Byker Shields Road Newcastle Upon Tyne Northeast UK

[@1958Garry]

The Apollo cinema stood more or less where Morrisons is now. I worked there as a projectionist from 1974 until its closure in 1983. Happy days....

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks I went to et there 😀

[@floydhayes]

I loved that Aqaurium too! There was also a class Joke Shop towards the top end / chilly road.

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Same here it was brilliant when I was a kid 😀

[@dwiggi3rd504]

Sadly all our are high streets are derelict or dying. I well remember when Shields road was thriving and full of shoppers. I think the rot set in when Parishes closed down in the 80's I think. I remember going to the Apollo cinema just before it closed down. Now nearly all are boarded up or shops that sell rubbish stuff. So sad

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Yes you are right there and definitely sad 😔

[@Les-r6b]

We had our wedding reception in Parishes in 1981 and It closed a couple of years later, was a brilliant family run department store.

[@jean2740]

Same memories as I've got ,used to make a full day of it, go shopping with mam, then a bite to eat and walk home if we where not to loaded up with shopping , used to love it. Those where the days my friend, we thought they would never end quoting Mary Hopkins 😊😊

[@jean2740]

​@@Les-r6bwe used to go there to spend our provide orders and I used to buy me tweed perfume when I was flush

[@outandaboutwithrob]

I love it there when I was a kid 😁.

[@TheWeardale1]

great video, my old stomping ground from the 90s..

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks 😊

[@PlaydatePlayer]

Good video! There was a joke shop along by the Chilly Road end, back in the 80s :)

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks for letting me know 😊

[@dean6816]

I used to come hear in the early 90s from over the water because it was the best place for bike parts now I live down the road! Great place!!

[@outandaboutwithrob]

I was loads when I was kids 🧒

[@christinehales4222]

I think the Wall was built before I left & that was 1975 .Was the store Parishes late 60's early70 ' s .Dad loved shopping in there .I remember it as being similar to the store in Are you being served .In the 40's mam worked in a furniture store ,on Shields Rd called George Wilkes & sons .A friend''s mam & dad were publicans in the Raby Arms in the early 70's .My number 12 yellow bus went up Shields Rd ,we used to go to 2 cinemas ,the Apollo & 1at the top of the hill .Sorry ,I've ranted on but this is pure nostalgia .Thanks for talking when walking ,it's more interesting that way

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks for the information ☺️ really appreciate thank you 😊

[@last1059]

Good to see, when you were progressing down Shields Road towards Byker Bridge, you passed the remnants of Addison Road, where my grandad, aunts and mother used to live. It's now only a stump of a road going nowhere whereas, in my youth, it originally went straight down towards Heaton BR station. It seems the planners, wishing to remove all traces of previous developments, thought it a good idea to switch all the road alignments through 90 degrees. When the great redevelopment came along, my surviving aunts were shunted through several wholly unsuitable "temporary" dwellings until ultimately being put into the Byker Wall. Admittedly, being new then, the flat was very nice but where was the community spirit any more? Those rehousings were done without feeling and that was when I lost my trust in politicians. I remember one day, on a visit to my home town and when returning to my aunt's flat with my mam and dad along Byker Bridge, my mother sadly saying that she no longer recognised the place - "Every house I have lived in here no longer exists. They're all gone."

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks good read 😊

[@iandougall7169]

My Mam worked in Parrishes record department when she was young. Sad to see Shields Road is a shadow of its former self.

[@outandaboutwithrob]

We went to the shop every time we was there and its definitely going down hill

[@jean2740]

Shields road is know longer ,only bares the name. Bit zero left of the actual shields road, hone with our memories😢

[@outandaboutwithrob]

@jean2740 I know what you mean unfortunately it's gone down hill

[@jean2740]

Those seats your walking past i used to sit on them with me son , it used to be back in the day, when it was very clean and safe. But i don't live in walker any more , andcit looks dirty and unsafe . And byker wall was built in the 70s , iremember when it went up😊

[@outandaboutwithrob]

I use to go there with my mam in the 80s when I was a kid 🧒 Mush better place back then

[@TheWeardale1]

i finished my 21st birthday in the tap and spile - was smashed...started at the queens arms in shieldfield...

