Newcastle Upon Tyne 1985 part1

[@hallgos7319]

God, how i wish i could step into this video and embrace my past again.

[@stephenbaker7344]

I understand completely how you feel......

[@b106dom1]

Brilliant just love these old videos. Being born in 71 I’ve witnessed quite a few of the changes that Newcastle has made. Love the fashion of the people lol I was a dock marten victim myself lol

[@davidrobinson2776]

36 years have gone so fast. I was 16 in 1985 and despite everyone having no money, we loved life. Me and my Gran used to spend hours in the town after paying the electric bill at the Leccy Board. A lot of these people are just memories now, a few inches high on a video tape. But what memories, eh? Great days.

[@stephenbaker7344]

I agree great days where life seemed less complicated. Really poignant comment from yourself which brought back some memories..... If only time travel existed.

[@paulcrombie9623]

Brings back memories, I remember the old paper sellers shouting "Gnicle" (Evening Chronicle), pure Geordie class!

[@stephenbaker7344]

I used to hear the fella selling the Chronicle shouting for someone called Ronny Gill. He never found him.

[@paulcrombie9623]

@@stephenbaker7344 Good one! I can't tell you the one about the pigeons high up on the window ledges on Northumberland Street, I would get banned from KZbin for being racist! But you might know the joke, thanks mate, proper Geordie

[@jean2740]

Eye just as you walked either into or out of Elton square he would make sure you got your News, and I'm talking about our proper Eldon square, not the eye saw it is today. When yet again labour council destroyed it ,and thought let close all the shops, and in there place put a hundred eateries, SMART MOVE NOT !!!!!

[@stephenbaker7344]

Many thanks for posting this. Big nostalgia trip for me there. I was fourteen at the time and could have been wandering around there somewhere with my pals. More than likely in Beatties ratching round. Happy carefree times when life seemed much simpler.

[@christopherlogan9315]

Absolutely loving these videos, so pleased I found this page last night.

[@hermanmunster3358]

I worked in the Grainger market, a couple of years after this, from 1988-1990. Bookless fruit shop, at the Nun Street end of Alley No 3. I also did the odd day at their shop in the underground concourse in Eldon Square too. Then I went to Fenwick's, as Bookless had the franchise in store. I was one of two shop boys in there, me and another lad called Jason. And Tom was our manager, who got sacked for dipping his hands in the till to feed his gambling habit. Ah, good times.

[@jean2740]

Was great walking round market on a Friday after work to buy bits from wages ,like new skirt and some shoes, oh not forgetting me tabs when you could get em cheaper in market, but I wouldn't thank you for a tab now, , not smoked in decades

[@jimmyoconnell6167]

Great times I used to come home on leave from the army when the train crossed the King Edward Bridge you get the view if the bridges I am home

[@jakhal5153]

gosh...i can see olivers sandwich shop....best ever sarnies....my wife used to get the cheese savoury super-bun..i used to get the oliver twist....unbelievable times and memories......thank you and a happy 2017 to all!!!

[@audyfordy549]

What a lovely city then. We have lost such a lot.

[@ADZ01982]

Back before they decided to "diversify" us

[@hallgos7319]

I'll never allow myself to be diversified as i hate all things PC with an absolute passion.

[@stompinstan0007]

I love KZbin for throwing up little gems like this..Just.a.Thought..

[@JohnSmith-mc1qm]

Love this - thank you so much for taking the time & trouble to make these recordings & to share them. I was there - 1981 - 1990. Thanks again - social history which many will enjoy, even if they don't leave a positive comment. +++++++

[@mick78ftm]

Life was slower paced and less diverse. Brilliant times

[@hallgos7319]

The best times for me for sure. Gone but never forgotten.👍

[@busterabcat]

