Thanks for the written descriptiond too ,i struggle ,with some pics/ videos on you tube ,to understand where place are .Im now coming to appreciate the history after 50 years away
Brilliant film and what an absolute shame! I remember well some of those buildings before they were demolished, and I have always believed it really destroyed Newcastle. Especially the motorway which cut through Jesmond Rd obliterating all the really beautifully designed properties around the area including Windsor Crescent. Old fashioned houses totally wiped out! Such a shame!
The only original building still standing on Queens Lane, visible in both the 1901 photoshot and the more recent photoshot, is the refurbished building now the residence of 'Haines Watt'. There is a 'Haines Watt' video that shows the interior of the building with it's original warehouse features, after modernisation.
Most industrial towns were ruined in the sixties, Luton had some fantastic Victorian buildings , all knocked down to be replaced with concrete eyesores .
What a shame the hotel was knocked down for that awful eyesore but a lot of old buildings were knocked down which had been left with maintenance and tlc would still be standing now.
U know. Sometimes I miss that place. And this video is so mysterious and nostalgic and the stories that has happened in that very area all these years. Sigh
@@eddiebennett9957 yes it's still got a lot of beautiful buildings but has lost the best shops, pubs, clubs, Farmers Rest, Haymarket, Broken Doll and the Mayfair, Farnons, Parishes, Binns, to name but a few.
As with so many cities it appears that the use of vehicles rules decision making ! Thank goodness common sense came forward with the concrete catastrophes 😳
So called ‘town planners’ in the 60’s to the late 70’s and after, destroyed the history of Newcastle. Had they left the ancient buildings alone, Newcastle today would be a jewel of an historic English city. Nothing was spared by the crooked planners. The whole of old Byker was torn down, every house, every street, every beautiful Victorian pub and hotels, whole communities ripped apart. If they had just modernised housing and saved the buildings, Byker would be like Beamish is now.
I like videos like this. I remember the 70’s 🙈 and the gradual replacement of the old buildings with the new. Ironically I now work on a lot of the newest buildings going up. Near Swan house roundabout (bank house) is being completely demolished to build apartments. And did you know most of the flats actually on swan house roundabout are empty? I like the fact that the old vs new photos are shown side by side. Not all then and now videos do that. 👍
I moved to Newcastle in 1979. I remember all the 'new' buildings and the brutalist shopping centre, the shiny Metro system and the slow destruction of the heart of the city. It has not been improved much over the years but it is a great city to live in.
Love seeing how newcastle used to look i remember a lot of how it used to be back from when I was a kid ,I remember dirty dick he was a herbal doctor he made a lot of people better he had a shop just up from malbourgh
I remember watching Get Carter when I was 17 and liking the grim looking buildings and dark streets of Newcastle at that time. It's changed since 1971 but there was a charm about it.
I was working in the Red House at the time. Some of the film crew of Get Carter came in for a meal/drinks. Have to say, i think i prefer OLD Newcastle. I was born in Walker, but am now in Wales. Miss my home town occasionally...
My g/ ma lived next to the Crem ,I remember dad & my brother going to watch them film the opening scenes .Most of the people on dad's side of the family ( dad & mam too) were cremated there
Dan Smith has a lot to answer for....and he pressed all his proposals through during the university holdays when no protests despite the start of a campaign previously.
Yes I understand those shaky old mix of quaint buildings tightly packed in narrow streets, I suppose needed replacing as they were past their best.....but why the heck demolish that lovely architecturally proud hotel at the end? Pure wanton destruction & STUPID. A SHAMEFUL act of Insanity by authoritarian powers yet again!!!
This shows the decline of free movement. The town is now being systematically purged of cars without a care for how people need to be able to travel through it for all kinds of reasons. Shortest routes etc. No new infrastructure. Immigration through the roof.. It's unrecognisable from my youth.. Not all bad but, not a place I call home any longer.. The metro centre was built in the completely wrong place. Too.
It's striking how absolutely scruffy a lot of the city was in the old photos. The colour of the buildings on Grey Street in the 1960s photos is particularly shocking. Stained black because of the filthy air pollution. I for one am very glad those times are long gone.
Not if you belive the councils.. It's never been as clean but at a cost. Clean Modern engines but yet they blame cars for everything.. There's an agenda and we're not privvy to it Tolls will be next and the end of cars in Newcastle is on the horizon. Unless electric. Forced to trade up and into further debt or keep paying for inflated fuel prices where 60% goes in tax.. 😠 Purge us of the nazis in Newcastle Council. Labour Party... (Socialists) National socialists, AKA Na-Zi
Seems they are on a constant mission to wreck the city. 1970s concrete certainly done there bit but its happening all the time. They pulled the annex building down at Burnside high school in Wallsend, that should have been preserved. I appreciated that building as a kid in the 90s.
