Came across this. Thought here we go. Another Geordie self gratification video but it wasn’t. Superb video. Beautifully narrated. The London based media could learn lessons from this. Someone talking about a subject with extensive knowledge and done with in depth research. Thank you.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much Michael 🙏👊🏻
@westynufc907 ай бұрын
So is it a shithole or not? @@Jen-ix2hg
@brendanmannion31928 ай бұрын
Your best one yet Eddie. I watched the BBC documentary on Trish Murtha the other day. Amazing to think she and Srikka were documenting the West and East Ends of the city during the 70-80's, with both capturing the hearts being ripped out of two communities by the decline of the heavy industries and political change. Great work mate.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@TheGoodtimecrew8 ай бұрын
Great video, well documented. It’s a real shame that some of the residents have no care for the area they live in and leave it as a dumping ground. I use to live on the estate around 15 year ago. We rented a privately owned house which was freshly refurbished. The house was lovely inside but outside it looked grim due to the run down area. Our new fence was stolen twice in a month by a neighbour across the street, stealing the fence panels throughout the night. Despite seeing them do it they had no respect for anyone and the police did nothing to help. We left shortly afterwards. Wouldn’t walk around there at night back then but I believe it’s a lot worse now. It’s a different world. I still work in Byker and still pass the wall on a daily basis but gladly I never have to venture in.
@derekclacton8 ай бұрын
Great video and commentary, Eddy. I remember walking around the Byker estate with my parents in 1979 and taking photos, having an interest in architecture and planning. I got talking to an elderly lady who had just moved into a newly built house - first time she’d had a bathroom and inside toilet, let alone central heating. She was so thrilled to be there and so proud of her new home that she invited us in to have a look. Urban design is a very important aspect of what makes an area successful but ultimately people make places work - or not.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you Derek ☝️👊🏻👍🏻
@lilacscentedfushias18528 ай бұрын
I’m in Yorkshire, we didn’t have central heating until I was about 10, I still remember having bed cardies and ice on the inside of windows. Just a gas fire & those horrible calor gas things. Before Christmas the heating was broke for 2 days, I don’t know how we coped before 😂 we don’t have a gas or electric fire though, but I don’t remember they giving out much heat. After the council did the heating it was great, you could go to friends’ houses abd you knew how to put their fire or heating on when instructed 😂
@DavidLayfield8 ай бұрын
Beautiful video highlighting some very important details that often get missed. Loved the photographs of Sirkka… very powerful. I will look out her books of the photos she did of Byker back then and beyond. Cheers Eddy
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers David 👊🏻👍🏻
@wanderer4life8 ай бұрын
The young lady Sitkka didn't need loads of makeup to look stunning. I bet that interview made her one of the most protected residents in the neighbourhood with the way she defended the place and people and said she felt safe.
@desslone8 ай бұрын
"Buildings don't make communities, People make communities" says it all really.
@WOLFIE-96B-UK8 ай бұрын
Outstanding video, but depressing. I grew up on a council estate, we weren't well off but growing up I remember people being happy. Everyone knew each other and there was a strong community spirit that's long gone these days.
@Maggy478 ай бұрын
In my street neighbours knew where each hid their door keys
@jean27407 ай бұрын
Your so right the community spirits are well gone
@louismcteggart3 ай бұрын
Same here it was all working families
@MyScotty78 ай бұрын
Im from Middlesbrough and love watching these episodes of Newcastles history especially from the shipyards having once worked at Wallsend building oilrigs. I watch the parts of the estates with sadness and anger because like Middlesbrough our society/community has gone. Seeing them photos and videos of families is haunting to know its all gone and the community will never be the same its gone forever!
@Ian-mj4pt8 ай бұрын
Same from Park End
@christinehoytaylor3026Ай бұрын
Same from Park ward. Used to be a community we were proud of. So sad.
@ulrichhenselewski46075 ай бұрын
Hi there Eddie! I am a lad from Germany. Grew up in Gelsenkirchen which happens to be the twin town of Newcastle. On my first visit to Newcastle on a church exchange visit we happened to stay in Byker. Part of the program was that we got introduced to the fairly new Byker Wall. Instantly I felt that this place would break up the traditional way of life in the community. No wonder it looks like this now. Thoroughly enjoy your videos as I love the Geordies a lot and actually have something like an adopted Geordie family who now happen to live in Cramlington. Keep doing them mate! Uli from Germany
@Andy-fn3mj8 ай бұрын
This is Eddie at his very best! Superb!
