Great footage of Newcastle Upon Tyne During The 60s..

[@johnreay5522]

Thats the town I remember growing up finished now😢

[@andrewhubbard4044]

How the local authority and planning have destroyed our once beautiful newcastle city centre its a crying shame

[@jasonbourne7499]

The Good Old Days , unfortunately politicians have destroyed UK.

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

I know EXACTLY what you mean ... The "Career politicians" who have destroyed the UK should be rounded up and put in prison for what they have done to this ONCE beautiful and PEACEFUL country.

[@jasonbourne7499]

@@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 They all live in big houses in the countryside away from the chaos they created.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

@@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 So if a criminal commits crime that is a politician's fault? Blaming every problem on politicians is a cop-out

[@BB-qp9ri]

@@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 It is if the politicians/ EU knowingly bring dangerous criminals into the country

[@jean2740]

Yes yes.

[@andyallom4357]

I could watch footage like this for hours.

[@projectdalekmark]

I think when you have youngsters saying these look like much better times and it's not just the older generations, you know that things definitely are changing for the worse.

[@projectdalekmark]

@@lawfulbeneficiary1731 Couldn't disagree more. The futher back you go the the more pride the country had. I've seen enough footage of suburban street from then with mixed races living in harmony and acceptance. White and black children playing side by side. Whatever degeneracy that happens will always be linked to the minority of criminals and lowlife racists that exist. The difference now is the media are too lazy to tell the real racists off (which wouldn't listen anyway) & so they just persicute all white people as racists, which is very wrong!

[@eddyvideostar]

@@lawfulbeneficiary1731: Thank's for sharing the glaring light of your identity.

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

@@eddyvideostar regardless all I know is if you read my comment and still believe before was better times you’re an idiot. If you went back you would’ve probably been dead in the war and if not dead waking up with ptsd every day screaming while waking up do you know how many high ranking soldiers I’ve talked with who literally said they were forced to kill families including children most of them were scarred beyond repair nor to mention how England looked like a dump for a while even years after the war... sk I don’t get why people are saying England used to be so clean unless they’re only referring to small sections or the areas in the clip... I do admit however everything was cheap but with the depression in the 30s and when you hear how the government in England treated white white and black people it’s disgusting Every generation sugar costs the past humans are as predictable as ever but in reality life wasn’t as good

[@robertlagan8441]

Isnt that saying something !

[@Wanamaker1946]

Now that is a great point….so true. I pray all those classical structures are still standing. I’ll do Google earth view to see. The two story beaux art looking building at the end of the street was builded to curve with the street. The Cathedral of Saint Nicholas is in the backround. As a boy from Pa, I became obsessed with this town….and it is a town because it has a Cathedral. It must on PBS and then I followed up on it at the library. Anglo’s stopped having children it would seem. The vacuum beckons, the old wall of the city kept out the madding hoards once before……this may well be the Britain will have to go again. It’s not going to stop soon enough. The baby mills and the four wife marriages are going to breed you out. You are up against the Vandals of ancient times, but instead they now talk about conscription to fight the Russian’s. That makes total sense, doesn’t it? Who will they conscript? And who will head to this farce? And what’s the pay off? Who will you come home to, but the people you don’t know…….if you even come home. Boy, do we need Donald Trump back so to set the world straight again.

[@sirsamfay99]

Shocking seeing the beautiful Town Hall before it was demolished and replaced with a brick box!

[@nikkijayne4451]

Beautiful. If only England could be like that again.

[@jean2740]

It's a shame but it's never gona happen but we can dream.

[@jean2740]

Ain't never gona happen mores the pity eh.

[@jean2740]

Sorry England as we k ew it long gone sad as it is

[@jean2740]

True 👍

[@ollyfoister2153]

Your all mental if you want to go back to that

[@evelinewinskill4066]

Bainbridge and yellow buses, what memories

[@GILLY56ify]

Brings back so many memories going back to that time .. I was a young lad then and life seemed much more simple and pleasurable with a lifetime ahead ...

