NEWCASTLE & GATESHEAD: Charlie Veitch is in The TOON

[@DSM9]

As a born and bred 'Geordie', I found that really enjoyable. Must say, I've seen Newcastle change over the last 30-40 years - and not always for the better.

[@GlennColinRomanTremble]

I've been to Newcastle once, and I thought it was a total shithole.

[@breakit46]

It’s beautiful and the people have always been beautiful too. Forgotten by London but not forgotten by us Northerners. Great visit Charlie and Laura.

[@michaelglass1911]

You absolutely nailed it with your opinion on the layout of Gateshead - the council should have been sacked en-masse and replaced with somebody competent.

[@jonnaheed]

As a resident of Gateshead, I can say the best thing about Gateshead is the view of Newcastle.

[@ScottishGoldHunter]

“Now go back to china and help the CCP”🤣🤣🤣⛏️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@kevinbrewis6014]

I also remember way back in 1978 President Jimmy Carter at the Civic Centre saying Howay The Lds in his speech there

[@Lat265]

He was obviously paid to say that.

[@iTsRidIey]

@@Lat265nah he loves Newcastle and no one likes Sunderland

[@dominicbaylis2538]

I thoroughly enjoyed that well edited and captured view of Newcastle, it has changed my perception of the City, and amazed at the historic buildings and feel it gives . It felt like Bristol on steroids with a blend of Oxford and London. On my bucket list.

[@whatyeonaboot]

Newcastle is a beautiful city. Obviously Charlie couldn't show everything but the castle keep, St Nicholas' church, dog leap stairs etc. In 1880 Mosley Street, Newcastle became the first public road to be lit using electricity.

[@dominicbaylis2538]

deffo coming up there for a weekend one day@@whatyeonaboot

[@senianns9522]

I had a friend who escaped from North Korea many years ago. I asked him: "How could you live and survive in such an oppressive regime'? He replied:" Oh, I couldn't complain'!

[@petermcmahon5961]

Glad you enjoyed my home city Charlie, it really is the best city on every level, up the toon!!!

[@whatyeonaboot]

As a born geordie, I throughly agree

[@GlennColinRomanTremble]

It's a total shithouse.

[@babettesfeast6347]

Newcastle is fantastic. I’m so glad you enjoyed your visit. Next time try and visit the Laing Art Gallery, it’s a hidden Victorian gem.

[@garyrigby21]

it's a dump

[@hshsjwbshsjwjekjeje]

​@@garyrigby21yes newcastle is a dump now resembles Somalia

[@yenyeng6867]

@@hshsjwbshsjwjekjejeSorry mate you must live in Hollywood with gold roads. Sit down you clown. 😂

[@Nemo59646]

Come to Stockton, Middlesbrough and Hartlepool to see deprivation and waste of council tax money.

[@squire7618]

I'm surprised by how many beautiful old buildings Newcastle has.

[@F--B]

Why does that surprise you?

[@squire7618]

Because I've never been.

[@F--B]

@@squire7618 I've never been to Manchester, but as a historic town it wouldn't surprise me if it had many beautiful old buildings. Equally, I've never been to Valencia but it wouldn't surprise me if it had some beautiful old architecture.

[@squire7618]

@@F--B You never know til you go and look.

[@F--B]

@@squire7618 we're not talking about first-hand knowledge, we're talking about expectations.

[@Micheal-s3y]

A hotel for migrants we are becoming Well said charlie Let’s hope a new government will have the balls to spend our money on its own people and on our countries problems

[@iansmith788]

Unfortunately spending money on our own people is highly unlikely, the numbers of in comers will increase and our services will continue to creak under the strain.

[@simonbaker3085]

👀

[@iansmith788]

@user-vc7jz5qg9v This government is doing precisely the opposite, wants to cancel pensioners winter payments and move migrants to the front of the housing queue. Labour has a big majority so is unlikely to br removed any time soon.

[@whatyeonaboot]

That area with the graffiti near the Oxford used to be a brilliant nightclub called Maddisons. Oxford was an old nightclub that was named the Ritzy. Glad you pointed out the hideous 60s buildings around our city that will be difficult to demolish

[@Lat265]

The Oxford was where my mother met my father in the early 1960s, she's 86 now.