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers Andy 👊🏻👍🏻
@simonmcmanus13978 ай бұрын
i used to get into Byker quite a lot in the late 80's and through the 90's. I had friends living down on Walker Road, and some up on Heaton Road. Walking around the area then was always a considered affair. It looks even worse now! Great video, please keep them coming Newcastle may becoming more run down but I will always feel it is my home
@turnfordguitars8 ай бұрын
Shocking! I'd always been led to believe the byker wall was a social success story! This was a real eye opener! Well done 👍
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you Chris 🙏👊🏻
@jean27407 ай бұрын
Oh it was lovely place for first dozen or so years , mostly byker folk lived in New Berlin wall. Then as they died off ,new younger one's moved in from places like cowgate, Benwell ,Elswick from every where ,and BANG !!it went rapidly down hill . And now ,well I wouldn't even think of going over that neck of the woods, as used to live a stones throw from there when I was younger, then my parents died ,they where born and bred over that way , . I hot out and moved right away fast as .
@Soul_of_a_Robot3 ай бұрын
@@jean2740exactly this...
@BoldonBigLad8 ай бұрын
Eddie, I just have to say your point about the difference between Poverty and being Poor really hit home. We are of a similar age, I was born in Jarrow in a council house and lived in a council house until I left home. I've done OK for myself but I have only happy memories of my youth because as you say I never knew we were poor, all my friends lived in similar houses, their dads did similar jobs and we pretty much all had the same. Now however I feel that has all changed, people literally have nothing. The rise of food banks and the collections at SJP on match day highlight that only too well. Great video Eddie, absolutely great and thank you for taking the time to make it.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
That’s appreciated and thank you for sharing 🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@frankdux56938 ай бұрын
How can anyone have sympathy for these people. They all got a free education and all the opportunities they needed to do something with themselves. If they chose to mess about at school, not take life seriously and continue down the road to nowhere that's on them.
@BoldonBigLad8 ай бұрын
@@frankdux5693 If only life was that easy. My father worked in a Steel Mill. His job was hard and poorly paid, every day he drummed it into me that he didn't want me to follow him into that place. He encouraged me constantly, praised me when I did well and pulled me up when i messed around. Some people never get that support.
@Maxx-s7d8 ай бұрын
BoldenBig Lad .. excellent comments. & in agreement.
@BoldonBigLad8 ай бұрын
@@frankdux5693When I had 'opportunities' my father supported and encouraged me to take them. When I treat them lightly he let me know just how lucky I was to have them. He worked at a Steel Works as a labourer. It was hard, unsafe and low-paid work. He never wanted me to follow him into that environment. I didn't and have worked in Software Development all of my working life. Some people don't get that support, love, etc.
@colinmccarthy79218 ай бұрын
I was born in the Bonny City of Newcastle upon Tyne.My Mother was from Gosforth,and my Father was from Walker.I know Byker.I am proud to be a Geordie.Howay my Lads and Lasses. With Best Wishes to you All. ❤️😍🥰❤️.
@biffabacon-tj8lx7 ай бұрын
Hang on a second. I’m from walker. Whats your maa called?? 🫣
@DavidSmith-gr9gd8 ай бұрын
Great video , brought back many memories of growing up in the 60’s . Shields Road was a busy area , two cinemas the Odeon (Blacks) and the Apollo at the other , Parishes department store with its own currency, Beavons and Blalocks and Toms bicycle shop , Ringtons tea factory et etc ,happy days
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing David 👍🏻
@mixedkebabwrap34618 ай бұрын
Tom's was amazing.
@jean27407 ай бұрын
Yes I used to go to the pictures at the very bottom of shields Road with me friend ,oh it was a lovely friendly place ,a hood vibe ,everyone knew everyone on Sheila's Road ,thst was before it looks now, dirty rundown ,and hardly an English shop in sight. I've heard it's dangerous to walk on sheilds Road now for pick pockets, and druggies.