[@robertlagan8441]

Well said and facty

[@robertlagan8441]

Factual

[@DanTheBuska]

Good man, much love from a 20 year old lad from Newcastle. I look at this an wish I was back then instead. For these days are bleak looking.

[@zeddeka]

Yup, that's what being young means, in any era

[@zeddeka]

​@@DanTheBuskayou clearly know very little about that era then. It was bloody awful.

[@daveshongkongchinachannel]

Wouldn’t think twice if I had a chance to go back to that time. Love the soundtrack to this footage too!

[@pam164]

Me too

[@markblakeut]

Sergei Bagin 'Calm and Romantic'.

[@eddyvideostar]

@@markblakeut: Thank you, Blake: Appreciated. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZa3hIhsacaoqtk

[@johndurkin6382]

Ah yes this is magical a time when Newcastle was buzzing, great little piece of film

[@JD-lp5rw]

Still is tbh

[@philgray1023]

A time when organised criminal gangs were milking my step dad's business dry in the Haymarket. When thugs broke down our front door with sledge hammers at 2AM to give him a message about shutting down part of his business. When polio was still a thing. When we were dog poor and couldn't afford a pair of shoes when the old ones split. Mary Bell was growing up in slum conditions of Scotswood at this very time. I'd like to say a few things about the police and justice but that would take a while. My rose coloured glasses of nostalgia are well and truly broken.

[@andsomeenery2964]

Brilliant! Its the Newcastle i remember and still miss. When shopping was exiting and not a chore. These days i only go into the Toon if absolutely necessary and leave as quick as i can. Alan Hull hit the nail on the head with his brilliant tracks ' All fall down' and ' Dan the plan'.

[@ruwn561]

Look at all those lovely indigenous British people. Lovely.

[@zeddeka]

Russian troll

[@jean2740]

I could have been one of these people walking along with my mam oh happy days ,gone for ever ❤😢

[@jean2740]

I think the girls and wooman used to really look smart really made an effort in way they dressed ,everyone did unlike today loved this footage thank you so much pulled at heart strings

[@colincarroll5953]

Old Geordies will love this a time it was it was.

[@juliathompson8335]

Wonderfuly nostalgic and lovely tune brought a tear 😢 to my eyes ❤

[@victorgrasscourt3382]

Our country is finished. What a shame. I feel I am a stranger in my own country.

[@seansmith445]

And done deliberately!

[@zeddeka]

Your country? Russia? Yes it is in a terrible mess isn't it

[@colinmccarthy7921]

I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on the 12th June 1950.I am proud to be a Geordie.Howay my Lads and Lasses.❤️🙏🏻👏👍🙏🏻❤️.

[@jean2740]

I was born in late 50s and I would go back to those day's at the drop of a hat . I always sit and day dream of our old newcastle good memories cos only bad horrible place now

[@durudadlani1931]

I note that lot of towns and cities in England looked so similar...Even visitors would feel they were in a familiar place, so reassuring.

[@paulr9572]

I remember going to a camping exhibition in the old Town Hall, when it was briefly an 'Exhibition Centre' as shown 50 seconds. Scary how much time has passed and how much the world has changed since then.

[@johnenglish929]

Used to love those old yellow buses - 64 & 65 - with that white ridged tape around the grab rails !

[@Maggy47]

I was a young lass I the 60s fashion is back with mini skirts etc thanks for video brought back memories 👌

[@2msvalkyrie529]

England before our politicians turned it into a cess pit. We voted for them so maybe it's what we deserve . Who ever imagined we would end up where we are today .?

[@jean2740]

So very very true 👍

[@Mika-ni9kd]

Looks lovely, and a great tune❤

[@ivandinsmore6217]

A country called England that no longer exists.

[@jean2740]

What you said ,is what I say on a daily basis .

[@paullacey2999]

The UK has gone down the pan.Just look at the woke bbc and tv ads and see if Im wrong....

