You can’t tell me that people weren’t much happier in those days than they are now. This country and our culture is dying out very quickly in the modern multiculturalist age. If I could go back to those days forever I would do it in a heartbeat.
@martinkulkarni35692 жыл бұрын
‘Your’ culture isn’t dying out. Cultures evolve. It has more to do with the monstrous governments we have had in this country, turning neighbour against neighbour. Serving peoples self-interest selfishness and greed. Instilling, encouraging, and propogating racism and bigotry in our society. This includes Tony Blair who should have been prosecuted as a war criminal.
@carolinekeenan7582 Жыл бұрын
Me to,I was brought up in be well in the 50s we were poor,but it was a great community,I knew just about everyone in pendower estate,Happy Days
@TheGreatest1974 Жыл бұрын
@@carolinekeenan7582 I’m 52 and grew up in the 80’s and I don’t recognise this country anymore.
@dwiggi3rd5047 ай бұрын
Look at Stanhope street in 1973, hardly any cars and not a dark skin in sight' ALL Our spineless politicians are giving our country away and they don't care @@TheGreatest1974
@alex-E7WHU4 ай бұрын
@@TheGreatest1974 I'm 60, originally from east London, I really miss the 1970's.
@christinethornhill3 жыл бұрын
Remembering the Rag and bone man in the 1950s ! Oh boy , me mam used to send me down the Lane with a shovel to get the dung for the roses 🌹 !!! You could hear the horse coming from way off over the cobblestones . I was so skinny then , the rag man used to give me a couple of sweets when he came round , and that was a treat during rationing, heaven knows where he got them from 🤔 Great old pictures. Some good memories 👍🏼👍🏼
@lewymartain82672 жыл бұрын
I was 8 year old in 1972. My 3 older brothers where rag men. They would take me to collect the horse and carts from the Jackie stables. The man was called Jackie who they rented the Horse and carts from I forget his second name. No one cared what anyone had or didn't have them days. Everyone looked after everyone else. Every week my oldest brother would pull up in the back lane for my Mam and the other Mothers in the street to go through the rags he had picked up all day long. I had to be there with my other 8 brothers and sisters while my man tried the old but good clothes up against us. There was no shame then. Times have changed for the worse thats for sure. I sit hear in tears to think how hard my Parents had it my Father worked in the Slaughter house on scotswood road. My mother had 10 kids to look after. But the bigger ones helped with the new born. That's how women then where good strict mothers they learned from having their little siblings when babies. God bless my Parents, I miss them so much. Thank you for the wonderful memories..
@michaelkelly73013 жыл бұрын
Brilliant watch thanks for putting it on 👍
@davidthompson37982 жыл бұрын
Cheers bonnie lad, some canny memories there. Lived on Ethel Street in the 60s, born on Armstrong rd. Then moved th Ash Street before it was demolished to make way for the block of flats and shopping centre.
@geordieronpet5 жыл бұрын
Great set of photographs sir, so well presented you could feel the atmosphere of times gone by...." We had nowt, but we had all we needed".
@-Deena. Жыл бұрын
Thank you. It might be a bit rough around the edges but God I love home 🧡
@martinkulkarni35693 жыл бұрын
The roundabout wasn’t constructed in 1975. It was earlier. My siblings and I played in and walked through it on the way from Benwell, where we still lived, on the way to my friends house in Kenton Bar Estate who had moved there from our street. My family moved to Kenton Bar Estate also in summer 1972.
@theholygoat88262 жыл бұрын
Aye , I thought the same myself , we used play in there in the early 70s , it was built mid to late 60s .
@HugoHome677 жыл бұрын
you couldn't beat a good West end upbringing, south benwell school , the stone park was built on top of an air raid shelter. we used to leave school and play in the tunnels and get a clip for worrying me ma to death. all so innocent, where did it all go ,BLIDDY HELL
@annebarber2368 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Great memories. Would of been nice to see Atkinson Road.
@anml46763 жыл бұрын
I'm reminded of the tragic story of Mary Bell and Norma Bell.