@andymac9008 ай бұрын
Ahh man, this was to short yet utterly fascinating, when I see old footage like this it upsets me as it is not just Byker, I find the whole north east to be like this now, the dimese of the high St, and the post office and the end of the local pubs really has led the the end of "community" which was something the north east was know for, now no-one seems to work, we have refugees everywhere that keep to themselves and don't integrate and seem to have nasty drunks now not the old merry characters type drunks we used to have, people now just don't seem happy and would rather just hang around than try and be productive, anyhoo another great vid eddy thanks
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
☝️👊🏻👍🏻
@kenscott95698 ай бұрын
I think that’s one of the most emotional and well presented pieces of docujournalism I’ve ever seen. Well done Eddie, surely a book in you.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you Ken 🙏
@davidashurst26008 ай бұрын
I lived on bolam street as a baby with my mam n dad before it was demolished and turned into what is now the Byker wall . I have sent your documentary to my mam n dad and my brothers they will all lv it because we all spent so much time there . Epic stuff Eddie
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you David 👊🏻👍🏻
@jean27407 ай бұрын
My dad went to Bolam Street school as a child ,he's long gone now, I don't know if the school is still there or not it was proper victoriana building
@Soul_of_a_Robot3 ай бұрын
Are you related to Jimmy and Nora? I was in Tony's class at Bolam street. Lived there till I was 3 and we moved to the new estate
@Soul_of_a_Robot3 ай бұрын
@@jean2740school is long gone mate. Old people's home now
@dango2478 ай бұрын
Could watch stuff like this all day . Very well put together. Please dooooo more
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you will do
@jean27407 ай бұрын
Me to it's heart rending , the good memories ,it not the place I loved so much
@SuzanneHansen-nr2ui8 ай бұрын
Ah love this one Eddie ❤️ I lived in Graham House, just a few streets away from where you closed off the video. My ceiling leaked whenever it rained and there was no heating or hot water, I had to empty the air from the pipes from the boiler to get a sink full of hot water. The elderly lady in the flat above me said she hadn’t had hot water for over 20 years, I complained for a year to the council, they finally dug up all the main pipes at ground level and fixed it. You could just see the Tyne bridge from my balcony though, a beautiful view in all seasons.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing Suzanne
@Flukey_19708 ай бұрын
Aye i grew up in a colliery house with a. Coal shed and outside toilet I remember many times shivering in coal dumped in the back lane lol.. Keep the content coming,mate i am in dry dock in the Freeman so trawling KZbin.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Hope you’re okay Martin 👍🏻
@steadynumber18 ай бұрын
I well recall the coal shed & outside loo/ potties under the bed. It was that way where I was born in Shildon too. Wishing you a full recovery.
@codsPompey8 ай бұрын
Excellent video and commentary! Very professional! You have a great way of putting the history across. Enjoyed this very much. Many thanks.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@mecheng488 ай бұрын
One of your best, Eddie. The old b&w photos are pure gold. Keep up the great work.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers 🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@stephanblack45588 ай бұрын
I grew up in Yorkshire in an old terraced house like many shown in this video and the sense of community was amazing, you could leave your door open 24/7 with no problem and kids could play in the streets and remain safe. Neighbours would feed kids playing in the streets , It might be a jam sandwich and a cup of water but we got fed by the local Mothers and if we never said thank you Mrs we got a slap.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@jimmycburfield59978 ай бұрын
Great video! What a brilliant insight into a fascinating area of a fine city. Those photos were amazing
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers Jimmy 👊🏻👍🏻
@davidhodgson39018 ай бұрын
Sad. My nanna, auntie, uncle and cousin lived there. It was a lovely place back then.
@misssusan10668 ай бұрын
Thank you for your post. My Grandma was from Byker , born in 1920's. She said Her dad played for the 1st Newcastle team and worked in the shipyard , before it was Utd. I've looked for records of his name but never found it. I was probably looking at the wrong team. Thank you.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@tameracingdriver8 ай бұрын
This is brilliant, I've not seen some of this old footage before, great video, thanks for sharing 👍
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers Paul 👊🏻👍🏻
@jayc64288 ай бұрын
Beautiful point about being poor and in poverty, I grew up in Chopwell, still one of the lowest income communities in the whole UK, wouldn't have changed a thing about growing up there, fields, forests, football and friends, a great upbringing.
@LeeStewart8 ай бұрын
Through the Tyne and Wear homing system I viewed some flats and bedsits in Byker. One of them in the Byker Wall itself, prior to and after the pandemic. It’s not the most pleasant of places to live but given my living situation in 2020, I would’ve opted for one of them. Thankfully I opted for the place I’m living at now in Bensham, Gateshead.
@stevecorbett34908 ай бұрын
I was born in 64 and lived my early years in one of those Byker terraced houses. Coal fire, outside toilet, freezing cold in the winter - and much of the summer. Did it do me any harm? Absolutely not. I was probably 6 when I moved to Fenham - so I saw both sides of our great city. 3 kids later, I live in London now, yet Newcastle, Byker, NUFC and all its warts. Is home and always will be. Superb video Eddie - brought back loads of memories. 👏👏👏
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing Steve 👊🏻👍🏻
@YouKnowTheDance8 ай бұрын
London Is a bigger shit hole
@audie-cashstack-uk48818 ай бұрын
London now so another shithole then one far far far worse
@GaryFox-iy4jc8 ай бұрын
I was born in London... moved to Benwell in '79. Went to Rutherford. Moved to Walker and got the 39/40 every day there and back.