[@jean2740]

True 👍

[@adamjones3818]

@@paullacey2999 reactionary

[@adamjones3818]

@@jean2740 reactionary

[@grahamtowler1761]

Remember going into Fenwicks and Bainbridges with my mother for afternoon tea as a bairn and the window displays at Christmas were so good.

[@andrewtaylor5984]

Also good was the Christmas display at Caller's furniture shop on the other side of Northumberland Street from Fenwick's. Sadly, on the evening of 30 November, 1969, the store was destroyed by fire, probably caused by an electrical fault in the decorations. The building had to be demolished, as did buildings in Saville Row and North Street. At least it all happened on a Sunday evening, when hardly anyone was around, and nobody was seriously hurt. Northumberland Street never conveyed two-way traffic again. A replacement Caller's opened on the site in the summer of 1971, and has either been completely rebuilt, or demolished already.

[@grahamtowler1761]

@@andrewtaylor5984 cant remember Callers but happy times as a young kid everything seemed vibrant to me then

[@markrl75]

Wonderful piece of nostalgic film. Newcastle before the 1970's developers tore the cities heart out in order to build a god awful shopping centre and inner city motorway.

[@toonarmy8524]

nothing the matter with Eldon square we would be stuck in the dark ages if everyone thought like you did.Move with the times or become extinct.

[@markrl75]

@@toonarmy8524 - Its absolutely nothing to do with becoming extinct. They ruined a wonderful old city centre to build a 1970's brick shopping arcade and an urban motorway cutting the city in half. The Germans (Europe's leading industrial nation) would never have done that to one of their great cities and they could hardly be said to be stuck in the dark ages. Newcastle city council now openly admits with hindsight much of it was a horrible mistake made in the days of the very corrupt T Dan Smith. That fine gentlemen later served 10 years imprisonment as a result of his interesting relationship with developers. You don't appear to know much about the history of your own city.

[@toonarmy8524]

@@markrl75 unfortunately im not a historian and dont claim to be. but i do know living in the past isnt going to get you anywhere. you have to move with the times. oh and just for the record most of the place used to look like beirut in the late 60 s early 70 s it was a minging hole.

[@markrl75]

@@toonarmy8524 - Newcastle in the 1960's was still very much an industrial city with its buildings covered in soot and it was still recovering from the war. The wonderful old buildings in what is now called Grainger Town have been transformed from soot stained black to their original sandstone brown and look magnificent. The Eldon square city centre area was allowed purposefully to run down to make its subsequent demolition more acceptable to the public. It was all carried out by a corrupt city council under the leadership of T Dan Smith who claimed he was creating 'The Brasilia of the North' while taking huge back handers from the developers for which he was later jailed for 10 years. But please don't take my word for this look it up for yourself and you will be both astonished and disgusted with what was really going on in your city during that period. Thank you for your replies.

[@Matty12333]

Eldon square has been very successful though for the city.

[@terrymullins9772]

Those were the days my friend I thought they'd never end .....

[@fabshop6359]

Cracking film!!!

[@jean2740]

Keep the lovely memories coming it's what keeps pur old newcastle alive cos it ain't ever going to be this way again mores the pity😢

[@minty448]

So many people who are now gone!😢

[@JohnHelldiver-01]

I’m a young lad and I have never got along with fellows my age and have had more in common with my seniors. I am not PC and just want times like that not what kids are doing now acting like criminals. I wish for better times.

[@jean2740]

Sad bit them times are gone for ever ,we are all controled told how to live what we can and can't say.

[@crazydave53]

Used to work in Milburn House in the late 60s as an office junior, first job was local deliveries ie mail to local offices. I must have walked up and down Dean Street numerous times. These days been in my later 60s no way I could walk up it now. Thanks for the video.

[@aijtkumar2953]

time flies ,

[@daveyfitz961]

love it, better times

[@luvit7567]

Loved this. Seeing the Odeon cinema in a it's glory, amazing. Used to go there all the time. How times have changed.

[@johnenglish929]

It wasn’t just a cinema : the Stones played there, and Dusty Springfield !

[@avrilbeverley7820]

My beloved city looking more like Baghdad every day!!.