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Awesome your only 21 once 😀😊

[@TheWeardale1]

@@outandaboutwithrob aye, many years ago haha!

[@dean6816]

I used to go in the Queens in the early 2000s when JS had it!

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

..soon to be renamed ' the spear and Lepoard-skin' ....!

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks for the info 🤠

[@michaelmartin1883]

The Byker Wall was never to be 'Temporary' .....

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Definitely and it's still here 😊🙂

[@jean2740]

The council shouldcget off there backsides and get the filthy streets cleaned

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Definitely they should

[@michaelwesley2822]

apollo picture house were morrisons is

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks 😊

[@exploringwithsj6847]

Yeah The Apollo cinema morrisons is now standing in its place Rob.

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks for the letting me know ☺️😊

[@michaelwesley2822]

prince of wales pup at other end of morrisons

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks 😊

[@frankiemc4697]

@@outandaboutwithrob then it was named tap and spile or something, my dad in the 80s worked in the factory where morrisons is now there was he used to go into called jackies i remember alot when i was a kid way way back then, even though we lived in the westend at the time

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks for letting me me ☺️

[@patriciabailey1937]

Sadly there are many more just like it and not only in Byker.

[@Les-r6b]

Parishes Department store was converted to student accommodation but now is a migrant hostel ….further doon Sheilds Road beside Morrisons is another migrant hostel where the Clapham chemical attacker lived….😖

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks for the info

[@Les-r6b]

Not the sort of place I remember as a bairn, we lived on Walker Road and Sheilds Road was the East End shopping place to go …bustling street in those days. Wouldn’t venture there after dark now …..🙄

[@outandaboutwithrob]

@@Les-r6b same here I use to good there with my mam and dad it's gone down hill

[@Les-r6b]

@@outandaboutwithrob it was the place to go for a few beers on a Saturday afternoon during my teens, always had the daftys about but it was all good fun…..as you say it’s gone downhill ….more crime goes on now (you know by who) but is covered up, since Clifford St closed it’s a free for all after dark ☹️

[@jean2740]

NEVER !!There now for migrents fkn disgusting, shrilds road was once a fantastic place , now it's a forighners paradise

[@katebrason8137]

its half 7am and some of the shops might be shut ffs

[@jean2740]

😅😅

[@DorothySouthern-q4b]

Butlins used to have there Christmas parties in the old ballroom /cinema

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thanks for letting me know 😁

[@jobs10000]

Can you come 12ish and al meet you 🔨🔨🔨🔨

[@jean2740]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@jean2740]

Whoa !!!!

[@sandyinmids]

Intresting traced some ancestors to 48 shield road

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Awesome 👍😀

[@jazzflute2465]

A bloke who knows nothing about Byker doing a video telling people about Byker 😂😂😂😂😂

[@patriciabailey1937]

So far in the video it is very nice not to see litter! Perhaps most of the litter-louts live in Nottingham?!

[@jean2740]

Buffs social club been gone for ever !!

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Thank you

[@jean2740]

Shame about that went there few times on a Saturday night over 32 Yr ago it was smashing

[@jean2740]

State of thr payments council need there arses kicking and picture house was where Morriston wss, cos I used to go there many yrs ago

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Definitely and thank you ☺️

[@thaifarrang3916]

The most depressing place on the planet!!!!!

[@outandaboutwithrob]

It use to be a lovely place at one point ☺️🙂

[@thaifarrang3916]

@@outandaboutwithrob back in the 70's aye lol

[@outandaboutwithrob]

@@thaifarrang3916 definitely 😁 lol

[@Les-r6b]

Full of illegals now 🤨

[@richardsales6996]

@@thaifarrang3916 no it was ok until the late 80's there was 12 bar's and two clubs on shields rd in the 80's ppl in byker in the 80's were ok until the council moved a load degenerate problem familys into the area and there kids of kids is what you see in byker now days

[@adamstephenson5618]

Tell the truth you're up early to meet your dealer 😂😂😂😂😂

[@outandaboutwithrob]

Lmao 🤣