GATESHEAD HOW IT USED TO BE video Colin C

Gateshead on one side of the River Tyne and Newcastle on the other. Maybe around the Country most people who have heard of Newcastle may not have heard of Gateshead. I might be wrong. Maybe the Angel of the North has put Gateshead more on the Map. This video takes a look back at How Gateshead used to be.

[@Iazzaboyce]

I was born/raised in Cornwall, but this has memories for me. Mum and Dad were from Gateshead (Dunston/Low Teams) and I visited Grandparents in the 60s/70s. I remember getting sarsaparilla and 'pineapple shandy' (see pineapple cyder on the sign) also, I remember jars at the back of the shop and asking for liquorice (big mistake). My cousins took me to the swimming baths. One day I got chased by some local lads - when they caught me they just wanted me to play football with them. I stayed in the old streets and later seen them all demolished. 'SuperMac' was everywhere. Dad did his apprenticeship with Tyneside Safety Glass and attended the Tech College before being called up WW2 and doing 22 years RN (carriers). Grandad worked at CO-OP Flour Mill on the Tyne. Mum recalled saying goodbye to her Dad at Newcastle Central Station 1939/BEF the station was packed full of troops and they all began to sing. Mum couldn't form the words when she tried to tell us that. Grandad was one of the lucky ones to get a boat back from Dunkirk and survive the war.

[@trimley]

Loving this - me mam lived in Gateshead and I still have a few relatives left there. Living in Suffolk Toon Toon 🖤🤍

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Thank you

[@DiscoverJesus]

This is brilliant Colin! Sister Winifred deserves a video. She was a shining light in a dark world. Helped hundreds of kids and their families in Team Valley/Gateshead. Anyone remember her?

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Thank you so much glad you enjoyed

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

Gateshead was destroyed by the Planners in 1968-9. It never quite recovered. I remember going shopping with my dear Ma in the 1960s. She used get Sausage at Deitz pork butchers. Old Dorreen Deitz was lovely lady. I recall Ma used buy Fish from Jackie the Fish man who stood in the ally way next to the Church opposite Wolworths. I remember my Dad taking us into the small Sasperella shop next to Curlys bar. I remember Saturday mornings at the Odeon cinema. But happiest memories of all was All Saints School, i attended from 1965 till 1971. Head master was the lovely Mr Gunn. Other teachers were Mrs Mc Donald, Mrs Jobling, and Mrs Wright. Hello to all old Gateshead people. Bless you all and our once canny town.

[@robertlagan8441]

Very interesting comments and vivid memories can’t disagree at all. 👍

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

@@robertlagan8441 You from Gateshead, same generation by any chance? An old Saint?

[@robertlagan8441]

@@occidentadvocate.9759 born in 53. Born in Gateshead. Lived in Arthur Street b4 we moved to heworth around 1957

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

@@robertlagan8441 ah do technically outside of Gateshead for those days.

[@stevesmith3451]

Cracking video Colin remember trips to Shepherd's and the funny money. Strong family ties to the town one Gt.Gt Grandfather had a shop in the high street in the 1840's the other a grocers in the late 1800's.Grandad was born in an old mill on windmill hills!

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Hi Steve Happy New Year to you mate. So you have connections to Gateshead. Oh I am going to have to find out about Windmill Hills.

[@peterwinthorpe5152]

Brilliant Colin mate 🎉

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Cheers Peter

[@pyconsable]

I was born in Gateshead 1938 thank you for a very well done history of photos I now live in Australia $10 pom with my wife and 2 children Happy days growing up in Gateshead

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Thank you your comment is much appreciated take care

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Fantastic stills Like the music too

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Cheers Bleak

[@alanporteous-oi2hx]

I can remember Dummlers when it was on Sunderland Road. Next to the Cap shop

[@rogernevin7461]

I used to deliver to Dummlers about 1973 and they used to insist you had your dinner and wouldn't take any payment ! The Town Hall Clock has an inscription on the back of it which states a present to the people of Gateshead from the Mayor Sir Walter Willson. He was the owner of Walter Willson Smiling Service Stores, the first multiple grocers in Britain with over 250 stores. If they had moved with the times they could have been bigger than Tesco's.

[@Occident.]

They had 3 shops in Gateshead I recall. Very popular.

[@jamesfriery]

Very haunting music reminds me of days long gone. Splendid video Colin.

