Newcastle Pub Making False Claim Over ‘Get Carter’ Filming Location!

[@ThomasHawes-q7f]

Eddie this is great about Michael Caine great information enjoyed that as allways 😊😊😊

[@graemenicol6377]

By the way the remake of Get Carter + Italian Job are absolutely garbage I'd recommend avoiding them.

[@RushfanUK]

As a youngster in the late 70's and early 80's I used to frequent the City Tavern, Haymarket, Farmers Rest and The Percy, Friday night and for gigs used to be off to the Mayfair, apart from The Percy all gone now, sadly.

[@leedixon9832]

City Tavern is still there

[@AFTERPUPPET]

In the late 80’s I’d regularly recreate the scene from ‘get Carter’ in Gateshead multi-storey in my Mini, when I’d first passed my test. I didn’t throw anyone off the top though.

[@TynesideLife]

😂

[@markr3140]

Now that’s a blast from the past - did the same thing back in the day, racing round that car park!!

[@davidbuxton7921]

My wife lived in St Cuthbert's Village and the bath scene was filmed in her mam and dad's flat. Her dad had been at work from 5.30 am in the redheugh iron and steel works and when he finished he went straight home, there he was met by numerous cameras rolling and as he was starving he walked straight through the middle of the set. He basically said after he was shouted at , you know what you can do I've been at work I'm dirty and hungry so you lot can f... Off . Oh and they got nothing for the use of the flat as it was council !. God rest his soul Jimmy Quinn.

[@TynesideLife]

Brilliant message David 😂

[@kenstevens5065]

Yes I agree with what you say. Must get a new DVD version, my original one is about worn out. The storyline is as fresh to me today as when I first saw it on cinema release. Great post, thank you.

[@TynesideLife]

Cheers Ken 👊🏻👍🏻

[@jasonfernee6395]

Thank you for this video and the confirmation of the falsehood, I came up from London and went in there and ordered a pint of bitter in a straight glass, thinking this place was genuine and I was a very poor Michael Caine :) .. clearly Nicholsons Pubs should remove the statement of fact as it was clearly not true. One of the best British films ever.

[@TynesideLife]

☝️👊🏻👍🏻

[@Flukey_1970]

Awesome video and well done for pointing that out about the pubs. They also filmed some of Get Carter in North Blyth on the coal staithes. My mother was pregnant with me at the time and she went down to watch them filming it. Ian Hendry signed an autograph for my mother but Michael Caine wouldn’t come down of the set.

[@TynesideLife]

Oh wow! I’m trying to think of a Michael Caine line about not signing autographs 😅

[@whiterat1977]

it was Blackhall where they filmed the ending with the coal scenes

[@Flukey_1970]

yes the very end of the film was with he buckets, but there were shots filmed along the coal staithes at North Blyth @@whiterat1977

[@royfontaine5526]

@@whiterat1977yes, and Blyth in the scene just before that.

[@Deadhansome]

I've always known this. Great bit of trivia.

[@rwestonb]

What about the Crown Posada? I was told that was the bar he first went in! I've even been in there on the strength of that. My whole life has been a lie!

[@TynesideLife]

The actual bar he went into is shown in this video, from the movie itself 👍🏻 It wasn’t the Crown Posada, sorry

[@rwestonb]

@@TynesideLife Ah well, cheers for that. The myth was good while it lasted! So is the Long Bar still there?

[@TynesideLife]

@@rwestonb no not anymore bud

[@scottandrewbrass1931]

I actually got barred from there about 7 years ago for pointing this out. Caine obviously leaves by the old ticket office and crosses into North Eastern - Douglas hotel. I think the scene with the nightclub singer scrapping was shot there though so they have some claim to fame.

[@angusdrey8930]

The Old Spit & Vomit - remember it well. Caine's problem as an actor was that he was totally incapable of speaking in other than a cockney accent. This to me undermined the credibility of an otherwise excellent film somewhat, as he was definitely supposed to be a geordie. The film was based on the Ted Lewis novel 'Jack's return Home'. What about a vid on the infamous multi story car park? It was a hideous Brutalist erection designed by the Owen Luder Partnership, mercifully demolished in 2010.

[@rwestonb]

"How do you know he ain't havin' it off with your old lady right now?"

[@stevepearce1913]

The Spit And Vomit was actually a knocking shop frequented by women who had £5 chalked on the soles of their shoes. After my first session in there as a 16 year old I asked me dad what that meant -he said that's how much they charge for a fuck. Get Carter was filmed in The Long Bar and those famous lines were said at "Alf Robert's" house and not at the car park.