@christinehales4222 Жыл бұрын
Yes ,I remember Mary Bell
@dwiggi3rd5047 ай бұрын
We all do but not with fondness @@christinehales4222
@AlanHH3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video. Such nostalgia for places I knew growing up in the West End.
@hayleybrewer5019 Жыл бұрын
Can remember me dad saying the street that had the question marks was called Alice Street
@TheGreatest19743 жыл бұрын
Sad to see the once busy streets now so run down. Can’t the city council modernise the buildings and keep the heritage of the area intact, or is that too much to ask? Newcastle town planners from the 60’s onwards have destroyed the old soul of the area. All of old Byker being demolished was an act of cultural vandalism. All those old streets could’ve been modernised, all the wonderful old hotels and Victorian pubs saved. But no, no sense of preserving the community. T Dan Smith has a lot to answer for.
@TheConverter3302 жыл бұрын
Was looking for Elswick road schools but nothing seen here 😒
@davidoneill92444 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to see. My father (Sam) was manager of the Crooked Billet at the bottom of Gluehouse Lane. My mother's family (the Bonners) lived in Canning Street in Benwell & I had aunts in Farndale Rd & Ellesmere Rd. My late wife & I bought our first house in Ellesmere Rd early in 1960s. There were so many pubs on Scotswood Rd (3 on our block) that it would be wonderful to have an archive of all of them.
@baztemple71693 жыл бұрын
Your 4th location, "???" at 1:05, is the bottom two blocks of Colston Street, between Canning Street and Condercum Road
@martintabony6119 жыл бұрын
"Bal's shop Canning st." Did he take over? I remember it was his parent's shop. We all used to hang around the opposite corner with nohing to do. More than 35 years and it's like yesterday!
@1234tubby9 жыл бұрын
Martin Tabony Bal became a good friend of mine when I moved from Maughan Street (one of the last to leave the street before it was demolished) to Bond court. Your right it was his parents shop, but I think his older bothers took over when his dad passed on. Lots of very good memories from that area. Did you know Suli Alhadji (something like that) - he has done well for himself - worked his way through the ranks and is now a Major in the Army
@martintabony6119 жыл бұрын
I think his older brother was Davinda. We all called him "Dave" he was the same age as my older brother. It would be nice to know what happened to some of the kids I grow up with ! :)
@christinehales4222 Жыл бұрын
Wasnt ther s Canning Street School ?
@noeleen11005 жыл бұрын
Good photos of Sutton Dwellings but I think two of them are Sutton Dwellings Barrack Road and not Benwell. Check out No 43 Suttons Evelyn Howe and the Photo of a mother and daughter with a doll they are showing metal railings on the veranda's when all of Benwell's were brick. Also Barrack Road was three storey and Benwell four and the background shot shows three.
@billyrich708 жыл бұрын
I've got photos of Northbourne Street from 2005 when they were getting demolished.
@1234tubby8 жыл бұрын
+billyrich70 Thats good Billy, you should put them on youtube as a small film. By the way, what made you think I was called John?
@jamesmurdoch98052 жыл бұрын
Used to visit a Great Great Uncle and Aunt who lived on Northbourne Street in the late 1940s and early 1950s fond memories.
@rickyatkinson86113 жыл бұрын
Now I can remember long before it was a roundabout, it was a hole in the ground with and old gents toilet in it I think it might have been the old clay pit for the factory that was where the supermarket is now, born in cow gate then got posh and moved up to just behind the fox and hounds on the west road or just off the top end of two ball lonnen !!
@martinkulkarni35693 жыл бұрын
Wasn’t built in 1975. It was earlier.
@narky49553 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the music my nanna would approve
@noeleen11005 жыл бұрын
Great compilation of memories. Well done.
@angelaheslop76602 жыл бұрын
So many memories .
@josie94075 жыл бұрын
My nana lives in benwell and my mum was born there and I’m Scottish
@ruwn5617 жыл бұрын
Magic. Born in scotchie. 1968
@OrthodoxChristian80910 жыл бұрын
My mother's family came from that area. They were called Barrett and lived on Ivy Street.