@jean27407 ай бұрын
So your heart will always belong to newcastle is what your saying. I feel the same ,. Bit could never ever go back ,as its not my bonnie newcastle anymore, just beautifull beautifull memories of growing up there, and playing out ,eith all my lovely friends 😢😢😢😢😊
@Northumberlandwoodlands8 ай бұрын
Long live this channel Eddie...loving every minute.. cheers again
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@TheShmelly8 ай бұрын
It’s incredible to see the stark contrast between Byker and Ouseburn which are just a stones throw from each other. Great video thanks for sharing
@bootross2558 ай бұрын
I vividly remember visiting an old Polish friend of my parents in his old Byker Victorian terrace house before it was pulled down. That would be in the late 1970's. Then we used to visit him in his new property in the Byker wall. I remember that it was modern & swish when they were first built, however by the early 1980's the whole estate had started to decline & it genuinely could feel slightly dangerous visiting him. Sad to say.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@Baron_von_Fargone8 ай бұрын
Excellent vid eddy. I used to live in the wall .shipley walk and i lived doon st Lawrence square in the old flats.1997-2004.i loved it. anyhoo ..cheers bonny lad 👊
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
👊🏻👍🏻
@anthonyclark85648 ай бұрын
Used to visit that estate a lot when I had my taxi. It had a bit of a reputation but I never had a pick of bother. Seems to have went back a little from then.. Another interesting vid.. its a 👍from me.
@ewanwood69218 ай бұрын
As someone who lives in the wall I think this would be the perfect video for explaining Byker to people who've never been.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
That’s appreciated thank you 🙏 👊🏻👍🏻
@bonniedrasco81668 ай бұрын
Great historical piece buddy, I’m going to subscribe because you definitely deserve all the support you should get
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you Bonnie 🙏
@geoffburlinson89098 ай бұрын
Great video Eddie. Thanks for all your hard work putting this together. 👍👍👍
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers Geoff 👊🏻👍🏻
@Chrisheron788 ай бұрын
Byker wall is horrific now. Absolutely horrific. I used to hang around there when I was a kid up until mid 90s..from those years onwards it has spiralled out of control with the selling of Swan Hunter shipyards, the uncontrolled influx of unskilled refugees from god knows where and zero investment in the police has let crime and drug dealing flourish. I walk through it now and again (I now live in Walker-not much better) and think to myself that my parents and grandparents went through wars and lean times all for nothing. Horrible place now. I feel so sorry for the elderly indigenous who worked their socks off all their lives and still live there.
@badofcheese8 ай бұрын
I agree with much of what you say but I think it’s an oversimplification to place so much emphasis on ‘unskilled refugees’. Those people get stuffed into places deemed to be sh*tholes already. It’s not, in my opinion, their presence that leads to the decline of an area (though you could argue it accelerates it); more that them being housed there is a sign that things have already gone wrong. The failure to make any effort to replace the industries obliterated from the 60s through to the mid-nineties, or to retrain anyone who worked in them was the end for a lot of working class areas in cities across the North of England. The expansion of the welfare state in lieu of finding ways to offer people opportunities was shortsighted and possibly even more expensive. It created generational poverty and an underclass who are trapped by circumstances and condemned to live the same kind of lives as their parents and their own children. All very sad, very avoidable and all created from a callous disregard for the working classes by policy makers.
@Chrisheron788 ай бұрын
@@badofcheese Agree with pretty much all of what you say, although you say I place 'so much emphasis on unskilled refugees'. I highlight that there are other issues also contributing to the areas decline. However placing those unskilled refugees in an area that already has pre existing socio economic issues really has not helped at all. My observation simply highlights the range of issues in the area contributing to its decline. Hopefully within our lifetime the area will see an uptick in skills and economic growth whatwith the investment in heavy industry on the banks of the Tyne in the east end. We can but live in hope.
@sbaby-kg8hn8 ай бұрын
What's your problem with immigrants? 🤔
@Chrisheron788 ай бұрын
@@sbaby-kg8hn focus on my FULL comment. CLEARLY...you havent.