[@seansmith445]

😢 Never thought it would happen to Newcastle but it has.

[@jacquelineloveselvis]

Wonderful footage. Thank you for sharing.

[@Hippydays1959]

brought back memories, shopping with my mum when I was a kid, I remember going to the exhibition centre at the big market to see a circus. I worked at the ocean in the 70s. It’s so different now but still has a lot of the old buildings, glad they didn’t pull them down to replace them with modern ……video was so good

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

Not one person walking about with a poxy mobile phone glued to their face or taking selfies. To get likes from people they don't even know Not one woman covered in tacky "Tramp stamps" Not one kebab shop Not one Mcdonald's junk food shop sorry "Restaurant" Not one "Vape" shop Rest In Peace GREAT Britain.

[@kev845]

I love life then not now its not the same now its not our britain any more

[@jean2740]

Yes to everything you just said , it's made out by press everyone of today is happy the way our country has turned out

[@paullacey2999]

@@jean2740 Jean the press is full of lies these days.Young 'uns cant see the brainwashing going on.....

[@jean2740]

Yes and when they do realise what's going on it will all be game over , lamb's to the slaughter is what I say

[@paullacey2999]

@@jean2740 You are so correct,I hope one day all the sheep see whats happening..🤞

[@brianknowles1727]

Life was so much better ❤️.

[@rp-c6324]

They've wrecked our city with the mess they've made of the roads and parking is too dear. Wait for the congestion charges to hit.. I don't go in any more...

[@danlawson6652]

I agree. It's so sad. I dont feel like going into the town anymore it's awful. Used to be a beautiful vibrant place. Its ruined

[@monkwhitley]

Totally agree. The wonderfully historic Grainger town has been allowed to deteriorate beyond belief. The City Council are under the impression that all people want when they visit the place is fast food , nails and hair salons . Many of the traditional shops went bust or moved out long ago . Many buildings are being turned into accommodation for the future when it follows Manchester in becoming a place where locals can't afford to live . Anyone coming for the nightlife will find a vast difference from 80s-90s . It's not progress as I see it , it's the exact opposite.

[@Jeffybonbon]

I think a great number share your view I loved Newcastle But I just dont wish to go near the center in 2022 The Council has a lot to answer for IMO

[@andrewtaylor5984]

Lovely view of a Leyland-bodied Titan among the buses. The views probably date from 1968, for instance, the footbridge over Northumberland Street at Cook's Corner dates from that year. There are no trolleybus wires, which mean that the scenes are post 1966, whilst Market Street and Blackett Street are both one-way, effective from August 1967. There is a bus stop in Grey Street. No buses used Grey Street as long as Blackett Street was two-way. Bigg Market is still two-way; the massive one-way system round the Central Station was introduced in three stages in the autumn of 1968. Also visible is the old Town Hall, by then an exhibition centre. The Newgate Centre is under construction. Northumberland Street is still the A1, and many of the buildings depicted have disappeared for ever.

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

Wait till diversity is finished with it Sir

[@geoffpope5076]

Happy days ☺

[@BABYCHAOS26]

Makes me think of Mark Toney’s, some footage of that place back in the 60’s would be fascinating too.

[@jean2740]

Two of my older sissters worked in Mark Tony,s back in the day they loved it 😀

[@woody1456]

Saturday afternoon going to the tatler cinema them mark toneys for a knickerbocker glory !

[@jillparkin2541]

I was in Mark Toney's this afternoon, six quid for an ice cream!!!

[@woody1456]

@@jillparkin2541 wow thats crazy !

[@s.v.corycia5643]

Nicer cars, smarter people, no nose rings, pink hair or screaming some mobs....Thank you very much!

[@jean2740]

I thought the same thing smarter people , now it's trainers and jogger bottoms for every thing.

[@josephjefferson9346]

@@jean2740 and scrubs and trainers for nurses in place of starched suits, stockings and shoes.

