How Britain Was Built Newcastle

[@justtrynasurvive]

Best city in the UK hands down. So greatful to grow up here.

[@Lat265]

You're kidding!

[@justtrynasurvive]

@@Lat265 kidding about what?

[@adamtaylor3046]

Toon toon

[@justtrynasurvive]

@@adamtaylor3046 Black n white armyyy!

[@adamtaylor3046]

@@justtrynasurvive yes lad u know

[@pulchralutetia]

I was born in Newcastle and lived there for twenty years. Probably the friendliest city in England.

[@scorchx3000]

Not if you wear Sunderland colours during the Derby.

[@pulchralutetia]

@@scorchx3000 Mackems are different, like.

[@arthurcallahan753]

@@pulchralutetia aye can’t disagree with that like

[@justachillguy-p9h]

Thx

[@Lat265]

The city was infamous for football hooliganism!

[@rosemarywaldie4958]

My husband and I are Geordies...although we have lived in USA since 1979...we never forget our roots! and we are very proud of them!!

[@andrewbrooks9508]

u should return some time :)

[@leegilholm697]

Rosemary Waldie proud to be a geordie

[@philgray1023]

@@andrewbrooks9508 No they need some Geordies over there to make sure they don't mess with Mason Dixon line. Took a lot of rulers to get that straight!

[@justworstevie473]

@@philgray1023 *Don't mess with the Dixons or their lines.* *As a Dixon from the toon I'm canny glad I came across this comment, I wouldn't have known about this Mason-Dixon line if it weren't for you.* *Cheers matey.*

[@charliealder3522]

Just remind your American friends that their country was built on a Geordie invention. 😉

[@PS-bg4nr]

I have lived in Newcastle as a business student in 1969.. I loved the city and its market.later I shifted to Oxford on work permit. I loved the city and your video which reminds me of my old days. Thanks for the video, Ram Saxena, New Delhi

[@dawnnostalgia]

We moved from Newcastle to New Zealand in 2006. I miss my family there and I want to go back again soon... Proud to be a Geordie

[@MikkelMane]

Your not missing much I promise you

[@fredpond1087]

but for how long?.

[@jimreid6370]

Full of back stabbers!

[@dawnnostalgia]

@@fredpond1087 i would just visit,, I’m happy here in NZ

[@Weyaye]

I done the same but to Australia, miss Newcastle!

[@Bunmaskka]

I've just moved to Newcastle and watching this video makes me feel good about my decision. This city is filled with so much history !!! Such a fantastic video!!! Thank you for this.

[@seandrew7837]

Welcome. Pop to Wallsend any time for a pint. 🍻

[@dorothyandrews8872]

Just came across this by accident and so glad I did. I left for Canada in 1966 when I was 21 and I didn't know half of the things I learned here. I was back last in 2016 and things had changed quite a bit. I actually got to press the button to move the Millenium Bridge. It was a real thrill since I hadn't seen it before. You have awakened so many memories with all the film from town, and I lived close to Angel of the North. Thank you will be watching this again.

[@janicekevinhands5335]

I remember as a child I used to play on the Roman wall. I had a wooden sword and a dustbin lid I used as a shield to fight off all those invaders that came from other parts of the world to save my beloved "Denton Burn". Then along would come a Policeman to burst my bubble just as I was getting on top of it all. Then I remembered someone said, "He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day" so I did a bunk in to "Denton Dean" where I could hide out for ages (possibly 15 minutes) then once more climb the wall and back into the fray, phew! it was hard work being a six year old in those days. Kevin (Geordie in Australia)

[@DM-sd1fg]

Thanks for sharing your memory, it brought a smile to my face😊 as I can just picture a kid doing exactly that.

[@drew.swinburne]

me to but i am still a kid so i still do it

[@drew.swinburne]

@@DM-sd1fg me to

[@leemichael2154]

Say oi oi to the ozzys for us kid!

[@Lat265]

Life was so good there, that she immigrated to Australia!

[@alexthorpe2522]

Very interesting and the presenter's enthusiasm is infectious. Was sad when it ended.

