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True for some things but others needed changing. It's a shame we can't pick and choose to keep the good bits we liked. Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it :)

Sounds like a few great tales to tell the grandkids in future years :)

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We didn't have a car when I was a child, and looking back it was probably very tough on my mother carting children and groceries around the streets before walking to an evening shift of manual labour. But in a street where hardly anyone had a car, it meant we could all safely play ball games outside, with the biggest danger being the muck left by roaming dogs. The same street looks very cluttered now with all the vehicles jammed in, and the children are nowhere to be seen.

@@localhistoryvideos UK kids now are being shown that to “stay safe” is to stay indoors or be inside a 2-ton SUV. Holland got it right prioritising safe streets over cars giving children early independence-what they lost from car dependency they regained, we just lost…

Thank you for sharing about those happy times up here. A lot will have changed even since you last visited, some of it for the better, but those precious childhood memories always stay with us.

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It's difficult to know what the solution is when online shopping is taking over - except keep shopping locally where you can. Otherwise it will just get worse :(

That's very sad to hear - let's hope the decline stops and things start to improve

Some of them looked like they'd give a hefty right hook if you annoyed them though :)

Thanks for watching! Yes, I had a chat with the ladies working in the library, who clearly loved their job. They had to carefully check and clean each and every book, which takes weeks to do!

Thanks for watching! Yes they were different times and grand buildings were a great source of civic pride. It's easy to overlook some of these remaining gems scattered across the town and cities that were so important to the Industrial Revolution.

Thank you for watching, and your kind words!

He was an incredible photographer and deserves to be better known. What insight to have realised that these images of everyday life were worth preserving.

All the old pictures of North East England are fascinating. So much has changed beyond all recognition.

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Yes, the timing issue is a difficult balance. Some people (me!) want to examine slowly, others get bored quickly. I have great news for you though - I've put all the photos in this video on my website! Here's the page about Portland, Oregon: localhistoryvideos.com/portland-oregon/

It would have been a reference to the St Nicholas Hospital, which was known as the insane asylum. There's a psychiatric unit still there, along with some businesses, but the Victorian buildings were coverted into expensive flats almost 20 years ago. The address is listed as Gosforth, but on the map you can see how it borders many areas, and the walls appear in several old photos. David Olusoga presented a series called 'A House Through Time' about the various families who lived in 5 Ravensworth Terrace, Summerhill, Newcastle from its construction until today. Over the years, several of the residents of that one house suffered acute mental illness and went to the St Nicholas Hospital.

Same here! We went to Hartlepool to pick up some chairs and decided to have a walk along West Hartlepool. Really lovely old buildings along there, a couple of fish and chip shops, and an elegant little park. By complete accident on the walk we stumbled on the museum. Altogether, it was a cracking day out, and absolutely not what I'd expected given I was just collecting some chairs. The sunshine helped too :)

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Thanks for watching! Yes, the change that occurred over the 20th century was just breathtaking. I also found it funny to see the 'modern' office block at the junction of Kenton Lane and Kenton Road, which of course was replaced with low rise housing and then quickly forgotten.

Thank you for the kind words! You are right, South Gosforth Primary School was demolished. There's one photo I have of one corner of the school, next to the road junction at Windsor Court. I can't add a photo to TH-cam comments, but this link should open the photo file on my website: localhistoryvideos.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Old-photo-of-Station-Road-South-Gosforth-Newcastle-upon-Tyne-in-the-1960s.jpg If, for some reason, it doesn't open, then just look at the website's page for Gosforth, where you will find it down in the section about South Gosforth railway station.

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You're absolutely right. You'd get a shock going there now. Hard to cross the road with all the parked cars!

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Hi, thanks for watching and for giving feedback. The speed is such a tricky thing to get right for a broad audience, especially in a Tik Tok world. There are ways to change the playback speed on TH-cam, but I have a suggestion you may like better. I uploaded all the images used in the video to this page: localhistoryvideos.com/whitby/

The link works but the pictures don't appear @@localhistoryvideos

@@localhistoryvideos What an excellent idea, including a link to all of the images. I wish more TH-camrs would do that. Thank you!