[@Mowogjones]

Cars were shite and unreliable, you ever heard of punk rock? What you on about man 🤣

[@milkmakesnoise8818]

ah yes because nose rings and dyed hair is such a global disaster

[@lizsalgado945]

and,,,,, not one person eating in the street or carrying a coffee,,,

[@RadioJonophone]

There are clips from several times in this piece. For example, 1:41 shows a number two bus turning from Blackett Street into Northumberland Street having just traversed the roundabout at Grey's Monument going under the pedestrian bridge. That was short lived. It was put up in 1968 but removed after someone was killed falling from it in 1970. The clip that follows this at 1:50 shows the same junction from Northumberland Street looking south towards the Odeon in Pilgrim Street before the bridge was built.

[@HFamilyDad]

I noticed this too, thank for the explanation.

[@andrewtaylor5984]

I was not aware that somebody fell off the bridge. Please remember that in 1968 Northumberland Street was the A1 trunk road. There were two footbridges across Northumberland Street, the other was at the Northumberland Road junction. The need for both bridges ceased in May 1970, when John Dobson Street was opened.

[@jean2740]

That's very true

[@paulthomas3841]

Cars, Buses, Lorrys all made by Men and Ladies in Great Britain

[@redcalx9568]

I remember the Fenwicks window displays at xmas as a kid

[@jean2740]

Xmas window was amazing back then , now it's got nothing at all to do with Xmas, Xmas means nothing now lost its sparkle ,there only a memory ,shame .

[@pam164]

It's everything but xmas now.

[@jean2740]

Long as it keeps others happy, but not the true people

[@stevecooper2541]

As you can see, Britain has always been diverse...

[@_B.M_]

Newcastle no .... But places like London and Birmingham were even in the 60s and 70s

[@tonyirving4154]

Wow, that was wonderful. It's such a shame the country has been over run with the evil of Islam and other overseas elements , this is how I remember my home town it was fantastic then but not now I blame the torys for destroying are wonderful county.

[@tonyirving4154]

@Skankhunt42 yes Blair was a tory not a Laber man in all but name, but I agree with you that was the start of it , true.

[@djozzdraper]

And now it’s hell.

[@mrjohn.whereyoufrom]

I’ve never visited Newcastle and I’ve been told the nightlife is amazing.

[@jean2740]

The night life I would think is awfull now to much fighting not safe 😔

[@monkwhitley]

Was .

[@pam164]

No not now, very boring, go some where else

[@pam164]

@jmc Yes was there yesterday felt like I was in Africa, also the beggar's on streets everywhere, most are on drugs, its not the city it was, its long gone

[@pam164]

@jmc I worked at bakery near Haymarket and they all had places to live, you would hear then talk and they would get food and drinks off people buying them for them, in shop where I worked, they didn't want them, they wanted money, for Drugs, they would argue and fight and this was at 6 am sometimes. Police would come and do nothing.

[@JohnDavis-ed5sg]

How nice it was....

[@righteoussavage1316]

Ah yes before the great replacement began

[@JesterEric]

The replacement began later in Newcastle. I lived in Leicester in the 90s for a short time and it used to reassure me that Newcastle was not like that dump. It's still not as bad but whole areas are now immigrants and students

[@jean2740]

Well said the great replacement.

[@zeddeka]

Russian troll

[@Wordavee1]

Aaah, those buses, fantastic!

[@toonmag50]

No pics of the trolley busses unfortunately

[@andrewtaylor5984]

​@@toonmag50 You will see from previous comments of mine that the scenes cannot be earlier than August 1967. Trolleybuses in Newcastle finished on 1 October, 1966, and all the overhead had gone by early 1967.

[@lindagray2282]

Not a migrant in sight,,,ahhh happy days back then 🥰

[@zeddeka]

You people are so thick. We had the kids of migrants wandering round. How many of the people you know have Irish surnames?

[@davidaddison5936]

I still remember the pedestrian bridge, although I don't think I ever used it. :)

[@AndrewMurray-u9l]

Looks a wonderful bustling big city. I would say fumed in very late 1960s or up to about 1971-2?