[@Happyheart146]

I played on Tanfield railway and the banks of the Tyne. Worked at the Grainger Market and was published in the Lit & Phil. Lost family in the pit disasters. My family were ship builders, colliers and architects. I'm so proud of my roots. Born in the 70's, a teen in the 80's. I think I was the last of a free generation. I've rang bells around Durham, but one day, I'll get to Newcastle to ring. I'll be ringing for my roots.

[@leeharwood9624]

Makes ya proud to be a geordie watching this 🖤🖤🖤

[@annchurchill2638]

I llived there for a year but never got able to indertsand Geordi.In everyday English I was able to read some.Great sense of humor

[@Behappy62]

Had a good day out there yesterday, great video

[@oregon433]

And yet still the northeast gets the bad end of the stick time and time again.

[@Evemeister12]

To be fair, most parts of the UK get a shitty deal these days

[@philipdawes2661]

Thoroughly enjoyed this program. As a northerner (born Durham) I grew up with 'the toon' and this program brings back fond memories as well as fascinating achievements. All presented by a guy who obviously not only enjoys his work but has a real passion for it.

[@chih-chienwu5757]

This is a very interesting class of Newcastle's history and the development of a new modern era from every aspects.Great job.

[@Vshekar-cp1em]

Very good commentary in British style, and proffesional presentation!!!!!🤔👏👏👍👌

[@Vshekar-cp1em]

Very educative and marvelous histroy of Armstrong!!!!! Hatsoff to the govt and scientists who scraped city to the modren world!!!!!!"👌

[@haroldburton3725]

This was one of the most interesting and informative videos I have seen on UTube. England would be much less of a country if not for Newcastle's role during the industrial revolution. Also loved your "Jacob's Jacket," which was as lively and fun as your presentation.

[@PS-bg4nr]

I have lived in Newcastle as a business student in 1969.. I loved the city and its market.later I shifted to Oxford on work permit. Thanks for the video which reminds me of old days. Saxena from new delhi

[@cloudnineballoonsuk4059]

I am not originally from Newcastle but so love this beautiful place. 👍🏼

[@Newcastleunited1969]

Thank you 🙏🏻⚫️⚪️

[@charliealder3522]

I think it's safe to say, love us or hate us England would be stuffed without us Geordie lads inventing and building everything 😂😂

[@HedleyOnTheHill]

agreed

[@daveuk4111]

I thought teesside built the world which it did 👍

[@roryt9751]

The world would be much worse off without Geordies...love you people, salt of the earth.

[@bostonblackie9503]

Glasgow was the industrial city in the Empire!

[@geraldwalsh6489]

I used to work with a Geordie here in Ireland...love the accent!

[@JohnSmith-ng9lo]

As proud Geordie born in Benwell my whole family worked in either Swans, Parsons and Vickers Armstrong and I can still remember the pubs at the end of every street along Scotswood Road to Marlborough Crescent.

[@shaunlowthian213]

I had a few days up in the area between lockdowns. Newcastle, Alnwick, Bamburgh up to Berwick. It really is a fascinating and beautiful place. I could live there gladly.

[@carlskyejacobson8714]

Those are lovely areas,nice stretch of coast

[@frankdux5693]

Where you from?

[@paulwatkins2601]

I live in America now but when I lived in England I worked as an installation engineer and visited most of these areas . I have also stood at he base of the angel of the north.

[@Annagrefberg]

One of the most loveliest cities I have ever visit. I wish I lived there....

[@Matt-jv2gy]

IBeLIEve InTheTruth but i do

[@meganrowland5870]

I do

[@mrsupermannow]

Terrible place, not friendly .... lots of drunk and drug addicts ...

[@MrJazzflute]

@@mrsupermannow Idiot

[@garymortonnelson6948]

Lived there for 10 years before emigrating to Australia fantastic place and people

[@johnsimpsonkirkpatrickhist1372]

A fascinating story. I never get tired of watching this video

[@HedleyOnTheHill]

37:40 bloody hell how old is this documentary i haven't seen one of those buses in years! but i really loved this documentary really interesting

[@Jacklevics]

It's from 2008

[@HedleyOnTheHill]

@@Jacklevics wow that makes me feel old

[@darger3]

Just arrived here and loved your info on the city!

[@dpedroam4107]

Fun fact, when I was an apprentice electrician, I was tasked with doing some work on a cctv camera on the corner of one of the buildings on grays St. I pushed the wrong button on the cherry picker sending it smashing into the corner of the building breaking the ornate corner of the building off. I still look up at that corner every time I'm in the toon. Sorry I was 16 and this was 22 years ago.

