderer63439 ай бұрын
Thank you
@suesmith9202 Жыл бұрын
Loved the video , it's always been like that.
@thewansbeckwanderer63439 ай бұрын
Thanks
@craigdawson3450 Жыл бұрын
New entrepreneurs need to make them selves aware and sell stuff tye community needs and wants dog collars horse wear dog food ect sublet somone is clever enough to know what the community needs and wants
@craigdawson3450 Жыл бұрын
Bedlington was a great place to live had may great times here
@craigdawson3450 Жыл бұрын
Im from here used to be a decent place but over years has degraded !!
@thewansbeckwanderer6343 Жыл бұрын
Very sad to see, a total lack of investment
@craigdawson3450 Жыл бұрын
@thewansbeckwanderer6343 it's coz most of the locals are scumbags and drug dealers ect if they did put nice things in the area they would just be vandalised broken up or stolen they need to address the crime rate first and drugs
@bigdave8733 Жыл бұрын
it’s what happens when the tories and their ‘rivals’ the ‘Labour’ party are in control of this country. This government is a joke and has led to the downfall of Ashington.
@BlindingSun_4 ай бұрын
Full of ethnics taking over
@landontruman3632 Жыл бұрын
But....why?
@thewansbeckwanderer6343 Жыл бұрын
No reason really but was going to Papa Westray to take pictures with my drone and discovered that I would be on the shortest flight in the world so though what the heck lol