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Cheers James

[@chasidahl8563]

Fantastic video, Colin! Such a walk down memory lane. Yes, I agree, they seem to demolish all the buildings/structures with history & character without a second thought. Hope you & Carol enjoyed Xmas & New Year. Looking forward to all our journeys in 2023! Thanks for the post 👍

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Hi Chasidah we did thank you hope you had a good Christmas and me and Carole wish you a Happy New Year. We are looking forward to getting out again with the Camera's.

[@jontalbot1]

I haven’t been in Gateshead for a few years when a lot of what is portrayed here was still around. I remember the site of the Metrocentre before it was developed and at about the same time the equally shocking bits of modern sculpture which appeared. Given the resources at their disposal I think the Council have done a fantastic job to try and improve the town. The sculpture is the most imaginative thing l can ever recall any council doing and is the reason they were able to commission the Angel of the North. People forget the overwhelming public opposition to it now. I always think Gateshead is a place in dialogue with JB Priestly who wrote some terrible but no doubt true things about it in the 1930s. The Angel is the town’s response and l am sure he would have been delighted. Love from a filthy Southerner

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Hi Jon thank you for the comment. I love the Angel by the way I was Born 100 yards away Cowen Gardens. I think the Angel has grew on a lot of people but your right still a lot that hate it. Just to mention your surname my Mam was a Talbot. Take care

[@jayveebloggs9057]

My great grandad is Will Curly of Curly's bar fame. He was a famous boxer.. When he died he had a requiem mass in Whitley Bay where he had retired to and another in Gateshead. People lined the Tyne Bridge and Gateshead High Street (1937)

[@livingonthetyne]

Great video 😊

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Cheers Living your comment much appreciated

[@simonbrown140]

Brilliant but very nostalgic video, I'd love to head back in time 😔

[@bernadettemurray8260]

I'm from Sunderland the music to the film is so poignant, great image's. I heard my nana mention Tommy on the bridge as a little girl.

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Cheers Bernadette

[@avaughan585]

Great photos. I can see the from the dates that the terminal decline started somewhere in the 1970s from which it never recovered. Streets in the 50s and 60s look spotless, when there was probably a modicum of civic pride, like being in Japan!

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Totally Agree MOMNE we were in Gateshead just before Christmas a lot of work needed

[@th8257]

Gateshead high street had really been in decline since the 1920s. They had tried to build it up as a rival to Newcastle, but then stupidly allowed the Tyne Bridge to be built in an area that meant demolishing a lot of the prominent shops. The depression and the war then finished off a lot of the others, notably Snowball's department store. The redevelopment of the 60s and 70s made it look clean for a brief moment, but the underlying problems with poor construction and wider social problems soon took their toll and it started to become pretty depressing. My abiding memory of Gateshead Indoor Market was the stench of grease and nicotine. There used to be a statue of a butcher near the entrance and it was stained yellow from the cigarette smoke. The final nail in the coffin came when the Metrocentre opened. Coatsworth Road in Gateshead, once a busy shopping area, suffered a similar fate.

[@BJHolloway1]

very good depiction Thanks

[@mickparker3726]

Pork sandwich with peas pudding from the butchers half way up the high street opposite Odeon ..... bliss.

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Remember it well Mick Happy Days

[@Occident.]

Deitz. 👍

[@tuckasamms]

Brilliant again Colin. Many thanks for posting mate . Kindest Regards. P.s. At 0.29 I can remember the joke shop at the very bottom on the right -hand side. Bought a Beatle wig there. Ha Ha .

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Cheers I love it when people enjoy and memories are brought back. I have a bald patch so could do with a Beatles wig lol.

[@awsomejess1233]

Hi Dave here. I used to work in joke shop when I was 14/15woud push barrow down bottle bank on Sunday morning for quae side market those were best days.wish could turn back clock😂

[@iantaylor7840]

As a Gateshead lad born and bred it my heart ache to see the old town in the photos and the disgraceful state it is now; everything is a mess now and has no character. Nice to see though Colin, I’m 69 this year and remember much that has now gone. Thanks for the memory.

[@Occident.]

We call it.... GANNON'S GHOST TOWN.

[@markLittle-qx8px]

I'm also a Gateshead lad born and bred. Disgusted at what has become of our town.

[@pegg3754]

I can sure see why after watching the video. Sad really.