[@traceyayre3247]

Thank you for this, starting to appreciate the history of Newcastle, we have sooo much history but few know about it.

[@falp006]

I was student in that city, such a nice place! Great memories from Newcastle upon Tyne.

[@carolwoodhouse4311]

Thanks for that. Off to visit Newcastle soon and will enjoy it all the more for this background.

[@CushdelaCush]

Had goosebumps watching this.

[@sarahgardiner1649]

I’ve been in the lantern of the swing bridge and down in its guts below the waterline. It is operated by hydraulics and turns on rollers- Armstrong used the same principles in gun turrets. Beautiful bit of kit.

[@chrisdawson6156]

Hi Sarah

[@tellingfoxtales]

That coat is amazing.

[@OwenAllRound]

Depop wavy garms

[@estebanposadaduque6415]

... wtf ... came for the N.C. story and this man explained/described in the best way the ROMAN WALL in a couple of seconds ... such a good job ...thankyou SIR ...

[@ste6826]

Brilliant introduction to Newcastle. One small error, the map at 3:25 shows the Roman crossing in the wrong place, it’s actually 5 miles up river in the same spot as the Swing Bridge today.

[@stefanopenrhyn8614]

My old town where I used to live as a child. Magical

[@erlandandersen5782]

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing. I unfortunately haven't been to England yet. When I go there, I definitely should visit Newcastle. Obviously a nice city with lots of interesting stuff of both modern and historical kind.

[@Zooumberg]

I live in Newcastle, you'll love it here. It has a great nightlife. If you ever decide to come, give me a shout and I'll show you around.

[@gabrielbejenaru2549]

Been living here the the past ten years and I will never ever move anywhere else, live it here. People are nice and funny too, especially compared to those down south (London area). Plenty sights to see and mint night life (Newcastle is known around the country for that). Great universities (I've been to one of them and I can say they are value for money).

[@samyandkitty8399]

I’m a geordie by birth but I’m Scottish and Irish Catholic by birth. Geordie people told me eff off back where u came from when I was a kid because I spoke like mum. I’d Irish. They are racist here but it’s a beautiful historical city. Just ignore the uneducated racists because the educated people in Newcastle are absolutely awesome lovely people

[@AMG63]

@@samyandkitty8399 I'm a geordie and I'm not racist, if you dont believe me ask worlass she has 2 black eyes.

[@2112jonr]

@@samyandkitty8399 Yep, I saw lots of racism as a kid too. No signs you'll be any better off today, you're stuffed if you're not white, Geordie and English speaking. Friendly it is not. Unless you're already a Geordie.

[@sivanandk.c.7176]

My son is there now and I shall visit this place in the near future.

[@greathey1234]

"Newcastle is a fighting city", indeed

[@carlskyejacobson8714]

Too right is it

[@matthewjamesshovlin3136]

They like fighting horses thats for sure

[@flappingarms9335]

Especially after a home loss at St James’ 😂

[@leeharwood9624]

@@matthewjamesshovlin3136 the hourse had it coming lmao

[@leeharwood9624]

@@flappingarms9335 nowt new under the sun with Ashley in charge past caring till he's gone

[@fjbvgvgi]

study here，i think one of the best city in the UK!

[@BenzBarkz]

YUE ZHOU agreed

[@G-Linka.]

I only discovered this fact recently, and it is that Lucozade was created in Newcastle by a pharmacist..! I’m local to the area, and I only found this out not long ago.

[@eridamus1971]

and Domestos, Andrews Liver Salts and BeRo flour!

[@G-Linka.]

@@eridamus1971 Cheers for that info… Learn something new everyday. 👍

[@jeffallinson8089]

So interesting, that was superb! Love Newcastle, it is a fab place and its past is just mind blowing.

[@ladycharlenegrace8023]

This is so interesting! I would love to see all this for myself up close! Go Newcastle!

[@Cruzy1892]

I was on the train yesterday and recommend this video to 2 South American lasses who were travelling through Newcastle on the train. 😂 I even informed them that Lucozade was made here.

[@mattvjmeasures]

Did my Masters at Newcastle Uni. Loved living in that city.