[@TynesideLife]

I’m not sure how to interpret your comment Steve. The video is about the scene being filmed in The Long Bar and not the Victoria Comet snd I didn’t say the line was said in the car park 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@stevepearce1913]

@@TynesideLife Aye - too much to drink - but its true about the Spit And Vomit!

[@TynesideLife]

@@stevepearce1913 😂

[@peterellis1307]

Hi Eddie, another interesting and informative video. It's also fascinating to read the comments from your viewers about how locals appeared to be have been used as unpaid extras, as it adds weight to the story may mam told. Whilst filming was talking place she and my grandma came home, (to Blyth) from a trip to Newcastle, telling us they had seen Michael Caine and will be in the film. Apparently they had decided to go for a game of bingo and were in the hall when the bingo scene was filmed. They said they had been asked if they were extras, but replied, "No we're here for the bingo." Thinking about it at home, they then wondered if they had missed out on a few bob! Sad to say they never made it to the film cut, if indeed they had been caught on camera at all. Cheers Eddie keep up the good work.

[@TynesideLife]

Ahh great message Peter. I recall the scene when he comes out of the bingo hall directly opposite the Gallowgate

[@moleyofsouthend-on-sea8837]

The Bingo Hall is what is now St James Metro Station

[@ashleywilson8720]

Interesting video as always! Me and my husband see the tour bus regularly up and down our street giving the 'Get Carter" talk, its funny watching them all take pics whilst im sitting there in my dressing gown 😂

[@TynesideLife]

Haha! What do they say?

[@ashleywilson8720]

Unfortunately im not entirely sure, but i do make out him talking about the house they filmed in Coburg 😆

[@TynesideLife]

@@ashleywilson8720 sounds like you live on an interesting street 😅

[@steveng5503]

Inspector Eddie! I like the comparison videos. Interesting. 👍🏻

[@TynesideLife]

Cheers Steven 👊🏻👍🏻

[@mrbumpa9361]

They used to call it the Spit n Vomit years ago. Was my haunt when it was O’Neil’s.

[@jamiehanson8055]

But right at the end you admit a scene was filmed there after slagging them off ? 🙄

[@TynesideLife]

Slag them off? I corrected a claim that was false. I’m also balanced in my content 👍🏻

[@Toonbird1892]

My mum used to call that bar The Spit and Vomit, even when it was called Yates 😂😂

[@Michael43713]

Great work. I've said this for years. As you say the clue is with The Barbeque Express chippy. I was a student there in the 70s and we often went there.

[@TynesideLife]

👊🏻

[@jerseyphilip]

Your cockney accent is much better than my attempt at Geordie:) Well done, I'll have to try and download the film now, not sure how I missed that one

[@TynesideLife]

😂

[@peterlittle608]

The Gunner Tavern, which as far as I know is a pretty new pub, is the location of the Cafe that is used (all be it on the Pink Lane side) in Get Carter. I was in there earlier this year and was surprised there was no reference made to this fact.

[@peterlittle608]

I think it was Bowers Cafe back in the day

[@TynesideLife]

Cheers Peter 👍🏻

[@MichaelLowdon-t9i]

Great video thanks absolutely True think it’s called the lizard lounge now

[@tomfullard9862]

In that first bar scene, did anyone spot the bloke with 6 fingers?

[@johnvasey8992]

I seem to remember that The Long Bar had actually closed when the film was being shot. I was in there with my dad (ex Byker!) in 1969. Very atmospheric and the film took me back.

[@bensouthwell1339]

It was open alright, apart from me drinking with two of the guys that were in there supping Caine tells the story that it was Lee Marvins favorite gangster movie because even the "extras looked real and mean". Caine told him they were real in the bar scene as they were all regulars and the pub manager dare not throw them out because they would never return to that boozer again.

[@musicgarryj]

I love "Get Carter" but it's very hard to suspend disbelief with Michael Caine having not even a hint of a Geordie accent, despite Newcastle supposedly being his "home town". This was never explained. He made quite a reasonable effort doing a "posh" accent whilst he was killing thousands of Zulus, but was Geordie his ultimate defeat? lol :)

[@TynesideLife]

Great point! 😂

[@etiennedevignolles7538]

Absolutely brilliant impression of Michael Caine!

[@TynesideLife]

😅

[@jamesfurphy3219]

Brilliant work Eddie 👏🏻

[@richiewong1]

Almost as bad as Byker Grove being shot in Benwell 😉

[@slim56100]

Hey Eddie, I’ve always known it was the Northeastern that Jack walks into. When Joe Robertson opened a bar on the approximate site of the Northeastern, he called it the Long Bar in recognition of this, he also hung pictures from Get Carter around the bar too. Also if you look closely at the scene in the Long Bar you’ll notice the five fingered man drinking at the bar.