I remember the year 1985 so well. I was a student up there between 1984 and 1987/1988 and 1985 was memorable for a couple of things - we had a really cool / wet summer and I even remember it sleeting IN JUNE! It made the front pages of the Evening Chronicle and we were caught in it walking to lectures!!! Then in the same year Bruce Springsteen played St James Park as well, and we could hear the gig from our halls of residence at the Polytechnic. We had a proper SNOWY winter too between 1984/1985 and yes, it was white everywhere. Proper Northern climate. Snow fell again in 1986/1987 too - them were such great times, notwithstanding - and I just wish I could travel back and relive them days, despite people always saying that the 'decadent yuppie Thatcherite 1980s' were a bad time. Well, put it this way, it was a darned sight better than what has transpired in the decades since, as any people of a similar age and generation to myself (mid 50s now) would readily tell yers! I mean, for one thing, living in Newcastle then was so cheap - everything was cheap! We were very fortunate actually in spite of all of the other things going on in the world at the time. P.S. 0:12 - 0:42 The two newspaper sellers shouting 'CHRONICLE' on Northumberland Street there I remember very well - as I saw them almost every day!!! Ha ! fancy that!

[@ronrichardson3103]

Ronnie Gill they used to shout

[@zeddeka]

Isn't it funny how we get selective memories as we age. There was very little of the "decadent Thatcher yuppy" in the north east. It was a period of mass unemployment, communities torn apart by the miners strike, rampant poverty, violent crime spiralling out of control (massively worse than it is now), football hooligans, racism, homophobia, AIDS, threat of nuclear war. Do we forget these things as we age, or is it just that when we're young we live in a bubble and don't have a clue what's actually going on in the world around us?

[@hallgos7319]

Thanks so much for this post. '85 was a good year for me. Gone but never forgotten just like the rest of the decade. Better, nicer times to be sure. Not like now.

[@510bronson]

Ha ha that's my pals aunty serving on there fruit and veg stall near the end of this film and its still going 30+ years later what a belta thanks for putting this on loved it brought back so many great memory's I was 15 :)

[@Hi-uh3zw]

I've seen the stall or something similar

[@stephenhoggins7659]

When Newcastle still had some heart & soul & lot's of character. A ghost town now thanks to Newcastle city council engineering it's deliberate demise making it very difficult for some to shop there due to its anti vehicle policy. Closing roads, introducing cycle lanes, bus lanes & no free parking. You can't blame shoppers for choosing out of town retail parks & online shopping.

[@busterabcat]

The past was always so much better for certain generations without a doubt. I wish I could transport myself back to those days when councils were at least half decent and civilised, unlike the showers that we have now. It's kind of depressing to see how bad modern life has sunk, despite all the advances in technology and everything else. No sense of community, pride or morals anymore in today's society, more's the pity.

[@PSYCHICLJLULUSCOPE]

Ime In this video the girl in the market eating the ice lolly lol lol mint 🤣

[@CaptainCryptographer]

In the blue dress?

[@harbl99]

* Geordie noises * "Kell! Kell!" (sudden urge to buy local evening paper intensifies)

[@paulcrombie8761]

Best city in the world! Nobody who ever visited Newcastle would argue that.

[@Hi-uh3zw]

My home city

[@jean2740]

Might now though

[@hallgos7319]

I popped into the city centre this morning and was quite shocked at just how many homeless people were populating the streets. A most sobering sight to be sure.

[@jean2740]

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[@dean6816]

At least in 1985 there's no "get that effing camera out my effing face"!

[@zevlogger217]

That is awesome, that is when I was 2 years old only... Thanks for posting it. :)

[@paulcrombie9623]

Also the cheep lighters and white socks and tea towel sellers, keeping toot! those were the days😅.

[@jean2740]

Eye and the perfume sellers on corners

[@sidensvans67]

These were the days of our lives ..

[@hallgos7319]

The bad things in life were so few.

[@becknic8966]

@@hallgos7319 those days are all gone now but...one things still true...

[@hallgos7319]

@@becknic8966 When i look....and i fiiiind....i still love yoooouuuu! Classic Queen make no mistake. Nostalgia-tastic!