[@Rhys-gv3ir]

What did you study

[@yourmum69_420]

I'm living in a house with uni students right now in Newcastle

[@peteredwards338]

The disused railway bridge at Wylam is a forerunner to the Tyne and Sydney Harbour bridges ,built ,around 1874 .

[@rayflanagan9168]

Absolutely 👍

[@stevecarr3019]

I’ve lived here for 62 years, whilst it’s not perfect it doesn’t have the same racist or drug problems that most uk cities have. The city centre is very safe and has a good selection of bars and restaurants. It’s certainly not a shithole".....

[@dripalien4529]

my neighbourhood sucks tho

[@alanhindmarch657]

He said, “I’m going to see Rocket,” sat on a replica of Locomotion No 1. Rocket although built in Newcastle was used on the Liverpool Manchester Railway. He called the Tracks, The Newcastle Road, Railroad (not America), it was a Waggon Way. Armstrong’s work were at Elswick, not Elsick, the W is sounded not silent. He also failed to mention Stephensons also invented Miners Safety Lamp called the Geordie Lamp.

[@yourmum69_420]

@@eridamus1971 He also said that the current (900 year old) castle is the "NEW" castle, from which the city gets its name. However, according to all the plaques and visitor information at the castle this is false. The old motte & bailey castle which was there previously was actually the "NEW" castle, as it replaced the Roman fort and was obviously new at the time. The city gets its name from that old motte and baily castle.

[@leeharwood9624]

@@yourmum69_420 interesting because I have a 100+ year old photo of the castle and on that pic it says that it's the OLD castle of Newcastle 🤔 meaning there was a newer castle somewhere. And iv noticed that Kings college University looks a like a more impressive version of one of the castles in London 🤔🤔🤔

[@euanelliott3613]

The Iron Bridge where Micheal Caine and Dorothy White argued in Get Carter in 1971, and Tony Beckley and George Sewell chased him in the red Jaguar with the passenger door missing. RIP Tony and George.

[@callumgrimes6789]

I live a 5 minute walk from George Stephenson's cottage.

[@jamesrickerby2756]

When I was a kid, we went with the physics teacher to see the swing bridge. He might as well spoke in Latin to what I learnt! But the bridge fascinated me as did the man who operated it.

[@aaronl9369]

I live in Newcastle And I'm proud

[@andrewbrooks9508]

me too

[@twangbarfly]

Great documentary - thanks!

[@abigailwimbush5557]

Born, raised in the countryside just outside of it and going to university there to study civil engineering. I'm a geordie and proud to be one!!

[@abigailwimbush5557]

I hate how the North East was destroyed in the 90s by she-who-shall-not-be-named when our coal and shipyards were shut down. The damage the riots left can still be felt today (Meadow Well still has all the metal works everywhere). I live in Haltwhistle (a small mining town along Hadrians wall) and its sad how little employment there is due to there being no mines open. You can walk up the "Halty burn" to see the remnants of the old mines and even the ruins of a water mill from the 1800s. The fact that London has the cheek to ask for a water line from Kielder reservoir after destroying the North (and continuing to do so by taking the Lindisfarne Chronicles which if kept in its home in Northumberland would generate business and tourism would increase) is just insulting. I haven't met anyone in the North who doesn't resent the South even a little. Worst part, Northern academic talent moves south (it's dubbed "the brain drain") so it's not like we can keep any people who'll become rich up here!! The North East is decaying and under appreciated by the South. It is rich in history and spirit. Makes me want to cry the thought that my home will some day be forgotten.

[@abigailwimbush5557]

@Tommy T I'm sure our homes will be places to be admired again someday. Places that'll make bloody London blue in envy and maybe give back our artifacts/heritage (it's hilarious that during the great North exhibition we had to ASK London to borrow our first steam engines, did we also have to ask to borrow the lindisfarne chronicles? Ya know, the book that involved Saint cuthburt who is buried in Durham, the book that was written at the lindisfarne Island so really the book has no business in London). The North is strong, so strong. I plan on staying in the North so if it is ever regenerated, I can see it returned to its former glory

[@eightace2000able]

@@abigailwimbush5557 did you know Haltwhistle is the exact Geographical Centre of the United Kingdom?! From Heddon-on-the-Wall myself, like to get up your way in summer with my kids to visit the (bizarrely located) outdoor pool! 🤣

[@abigailwimbush5557]

@@eightace2000able yeah I did know. One time I had some southerners ask me where in the village the actual center of Britain is. Must admit I didn't know though. Honestly so proud to come from Northumberland

[@leegilholm697]

What a great city

[@lorrainegriffiths554]

my grandfather down the line was a keelman, love this video

[@kash8220]

Think we can agree Newcastle is wonderful.