@NiktheEnglishGreekCypriot7 ай бұрын
@@sbaby-kg8hnbig problem with immigrants coming over on boats, all young men with mobile phones, coming to this country purely for free housing, food a free life that they really don’t deserve. It’s disgusting that they come here and are immediately housed, yet there’s people born and bred here who can’t get a flat or a house, generally you’re waiting 15 years for a council flat, yet come over on a boat and you immediately get one. They generally come here with no skills, no desire to integrate or work, currently they come here as Islamic extremists who will no doubt eventually cause problems in this country. Anyone with common sense can see the issues. Yet the woke liberals keep letting them in and are determined to ruin the country. Legal immigrants who work and integrate are fine. I’ll wait for the “British empire” response that has no bearing on the current issue
@GaryFox-iy4jc8 ай бұрын
As a 13 year old lad in 1979 I lived in Benwell and we had an outside toilet. The bath was newly installed and part of the kitchen.
@petertaylor34468 ай бұрын
Aye it's sad seeing that place nowadays, it's gone way down from when I was younger, it was a busy shopping area you could go and see santa at parish's, the Fenwick of byker
@jean27407 ай бұрын
Parishes store I loved that store
@ianlbates8 ай бұрын
amazing video eddie. I was always fascinated with byker growing up in the area. my favourite part of the metroline with spectacular views including the wall. but I was always intimidated when the metro actually stopped there and as a teenager in the 90s you would need to keep your head down to stop getting randomly started on. amazing to see the former pre-wall community.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers bud 👊🏻👍🏻
@TheNoiseThePassion8 ай бұрын
As a Northumberland lad never knowing what it is like to live in Newcastle or Tyneside but feel a deep connection to the football club. These videos shine a light on our regions city. Thanks Eddie.
@kaybee29308 ай бұрын
Local authorities & governments have destroyed this country. They have people so depressed. Bring back the 70's & 80's. We didn't have much, but my god, we were happy
@lyndafoster77248 ай бұрын
They have systematically destroyed communities
@Soul_of_a_Robot3 ай бұрын
We happy then or now
@jamiej7798 ай бұрын
Great Vlog Eddy, born in Molineux street 1957, a Byker boy, My Auntie Peg had a wool shop down Ruby street knew the wash house and baths well. Remember playing in the back lane and on the bomb sites. We moved up to High Heaton around 1963. Remember the wall going up as we always returned to shields road shopping. Keep your Vlogs coming
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing Jamie 👍🏻
@davidashurst26008 ай бұрын
Exceptional documentary Eddie so so good . Very interesting.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@pitstop1ish8 ай бұрын
Hi eddy just subscribed to your channel very informative and enjoyed this vid Was just wondering if you had any plans to to a pelaw vid know your from close to that area. I've lived here for nearly 20 year and seen it change massively in that time. Seen a few pics before I moved here and I know a famous get carter scene was filmed here where Malcolm who used to work in the DIY shop was in as a extra (his hands post office) cheers
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers bud. I’ll have a think on it 👊🏻
@robertobee31988 ай бұрын
Fabulous photos of old Byker.
@michaelmcleod85987 ай бұрын
Great video, Many years ago, I worked in the old Byker swimming pool, which was built into the wall.
@johnyoung84308 ай бұрын
My grandfather and his 14 siblings and generations grew up in Byker. 142 Headlam street.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Big families! My Dad was one of 13
@guycarr3608 ай бұрын
Cracking work Eddie, keep them coming.
@anthonywade41848 ай бұрын
I remember playing 5-a-side football in about 1964/65 in the old Byker Reservoir for a youth club team based in Longbenton. I tried recently to find the reservoir on the map but found no trace. Happy days.