[@icanseeyouallfromuphere]

Amazing I've never been to many places and Newcastle is one of them and ain't it a sight ! Those bridges, WoW !

[@louk597]

Bit of history for you..The location of the swing bridge is the exact same location the romans built there bridge over the river Tyne.. my favourite bridge

[@Sunkan111]

I love your walks arround your English towns but i love even more your walks in picadilly gardens and the crackies!! Love to you and Laura from Sweden!!!

[@toma12101]

The terracotta thing is a vent for the metro system below

[@avid8005]

I had no idea, thanks for the knowledge 🙂👍

[@workidd6001]

Fascinating Veitchian analysis of Gateshead. Cheers

[@Col_Explores]

The building you thought was empty on Eldon Square is a mock front which has a huge vent for the underground metro system behind it. The techy looking monument that you looked at after is also a cleverly disguised vent shaft for the metro to allow the push of air out as it travels through the underground tunnels into the station below.

[@throughtheeyesofachild61_45]

Awesome thanks

[@MaximumSnazz]

God bless you & the fine work you do Charlie!

[@Sirdickymint]

I was the bridgemaster on that bridge for 18 years... Brought back memories

[@LKD70]

"American candy stores". The "hide in plain sight" approach to money laundering

[@wind.del.change]

there is also ale-hop and sprinkles.

[@davidhope2506]

Good video charlie. You missed stowell street/china town, the bigg market, grainger market, the gate, the bus station, times square/life centre, leazes park and. Of course, st james park!!!...but a good video charlie. I always enjoy your videos.

[@drwinstonoboogie4349]

Brilliant mate I just wish I had known you were here in Newcastle. It would have been good to meet you.

[@stewartmckeand6099]

I can assure you that the Herman Goering redevelopment programme was enthusiastically persued in Liverpool.

[@disgeneric4346]

Thanks for the video! I lived in Newcastle for 3 years, nice to see familiar places. Sometimes I miss it's "smaller city" energy compared to Manchester.

[@owensmith4651]

49 minutes of entertaining video, cheers, Charlie

[@geraldthompson6904]

Ahh ! my old home town ! how much of it has changed , left there 1980's, great video CV ,as always enjoyed watching it

[@BaronSpamedi]

That 'suitably terracotary' thing hides an air vent for the underground section of the Metro system, i believe.

[@thabudmaster]

as does the 'empty' building near to it

[@oproudy]

Do Middlesbrough next while you’re nearby, might find a few crackies 😂

[@philswales3814]

Thank you for visiting my adopted home town. Your video showed me things I haven't seen in seven years of living here. Wish I'd been in town that day to say hello.

[@michaelhxhdhdjdj]

Middlesbrough and stockton just down the road is where u will see the worst of the worst charlie

[@johnburns5966]

Charlie thanks for a great review of my city. Newcastle is a proud, vibrant and friendly city and your more than welcome to return.

[@BlondeDynamite]

Charlie, do a video in peterlee town centre. It's in the north east of england. It's a pure dump charlie.

[@jerrygeorgopolis8015]

Charlie, Thanks for the enjoyable video. You know, I use to drink Newcastle Brown Ale when it was Brewed and Imported directly from the U.K. Good morning to you both from the U.S.

[@BusbyTreeSurgery]

don't look at all the dogs being brought here from all over the EU as "rescue" dogs, giant industry has sprang up over this.

[@twentyrothmans7308]

A friend of mine bought one. It's radio rental.

[@throughtheeyesofachild61_45]

Newcastle looks a beautiful place

[@hilarylillie5369]

Tribute to the Stealth bomber statue!!😂 you really do have a unique way of seeing things. 40 years ago I found myself in a flat share in London with Steve Donald one of the founders of Viz magazine he was very interesting to talk to and had worked in the film industry and I always remember him telling me about Newcastle nightlife and the women staggering out of the nightclubs in Sub-Zero temperatures with no coats and high heels and a lot to drink!

[@mjh5437]

And bare legs the shape of tree trunks with Cellulite the colour of Corned Beef😁

[@Lat265]

The same happens in other British cities.

[@SOUTHAMPTONAFA]

Good to see you in Newcastle with your daughter

[@XXLaffinGravyXX]

That Greggs 2:14 is just a foodbank for the NOT so homeless that live up the West End of Newcastle...they walk in help themselves to anything off the shelves and walk out while everyone queues up to PAY. Which subsidises their drug habitat, after they've blown their crisis loan.

