1) History of Markets and Shops in Newcastle upon Tyne

[@NewcastleLocalInterest]

Article on Food History in Newcastle sites.google.com/site/foodsafetypolicy/food-retail-newcastle

[@emmaa1803]

Miss my childhood in the handyside arcade, my grandad frank had the pet shop and my dad had the video shop, joke shop and antique shop and at one point ran the barn pup... So many top memories, newcastle is was at its best in the 80's and 90's.

[@da90sReAlvloc]

Best in the 80s. In the 90s. The chavs took over and started harassing everyone

[@cambo2910]

To the dismay of our parents my wife & I decided to move from an affluent Worcestershire to Tyneside during the early seventies, the best decision we ever made, lovely people, great city, we stayed for thirty years and even became bi lingual in Geordie & Queens English.

[@jamesclark1682]

very exiled geordie. I remember the grainger market in the late 70's. Sawdust on the floor. Sarah's tuck-in and the lovely smells. Farnon's, the co-op and the early days of Eldon Square. The Trent House Pub. The safest place to drink in the town. Viz comics et all. What great days

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

yep ...all gone . . .now its islam, mosques and african MPs . . . . .

[@sallyjones7737]

Was amazed at about 9.10 in to you tell of a lady who shouted out to potential customers " Pie & peas hinney come & get your hot pies n peas here, bring your bairns in & their prams. that was my great grandmother Martha McCabe who I was told would always feed poor kids at the end of the day for free if she hadn't sold up, she always had something for the really poor undernourished kids & I have also been told she or I should say her spirit still lingers at the 21 café although no longer a balcony café its still above the Grainger oh how id love to peek inside.

[@chrissythornhill]

Oh , for a Geordie pork sandwich with stuffing and the top dipped in gravy ! A Saturday treat in the 50s . Yum 💝

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

its all curry now . . . .!!!

[@Pottawattamie]

My dad was from Gateshead miss him so much.

[@mariabrett6712]

Mine was from Newsham Blyth and I miss him too been gone 46 years💔🖤🤍❤️

[@HD-dz4uk]

I could spend hours in the Grainger market, everything about it is glorious. Fantastic city and will be pleased to visit again after this lockdown lark is over.

[@zeddeka]

One of my friends used to live in the flats above it. The whole market was crawling with rats.

[@robertarmstrong2470]

I have just watched this now 11/01201, i am 57. This film looks like a vision of heaven on earth..

[@robertarmstrong2470]

@Sharon No sorry, not me.

[@neonskyline1]

There's a pub on the corner off the swing bridge, my daughter worked there, there's still some of the old bridge in the cellar

[@lindamcharie1264]

Absolutely marvelous.. thankyou for sharing

[@johnsimpsonkirkpatrickhist1372]

An excellent video narrated by the one and only John Grundy.

[@Mayerling52]

lovely memories! Thanks for posting!!

[@Whoisfinn]

Love this

[@brianc6272]

The Toon will never be the same again, far too up market now, even the Grainger market is so much different, R.I.P Newcastle

[@vegankitchenshop]

Great memories - :)

[@carolginsberg8392]

Aye man haw aye pet

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😅😅😢🎉

[@sicks6six]

some great shops gone, Wengers, Farnons, the American pant house, Peters stores in the haymarket dressed every skinhead in Newcastle for 20 years, Crombies £10, Harringtons £5, 501s £8, Adidas Tshits £4, Marden Saddlery next to the Mayfair for best brogues in town £10 & astronaughts £10 segs 50p

[@MrSilky1969]

Great video cheers

[@carolginsberg8392]

Aye man

[@Jeffybonbon]

Newcastle has had its day its now what I call Newcastle City Campus Very few geordies live in the center now

[@hanifleylabi8628]

Half the businesses in the Grinager market would close if it wasn't for students

[@Jeffybonbon]

@@hanifleylabi8628 your right but students dont have a lot of cash to spend they have borrowed a lot of money to become students

[@hanifleylabi8628]

@@Jeffybonbon True, most don't although some do, including some of the international ones who pay a lot of fees to be here. I think some of the fish mongers even had some Chinese signs at one point! And they're helping to keep the tradition of the butchers selling pigs heads haha

[@Jeffybonbon]

@@hanifleylabi8628 I think newcastel is a Campus now I dont have an issue with that its a differant Newcastle but i am sure my mam and dad said the same in the 1970s 80s when i worked in town

[@niallgerardjosephoconnells7097]

Kind regards Niall O'Connell Eire. Lovely town memories ❤️🇨🇮🌃🥰☀️🎄☃️

[@kopynd1]

the high level is newcastles landmark anyone can build a bridge like the tyne bridge steel arch suspension bridge, easy try constructing the high level bridge

[@dee8501]

...designed and built by Robert Stephenson, George Stephenson's son.