[@paulmiller6188]

I used to think the local newspaper was called the Chronic Ill .

[@samuelspoons3553]

Newcastle just looks like London now full of international students and far too many bars and foodie places.

[@paulallan1000]

I was 12 in 85,and remember all of these places.This was when the toon had character and was full of geordies.Not the overpriced, mostly frequented by Southern posh students,party dump it has become.

[@hallgos7319]

I was 12 in '85 too and lived in a top floor flat in Gosforth at the time. Such a secure, cosy time for me and i have some good memories associated with the place.

[@forza223bowe5]

Newcastle has changed for the worst these days. Granted, it’s not the worst city in the world, but it’s lost some of its character

[@Hi-uh3zw]

I agree, there are more posh students less Geordie people which isn't like Newcastle there is more party places and pubs and bars

[@hallgos7319]

We need nostalgia now more than ever in these oppressive Orwellian days.

[@zeddeka]

You mentally ill?

[@Jeffybonbon]

I think the city has changed so much for the worsed I cal it the Campus today I dont go there now as i dislike it so much Glad i was young when i was life was simple at this time not perfect but simple

[@jean2740]

Farcto dangerous to go newcastle town now, ??.

[@angelmamma8635]

Sure that 1 legged pigeon is still going strong in the haymarket

[@gingered3311]

You know it’s Newcastle in the 1980’s when you hear the repeated sounds of metal on concrete from high-heeled shoes.

[@jean2740]

Eye when eooman where still feminine and always wore skirts/dresses and wore tights, and heeled shoes

[@kevinmothers904]

I'm pretty sure I saw that pigeon with the limp @6.20 last year when I visited

[@johnrobbo916]

No mobile phones or tramps in site :D love that. i was 3 at time of this :D Didnt know Wimpy was there before Burger King

[@hallgos7319]

I was 12 in '85 and generally miss that time with an absolute passion.😞

[@normtoon4914]

Not a beggar or a chav in sight. No foreigners. Just Geordies going about their business.

[@hallgos7319]

People were just generally nicer back then. Sadly, there's scum all over the place these dark days.😞

[@jean2740]

Totally 👍

[@jean2740]

Eye when yi didn't have to look over yer shoulder to see eho was listening ti yi . When speech was still our freedom in our own country

[@aidanjliddane]

All them pigeons will be dead now

[@christiansenron4]

mate subcribed best vid of newcastle here , i was 17 then went to paris that year etc blonde at 2:05 fu@king lush and fing amazing upload saved on ytd if that's ok.

[@ADZ01982]

She is gorgeous. Probably about 60 now.

[@jean2740]

How clean and uncluttered our town used to be was a much better place than it is today its a filthy hole now not safe to walk through town now

[@ruwn561]

Ronnie gill

[@TheGreatest1974]

The 80’s & 90’s were the best days ever to live in Britain.

[@zeddeka]

They were f'ckn awful. Mass unemployment. Violent crime through the roof. AIDS. Constant threat of nuclear war. Riots. Football hooligans. Child sex abuse widespread. NHS falling to bits. Poverty widespread. Poor schools.

[@jean2740]

They where our fun days and our golden memoties 😢 long gone never to be again ,as its all doom and gloom from nuh on 😊

[@TheGreatest1974]

@@jean2740 it’s sad.

[@matthewsmith2787]

Newcastle feels rather generic these days, it’s lost its character and the city feels like a shadow of its former self

[@jean2740]

NEWCASTLE like most cities in england have now got zero character left , cos the councils seen to that, destroying all of our victorian buildings snd putting up loads of tin sheds that they call buildings, they where all thrown up in a second ,and will never with stand time all rubbish

[@andrewemery4272]

Nostalgia is not what it used to be...

[@jennytalia226]

Wonder if those paper sellers ever found Ronnie Gill ?

[@leemartin9556]

Newcastle was better then than now

[@MacStoker]

5:16 i swear to god that scaffolding is still there lol

[@josephscott1870]

Hahaha!