[@CarlBland-l8l]

Greggs r gd r that but they dnt do crisis loans any mre

[@XXLaffinGravyXX]

@@CarlBland-l8l bee boop dre greet do tehy any way ..Did you use a catapult to write that on your keyboard ?

[@MrMegan1962]

Being from Manchester i appreciate nice architecture, must say Newcastle a handsome looking city.

[@krisHorner79]

Maybe you should've checked out the Ouseburn area of the city too. The Graingers market is pretty cool.

[@PaulMabley]

2:06 One of those posh looking buildings is only a facade, it's all hollowed out to provide a vent for the Metro line running underground.

[@joegroom9837]

You need to do Middlesbrough Charlie some right old characters here

[@wind.del.change]

go to pally park

[@mjh5437]

aka Smog Town

[@skysurferuk]

If I was ever considering a visit to a town I'd not been to, your channel would be my first port of call. C.V., my kind of tour guide! Awesome! 👍

[@user-hs3dg8jy3t]

2:25 its an air vent for the monument metro station underneath

[@bionicnichola9251]

Love Newcastle, my granda was Geordie from Gateshead. Newcastle will always have a special place in my heart. You need to go to Durham up Barnard Castle, beautiful !

[@Spartonification]

Liverpool was the 2nd heaviest bombed city during the war with London being first.

[@happydog6500]

Grainger town in Newcastle made the city great developed to make the City as great as any of it's rivals, The development of Grainger Town in 1834 was Grainger's biggest project to date and was founded on two key relationships: Richard Grainger's friendship with John Clayton and his relationship with John Dobson, the North East's best architect of the time.

[@DjNikGnashers]

Really enjoyed this video, thank you. I urge you to visit Lincoln, I think you would absolutely love it, a hidden gem.

[@lifetruthseeking5808]

Lincoln is a nice city

[@daveurquhart477]

I had a couple of days in Lincoln while attending a big motorcycle rally at the showground. Lovely city and people. We were in a beer garden and a wedding party came in, I had my kilt on and the bride wanted her photo taken with me, all good fun. The pub crawl involved a bloody steep hill, which is great on the way down 🙂

[@lifetruthseeking5808]

@@daveurquhart477 they are not joking when they call it steep hill. Definitely a dose of your daily exercise if you have to climb up and down it every day

[@daveurquhart477]

We made a point of starting at the top and getting the taxi back from the bottom 🙂@@lifetruthseeking5808

[@vacantblock]

Thanks for another full length tour of town

[@philipjones9458]

Thought Arthur Daley had been there flogging camel coats.

[@stuartgmk]

😅

[@Ambs622]

Born in Newcastle now live in Cramlington also a lovely place in Northumberland ❤

[@shaundees5589]

23:32 that was going to be used as a part of the footbridges across whole of newcastle city centre. It got scrapped only couple footbridges were built as people were scared to walk through at night

[@shaundees5589]

Jordan reeve has a good video about it here on youtube

[@mramsey123]

Born and bread here in Newcastle and its lush always has been. Gateshead has always been a dump and still as long as I can remember it's been a dive. Would of loved to have seen you but we'll done on the video of my home town and doing it justice on the amazing buildings we have

[@DavidRenwick-t1e]

To be fair most of Newcastle is a dump too.

[@rjflores438]

Wouldn't call Newcastle posh, unless your walking in Jesmond.

[@mattyearl8281]

Or darras hall, or gosforth, there's plenty posh places here in newcastle

[@rjflores438]

@mattyearl8281 Yeah lol. But the posh parts of Newcastle still have a down to Earth feel to them even though they are well kept and clean with nice restaurants and architecture, down here in London, the posh places are just too posh and elitist.

[@hshsjwbshsjwjekjeje]

They are not posh in Jesmond or Gosforth they just know how to talk correctly

[@stephenharris7982]

Its posh compared to gateshead 😂

[@0191Marko]

@@stephenharris7982everywhere’s posh compared to Gatesheed, I should knaa, I’m from there !

[@JohnCollins]

I say South Wales and Central and North Lancashire are the poorest areas in the UK. Closely followed by The North East, Hull, Grimsby, Dundee..... There's not much in it but you notice it when it's at it's worst.