I'm not sure when the Windmill pub was demolished, but it was certainly still there in 1987, so you may well have been in there if you left in 1978.

Presumably you were there when Kenton School had its own swimming pool, just inconceivable now. Funny to think of the school letting you out early to enjoy being part of a community event - the Oftsed inspectors would faint at the idea of doing that today! :)

It's funny how the little things...the juice from the clinic, the little milk bottles at school...turned out to be really important memories later on. I wonder what moments today's youngsters will cherish as their memories of childhood?

For a moment I though you meant the photos were dreadful :) I think there's a lot that has improved about the High Street businesses over the past 20 years, but the street itself does indeed look scruffy and somehow doesn't look 'smart' like Corbridge does

Morpeth is the same for Turkish barbers men must need their locks cut regularly

@@Anna-jt3xu barbers my hole more like money launderers.Every shop you see looks exactly the same down to the chair and fittings.Stinks to high heaven.Seriously there’s 3 in a 200 yd radius in ponteland.

@@erikgood732 nowt surprises me now the way this country is going

@@Anna-jt3xu Turkey must have more “barbers” per head of population than any other country. So many in fact it’s reach saturation point in Turkey and they’ve made a bee line for The UK.I’ve had an idea though in the spirit of fellowship and cooperation in return we should send Turkey all the economic migrant that have turned up.

@@erikgood732 yes all the military aged men we are acquiring

There have been some important improvements, including the Trinity Cafe and many other cafes and eateries opening up, redeveloment of the Gosforth Hotel junction, reclaiming the derelict bank building, and moving people out of the smokers' cafe in the middle of the shopping centre into a cafe with big windows overlooking the park. It's now possible to get buggies into most premises instead of being expected to leave the babies or buggies outside, and in good weather there's a better range of places to sit out. But you are right, the High Street is somehow failing to look as smart as the neighbourhood, the traffic grows each year, and no one knows why the ugly bollards were put up.

The Coxlodge Hotel?

And it's such a shock to see the difference between the gates and the built up area, given how quickly it all happened.

One of the streets which got pulled down, wasn't it? Was she still around when the demolition firms came in?

No, she left when she married for keswick, cumbria. I've never been to Blaydo n but believe James st is gone.

It has its ups and downs. The area outside the Gosforth Hotel looks nice now, and the volunteers do a good job maintaining the park. But imagine having two cinemas on the High Street like they used to! Despite it being an older local population, I don't get the impression there's much for the old folk to do along there now beyond eating in cafes.

All of it ,it was a lovely place Gosforth posh once

Thank you for your lovely comment. It is indeed a beautiful place with history at every corner. The arrangements for vast numbers of people to do park and ride for the steampunk weekends are also better than anything I've ever encountered for events on that scale.

Was it a terrible place to live, or difficulties making ends meet? 1974 was the 3 day week electricity rationing in the midst of difficult and turbulent times for many people

It's a shame that the only thing that's likely to happen to the building is that it's torn down for boring flats, rather than being adapted and preserved in some way.

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Were you a family all in one flat? I saw a programme from the 60s where a mother in Scotswood was relocated to a flat with her very young children. She talked about how they were several floors up in the tower block and the children were too young to go out into the world alone, so they were all cooped up in the flat all day.

Probably not...but many of them will care when they get older. Let's hope we can hold on to some of the historic survivors in the meantime!

Good choice of tune! Thank you for watching :)

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I know the 1960s houses up at the Kenton Park estate have clauses in their deeds about not putting on funfair rides in their gardens or digging out coal - although the latter is probably on the deeds of most North East homes. I know the city library's archives have pictures of various people with their planes at the aerodrome, but I'm not sure whether there are pictures of the buildings there. Amazing to think of coal being extracted from what is now such a peaceful town moor!