@chrissygizmo60573 жыл бұрын
Any relation to Bobby Barrett (Scotswood) , I went to school with his son Shane Barrett and my first job when I left school was with Shane & his cousin Dale Barrett
@dicknitro110 жыл бұрын
So fantastic,10/10 so many memories wow, i used to live in maughan st,61-65/66, again very well done,thankyou
@Sunbreweryman4 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this. Lived in Enfield Road in the 50s . Well done! loved the soundtrack as well.
@toolfreakBD8 жыл бұрын
Holy shit i live in Canning street now. It's totally changed!
@dwiggi3rd5047 ай бұрын
Any whities there now Toolfreak? I went to Canning street school, in the 50's and early 60's I remember our Teacher Mr NeAsham was having a naughty affair with tasty Miss power's.
@thegrantclan3 жыл бұрын
Just found this video brilliant brought up in Dilston Road as a kid ☝️
@kevinmudie261711 жыл бұрын
Splendid! Excellent work, thank you..
@johnhill6353 жыл бұрын
Brought back many memories of when I lived in Benwell.
@patmillar9612 жыл бұрын
@ John Hill you've the same name as my brother... perhaps we're related? Both sides of my family are also from Benwell. Great video.....many thanks.
@lorrainegriffiths554 Жыл бұрын
i lived violet street as a baby then buddle road, loved the video, thank you
@jimmyoconnell6167 Жыл бұрын
Loved that when there was true communitys
@stevenequinepics7 жыл бұрын
That is absolutely brilliant, enjoyed both the photographs and the music. Well done.
@Jeffybonbon7 жыл бұрын
love the way the cars are parked against the curb the brakes were so bad lol
@annebarber2368 Жыл бұрын
Lol and roads so steep
@MKM1s12 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely Mint
@raymondblair16767 жыл бұрын
What a surprise to see my Grandad and my uncles at the end of the video, my mother is Anne Rogers.
@angelmamma863510 жыл бұрын
We lived on nourthbourn street :)
@dwiggi3rd5042 жыл бұрын
My father and mother lived on Northbourne street just before the war.
@philllm12 жыл бұрын
Bravo! good work old son!
@petermcdermott3996 Жыл бұрын
no details about the music?
@jakg7339 Жыл бұрын
Click the 'Show more' link above
@B4006 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories,i was born in George street,then moved to cruddas park,still live there now:)
@Kirkee72 жыл бұрын
Though I live in Newcastle I am not a Geordie I would love to have the lyrics of the first song . Anyone have any ideas what's its called?
@jakg73392 жыл бұрын
Wor Nanny's a Maizor · Bob Fox · Benny Graham
@kevinclark28563 жыл бұрын
lived at frank street then joan street good days
@billbutler98628 жыл бұрын
Thanks greta photos
@michaelodowd3307 жыл бұрын
born 1948 75 violet street. Amazing to see the old street again.
@ianmott23804 жыл бұрын
lived in violet st number 38 in the fifties pit backlane
@durkan20099 жыл бұрын
So many happy memories. at 4.50 there's two kids on a concrete train that was in the park at the top of my street (Hugh st). Lots of good times in there.
@dicknitro19 жыл бұрын
Arthur Durkan yes i remember it well ! happy memories indeed,is it still there? what a bout south bewell school ,did you by any chance go there? cheers dicknitro1
@durkan20099 жыл бұрын
dicknitro1 No mate the train went in the early seventies when all of that area was demolished. As for schools mine was just up the road. saint Joseph's
@1234tubby9 жыл бұрын
Arthur Durkan Aye it was a great community. Went to Atkinson road myself, then Rutherford. Guys was that train not on buddle road? Maybe my age is getting the better of my memory - just thought it was at bottom of my street (Maughan St), I seem to remember everyone looking for me one day and finding me playing on the train - I got a right good bollocking for going down there without telling anyone first ..lol
@durkan20099 жыл бұрын
1234tubby Yes mate the train was in a stone park right between the top of Hugh st and Buddle road. there was a big church hall opposite between Hugh street and frank street. In that photo you can see the top of the old Vickers factory
@raymondblair16767 жыл бұрын
I can remember being recorded by the local TV news channel just before the knocked it down, and my mam complained I looked scruffy, who gave a damn in those days, we got up to all sorts and was always coming home a mess, ah the good old days.