[@thelasthomelyhouse]

I am proud to call this place home

[@Gkuljian]

Incredible. I had no idea Newcastle was so pioneering. I can hardly believe Armstrong's house. And even knowing about steam turbines, I did not know it was invented by Parson.

[@adamski6312]

And to think they considered pulling Armstrong’s statue down due to slavery links.. or rather because he sold arms to folk who were pro-slavery

[@joppadoni]

I love this bloke :) what a fascination of wonder. Love it. Wonderful Video of the place i call home.

[@kevinclark2856]

my grandad was forman on tyne bridge

[@oliversmith7203]

Beautiful, vibrant city.

[@gimmibrit]

I Live in Newcastle since I was 16, Now im 33 yrs old. And Im proud to live here would never go bk to my hometown. Newcastle has always been my home.

[@chrisdawson6156]

Hi there you must love newcastle to bits

[@gimmibrit]

Yes I always wanted too live here since I was a Teenager. I just fell in love with the place, I dont know what makes it special maybe has something too do with nostalgia..

[@senianns9522]

Dorman Long of Middlesbrough designed and built the bridge! Oopps!

[@MrThatguywhomakesvid]

Proud to be a geordie!!

[@MrJohnAndrewhall]

Fantastic, I served my time at Vickers Armstrong, those enormous lathes were down in 52/51 shop. Later I worked at Imperial College where a gentleman called John Chambers PhD.(me technician) worked on Kevlar rope.

[@petertyson1112]

It needs to be pointed out that both the Tyne Bridge and the Sydney Harbour Bridge were both built on the Tees, near Middlesbrough, by Dorman Long. The parts were then transported to where the bridges were to be built and were erected there.

[@petertyson1112]

@Ian Concannon indeed. My brother visited Australia a couple of years ago and sent me photographs of "Dorman Long" plaques that he'd seen on various bridges.

[@MrJulioamaral]

I am speechless!

[@PCLA7]

Newcastle must never forget it's past and everything it's gave to this planet. Protect your heritage at all costs - A Geordie Nation is counting on each other to be good stewards of this amazing city for those who call it home both now and importantly in the years to come . The days of the wrecking ball should bare witness to the irrational and irresponsible city councils who previously laid waste to some of this Toons most iconic structures for the sake of the now derelict high rises and poorly designed glass boxes that blight the landscapes .

[@greathey1234]

International companies will not occupy listed buildings. High risers are not an eye sore, they look modern, are more efficient and houses people who have the money to regenerate the derelict city centre.

[@PCLA7]

greathey1234 A naive point of view fostered most likely from years of suffocating left wing philosophy and uni indoctrinization - Your infamous glass shoe boxes bring a blight to this country and this planet - Efficient maybe but at what cost - An eyesore to most, dirty and shabby in less than a dozen years with never a care for those living and working in their shadows - Form may follow function from behind those rose tinted spectaculars but you only have to take one look at Newcastle's Coop building rising from the ashes as one example to understand the importance of a city's heritage and the men and woman who designed and built it to endure and for everyone to enjoy for centuries to come . Want to design something useful have a crack at Fire Stations - Hospitals - Schools now there's something something to really keep you busy . PC LA

[@greathey1234]

PCLA7​ I had lived in Newcastle's city centre for years when I was a student, more specifically in the City Quadrants near Centre of Life. I have seen Newcastle transforming from a boring dangerous derilect city to a modern bright shiny cosmopolitan area full of modern cafés and smart looking people. I understand that the natives love their tradition and history and having read about Grainger Town, who can blame you. However, if you want to attract new money you must make some compromise and get rid of old monstrous buildings that no one is interested in anymore. Both Labour and Tories understand that and honestly new money has been very good to the UK. Can you London without foreign investors pumping billions and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs?

