Byker Redevelopment: The loss of old Byker and the creation of the Byker Wall

[@anneflavell1259]

Brings tears to my eyes and a ache in my heart I saw my old house and street were I lived as a small child my family’s family lived their as generations when they demolished these house we moved to a new house but half our more of the people we knew and grew up with hole generations of family’s were torn apart moved away to different areas the hole of byker was ruined they ripped a community apart byker now is a run down dump with drink drugs and crime

[@annemariecandyflip6531]

Unfortunately, not all new estates were for the better.....

[@lea24457]

My dad grew up in what he calls old byker, he always says they ripped the heart of that community out when they started to redevelop the area, breaks my heart and I wasn’t even thought of 😢

[@michaelfitzharris1150]

Amazing footage put together well .great vid, brought a tear to my eye.. I'd go back tomorrow if i could.

[@jean2740]

Me to in the bat of an eye😢

[@lea24457]

I’m only 39 so never experienced what my dad calls old byker, however I do have amazing memories of visiting my gran and her friends who were relocated from the old houses to the new builds. I don’t know why I feel such a strong connection to the place I wasn’t even around when they pulled it down. I think it could be growing up listening to my mam and dads stories of their first little house they had there when my brother was born - it was the start of their life together they went on to bring my sister and myself into the world where they eventually settled in walker. Even looking back when I grew up things aren’t the same 😔

[@jean2740]

Your right

[@bettyprice6316]

It's so sad to see, it wasn't perfect but I feel we were happier.

[@jean2740]

Ofcourse

[@anthonyfleck8206]

Brilliant footage,i was born in byker,lived on harbottle street in the 60.s

[@bogeyman.]

2 mins 43 in and thats a young me crossing Raby Street ...happy days

[@geoffcallaghan3117]

Brings a tear

[@anthonygilbert7846]

Lived in byker till a was 5 years old me mam polly gilbert took me shopping with her to these streets she would talk for ages to people it was still good like now 61 years old t dan smith should have been locked up years earliar big rogue

[@jean2740]

Eye yer right there love😊

[@annemariecandyflip6531]

Don't knock all those old terraced houses estates down. When done some refurbishments/ changes it may be still good houses to live in!

[@kopynd1]

best thing they ever done, use to visit me sister st peters road and then ayton street the carpets always felt wet and damp outside netty no thanks, mum and my sister had new houses loved them, warm damp free, you cant blame the new buildings, there's good people and bad people, its the bad people that's the problem not the buildings

[@annemariecandyflip6531]

True but when buildings are built poorly and maintanance is poorly as well, you can be a neat and good tennant but the house does suck indeed

[@jean2740]

Very true

[@annemariecandyflip6531]

Old estates are UK's heritage as well!!

[@jean2740]

We have zero heritage left ,it's all about making migrants happy, not us ??

[@georgeedwardscott8161]

thank you so much

[@patriciabailey1937]

There is beauty in the ugliness. Here are the bones and soul of something that once lived and gave protection to those who lived within. There would have been tears shed within these sturdy walls, and laughter and anger and most likely hunger - and here I am today, miles away in another city, a complete world away, yet my memory of dear Newcastle is like a shiny new pin that will lie with me when this is all over. 🥲

[@toonmag50]

The suits always know best.... The "science"tells them to do it They cant help themselves...

[@anneagle965]

Heartbreaking. 😢

[@georgeedwardscott8161]

omg thank you , im crying

[@Jeffybonbon]

I can see why they did it But i think they ended up with poor 1970s buildings there was no reason to knock it all down some could have been retained and made much better imo

[@jean2740]

Not just the houses they pulled down they destroyed a community, was like a huge extended family😢

[@sufeeb]

I understand why they demolished the old terraces but not what they put in place....hideous.

[@KenGraham-b8m]

sad to see Byker now lived in bolam street 60s and 70s all they had to do was modernise them nothing wrong with terraced houses just look west jesmond better than the eye sore thats there now sham on them

[@jean2740]

True I live in a victorian dwelling hardy old properties

[@gazof-the-north1980]

The old terraced Houses looked way better but I get that they were not up to standard anymore.

[@jean2740]

Wasn't that they where not up yo standard, they where up to standards for that era, as it was the old times?

[@Barbara.Lerner.Spectre]

They were old Tyneside flats and thousands of them were modernised elsewhere.

[@oddities-whatnot]

Always amuses me when you get people on various property news feeds on social media, all going on about how new houses today are badly made and wont last as long as old houses. That in itself is a joke, old houses were once new but a lot have been demolished through the years as they were deemed “slums” and not fit for habitation. I think a lot of people today, particularly Millennials and Gen Z have no idea what they are talking about regarding so many topics, as most of their “expertise” and knowledge has been taken from countless places on the internet which for anyone with an ounce of common sense will know there is a lot of absolute rubbish out there.

[@jean2740]

Problem there with new houses built nower days it's all crap building materials they use nower days and they could never withstand as long as the old building fact , me dad was a builder in that time ,and always said till he died the building of today will never be around in a hundred years, unlike the buildings from 200 years ago that some still standing . I gor one live in a over 100 year old property, and that speaks for its self

[@lindamcharie1264]

​@@jean2740very true your dad was right.

[@jean2740]

I loved !! Byker it was friendly the people where smashing. And there wasn't a better place to live , both my parents came from there. And it was a real community. And yes you could leave your door on the latch. And I personally think it started to decline about 20 years ago, as the council started to pull down places like Elswick/cowgate/😅benwell/, and people from those areas started to move there , and I think it was 30odd year ago the labour council started to pull down old byker And rebuild , it was NEVER !!! the same , now not a safe place people not the original byker folk , so r.i.p.

[@DavidBrown-db2fn]

Anyone remember doreen davidson from commercial street?

[@jean2740]

Me mother probably did but she's now dead

[@stuarthogg9830]

Are we all just too busy to clean our step these days?

[@tomhiggins4124]

You planning muppits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.