[@christinethornhill]

👍🏼 Colin, these videos you’ve shared are marvellous. I remember when all the menfolk wore those trilby hats every day and others a snug cloth cap 🧢 ! It’s a blessing you keep us Geordie folk in touch with how things used to be. Especially those, as myself, who moved away ..never to return. The love lives on …. I sing to my little grandson …he loves a dose of Blaydon races ! Maybe one day we will tread those streets together… best wishes to you, dear friend. My morning blessed, indeed 💕👍🏼🤱🏼💕✨🌟✨

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Thank you Christine glad you enjoyed. I love doing what I do with the videos. One of the Main things I do them for is for people who have moved away. I have a few History groups on facebook.

[@pegg3754]

I really enjoyed the look back in time. Thank you for sharing.

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

Glad you enjoyed Pegg

[@pegg3754]

@@colinthegeordiehistorian10 Here again to day to watch. My heart smiles.

[@th8257]

Interesting to see the Team Valley and the river being paved over. My grandmother always used to tell me she learned to swim there as a child.

[@Tacsmoker]

great video, cheers

[@samuel96100]

Nice video. Born and raised in Sheriff Hill, lived in Gateshead - Princess street, born1967, then moved up to Millway 1970. Memories of going to Laws and Shephards with Mam and Gran. The indoor market and Car park are a miss, doesn't seem that long ago..

[@corrinebayraktaroglu5695]

Lovely memories, thank you ❤

[@MJ-dk9kr]

Great video ESP the red bridge with the cattle going to cattle yard... My granny N hubby granny lived Tyne Rd east a bull broke out one day and ran up back yard stairs 😂 great video❤

[@RazorlitexX]

All these years later I can still remember the taste of that sarsaparilla on my tongue, such a refreshing drink. My mother used to take me there when I was around 8-10 years old.

[@colinb9148]

Thanks for this. @3.46. Old Durham Rd.. Anyone recall name of cake shop from that way, closed in 80s. Miss their cream slices.

[@jean2740]

Haunting music

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

It is Jean my type of music lol

[@brianhallimond8984]

Loved it Colin. Thank you. One correction though, at 5.02, that junction is nowhere near Kells Lane. The photo was taken outside the Ritz cinema (you can see part of the roof on the left). To the left is Old Durham Rd and straight ahead is Belle Vue Terrace going out of Gateshead centre and leading upto Durham Road and the warehouse of Thompson Red Stamp Stores. There was a row of big houses called the Crescent to the right of road and my dad always says the Little Waister lived there at one time.

[@cassandramarshall2467]

The man in the picture inside laws herbalist shop is called Billy my mam and her siblings know him. Those drinks were awesome.

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

I loved the drinks in Laws

[@heatherboardman7004]

Spent my youth at Shipcote Baths and Shipley Art Gallery,❤️

[@johansensolutionsnevada9945]

Whenever I came out of Shipcote Baths as a schoolkid my eyes were stinging with the amount of chlorine that was used.

[@sproket168]

Some memories they kid

[@YourBeingParanoid]

The photo of Law's at 02:25 must have been much more recent as I remember the prices being more like 10p a glass in the 80s

[@sightseeingspotfacts]

Nice video, but I think at 3.38 the date of 1885 might be a typo. it looks like the 1960s judging by the model of cars.

[@michaelkelly2708]

Great video's, but what most of humanity don't know because we've been lied to since are birth an parent, grandparent's is this these Great Cities got repopulated and was all built 100s of years ago before we are told in are history books, we had the technology to build mega structures and beautiful, Research Tartarian Empire, Tartaria and the mudfloods, Orphan trains, Incubator babies, world fares etc❤

[@jean2740]

My god can't believe that was church street NEVER !!!!WOW.

[@colinthegeordiehistorian10]

How things change Jean. Loved it back then

[@Mick873b]

I got caught smoking in Shepherd’s when I was 2 years old ! I found someone’s lit fag end dumped on the floor and tried to copy my Dad who was a smoker. Never smoked since because of the telling off !

[@maddogdaz1]

SHEPHERDS OF GATESHEAD AND THE CAR PARK IS FREE.

[@maddogdaz1]

It's taken me 50 years to realise that the advert wasn't shepherd's of gateshead and the copper is free.

[@ianstyles9759]

yes Saturday pictures get in with a jam jar win sweets with tickets then ice cold sasparilla at Laws Herbal, a look in the pet shop hamsters and budgies what a glorious day

[@da90sReAlvloc]

Are people from Gateshead geordies

[@th8257]

Yes

[@Occident.]

Whey aye man! 👍