[@TynesideLife]

Great message cheers Mick 🤛🏻

[@shearer63]

Funny story, i was in Get Carter.. well, my Mum and dad were extras and my Mum was pregnant with me at the time so you see them in the pub scene , just don’t blink or you miss them ( and me of course 😂)

[@TynesideLife]

😂

[@philipusher4282]

How long has it had that name? I remember it being Yates Wine Lodge.

[@TynesideLife]

Not sure mate but originally it was to premises, the Victoria and the comet, then it merged to become the VC.

[@ulfurkarlsson5885]

Michael Keane has always been one of my favorite actors

[@maratonlegendelenemirei3352]

Speaking of shocking secrets. Did Oz ever find out that Nevile Hope is not his blood brother but rather some gadgey from Dusseldorf?

[@stevemeikle7414]

Well, if I can get across the County lines rigmaroll I should be popping out the station and straight into there come 3pm.

[@bensouthwell1339]

The Long Bar was a drinkers bar no frills no prostitutes, the Director wanted the bar emptied for shooting and the manager refused to ask his regulars to leave whilst they filmed their scenes, instead they become extras for the price of a few pints.

[@TynesideLife]

Great info cheers Ben 👍🏻

[@michaelhenderson5282]

spot on my dad was a regular and extra in the film and so was i in a scene that never made the final cut

[@TynesideLife]

Which scene Michael?

[@eddieoliver5840]

The Chronicle today on Facebook are still pushing the idea that the bar was The Victoria Comet

[@TynesideLife]

The footage is there to see and where he walked and he definitely didn’t walk into the Victoria Comet. The camera doesn’t lie 🤷🏻‍♂️ Has it mentioned my video?

[@eddieoliver5840]

@@TynesideLife I always believed it to be The Long Bar, your excellent video confirms that. I couldn’t see any mention of your video, but I can share it in the comments section if that is OK with you.

[@TynesideLife]

@@eddieoliver5840 yes please thank you

[@peterstewart3080]

That’s you barred from The Victoria Comet now Eddie.🤣😂

[@TynesideLife]

🤷🏻‍♂️😅

[@betweenprojects]

Nae problem. So long as there's a bar where us from London can order our bitter in a straight glass, that's fine. Ye'll be telling us the transporter bridge is across the Tees next, and not across the Tyne! Newcastle is beautiful in the sun. Good job on the channel and could you do a special on 'What happened to the Dunstan Rocket', please. I'm up here for the first time in 40 years, and the brewery's gone and so has the Rocket.

[@TynesideLife]

Giz a bag o Tudor 😃

[@betweenprojects]

@Tyneside Life An five Woodbine.

[@slim56100]

@@TynesideLife I’d climb a mountain for a bag of Tudor 😂

[@TynesideLife]

@@slim56100 😆

[@deanmitchell5226]

The transporter bridge was moved to Arizona by Bridgenorth in 2003

[@alisondodd9210]

My dad used to drink in the “lang bar” as he called it….

[@TynesideLife]

🤛🏻

[@johnwilson783]

It was definitely the long bar where he went many people from the toon have told me that story and if I’m not mistaken he ordered half a lager lol

[@davidrichardson6872]

When you showed the picture of jack carter walking into the bar and order his drink. The guy in the foreground is my father in law holding a cigarette. He sadly isn't with us now. But nostalgic.

[@TynesideLife]

Oh wow! Thank you for sharing David

[@davidrichardson6872]

Obviously not my father in law at the time, I was only 9yr old then😇 interesting fact though!! As a business owner. He became my manager and sponsor when I became a professional dart player.

[@TynesideLife]

@@davidrichardson6872 oh wow! You still a pro?

[@davidrichardson6872]

Unfortunately no, retired 2010. After playing for England since 1991. And 7 world championship appearances. Plus a couple of sell out exhibitions in the Millburn stand with the legendary Phil Taylor. We both made our debut for England in the same match. Sorry eddy. Long winded.

[@TynesideLife]

@@davidrichardson6872 Respect David 🤛🏻

[@davidsmart285]

your correct I knew couple of extras who were in the long bar when they filmed that sequence.

[@TynesideLife]

🤛🏻

[@iananderson2677]

Hey Eddy, just thought I would warn you, you are being stalked by a blonde lady in very bright trousers. I think I have spotted the same woman in the background of some of your other videos. Probably a KZbin stalker, one of the downsides of fame. 😉🥴😉 Great video.