[@mn4169]

Much cleaner, employment, a future. It all ended in the 70s, i know I grew up as a child of the 60s and a forgotten teenager without a job and future. Moved to Sweden in order to that future. Great memories going on the train from Sunderland to Newcastle on my 5th birthday in 1968 to buy a pair of red shoes

[@Jeffybonbon]

Newcastle has changed I dont like it now and i dont really wish to go there in 2022 I loved the old city it was full of great charicters great old places all gone now we all live such short lives be kind to each other we are all just passing through just like the folk on this video most will have gone now

[@jean2740]

Sad to look back we all been robbed of our past 😪 only got footage like this to bring our memories back 😍

[@Jeffybonbon]

@@jean2740 your so right It was better in lots of ways life was more stable then and i dont think there was the greed at that time

[@Matty12333]

Newcastle always used to have such a buzz about it, now it's unkempt, expensive, and full of undesirable people

[@notrut]

Sadly it's just a Ghetto now ... not helped by 2 Universities and a Labour council. A Nigerian MP and Bangladeshi Mayor ....

[@Jeffybonbon]

I so agree with you and i am not a racist but i know what you mean 100%

[@jean2740]

Yes look who is running OUR !!! COUNTRY AND towns .

[@Matty12333]

Not as bad as some other cities

[@bernardlandymore7372]

@@Matty12333 Give it time ...2/3 years. Thats all it took to distroy my town, 3 stabbings and 1 murder last Friday.

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

Race is absolutely irrelevant do you think heaven or hell is segregated? Instead of focusing on colour focus on the root problem. Why did the teenagers of this generation shun manners and respect and become fixated on rebellion and make degeneracy cool. Naturally when you have children and your children children have children you create a generation of degeneracy too. Not rocket science instead why don’t you people focus on your finances to put your children into a position where they’re around classy respectful people in private schools or home school them to create respectful children or work in a community centre to stop children from being influenced to do nonsense that would help there’s loads of ways to combat social degeneracy but you would rather complain on someone’s skin colour

[@minimaxi802]

1966 at the earliest, there is a Mk4 Zephyr and Mk2 Cortina introduced that year.

[@andrewtaylor5984]

I think the scenes date from 1968; please see my other comments.

[@AndrewMurray-u9l]

Looks. Wet much like Glasgow

[@steveforster9764]

Where is all the people of colwho have "Alwsy" been front and center in Brsince thd Roman' times?

[@paulbrennan3996]

Days of yore 😍🤩😍🥰

[@brianmorrison9168]

@1:42 I used to love these sort of pedestrian bridges.. I would always cross over them, even if i didn't really want to go to the other side.. I could always come back again. I was easily pleased ... and I think I was 21 at the time 😁

[@garymcteer7620]

Brilliant footage, saddened though to see what was knocked down to build that damn awful Eldon Square shopping centre 🤬 What was the footbridge for at the bottom of Northumberland Street?

[@andrewtaylor5984]

At the time the footbridge was erected, in 1968, Northumberland Street was still the A1 main road. There was a second bridge, erected a few months earlier, at the other end of Northumberland Street, by the Northumberland Road junction.

[@garymcteer7620]

@@andrewtaylor5984 Thanks Andrew 👍

[@pam164]

Eldon Square best thing about Newcastle now

[@chipbuttytime3396]

@@andrewtaylor5984 Thank you Gary for asking I was wondering about that too as I'd never seen that bridge before. Cheers Andrew, these pieces of history are priceless.

[@jean2740]

Now Eldon Square is no shops inside only eateries can't fathom that out, we all need shop's.

[@jonriley8342]

Wonderful

[@Lp-ze1tg]

When luxury handbags/purse was not a thing.

[@jean2740]

That's true a handbag was a means to carry our stuff ,nothing els ,now it's let's buy a handbag for as much money as possible waste of good brass.

[@SensibleMoniker]

Not an illegal immigrant in sight.