@johnyoung80178 ай бұрын
Finished my bricklaying apprenticeship in 1981 on phase 3 of the development, Avondale Road. Main contractors were Stanley Millers Ltd. Locally based at Great Lime Road, Palmersville. I remember thinking that the gordy, wooden structures attached to the brickwork would age badly in appearance. Nevertheless, didn't think it would end up the way it has.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing John 👍🏻
@Soul_of_a_Robot3 ай бұрын
Me and my cousin used to play on that building site. Me ma would go spare as we'd come in head to toe covered in red colour from the sand they used for the mortar and, paint . I still have flashbacks when I smell turps haha. My nana had a flat on cheviot mount
@Vfourmike5 ай бұрын
Born and brought up in Wallsend, I briefly lived on St Peter’s rd for a while back in 1990 when I’d lost my job. My girlfriend and I didn’t have much money but we went out to the pub on Shields Road and the people there couldn’t have been kinder or more friendly. Absolutely sound folk and offered to even pay for our dinner. I know there is a bad element in many places but I found my time in Byker a real eye opener. Great documentary 👍
@eddietaylor11548 ай бұрын
Hey Eddie, it’s Gayna. Started watching your video with no idea that it was you until your first piece to camera! Fantastic video and you have a new follower. Hope all is good with you 😊
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Wow! Hi Gayna! Lovely to hear from you! You still in? I was officially diagnosed as Autistic over 3 years ago, (which explains a lot!) 😅😬
@eddietaylor11548 ай бұрын
@@TynesideLife I am still in, but am seconded at the moment and hoping to stay that way for as long as I can! Lovely to see your face on my screen, love the video's, you have found your calling. Be lovely to meet up for a chin wag some time 😊
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
@@eddietaylor1154 drop me an email Gayna. enquiries@tynesidelife.com Don’t want to put my personal one on here
@da73368 ай бұрын
This along with the west end video is the you’ve done by far, exceptional
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you 👊🏻👍🏻
@da73368 ай бұрын
Meant to say the best you’ve done, documentary worthy
@peterr118 ай бұрын
Great video Eddy, only ever been in the estate once so great to learn more about it.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers Peter 👊🏻👍🏻
@ianjames91668 ай бұрын
Fascinating and informative as ever. Eddy. Surely it's only a matter of time before some TV news channel snaps you up as a roving reporter. Cheers mate.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Haha! Cheers Ian but even if they did I’d say no. I prefer being my own boss and a lone wolf 🐺 👊🏻
@JSC1318 ай бұрын
Fantastic content im from South Wales and found this so 8ntresting I've been to Newcastle in the 80s and 90s were lovely people to me and my family. Just a quick question was some of material recorded in the likely lads film from the old area before it was demolished?.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Hi mate, thank you and not to my knowledge it wasn’t 👊🏻👍🏻
@stanpickersgill753 ай бұрын
Hi eddy, I was born in Benwell, Hannah street . Moved to oz in 1965. Still a mad newcastle fan. Keep up the good work.
@garyley42708 ай бұрын
Well Eddy this is a really class video. I know the area from my time staying in Newcastle and have visited friends there since I moved away. You capture the feel of the place well. I like social history stuff and you do it well. I could write paragraphs but I don't think anyone would be particularly interested in what I have to say. So I'll just say well done for a fascinating video.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
That’s really appreciated thank you Gary 🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@TheMermaidsparkles8 ай бұрын
Great video and very emotional. I used to have a relative who lived in the Byker Wall so would visit regularly as a kid. Even back then I was amazed by it. It was something I’d never seen before and to this day I still find the structure so fascinating. Thanks for the information behind it 😊
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you Leanne
@CalTweedy8 ай бұрын
Great video this man! I hadn’t seen your channel before but this seems to have popped up for a good few people. Really looking forward to seeing any more you do like this. Maybe The Ridges? Anyway well done, great stuff!
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thanks very much pal 👊🏻👍🏻
@ThomasHawes-q7fАй бұрын
Eddie lovely photos of the old byker but byker wall has really subsided it was very nice when first built but it's like every were else it happens love your video 😅😅
@TynesideLifeАй бұрын
Cheers Thomas 👍🏻
@martinheron79718 ай бұрын
Hi Eddie another great video having worked in byker for over 30 years there was a core of good byker people living there as I would call them salt of the earth however you always had a lot of bad tenants as😊 well I notice a big difference in the culture change when I went back to do so contracting work 2016 to 2019 alot of the good older generation had moved on or past and you are seeing the results now as you walk around. Keep up the good work eddie 😊
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing Martin 👊🏻👍🏻
@marksenior61018 ай бұрын
Really interesting video Eddie. Love the local history
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
👊🏻👍🏻
@stephenbrown58447 ай бұрын
Absolutely love my heritage,😘👍♥️♥️♥️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 being a geordie and byker being just up the road,,, these photos depict my childhood and am very proud to come from Newcastle.... Beautiful programme 😎👌🇬🇧❤️❤️
@marcusoreallly8 ай бұрын
Great stuff, Eddy. Getting better and better. Hopefully, I'm retired soon like you to spend more time up in the northeast. You are crushing it. #nufc #tynesidelife
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers bud 🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@TheGreatest19748 ай бұрын
I think if the old streets & houses had just been MODERNISED in place- it’s hard to think that it wouldn’t have been BETTER than what’s there today- plus there would be HISTORY, Victorian pubs & hotels in the place. Proper streets and community. That place now, I wouldn’t even like to walk through it let alone live there.
