Newcastle-under-Lyme 1960's + 1977 Carnival

[@lratcliffe9151]

I didn't grow up in Newcastle, I was a Milton lad, but these images still bring me lots of good feelings and nostalgia for the "good old days". I miss them, and they will never I'm sad to say come back. Thank you for the memories :)

[@kbatknutton]

Thanks for bringing back wonderful memories but it saddens me to see what Newcastle has become it is a shadow of its former self.

[@thomasbingham2797]

Shit hole now shit hole then always will be

[@mrsose1872]

All towns and villages were like this then, God bless every one of them

[@tangerinedream7211]

Newcastle was a real quality town when I grew up in the sixties. Blockleys deli, Burgess bakery, Mandley and unett stationers, Mellards ironmongers , the list goes on. Nan had a chip shop on Liverpool road, it's still there ,so I remember the by pass being new, then the old croft street and Ryecroft school were demolished in the early seventies to complete the ring road. They demolished the old Muni hall to move into the civic offices, they're now due for demolition, what a waste to build for fifty years, the college, c of e school and fire station only lasted that long as well. R I P Newcastle.

[@markhall6601]

Very enjoyable, lovely piano too.

[@mrsose1872]

A time when we all fitted into a happy well rounded community of people just having fun.

[@thomasbingham2797]

And drugs and violence, once a shit hole always a shit hole, this place has always needed taking of the map

[@kathleenlynch4249]

I can remember this carnival my daughter was three and my mum. Myself walked all round the charity stalls hoping to win a prize then on to the plant stalls then sitting down by the queen's Gardens watching the parade. Good happy days. All we get now is pubs open all day with a glorified music festival its not a family time anymore. Thanks for the video enjoyed it

[@scoppio07]

Tiffany's at the weekend? :)

[@Bulletguy07]

Very good Wayne. Someone was quite rich owning a cine camera in the 60s/70s!! This is my home town and i've lived here 66 years so know the area very well. What stood out to me on this film was EVERY vehicle on the road was British (i spotted just one VW Beetle!).....no Honda, Toyota, BMW or Audi to be seen anywhere!!!

[@Lets-Drone-With-Bone]

glad you like it. the Cine8 camera belonged to my friends late granddad, he shot all the footage and i put it on dvd a few years back. yes its interesting to see how things have changed, Newcastle is such a different place now i think.

[@paulamiddleton7747]

Missed so much look at it now

[@junecutayar269]

I was born in Newcastle, we went to Friaswood School, always went to the carnival on Whit Monday even when we left to live in Stafford we would go. I love this film of it scrutinised it for family. The fountains look great, good memories of The stones market queueing up during the war for potatoes like marbles because thats all there was it was a beautiful town, lovely people

[@thomasbingham2797]

Its never been a beautiful town and it never will be

[@scoppio07]

@@thomasbingham2797 Don't be such a twit.

[@andreweardley2774]

Life looked so much easier back then

[@bobgenghiskhan2499]

Simpler times. I was more than likely at the 1977 Carnival watching the parades and going around the various stands for raffles etc.. The fun fair in what is now Morrisons car park was a light fantastic sight to behold when my father drove us home at night.

[@ivanfernyhough3851]

So much better back then.

[@johncharleshaynes5544]

went to st giles and st georges left in1958 strarted as a apprentice cabinet maker at Lancaster and Tomkinson in Hanover St I would go back to those days in a second.

[@Peter-ts6wb]

Used to love the Monday cattle market

[@jdimdim]

wish it was still the same as before :(

[@mercedescamper308]

Newcastle had character then. Not like the shit hole it's become now. most of the shops have gone . And the new civic offices, what were they thinking.

[@LC-lb8dx]

Love this brought a lot of good happy memories a Orme road lad priority rd then Friarswood onto Orme boys/ Edward Orme. Harvey’s tuck shop respect for teachers, had the pump a few times off daddy Dawson didn’t do me any harm, never would you back chat a police officer glad I’m not starting out again

[@thorley1983]

you don't realise that an era is golden until the shine worn off

[@markwhittingham7626]

Lovely video. My parents home town. Kept looking for family....