[@TynesideLife]

Thanks for the heads up Ian. I’ve already been onto the police as she’s a menace 😂

[@iananderson2677]

@@TynesideLife 😂😂😂

[@tonycarter9720]

Had get Carter all my life

[@steviepee8624]

Omg I feel like I’ve been wronged all these years….as a kid my nanna told me my grandad was in the pub when they were filming that clip 😮😢

[@TynesideLife]

Haha! He may have been there whilst filming, just not in the Victoria 😅

[@steviepee8624]

@@TynesideLife hope so 🤦🏼‍♂️😂😂

[@DebbieH5731]

Awww Eddie, you've shattered my illusions there 😂. Next you'll be telling me the final scene wasn't filmed at Blackhall Rocks 😂

[@TynesideLife]

It was I’m sure 😅

[@chrisdawson6156]

Hi Debbie would you like to be friends

[@da90sReAlvloc]

Ow yeah when Caine walks in the bar a guy with 5 fingers and a thumb looks at him, He's a extra who looks at Cain when carter asks for a beer in a thin glass And wasn't Jimmy nail a extra in get carter

[@TynesideLife]

If he was, he’d only have been 17 or so. I’ll have to find out 👍🏻

[@da90sReAlvloc]

​@@TynesideLife yeah apparently he was i just made a video about it if you want to check it out, You stay safe 👍

[@bryanellison3172]

I know all about him going into the long bar as my father in law was having a drink , also inthat scene if you look closely the guy having a drink has a extra finger on both hands , i actually met the guy in the moulders arms with my dad ,also the scene where he followed the girl down the stairs from plying bingo it was not the dog leap stairs that Evening Chronicle said it was but the stairs from the old manors railway station , which is blocked of now ,if you look you can see the building now which is the crisis building , thats all and keep up the good work respect , Bryan ( Budgie) Ellison .

[@TynesideLife]

Thanks for sharing 🤛🏻

[@graemenicol6377]

Mate I'm from Blackhall Colliery where the final scene of Get Carter was filmed lived here all my life since 1970 I know exactly where it was filmed despite the pit slag tipper's been gone before my memory stretchers back in fact if remember right they where gone before I was born.

[@TynesideLife]

Thanks for sharing Graeme 👍🏻

[@graemenicol6377]

@@TynesideLife no problem it's something us older lot from Blackhall Colliery colliery are proud of however only one problem with them dumping slag=pit waste into sea has ruined our beaches head about mile further south to Crimdon that beach clean sand's.

[@wantsomefries]

nailed that accent, lol,

[@tomfullard9862]

Does anybody miss the multi story car park? I know i do, it was as familiar a sky line to me all my life as the tyne bridge... just a snippet to end with. Get carter the film, set in our very own gods country, as you know. But the book saw jack travel up to Doncaster to avenge his brothers death

[@TynesideLife]

Wasn’t it Scunthorpe?

[@tomfullard9862]

@@TynesideLife it was.. i stand corrected

[@Zharkov1969A]

I love the Michael Caine impersonation. That really shows what a one trick pony Caine really is. I do love the film though but for me the most remarkable thing was the ridiculously short time it took to make - from novel to finished film in eight months.

[@TynesideLife]

Your the first to appreciate my impersonation skills 😅 I never knew that Christopher 👍🏻

[@deanmitchell5226]

Alway enjoy ya vids Eddie when I can catch up with them

[@TynesideLife]

🤛🏻

[@stevemeikle7414]

Well got there at last, swear the train was on a go slow protest, could do with a jar if ya about, or somewhere else if ya prefer.

[@TynesideLife]

Hi, sorry just seen this. Have a great trip 👍🏻

[@dennischarters4614]

You will be popular now 😢

[@TynesideLife]

I report on the facts 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kris311271]

Hi Eddie! Just need to correct you on a date? You said (40) years back? It’s 51 as it was the year of my birth! And also a small fact for you to look at! The old fella with the flat cap !! If you watch him with his pint look at his hand? And count! He has 5 fingers and one thumb!

[@TynesideLife]

Ignore my maths, you knew what I meant as I say it’s 1971 at the beginning of the video. 👍🏻 Yeah I’ve been made aware of the guy 😅

[@TynesideLife]

@@kris311271 sounds like you know a lot more than me bud 😅

[@shoutinghorse]

Do people play noughts and crosses on your forehead when you're asleep?

[@TynesideLife]

My channel is listed as not for children kidda

[@stephens9566]

I will give the MC 7.5 out 10 it was good.