[@fathiftaita9690]

Only white folks you mean

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

@@fathiftaita9690 That is EXACTLY what he means. My late grandfather fought for six years in the second world war for this now toilet bowl of a country .. He will be turning in his grave. We have been sold down the river by "Career politicians" They are a disgrace.

[@jean2740]

That's very 👍

[@Matty12333]

Newcastle isn't too diverse compared to other places

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

It’s nothing to do with immigrants and more so to do with what is cool the 60s was the start of social degeneracy that shunned societal standards of modesty and respect hence why the mini skirts started to arise the only reason you considered london as good back then is because the older generation was still alive that had modesty and standards when the boomers grew up look how london started to spiral downwards when the older generation (there parents died) most of you are so focused on race you miss the root problem

[@cs0rpc]

Why has this been cropped?

[@monkwhitley]

You could re make it today with The Pogues playing Dirty old Town or Elvis Presley's In The Ghetto accompanying it .

[@jean2740]

No playing the fog on the tyne .

[@jean2740]

Wasn't a dirty old town it is filthy old town now

[@monkwhitley]

@@jean2740 you are spot on . . Merry Christmas I'm out n about in Tynemouth 🥳

[@Matty12333]

Newcastle is such odd place now, could be any city

[@jean2740]

That is so true yes dirty old town . They destroyed our town and country.

[@zippy2175]

Not one foreigner blissssss

[@PCLA7]

- Halcyon Days - Baby -

[@sarahlouise7163]

what fab yellow buses!

[@stevemather-i9m]

Small boats hadn’t been invented then😂😂

[@mickeymouse7861]

What's the music called Stevie Gee? From a North Shields lad.

[@da90sReAlvloc]

Wasn't the old horror star Tod slaughter from Newcastle

[@Robin07136]

Mary Bell ?

[@da90sReAlvloc]

​@@Robin07136 no tod slaughter

[@AnthonyPurvis-bq5wp]

Look how diversity has ENRICHED us

[@brianknowles1727]

You know what it's called respect.

[@bernadettemurray8260]

Great old footage.

[@maciejostrowski720]

Lux!

[@jamesfirth2392]

looks like a Honda CD175 at 56 seconds, so images from 1967 ish. Mark II Cortina also , that came out in 1966.

[@DSM9]

Footage is from North East Film Archive. No credit?

[@DeanSinger]

1-11 - girl nearly got knocked over on the corner, think this is 1967(number plate on the Cortina mk2 - possibly F reg )

[@staffanlindstrom576]

Nice.

[@gavindouglas7020]

Wow not a knife gang drug gang grooming gang in sight where did we go so so wrong

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

When this generation of the 60s and 70s started going against manners and respect and was all about rebellion you can’t be a generation that is all for rebellion then when it spirals even worst in the younger generation you can’t complain when you started it. People only had manners and respect and modesty from there parents when the boomers of the 60s and 70s thought they can make there own rules you see the rubbish they left society

[@gavindouglas7020]

@@lawfulbeneficiary1731 so it's our fault blacks are stabbing each other, Pakistan grooming gangs are reaping white kids and break down in respect because it was my generation, easy to pick on people you hate

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

@@gavindouglas7020 I didn’t say that all I said is if you start a generation that glamourises degeneracy and rebellion as cool don’t blame the younger generation when they glamourise rap music and gangs and all other degeneracy as cool too.

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

@@gavindouglas7020 look at anytime before the 50s and you will see black/Pakistani whatever were wearing suits respectful and had manners the only difference that changed was the societal views which led to complacency and disrespect to be the norm the world would’ve been entirely different if the boomers actually followed there parents And unfortunately children have no one for guidance even if they have parents because most parents act like there children most adults even dress like there teenagers so there’s no distinct difference between man and child so disrespect is easier look like a child get treated like one. Before there was distinct differences that differed a child from a man now there’s none. And unless you’re a dad that dresses in suits all the time is always well mannered and respectful etc etc don’t talk about other people without fixing yourself

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

@@gavindouglas7020 we live in a generation where most children don’t have no one to look up to if they tried regardless of race I’ve seen white,black etc people dress horribly compared to where before people had standards and wanted to be well mannered and this was reflected by how they dress when you wear dignified clothing one is more inclined to be more dignified and respectful now you have white black people going out in pyjamas the adults swearing in front of there children it’s gone to nothing it has nothing to do with race and more to do with what is cool like i said when manners was the fashion any time before the 60s everyone was well mannered... make the fashion to be disrespectful and you will find a society where most people are disrespectful simple now a prisoner from the 1930s unfortunately has more manners than a middle aged man today sad

[@tooleyheadbang4239]

Lots of Chrome Yellow, but where are the wires?