[@garethlloyd7103]

1) History of Markets and Shops in Newcastle upon Tyne

[@1justpara]

This was back when our town was a thriving hub full of small businesses and bargains galore. Where there was plenty of choice and lots of diversity. Today the town is a sh** hole. The city centre has been taken over by giant conglomerates (INTU) and have turned the place into an eyesore. The shops are all gone, due to high rents, and small businesses can no longer afford to be there. The Grainger Market is empty, with very little choice any more, and every little stall that closes is being turned into yet another *eating* place, as if we didn't already have enough. The entire bottom (and part of the top end) of Eldon Square is now full of over priced, over rated eating places which are all empty. The streets are absolutely FILTHY and never cleaned and litter abounds as well as giant rubbish bins that sit all over the streets. There are times when I walk down Grainger Street and my feet literally stick to the pavement. When was the last time anyone saw a street sweeper in town? Gallowgate and St James Boulevard are now *LEGO LAND* and full of nasty looking, ugly buildings for students and still more being constructed. Our city has been and is being systematically destroyed. The Brewery is gone, the Co-Op is gone and the magnificent building turned into an eye saw that matches the ugly *GATE* white elephant. Our town is a wasteland now full of students, migrants, drunks and druggies and is no longer a place of history and beauty. It's filthy and ugly and empty. And don't let me even get started on the Bigg Market. That is a disgrace.

[@Supposedlyimrightwingnow]

Totally agree. But it's not just Newcastle. I get around lots of cities and it's the same everywhere. Councils are that intent on making money from people they've totally forgotten about what makes a city thrive. Its customers! No good filling it with overpriced shops no good charging ridiculous amounts for parking no good replacing what we grew up with with new shiny square buildings....we simply won't visit! We won't want to. I see the same thing happening at the MetroCentre over the last 10/15 years. I'm surprised they haven't totally ruined it by charging for parking....but there's time. They start doing that they can forget about it IMO.

[@taniatinn9072]

Agreed 100%, took the heart and soul out of the place

[@lindamcharie1264]

Very true what you say.. streets are filthy..beggars and drunks everywhere

[@tertia0011]

Sounds awful. If they ever build a LEGO LAND where I live I'm taking off.

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

The MP chi omwoorah made a brilliant job ...of multi culturalising the place . ...allah wakbar Bonny Lad .

[@StanleypeterDickinson]

Chi hua hua Geordie for meditate. Do not Hardin Ya heart Kier Sahib Starmer I'm not a Brahmin or Adam Ant. Prince Charming. I've been a barista a chai wallah a cook a carer, a bearer of arms for H R H Elizabeth II, the reckoning is beckoning. Cheque Please Goodness Gracious Me Peter Sellers movie portrayed as a Tragedy. Trinity Steppes Gateshead by Tesco. You must be Bjorn Again You cannot be SIRIUS! Mac n ROE versus WADE n Iceborg. Titanic Court Action. Margaret. Billie Jean King Queen. Seven Seas of Wry. Everybody wants to go to Hebburn but nobody wants to Dai Daley!

[@bigste5771]

Shudnt have got rid of thr green market etc its all food and coffee shops its a let down these days

[@chuckylugs9607]

I miss Handysides arcade 😪

[@killerjoe3025]

Great for shoplifting 😀

[@kopynd1]

the royal arcade was a magnificent building when a was young spent a lot of time looking at the architecture a could cry, tear it down and build crap as long as a get a cut planners, am getting annoyed a better go

[@garethlloyd7103]

2. True Steppers, Dane Bowers - Out of Your Mind ft. Victoria Beckham

[@Tuscany60]

Wasn't he a teacher at Highfield Comprehensive School in the horrible Felling in Gateshead? The most nastiest troublemaking twisted people you could come across in Felling.

[@stevecarr3019]

Yes, he was a teacher at Highfield. I've lived in and around Felling for over 60 years, most of Felling and Windy Nook are good places but I probably would agree that there are some nutters knocking about now. However that's probably only the last 10 years or so when people began to loose all respect for the police, their neighbourhood and I'd probably suggest that was when drugs became commonplace.

[@Tuscany60]

@@stevecarr3019 Apparently it's absolutely rife with smackrats & alcoholics. The whole of England is a mess anyways now. It's the whole world in 1 & we are just a small island with no homes for our own people never mind anyone else & our NHS is in a hell of a state too. Broken Britain! 🤦‍♀️ Jeez....

[@GloriaL28]

The streets of Newcastle seem run down and dirty now the pavements are like a chewing gum carpet

[@AutomaticDuck300]

This documentary must be old, looks like early 90s. When did Bainbridges become John Lewis?

[@kopynd1]

newcastle city centre is a mess now, destroyed . the start of the destruction from 1970, absolute disgrace, planners should have been slung into to prison, and whipped in public on a sunday

[@garethlloyd7103]

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[@ianhawdon3680]

Window shopping grwat term

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