I was born in stanhope were wagon loads of limestone went to the works am sure about 2 000 tons a day my dad had his own wagon had a few trips out of hownsgill steel plates i worked for a contractor in tarmac coming over the fell on a dark morning seeing molten steel getting poured was brill to see i also was inside a furnace with a caterpillar loader digging carbon out for furnace wreckers then on a cat bulldozer on demolition great days all gone

Red dust everywhere. Bet folks were breathing it in. Still sad it's gone. Remember the trains filled with iron ore travelling along the line from Annfield plain. Ransom and marles made ball bearings. Must have been hard work. Now we import it crazy. Wonder what structures were made by consett steelworks

Happy memories of Gibsons shoe shop. I worked there in late 1960s and 70s.

Freezing, just looking at it

Getting to a big town delves lane

That awful doughnut buss station

Love the music ❤

Oh the days when you hired a TV rather than buy one 😂 Radio Rentals comes to mind. Some even had a coin slot so you payed for what you watched 😮 One near neighbour even had a Rental colour TV when they first came out. Now that was one upmanship 😂

Revisiting this again for the umpteenth time. I just absolutely love that windswept old town up high on the hill - sometimes you just havd to leave a place for s while to realise what it means to you. Consett & the whole of North West Durham area really is such a great place.

Those blue Armstrongs' buses were always immaculately turned out...

I pulled a few double shifts on the Blast Top in the early seventies ,worked with some great lads . Not forgotten .

Quite a few missing mind. The Crown and crossed swords, The Raven, The Highgate, The Victoria, The Miners (Medomsley), Medomsley club, Shotley Club, The Grove club, The Moorside, The Derwent walk and Castleside club that I can think of.

That’s my dad Austin Murphy at 4.53 I have quite a few photos at home and that ones included.

Best thing they did was flatten the place , consett is a Dive now, imagine how bad it would be if the steel works was still there

Don't forget Collinson's outfitters, where you had to go to get your school uniform...

a very good sadly deceased mate brian pinder worked in bellamy's for years. R.I.P. i also ran a little bar called attlee's back in the mid 90's

just come across this, now that you have shown consett in the summer can you now show the winter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. i am from stanley but can remember this well.

Really enjoyed looking through these - great memory jogger!

Very cool blast from the past. That last photo, the house with the steel works in the background was taken between Castleside and Moorside, I can remember that view as a kid having walked along that road with our dogs many times. Last time I walked down there was with my cousin and German Shepherd in 2001. Doesn't seem like 21 years ago.

That was certainly a blast from the past, I remember as a kid back in the 70's walking up to Consett because the busses weren't running because of the snow.

Hi can you tell me about the pescod shop please

Great video do you no eny history on the churches ⛪️ in blackhill

Very interesting, thank you. Was the wooden viaduct at 8.00 minutes into the video, located about 1/2 a mile east of Hurbuck cottages? OS location NZ 142 481

Some great memories there but I didn't see a photo of 'Bywells' on front street. Furniture store. Worked there after leaving school for a few weeks. Hated it, manager was awful.

Thanks Stephen, some great photos there. I always think of the works when I visit the Tesco store!.

Thanks Stephen, some of the best photos I have seen of the works complex and surroundings. I have only just got this now and it brings many memories of my own experiences at Redcar and Lackenby which are currently meeting the same fate as Consett. Many thanks.

Remember most of them ,Thanks.

Loved this, was born at The Grove in Thornfield Rd, so many memories, thank you.