[@lifetruthseeking5808]

Which parts of South Wales because there are some wealthy thriving areas in South Wales

[@therespectedlex9794]

Still in your granny flat John? The things The illuminaté provide for their servants.

[@mjh5437]

@@lifetruthseeking5808 Bridgend and Mertyr Tyfil are particularly revolting little hellholes

[@JohnCollins]

@@lifetruthseeking5808 The Valleys. Pontypool and Pontypridd. My old job made it so I've been almost everywhere in the UK. Some places stand out. I'm from Rochdale and it's a shithole with nice buildings. I use it as a benchmark. The worst place for organised crime is definately HULL.

[@lifetruthseeking5808]

@@JohnCollins I think I was focusing on Cardiff

[@hthharrison7764]

Dean Street (5.07 mins into video) appeared quite a bit in the movie "Stormy Monday" a gangster style movie starring Sting, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Bean and Melanie Grffith.

[@alangknowles]

Liverpool was absolutely flattened in the blitz.

[@wind.del.change]

they bombed r chippy.

[@mjh5437]

@@wind.del.change How catastrophic for the Scouse diet 😁😆😅🤣

[@wind.del.change]

it was never built baque.@@mjh5437

[@daveurquhart477]

them Fokkers :-)@@wind.del.change

[@wind.del.change]

how man it waz the red arraz man,@@daveurquhart477

[@jimmyc6523]

Spot on with your comments on gateshead! Born and bred there, left in 1972 to join the forces and never been back except to bury my parents.Looks even worse now!

[@richardsales6996]

hi charlie ive got to say i love living up here we have some of the best old buildings in the uk the night live is great eating out is wonderful from wetherspoons to mitchell star restauants to greggs lol ppl for the most part are very friendly and ive never seen any palestinian protests although i have seen british defence league on the odd occasion there is some much to do if you get sick of city life you can just pop on to the metro and in 20 minuets your at the seaside our beaches are stunning as long as the weathers good lol as for crackie not that many unless you venture onto shields road byker . newcastle was bombed they tryed to take out the shipyards in the east of the city .im glad you's enjoyed our beautiful city and well done on the vid

[@stevo728822]

41:20 The Tyne bridge is a smaller version of Sydney Harbour bridge, designed by the same architect, but completed several years before the one in Sydney. Late 1920's I think.

[@daveurquhart477]

I'm a big fan of Newcastle. A timely reminder I need to have a wee holiday break ther next year.

[@SophieRosess]

Can't believe I missed you Charlie 😢

[@pauljames77777]

Great video of the city i was born and bred, Great to see as i now live in Indonesia Thanks Charlie for this video to remind me how much i miss home

[@SlyDive700]

Charlie, you should visit Durham aswell. .

[@Bobbymoor31]

Mainly were chilled up here

[@RossTheNinja]

Didn't know that former library was there. Why on earth hasn't that been made into a hotel?

[@ste1872]

Great video footage Charlie 💯👍🏻

[@d.b.gurganus334]

Charlie, Herr Schwab has declared that sovereign countries are NOT ALLOWED and you will be "happy" with that !

[@ripvanwincle2258]

I'm an x bricklayer Charlie love looking at different city's architecture great vid mate.👍

[@jintle-jea]

7:57 there’s also a place just called “close” along the river.

[@Rabsmyth91]

Nice tour Veitch. I ain't been here in 15 years. Definitely needs a revisit.

[@davidhope2506]

It's a nice city, newcastle. Good on a weekend. Football fans enjoy coming to Newcastle. You get people from northern Ireland and some Scots. Quite a lot of Chinese and Japanese and Middle East people, and of course geordies!. Everyone seems to get on pretty well.

[@CharlesVeitch]

Yes you do

[@davidhope2506]

@CharlesVeitch ...there's a big Jewish community in gateshead as well, charlie.

[@virtuosomuso]

Nice to see you up my neck of the woods Charlie

[@drewSmith-il2jh]

Great Video Charlie and Laura it's changed quite a bit since I last was there back in the early 2000's. I was born and bred in Tyneside but left in 1989 when I joined the military. Newcastle is in the County of Tyne & Wear not Northumberland.