[@Hi-uh3zw]

IT ACTUALLY IS THO

[@jayisundead2887]

HAHA I’m 18 and never knew there’d been scaffolding there for that long 😂

[@maxineiley1]

Love to know when in 1985 this was

[@gollumei]

Looks like summer to me.

[@maxineiley1]

It does.. i was there when live aid was on telly .. one of the pubs had a big screen and we watched queens performance. Great days

[@gollumei]

@@maxineiley1 wow sounds amazing, wish I was alive at the time to have watched Live Aid! 🙃

[@maddogdaz1]

Why is that bloke shouting Ronnie Gale all the time??

[@jonjo220]

Turn the clock back!

[@hallgos7319]

Where's that time-travelling DeLorean when you need it?

[@dean6816]

Who's "Ronnie Gill"?

[@hallgos7319]

I like to think the '80s didn't ram countless charity TV commercials down our throats too.😡

[@jean2740]

Eye every other second there ramming it down our thrats for last 5 years, same adverts ,saying these people are in desperate need ,well I tell u what if adds Bern going for 5 years, they must have made a few billion by nuh also they should start make g these adds for us in england, saying folk in enhland in desperate need of food and shelter, as we give it all away to these who are crying charity on adds 24/7 12 month a year for past 5 years

[@northeastbloke]

16 years old, wtf happened to all that time

[@hallgos7319]

I know the feeling. I was 12 back in '85. Damn it i miss those days.

[@hallgos7319]

I visited the city centre earlier today and all the ignorant idiots with their heads hopelessly buried in their mobile phones was making my blood boil to no end.😡 Walking while oblivious to everyone and everything else around them. Such staggering stupidity.😖

[@andrewconnelly649]

I came here to see fond memories of the toon and I totally found that BUT!!! ( and I'd love feedback on this) I didn't see many obese people at all and I put this down to the fact that this was before the yanks got involved with all the fast food places. Before you say it, yes there's a wimpy but that was the start and! We only had a wimpy as a treat not like now where maccyd's, kfc, and krispy kreme are a stable diet for so many. I personally think the Americans have a hell of a lot to answer for when it comes to the health of the rest of the globe.

[@d4rksydecaff]

The only people to blame for being fat is yourselves.... nobody force feeds people the shite they sell these days, that's on them as a person to be responsible enough to know what to put past their lips. Passing blame never helped nobody get healthy.

[@andrewconnelly649]

D4RSKYDE CAFF I agree completely but I feel that society has become so brainwashed as a whole that a lot of stupid parents out there feel they can justify force feeding their beloved children constantly with the shite that's wrapped up like little gifts of death and send them on their merry way when they reach the age they should! Have some idea how to look after themselves but all they do know is that fast food is love because mammy said, which means unfortunately that these misguided, unhealthy, fools will do the same to their own precious beloved children. My daughter is 3 now and she hasn't been inside a McDonald's never mind been poisoned by it and I hope she knows that I love her and I hope she can carry on and live and make good choices. This world is fucked and I refuse to be a sheep following the rest of the herd to slaughter.

[@Hi-uh3zw]

Exactly

[@Hi-uh3zw]

@@ADZ01982 or any bloody non Geordie posh southern students

[@jean2740]

Yes the introduction of foreign take aways there only used to be sandwich shop or tea shops

[@christinehales4222]

Ah the TheTre Royal .As s teenager i used to watch gang shows there .As i was a member of the City Brass Band we played in Aida once .Im fairly sure we were dreadful .😂 Haven't live in the NE for over 40 years

[@hallgos7319]

As a disillusioned, disheartened, disappointed and dissatisfied fortysomething i find there's more that makes modern life worth leaving than living.

[@gavinthorburn8818]

Less students

[@OgressTit]

Back when times were more simple

[@hallgos7319]

Better times no doubt about it. Not like now.😞

[@jean2740]

And we had freedom of speech when it was ours