[@scoppio07]

I'm a Newcastle bloke from back then - what are their names?

[@yourenicked7969]

Very interesting - I used to go there on Mondays in a Cattle truck to the market in the late 70s. There was a big haulage company that had red and black lorries, lots of them in a depot back then but I can't remember the name of the company

[@davidrayner9376]

The early part of the film appears to have been filmed in 1963, as at forty seconds in, we see the old Roxy cinema being demolished, six years after its closure in 1957.

[@moonbug71]

brilliant!!!

[@cosmicskye]

1977 the carnival,i was 10 years old then.i can still remember the funfair at the old cattle market and the gas cylinder in the background.ohhhhh the good old day's.the day's when everyone enjoyed Newcastle carnival every year.now today you get the likes of young pisshead yobs who ruin it for all decent families and kiddies.i'm 46 now but loved the old days.everyone was having fun and so relaxed. :-)

[@scoppio07]

I can remember a few people who liked a drink back then too and some weren't far off being called yobs - I was one of them - a drinker not a yob :) Young men like a drink - that will never change :)

[@john111257]

the old cinema being demolished ..so sad

[@brendandoherty9967]

I love this

[@mikewallace2113]

I have recently been appointed as the new minister at Kings Street Congregational Church, so very interested in not only looking at the present of Newcastle under Lyme but also of its past

[@thomasbingham2797]

Hole town needs burning down

[@cephalotus59]

Used to work in Kings Street and Marsh Parade in the 80s - happy memories of times in The Rigger pub;-)

[@scoppio07]

Remember Titley's fruit and veg? And yes, The Rigger, Alma, Shakespeare, Museum.

[@MsDebz73]

nice music to it too :-)

[@Lets-Drone-With-Bone]

@milradio1 cheers glad you like it...i just wish i had more footage, love anything like this!

[@markwhittingham7626]

My nan's maiden name was Annie Beeston. Married George Whittingham around 1920....

[@john111257]

MUNICIPAL in all its glory

[@MrGreenand]

good times

[@grahamhaywood7655]

We used to do a carnival stall for the Myasthenia Gravis charity hard work but rewarding also I used to drive the bus's for the PMT

[@Lets-Drone-With-Bone]

@MsDebz73 cheers debz glad you like it :-) :-)

[@dianemorrison3402]

My grandparents lived in larch place margaret and johnny shearer does anybody remember them

[@Lets-Drone-With-Bone]

do u mean the part where it says 'pool' on that white wall? im not sure, this part has always confused the hell out of me too! lol, the scene after this @ 1:06, i think this is by the courts in Newcastle, Liverpool road, but im not certain...

[@john111257]

froghall too..wow

[@jaimo501]

Very good video but i have to query something. Is the carnival definately 1977 because I am sure I saw my brother on the racing bike. He said it could be him but older. Also I saw someone that looks like my dad pushing a buggy with a child in that would be about 2. If thats the case that would be me in the buggy and I was born in 1977 so would this be 1979.

[@thomasbingham2797]

Talking shit

[@Lets-Drone-With-Bone]

i agree totally! not the same in Newcastle any more! it seems the yobs are running the show nowwer days! :-/

[@Stokeslots]

Even worse now stay safe pal

[@thomasbingham2797]

More like fake homeless people and parents letting kids get away with murder as usual

[@john111257]

old froghall ..i pass this way every week

[@bboult]

Can someone explain to me where the areas at 0:54 and 1:10 are? I've been racking my brains but can't work it out. Also, where was the king's head pub? Thanks!

[@markwhittingham7626]

No idea about Kings Head, but the Morris Minor Traveller could have been my dads.

[@soulmatesflowers8662]

Which roundabout is it at 4.38 onwards?

[@scoppio07]

Not 100% sure but looks like Nelson Place roundabout to me. Looking up towards King Street and or Brunswick Street.

[@MrMagenta3]

think it might be barracks road

[@MrGreenand]

it hasent changed 5that round about

[@user-zh4my8eu8y]

We long for carnival to. Come nack