[@PCLA7]

greathey1234 Todays architects have done more damage to Newcastle's skyline than the Lufwaffe during all of Word War II - Local people, who you kindly refer to as ' Natives ', never get to voice their opinions, their City is designed by vacuous committee's who care nowt for the population, instead care about trying to make one of Britains greatest examples of Georgian architecture look like the departure lounge at Dusseldorf airport - Look what they did to Central Station, the flats surrounding St James' Park, Northumberland street, and whats planned for the Quayside, and all of this under the banner of modernity and sustainability - I live in restored 1926 4000 square foot home that is the envy of my neighborhood unlike the teardown concrete bunkers that are starting to rear there ugly heads only to become instant eyesores at the expense of my cities dignity PCLA

[@greathey1234]

PCLA7 Come on man, the Sage and Millinium Bridge are magnificent. I don't know what happened to the Central Station but it looks too old to me. I remember when St James Park was overshadowed by the brewery but honestly I prefer the new hotel and university buildings that replaced the defunct brewery. Don't forget the hundreds of millions of pounds invested by Newcastle university and foreign companies creating jobs for what I have to say some of the worst unemployed regions in the UK.

[@HuntersMoon78]

The river doesn't "narrow" it narra's"

[@MacStoker]

the rivva narras not river? lol ;-)

[@lightmyway1327]

If you're from Jarra. Never hear anyone this side of the water pronounce it like that. Maybe a slight hint of an "I" at the end but not "A"

[@T-800..]

@@lightmyway1327 proper dodgy southern accent them jarra folk like!

[@leeharwood9624]

@@T-800.. howling

[@NymeriaMeliae]

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was a copy of the Hagg Bank Bridge (aka the Points Bridge or Wylam railway bridge) which crosses the Tyne in Wylam and is the oldest bridge of that design in the world. So the Tyne Bridge might've been started after the Sydney Harbour Bridge but both bridges are a copy of a bridge that crosses the Tyne.

[@ferryman4520]

Nymeria Meliae sorry, The Tyne Bridge and Sidney Harbour Bridge were taken from the Hell Gate Bridge near New York which opened in 1918. Sidney Harbour Bridge was begun before the Tyne Bridge but took longer to build so the Tyne Bridge opened first. Joseph Swan was not born in Newcastle but in Sunderland.

[@NymeriaMeliae]

Don't believe everything you read on wikipedia. The Hagg bank bridge was the first through-arch bridge in the world and opened in 1876 considerably earlier than the Hell Gate Bridge. It is inconceivable that the people who worked on the Tyne Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge would not have been aware of the bridge across the Tyne at Wylam. I don't think I mention Joseph Swan.

[@PatrickKelly-lz3pv]

Built by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough

[@adamski6312]

I used to walk over the top of the hagg bank bridge when I was a kid. Makes me shudder when I think about how stupid that was

[@twangbarfly]

@@NymeriaMeliae Yeah, but that's just a Mackem being a Mackem and venting his grief that he's not a Geordie :-)

[@adamwnt]

Been in Newcastle and liked it very much, I think I'd even live there

[@BiscuitJourney]

I do live here and I love it! I'm so proud when I tell people I'm from Newcastle.

[@cyrilsneer6984]

Don't count on getting a council house unless you are a fake asylum seeker or worship a religion with a nonce as a profit

[@blohot]

Moved here a year ago and boy did I pick the best city in the UK to move to? I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. The most friendly people, the best landscape and most of all, none of the crowds and the traffic.

[@speckledjim9895]

" 'am gannin doon the toon man."

[@tonybussey8763]

To see a man aboot a dog! Ye canna wack it.

[@justachillguy-p9h]

Wat

[@justachillguy-p9h]

I still live here but wat

[@johnclayden1670]

Of the Angel, there may be many copies. There is certainly one - in smaller scale - on the south bank of Lake Burley in Canberra.

[@carlskyejacobson8714]

I think the 39 people who disliked this must have thought the presenter was rolph harris

[@chrismac2234]

The debt that the world owes to those Geordies is uncountable.

[@1justpara]

Wherever you go in the world you will find *A Geordie*. Look at us now. :( All those things stripped from us. So sad.