@thelastemperor37047 ай бұрын
Totally agree, we've seen countless examples of architects designing social housing projects that are utterly demoralising to look at and live in. I'm no expert but you've got to question how much of a factor the archetecture is in the rise in crime and anti social behaviour in these kinds of neighbourhoods.
@lukehope44847 ай бұрын
Walked through this area to get to work for 18 months didn't know the history of the area cheers for the video dude
@malthorn5688 ай бұрын
Eddie this is absolutely brilliantly documented, the way you've captured the old and new life of Byker. I was 11 when we used to go and see me grandma on Avondale road. Thanks Eddie for helping keeping wor great history of a fantastic city. 👍👍👍👍👍
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@kevin4havis8 ай бұрын
Another very interesting video Eddy. My father was from the top of shields Road and became a Councillor for the East end and it was he that officially opened the bypass and there is a plaque to him on the bridge between the metro station and the wall. "Councillor Harry Thompson ". I found it really interesting about the mile castle at Brough Park. I spent a lot of time going to the speedway (dodging in I must add) Thanks for your efforts.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Ahh interesting stuff Kevin. You’re famous 😃 Thanks for sharing 👊🏻👍🏻
@fishingstevie88305 ай бұрын
You tell it as it is Eddie and with the facts and the history is always good to know about . Enjoyed and a wee 🤣 at the same time , this inbetween times for instance the look as you turned around seeing the teen on the bike and he probs wearing a ski mask up to no good 😁 Great Narrating as always , awe the best and keep them coming 👍
@TynesideLife5 ай бұрын
Cheers Stevie 👍🏻 I can’t recall the details but I should clarify that the lad allowed me to film him on his bike. It was a staged run so there was no shock or surprise on my face. I’m not going to film half a dozen dodgy looking teenagers without permission. I’d get stabbed or chinned 😅
@tynestreet40118 ай бұрын
I grew up in North Shields same time as you did in your neck of the woods. Really enjoyed this video and learned things I never knew 🙏
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you 👊🏻👍🏻
@TeamCGS20058 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. It's fascinating to find out about the history of Byker. What happened to Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen? Her photographs were absolutely incredible not only in terms of their composition, but how they're a time capsule of life back then.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Not sure what she’s doing now
@LeeStewart8 ай бұрын
If I recall and you can correct me if I’m wrong, there used to be a railway track that prior to the Byker Wall’s development ran through that area.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
No Lee, not that I’m aware of. There was North of the Byker Wall estate. You can follow this as there were bridges over the Ouseburn valley that are still there 👍🏻
@davidhadaway93118 ай бұрын
I think that would be the Riverside line of the old electric suburban railway. When we were kids we would get our mum to take us on it as a treat when going to Newcastle as it passed by the then busy shipyards. Children were easily pleased in those days! It was closed, however, well before the system was converted to the Metro. Edit; Here's a lnk showing the plan of the line. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyneside_Electrics#/media/File:Tyneside_Electrics_diagram.png
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
@@davidhadaway9311 hi. David, where exactly did this track run?
@davidhadaway93118 ай бұрын
@@TynesideLife Well I took a look at the Wikipedia article on the Tyneside Electrics to refresh my memory. It turned south just west of the Percy Main Metro station and then basically followed the river along the shipyards and factories, returning to the main line just east of Manors. There was a Byker station on that line but it can't be the same as the present Byker Metro station. How much survives I've no idea and as I now live in Vancouver I can't nip down to take a look! One other claim to railway fame, I was on the last train on the Monkseaton to Blyth branch line!
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
@@davidhadaway9311 👍🏻
@stexoneoneone53868 ай бұрын
Thanks Eddy for this, you've enhanced the bbc footage i was familiar with already with your own personable take, with empathy, sensetivity and care, as always. Looking forward to the much-awaited shipyards episode
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
That’s appreciated mate 🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@HOMERSIMPSONSUCKS8 ай бұрын
Great documentary again, absolutely fascinating, you've really hit onto your golden style, brilliant at it, keep it coming!
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏 👊🏻
@Jamie_A_Newcastle_Tenerife8 ай бұрын
Bravo with the editing 👏🏻 wonderful watch Eddie.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers Jamie 👊🏻👍🏻
@deeboal86438 ай бұрын
Very interesting video Eddie really enjoyed it thanks.
@steadynumber18 ай бұрын
Whenever I hear of Byker Hill the folk song I first heard played by The High Level Ranters comes to mind. 'Ranting Lads,' the album it came from is well worth a listen also, for its other Durham & Northumberland folk songs. ❤
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you Suzy 👍🏻
@robroy4887 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed this. My dad grew up in Benwell in the 50s and 60s and I liked seeing the old pictures of a similar area in Newcastle. Makes me appreciate how luxurious my life was in comparison. Great video, all the best.