[@andrewtaylor5984]

The trolleybus system ceased in 1966, and I am certain that the film dates from 1968; please refer to my comments elsewhere.

[@toonmag50]

The bigg market where the old Bainbridge's dept store side entrance was..... 1982,later than this.... My first girlfriend, a posh home counties girl. Being young and daft I challenged her to nick a pair of wellies from the stall near the pillar box. Surprisingly she picked the cheapest pair and legged it . I tease her now about the challenge and this vid is like going back to the scene of the crime. First and only time stealing anything.

[@PaulBrennan-b6m]

In days of yore when things where a bit better in the UK and around the world 🌍🤝🫶🙌

[@michaelwray1034]

Oh look a fully functioning normal british society.

[@stephenborsbey4350]

Saw a mark two cortina.So must be after 1966.

[@stevemather-i9m]

Great city and once great country now in crisis due to the naivety of politicians, so sad 😢

[@DavidRenwick-t1e]

If you think politicians are "naive" then you are the naive one. They are psychopaths!

[@desretroreels4949]

Wow

[@vonroon23]

Judging from the length of the skirts, it must be the late 60s.

[@josephjefferson9346]

This can’t be Newcastle. Where are all the black people? Where are the Muslims? I can’t see a hijab or a turban anywhere. There must be some mistake.

[@jean2740]

Yes it's a third world country now not a English person hardly in sight

[@paullacey2999]

All stealing our rights and freedoms while we sleepwalk

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

If only you knew this was the very generation that started social degeneracy the boomers were too busy rioting and protesting for “freedom” which was just a play to make people hate each other and fill nations with drugs and rebellion then all the other generations fell down with this. Also in the 80s and 90s prison owners started owning record labels to induce further chaos and destruction and what you see from then to now is a continuation all you people are so small minded and built to hate each other you will never be united like this and see the bigger picture

[@lawfulbeneficiary1731]

Also they did a study that boomers who inherited valuable things such as there parents antique cars jewellery etc only 13% of boomers actually inherited anything to there children in the 60s when people started dressing down and manners and respect wasn’t cool anymore this lead to the downfall we see in society it has nothing to do with a race and everything to how they program society. You complain about Muslims but yet Dubai is one of the safest countries? Why do you think so much people and white people especially are going wake up stop thinking so small minded

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

That's last week.

[@manfredbazarov6417]

All the people saying Newcastle was better in the 60s and 70s need to get a grip. It was tougher and rougher than it is now. Gangs of bovver boys roaming west end and east end, tooled up looking for trouble, people living in slum conditions. A lot more punch ups in the pubs. It certainly wasn't cleaner either. It looked nicer before they tore down a lot of the beautiful Georgian and Victorian buildings, but that's it. The city was probably at its best in early 2000s.

[@seansmith445]

The young men have certainly become softer and more feminised. Is that a good thing? It's likely the intention of the powers that be who don't want tough men who can stand up for themselves and their families. They want wimpy men who are pushovers and that's what we've got.

[@sicks6six]

not a beggar in sight, only the blind accordion player in Fenwick's Door, he played a mean accordion we've all seen him there before, no Algerian big issue sellers or Romanian gypsies selling lucky heather and no Muslim clerics preaching their religion outside of Brunswick methodist chapel and no national flags other than the union jack,

[@robertjarman4261]

Cockney here now living happily in Russia.If a soft southerner can do it so can a Geordie.Good luck.