[@robertlockwood3540]

HMS Explorer (P164) has a busy, diverse role which spans training students, getting out there and engaging with the public in smaller ports where large vessels won’t fit, and deploying to the Baltic to work with NATO Allies.

[@wind.del.change]

great. so a bunch of traitors then ?

[@LIVERPOOLandFARBEYONDNEWS]

I think only scousers are aware of how much Liverpool was bombed in the war. It was the 2nd most bombed city after only london mostly cus of the docks

[@G529-l3v]

Unbelievable how this is not known...

[@garyrigby21]

correct

[@GG-mu4wg]

I couldn't picture autistic, but that owl is definitely it 😂

[@stuartb4525]

You need a weekend in Belfast. Some nice buildings in the City Centre, however, outside of that a lot of mad places to visit.

[@Ezz4672]

Great blog of my home city the toon just in case no one has mentioned the Oxford is a nightclub that was famous for clips inside when Get Carter and was filmed with Michael Caine you also passed a few other places that the film showed that you passed

[@Ambofrisk4107]

What a beautiful city

[@SmashTehGangs]

At 2:20 I can tell you what that is. It's an iron maiden, and inside is The Good Ol' Days. Let it serve as a warning to anyone wishing to be left alone to live a decent, honest life in the country we were so fortunate to inherit from braver, more resilient generations than ours.

[@Jrhynie]

Morpeth, Rothbury and Alnwick are nice towns to visit in the NE. Often go there and Kelso at the weekend. No crackies or pan handlers.

[@PaulMappud]

Very wholesome, I feel like I've had a cleansing shower...

[@samhenwood5746]

Thanks Charlie 😎🎅🎄

[@denishennessy1318]

Excellent content Mr CV. Now there's all the nookes and cranys for ya!

[@mjh5437]

Nooks and crannies

[@Scano41]

Newcastle great ppl and very friendly and the bus station use to have a great cafe great food

[@DavidRenwick-t1e]

A bit too friendly sometimes.

[@HarishDharmapalan]

Charlie I’m planning to come to Newcastle Upon Tyne in August to ride the metro. City looks nice

[@Believer3_]

Being from Newcastle myself, ur geordie accent is actually pretty good 😂😂😂 the best iv heard from a non geordie 😅

[@JohnCollins]

Why-aye, pet. 😀

[@Believer3_]

@@JohnCollins lol 😆

[@Believer3_]

@@JohnCollins weyaye

[@stephenharris7982]

Purple your not related to purple aki by any chance

[@Believer3_]

@@stephenharris7982 😆

[@-OK-Fine-]

Would love you to come to the midlands and check out Hinckley, Nuneaton and Bedworth. We've started Bench gangs here as well now. Nothing like that city feel in a small town. Keep the content coming man.

[@thabudmaster]

the 'empty' building you saw is actually disguised to look like that, its a vent for the train system underneath there

[@derekoetting4245]

The building is not a vent its the statue next to it that is the vent.

[@thabudmaster]

the building is a vent, it has all blacked out windows & a metal grate on the roof. Theres a youtube video about it somewhere@@derekoetting4245

[@piegadgie]

​@@derekoetting4245there is a vent comes up through the building in old eldon square as well as the one you mention

[@steeshw]

you need to look at bensham just up from the gateshead highstreet 😂

[@BaronSpamedi]

Or Elswick, Fenham, Benwell and Cowgate.

[@CarlBland-l8l]

​@@BaronSpamediyes all posh areas 😂

[@geordiehowayman1677]

Every local knows that Gateshead is neglected,once known as the ‘ dirty track to Newcastle’ sadly ,still is . Loved the video “ Gan Canny “

[@alanlittle3941]

Ahh missed u up in the Toon Charlie. Please return soon and Howay the Lads

[@NothingButElliot]

Liverpool got it bad it just doesn't get mentioned much as they focus on London

[@garyrigby21]

Liverpool was heavily Blitzed in the war

[@magpieaudits]

That small building near the monument is a ventilation shaft for the metro 👍

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

That courthouse looks like a hydraulic press. I don’t think that’s accidental.

[@daviddavids5088]

I love Earl grey Tea Charlie Great video Thanks again

[@Micky-C]

Great vid, Charlie! You should come to South Shields at some point 👍

[@WTU208]

21:32 Maybe those of the baggy pant variety with matching extra long knee length t-shirts don't like the cold up North.