@TynesideLife7 ай бұрын
Have you seen my West End video Rob?
@robroy4887 ай бұрын
@TynesideLife just watched it mate! Now I'm onto the Mary Bell one, my mam remembers that case. Fascinating stuff, love the old footage. Really well made videos, just subbed.
@TynesideLife7 ай бұрын
@@robroy488 cheers Rob 🙏
@T3RRAFORM8 ай бұрын
I remember going on a school trip to the Byker Wall estate in the early 80s. Not one of the best school trips I can remember. 😂
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
😅
@leeforster61268 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed that TBF. Any chance of one for Walker or North Kenton - the areas where I was born and raised? 😉
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@peterhunter82747 ай бұрын
Even 18 years ago when I was at university it was a no go area. Made the mistake of walking through once and got threatened by 2 different groups of yobs who then decided to fight each other for literarily no reason.
@micknufc50118 ай бұрын
Another great video eddie i use to knock around byker wall estate when i was a young lad had a good friend from there never any bother great place haha nd then i donr abit boxing over there above rons gym nd we use to run through byker wall nd get sticks nd stones chucked at us lol 😂😂
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
😅
@micknufc50118 ай бұрын
@@TynesideLife 👍
@ladylaois81845 ай бұрын
I’m from Somerset Irish heritage. Never been here but this is a gem of a documentary thank you 🙏
@Jeff-q4u8 ай бұрын
Wonderful photographs ❤ I'm new to this area, Eddie, just moved to Ashington. Would like to know where the boundaries are? Where does Northumberland cover? And do you ever come this far north? Loving the channel by the way 🌹
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏 👍🏻 You’ll be able to see the boundaries on Google maps 👍🏻
@laikatravels8 ай бұрын
Brilliant work 👏. Very interesting. Thanks for making this 👍
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@StewartSteale8 ай бұрын
Most people got moved to Benton or Killingworth and never went back! Killingworth towers won awards thankfully they got knocked down but Killingworth was like a futuristic town in the 70s
@DavidSmith-gr9gd8 ай бұрын
And it had a Woolco !
@nymerianan4short3148 ай бұрын
Well I was brought up in killingworth and moved into the byker wall 😂 so clearly I didn't get the memo 😅
@---Adam8 ай бұрын
Great video. I did find a stark contrast in the shots of the street with the kid on the e-bike and Range Rovers 😂
@phoenix-11-nufc8 ай бұрын
Another fantastic, excellent and historically informative video Eddie. Really interesting even for a southerner like me who’s followed NUFC for over 40 years since i met my wife ( a Darlington girl). It reminds me very much of similarities of 5:15 what things were like back then ( I’m 71 but still remember what it was like and all my parents and other family stories from back then in Peckham and Nunhead) They should have kept the well built Victorian terraces and spent the money better with rear or loft extensions to allow conversions with bathrooms. Same old story everywhere with those awful modern replacements. ah well….
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing 👊🏻👍🏻
@terrypatterson14818 ай бұрын
Well done Eddie, a great documentary which I enjoyed watching.
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Cheers Terry 👊🏻👍🏻
@lesterthorpe41905 ай бұрын
Hi Eddy , thanks for the recommendation. I think your style reminds me of the films Peter Santenello makes on You Tube , about the way things are now , and used to be , in cities and regions of the USA. also * , glad you highlighted the Finnish lady photographer, who appreciated the community of Biker and beyond in her years of living there . The historical references of the development of NUFC were ace !
@TynesideLife5 ай бұрын
🙏👊🏻👍🏻
@stevehenderson99572 ай бұрын
Fantastic Eddie, thank you so much for this.
@jackyboiNUFC8 ай бұрын
Great video as usual Eddie 👍🏻
@chrisdooley11848 ай бұрын
Fascinating video mate. I’m not very familiar with the area nor living in council estates/terraced houses but I’m eager to see more. I subscribed to follow this channel
@TynesideLife8 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard Chris 👊🏻👍🏻
@IslaD5 ай бұрын
Really interesting! I'm from Glasgow and my Granny was from Byker, I had no idea. As is said, this type of massive rebuilding was done with the best of intentions. In Glasgow the Gorbals slums were cleared, high rise flats put up which became notorious for crime and have now been replaced again... I think we got it right this time with open space and facilities, I hope it stands the test of time!