[@nixonsmateruby1]

Lived in Newcastle all my life and NEVER saw the swing bridge move yet. Haha

[@disprogreavette8545]

5:03 is that footage real?

[@BrandonPeaTYVY]

That why I'm going to Newcastle for a trip tomorrow

[@gedman9527]

Aye, im a proud geordie

[@hereIam1965]

Why they don't call the high level bridge the Stephenson bridge , I don't know ..? Makes sense and raises a question to inquisitive minds, possibily enabling to put some history together. I wonder if George and Robert Stephenson knew they would end up having to build a bridge over the Tyne to bring it all together ? Grey St in Grainger area of Newcastle is very impressive. Especially the theatre at the top after the walk up the street admiring the work. Looks like something the Romans left behind.

[@richgilroy]

he named it himself!

[@johnwoodcock8652]

The bridge is sometimes called the Stephenson bridge because Robert Stephenson designed and built it to bring the East Coast main railway line directly into Newcastle. Prior to its construction rail traffic crossed the Tyne some way up the river to join the Newcastle to Carlisle railway.

[@kippen64]

Fascinating. The presenter does remind me of Rolf Harris and that's a weird feeling.

[@MDP112]

For a long time I’ve thought Newcastle and the surrounding areas are the centre of the world. In many ways for many reasons they are

[@colinmccarthy7921]

I was born in the Bonny city of Newcastle upon Tyne.I am proud to be a Geordie,and also the history of this great city.Howay my Lads and Lasses.🥰😘😍❤️

[@alexanderosborne1288]

Use to live this programme, back in the old days when the history channel actually had proper history programmes.

[@graceygrumble]

King George and Queen Mary were the first to cross the bridge... after 'the official opening' ... which saw them cutting ribbons to open it, 'officially' . Unofficially, every man, woman, child and dog, living within 10 miles, had crossed it before them. Me ma got there before them in her pram, apparently.

[@LUNE.44]

If you want a true taste of Newcastle culture, search Buzzcocks Lessons in life

[@leeharwood9624]

Lmao 😂

[@aaronjaben7913]

18:53 smoke is flowing backwards down chimney!

[@matthewsatalic7767]

Respect from a local 1 ironworker Chicago

[@mikewray6387]

at the start of the video you can see the tuxedo princess under the tyne bridge, man i miss that floating nightclub.

[@maxsteelMountainLover]

My favourite city to live in.

[@davt8615]

Here's something my dad n co used to paint them bridges in the the 40,s n 50,s

[@niftyfiftycampingadventure795]

As a Geordie born and Bread. London have let this Magnificent go to ruin.. Unforgiveable.. Newcastle is the U.K.

[@TurfSmurf]

Slight problem. The worlds oldest railway is Tanfield railway and it is still going strong. I know as I live seven mikes from.

[@neonskyline1]

Isn't that the oldest stone bridge ?

[@ThexMJT]

Oldest still existing and working railways in the world. Live next to it. Spent my childhood walking around the woods and on the train.

[@peterhoare2058]

@@neonskyline1 yes, the oldest railway bridge (Causey Arch) - but it’s no longer used and it was a horse-drawn wagon way, not steam locomotives powered

[@peterhoare2058]

@@ThexMJT I don’t think that’s true as the current Tanfield steam railway hasn’t been in continuous existence since it was originally built? It was closed as commercial railway and reopened later as a heritage railway.

[@peterhoare2058]

I don’t think that’s true. Stockton to Darlington is the oldest passenger railway still in continuous use - 200th anniversary coming up in 2025. The Skerne Bridge in Darlington is the oldest continuously used railway bridge in the world as it was built for the same Stockton to Darlington railway.

[@estebanposadaduque6415]

indeed .... THIS IS A SUCH one of a kind english gentleman : so cool ....

[@markrowland1366]

First, atmospheric, steam engines hoist water from mines. They weighed a hundred ton, so great enterprise to make them mobile. My father ran narrow guage, all wheel drive, locos over wooden tracks.

[@Winelighter]

Proud to be a Geordie.

[@neonskyline1]

being a geordie is something to be proud of, but not being British

[@theenglishtuormoralee8800]

I am very proud to be a son of Geordie from The Boldons... and without that, I don't think my work ethic would be so tireless!

[@CarthaginianCow]

Yeah I don't care mate 😁