[@grahambell9831]

"Awight" there, Michael ? 😉😅 You need a spot at the comedy club up the road Eddy! Factoid Friday for me! Howay the Toon for Sundays game.......its coming up!? 😉🙏👏

[@TynesideLife]

Haha! I’ve been invited into an executive box on Sunday so the video will be about what the experience is like 😆

[@grahambell9831]

@Tyneside Life Well deserved so enjoy Sunday's game in luxury! It's coming up (with a 7 course meal and Cristal champers ! 😀🍾🥂 😉)

[@TynesideLife]

@@grahambell9831 most definitely! 🙌

[@tranquilitybase7860]

Do you know a man called Albert Swift?

[@TynesideLife]

No, why?

[@markr3140]

Ha! A classic line in the film (Dave the bar man in Minder - Glynn Edwards. Did a few films with Michael Caine like Zulu.

[@jennieguy8625]

Ha ha well spotted Shud give you the VAR job 😂😂👍 could be invaluable info when argument s arises in the pub especially the pub quiz Which pub did Caine ? Wrong!!! haha keep up the interesting work it's great 👍👍👍👍

[@TynesideLife]

Thanks Jennie 😀

[@kopynd1]

the long bar, check out the old fellow with the cap on, who was an extra, when he picks up his pint to have a drink he actually has 5 fingers 1 thumb a was told its true , bowers all night breakfast that was our seating arrangement back in early 70s the days of the Mayfair where jack and his niece are sitting, henrys barber next door where we would get a skinhead hair cut in 1970,

[@TynesideLife]

Great insights Trevor 👍🏻

[@kopynd1]

the man who would be king, mint

[@santorini8423]

Lying bstds😂

[@fishermansid8861]

Where’s the walking vlogs gone

[@TynesideLife]

There’s two I released a couple of months ago and I also have a dedicated channel called ‘Hiking Britain’. Check it out 👍🏻

[@davidatkinson-Music-and-More]

Barred! 😂

[@TynesideLife]

🤷🏻‍♂️😅

[@michaelstephenson631]

Ya not get a pint in there nee more Eddie wor kid 😂

[@TynesideLife]

True 😅

[@Dw91-k8n]

Interesting stuff so basically they have been telling fibs or don't noo they have been all these years haha !!

[@TynesideLife]

Basically yeah

[@Dw91-k8n]

@Tyneside Life while the bar down the road has the history haha nice video mate always good crack love it 👍

[@TynesideLife]

@@Dw91-k8n 🙏

[@betweenprojects]

You'll be telling us King's Cross Station is having us on about Platform 9 3/4 next.

[@TynesideLife]

@@betweenprojects that bits true 😅

[@theotherside8258]

Whilst I don't dispute what happened, the footage doesn't prove anything, the movie took so many liberties with continuity.

[@TynesideLife]

It proves he didn’t walk directly across the road into the Victoria Comet, which is claimed in writing by the pub. In addition, you’ll see in comments on here that family members are aware that the scene was filmed in ‘The Long bar’ (not the VC). And hating to state the obvious, if the scene was actually filmed in the VC, why go to all the trouble to show him walking towards the The North Eastern Bar and not directly across the road into the VC. All added up, it seems proof enough 👍🏻

[@redf7209]

@@TynesideLife As i said i'm not disputing the claims but the film has plenty places where he's in a journey where he ends up somewhere else in the next clip. You could fessibly watch him go in the door of that pub and the indoor shot would be somewhere else. I'm just saying the footage misleads throughout the movie

[@TynesideLife]

@@redf7209 I accept your broad point. thankfully however, I haven’t produced a video about the movie. I’ve produced a video about a specific claim, about a specific scene in a very famous movie for this area. The evidence pretty much is categorically at odds with the ‘tourism’ claim made by the VC

[@binkyboobosh1]

As I understand it, Carter did exit the station and walk the way that you said. That's not in dispute. However, the interior shots were taken in The Victoria Comet. The sign is a bit misleading as it says Carter left the station and walked in the VC. However, the bar scenes were shot in the VC, so they're not really being untruthful.

[@TynesideLife]

I would fiercely dispute that the filming was done in the (now) Victoria Comet. I can’t find any evidence of that and if you scroll through the comments you’ll note that some actually have personal knowledge of the filming being done on the North Eastern (long bar). It appears that the Victoria Comet have used the photos from the Long Bar and claimed it as theirs. Added to that the blatant fiction of Michael Caine walking straight across the road into their bar and we have a dubious story. In addition, there would seem no point to film going into one ‘long bar’ and film in another… I’m open to being directed to evidence to the contrary, but I’ll need a bit more than ‘as I understand it’. If you have some firm evidence, I’ll definitely look into it 👍🏻

[@darrenmall7963]

Learn something every day 😮

[@geoffbell2906]

Gone up market....... nae sawdust on the floor!