I think I'm correct in saying @ 7"25, that was the view from where my grandparents lived at 1,Taylor's Terrace, The Grove. I spent many of my younger days staying there. My grandad and one of his sons, my uncle, both served their time in the electrical dept at the Consett Iron Company as it was then known. If I remember correctly, just through the bridge on the left was the BOC plant, and to the left, a track to The Lydgetts.Behind the photographer to his/her left was a bus stop and concrete built public toilet. To the right, as we look, on the road down to Moorside was a small wooden hut used as a sweet shop. Their house was built sometime in the 1930s and they were the first and only tenants until my Gran passed away and her bachelor son moved out in 1980. Looking on google street view, it now appears to be a much-enlarged private house, but many of the original features are still visible. On the road to Moorside, on the left was a small garage business, now Grant's garage and funeral service. Opposite, was a small grocery store run by the Arkless family. One of my abiding memories was the constant noise of heavily laden trucks grinding their way up from Moorside and if my memory serves, the haulage company was called Redmire. Can anyone verify? Their engines had a very distinctive sound, I think they were the 2-stroke Commer Knocker engines, videos are available on youtube showing how they work. We still have family in the area. Thanks for rekindling my memories.

Many thanks for the memories. My grandparents lived in The Grove, just down from the works and I spent lots of time staying with them in the 50s and 60s. My grandad and one of his sons, my uncle, both served their time there in the electrical department. The house in which they lived was a 1930s council house with metal casement windows that rattled to the sound of the trucks coming up from Moorside, toiling with their huge loads. The only source of heating in the house was a coal fire with back boiler for hot water and in an average winter, the rest of the house was so cold, we had to scrape the ice from the INSIDES of the windows. In 1963, the worst winter in my (albeit fading) memory, the snow was so deep we had to dig our way out. In the mid and late 60s, I was at a boarding school in Tynedale and at weekends would get the bus to Consett then walk down to The Grove through the middle of all that smoke and dust. There was a constant background noise of not only the trucks, but also the locomotives hauling away the slag, much chuffing of steam and we could hear their wheels losing traction, then gripping the rails as they hauled their loads. If anyone is interested, I recently converted some of our old family 8mm colour films to dvd that feature some of the works, the market and the bus station with the old bright yellow Venture buses. Please leave a comment with contact details and I'll get back to you. I can be contacted on [email protected]

Childhood memories 👍

Me too born there 1956….childhood memories 👍

My Dad and his family lived there in the early 1900's. His father, mother, grandmother , sister and brothers lived in one house. (Stanefordham)

Happy days worked there in the 70s great bunch of work mates eg f troop

Some of the older buildings where better than the new. Good that

Fond memories of the cafe above Liptons. Great video!

Thank you for posting this

Do you have a picture of Pramfayre on Medomsley Road? I can't find one anywhere :(

you missed decades & the trades off

Such fantastic shops Consett had in its heyday, myself recalling the 1960s. It was then a mucky place, yet then it had prosperity and a proud, positive attitude for the future. Thanks for posting these happy memories.

What is the tower block at the bottom of front street video time 1.06

The coach & horses in Leadgate is now a dog grooming place. The Delves Lane club is now pulled down.

They put me in a children's home on Snows Green road. It was called Summerdale House. It's been made into flats now.

And now I’m showing New Zealand. I was born at The Grove, moved to Moorside when I was 12 and then Blackhill when I got married. Left there in 1970 when I was 26 and have lived in New Zealand since. Such wonderful memories and have been home many times. Still love my home town and I’m still very British. 🤙

Great slides. 4.500 jobs gone and then the people that can't find work are labelled as lazy.

Why dont you do a then and now of the same photograph, orif the building or whatever is not there ,what ever is now .Nice work, thanks .LOVE CONSETT.

Stephen Bridgewater, this is still by far and away the best compilation of CIC/BSC Consett photographs but may I ask, are you still adding to it?

Some great pics there mate, I’ve got some but not all in my collection of local history pics which takes in Annfield Plain and Stanley. I’ve also got film of the iron ore trains going up to Consett, I like to share, you’re more than welcome to what I’ve got, sadly they’re not very well catalogued though, give me a shout back if you want them...👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧...

Now when I go to Consett to do my weekly shopping, none of this exists.

Left Consett in 1978, so many memories in the pictures. Thank You.