Drive to Gosforth High Street - 1983

Drive to Gosforth High Street - 1983

[@hallgos7319]

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

[@DrTWG]

Yeah , so do I . I lived in Gosforth 1987 (started Uni) - 1998 . It should remind us to be aware of where we are at now and embrace it.

[@hallgos7319]

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

[@GeordieBoy1955]

Brings back great memories. Thank you for posting.

[@OriginsReborn]

1:50 Following year I worked in Gosforth Centre at Dewhurst the Butchers. Good laugh, especially finishing half day on a Wednesday and going on a bender in all the High st pubs!

[@chriscowey7464]

The view is not all that different from driving that route today, but the cars! spotting all the different makes and models was fun :) Great Vid :)

[@fatladgeordiecyclist1282]

Apart from all the orange cones!

[@crimesacrosstheglobe1885]

Sometimes you'd drive for miles without seeing a car. The good old days, and rod the mod on the boombox.

[@Donna.M]

Wow makes me feel so old lol. 🤣👍

[@wallsendfrog]

Ugly and old

[@drewhender3999]

@@wallsendfrog That was just unnecessary

[@Fisky-ww6ee]

dangerous mouse little cheeky bastard

[@Leon-od7nt]

That’s trippy seeing it years before

[@hallgos7319]

Nostalgic for me.👍

[@hallgos7319]

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

[@hallgos7319]

@Reese Smith As the much missed Arthur Daley once said in Minder, "What a comfortin' thought. One is not alone in one's sufferin'.".🙁

[@Jeffybonbon]

when driving was a pleasure

[@forza223bowe5]

Modern driving is stressful and a chore.

[@MBrady1970]

@@forza223bowe5 couldn't agree more...

[@DrTWG]

I don't know about that . The rose tint is deceptive ! Cars were a lot more unreliable then as well - cold start , wet start , crappy batteries etc

[@Tad1945]

@@DrTWGRoads weren’t as busy back then because not everybody the money to afford a car. Now everybody’s got one.

[@johnrc1548]

While the route remains the same. Back then it would have been the A1. Very little has changed. With the exception of the marked exit in the opening seconds of the video stating ‘Cramlington New Town’. It no longer says that and the trees and foliage have grown a bit since then at the same exit. Other than that only the cars really date the video. Gosforth shopping centre looks exactly the same. Great piece of tape

[@braddazztravels6004]

Great vid! Great soundtrack as well 👍

[@bigdump2825]

God , it's like a time machine

[@hallgos7319]

If I had a time machine I wouldn't be here in this deplorable day and age that's for sure.

[@CliffordRutley]

And that was the main way we went into the town before the western bypass was built. And there was only this or the Tyne Tunnel if you wanted to follow the A1 south.

[@Glenn1967ful]

It was confusing as most of the road signs in Newcastle still showed A1, but so did the Tyne Tunnel.

[@c3vids_shorts]

Hasn't changed that much 👍💯

[@GEricG]

Can anyone tell me what the building is in the background just before the shopping centre? It's a white building with a little dome on it.

[@hallgos7319]

@@doubledeckers God, how i miss the Royalty Cinema. My mother worked there as an Usherette when i was a kid.

[@GEricG]

@@doubledeckers thanks very much.

[@GEricG]

@@hallgos7319 thanks a lot - I miss the traditional cinemas. The modern ones are really sterile.

[@hallgos7319]

@@GEricG Sterile and probably packed with audience members spending more time with their heads buried in their mobile phones rather than actually watching the film they've paid to see. Deplorable.

[@forza223bowe5]

Hallgos73 It’s the same with football matches too.

[@Glenn1967ful]

No western by pass then, what was the A1 continued into Newcastle on the Great North Rd. Also I can remember roads like Silver Lonnen and Denton Rd being a lot more congested as this was a western ring road round the city.

[@hallgos7319]

I wonder when the Regent Plaza apartment block is completed just how many of the residents will actually be from Gosforth or indeed the North East itself? Few if any i strongly suspect.

[@redjarvis]

This is literally 1983 💀

[@cossieracingguys9657]

Great video. We live in a absolutely shite world now. Such a shame. #beforetheinvasion

[@hallgos7319]

How true. No wonder so many people commit suicide these days when you consider how deplorable and hopeless the modern world is.

[@forza223bowe5]

I don’t think the 1980s was all that rosy, but I would take it over today

[@hallgos7319]

@@forza223bowe5 Indeed there was a dark side to the '80s but i'd definitely go back and live in a continuous time loop of the decade if i could.

[@bigdump2825]

Wow how diffrent I have never know the roads with no traffic

[@s125ish]

Big Dump bet they complained back the about traffic

[@bigdump2825]

@@s125ish aye I bet they did. Wouldn't like to think what the roads will be like in 20 year from now

[@forza223bowe5]

Should see this very road now, always busy

[@hallgos7319]

God bless Gossy. My cherished childhood home although it pains me to say the place isn't quite as nice now as it was when i was a kid. Too many lower class scumbags infesting the area these days.

[@forza223bowe5]

Gosforth isn’t as posh as it makes out to be, it neighbours Kingston park and fawdon which are quite deprived areas in parts. The high street, is very run down and dirty. Shields road high street, actually looks better kept

[@hallgos7319]

@@forza223bowe5 Gossy was better way back when a more respectable class of resident occupied the area. Kingston Park was a decent enough place to reside in and i lived there from the late '80s to the early '90s. It still seems like a nice enough area now whenever i visit the place although i could be wrong. You're right about Fawdon.

[@forza223bowe5]

Hallgos73 I think there is far fewer less respectable people these days, in all areas.

[@hallgos7319]

@@forza223bowe5 Oh, indeed yes.

[@forza223bowe5]

What year did the Weston bypass open?

[@danielalexander9233]

The Weston bypass opened in 1990. It was named after the man who opened it, Simon Weston.

[@nicklittle7168]

@@danielalexander9233 It's the Western by pass... not Weston.

[@danielwaite9381]

Nick Little 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@davidcoxon2364]

🤣

[@Tommytucamoto]

Ya doing round the roundabout in 3rd gear

[@Whitdragontigerzeo1250]

Gosforth is the new Sodom and Gomorrah,

[@hallgos7319]

It seems to me good old Gossy is being contaminated by charvers in the Wansbeck Road area.😞

[@Tommytucamoto]

Yous two still carnt be together

[@alanlittle3941]

Bliss..hardly any cars and people

[@forza223bowe5]

World different now, cars everywhere

[@hallgos7319]

@@forza223bowe5 Idiots everywhere too.

[@philip244]

Look exactly the same just no bus or bike lanes