I completely agree... All traffic. Must be rerouted around the centre and eventually I can see this place being a residential area. No infrasture being built to ease traffic. Tolls will eventually be introduced to force people away from travelling through. Even though this is the quickest route etc. No thought given to how people will cope? Or maybe too much thought on the stress it'll bring to thousands of people. Planned choas... The A1 is 3 worse now, than 10 years ago. And that effin metro centre is built in the wrong place. Blocking potential roads and easements bridges and more. Welcome to socialism.. Nazis
@@pww7872 Heard a while back that they were thinking of taxing people for buying from online stores because of the state of the highstreet... its all of the reason you've stated that caused the decline in the first place so seems they just invent problems to introduce news taxes
@@zombiesbyte331 I absolutely agree... That's it exactly, and those taxes will come soon, I'm certain. Use the taxis and buses to perfect the system first and then the rest.
Regarding the Zigzag building on the left - 4:15. I grew up living in that building. It was The Manors Social Club and my dad was the club steward for many years. Opposite was the Manors Railway station, with clock tower in white on the roof.
Certainly not improved the image. Soul less, depressing and drab. Could say the same for other cities. Why so many make terrible decisions and demolished areas and buildings to create this ugliness instead of preserving it's uniqueness and history. Wouldn't it be wonderful if our elected representatives thought that way.
Agree. Alot of this destruction happened after WW2 and wasn't as a result of bombings. Most of these changes took place in the 1960's and 70's when they had grand designs on making (British) cities fit around the car. It's easy for us today to say 'what were they thinking?', but back then they didn't like Victorian/Edwardian buildings and wanted to replace them with modern 'Brutalist' style office blocks. The phrase 'in the name of progress' was used alot then too!
Fantastic video! thank you for your work on this. Music perfect too. Fascinating look into the past with some things changed for the better and some simply criminal what they did in a name of progress. Lets hope lessons have been learnt.
Unfortunately, as an architectural technician I did the detail drawings for the reconstructed stone cladding on that last building. If clients wanted modern then they often got it. It was considered right at the time but I agree that a lot of work that went on then shouldn’t have.
Love and appreciate life as it was back then. Life has certainly changed. Love the background music. Thankyou for posting. Watching from NORTHUMERLAND.
My home city born & Bred
Whats this music
Amazing, thank you!
Thanks for the written descriptiond too ,i struggle ,with some pics/ videos on you tube ,to understand where place are .Im now coming to appreciate the history after 50 years away
what a great film. enjoyed the trip back in time.
Chavs. Have ruined it the scumbags
Brilliant film and what an absolute shame! I remember well some of those buildings before they were demolished, and I have always believed it really destroyed Newcastle. Especially the motorway which cut through Jesmond Rd obliterating all the really beautifully designed properties around the area including Windsor Crescent. Old fashioned houses totally wiped out! Such a shame!
Excellent
The only original building still standing on Queens Lane, visible in both the 1901 photoshot and the more recent photoshot, is the refurbished building now the residence of 'Haines Watt'. There is a 'Haines Watt' video that shows the interior of the building with it's original warehouse features, after modernisation.
The Douglas Hotel was a beautiful building. Planners? More like vandals!
This video is screaming out for more diversity
Most industrial towns were ruined in the sixties, Luton had some fantastic Victorian buildings , all knocked down to be replaced with concrete eyesores .
What a shame the hotel was knocked down for that awful eyesore but a lot of old buildings were knocked down which had been left with maintenance and tlc would still be standing now.
love then then and now video of my home city x
It’s much nicer now ….
We moved to Whitley Bay in 1958 and stayed to 1960! th-cam.com/video/MDdjUOTjcuY/w-d-xo.html
thanks enjoyed that really good
U know. Sometimes I miss that place. And this video is so mysterious and nostalgic and the stories that has happened in that very area all these years. Sigh
The heart of the city was ripped out in the 70s. Its not the city I grew up in anymore.
Nonsense, there literally thousands of listed buildings in the city. We lost very little.
@@eddiebennett9957 yes it's still got a lot of beautiful buildings but has lost the best shops, pubs, clubs, Farmers Rest, Haymarket, Broken Doll and the Mayfair, Farnons, Parishes, Binns, to name but a few.
You said there would be a new video uploaded when this one reached 100 likes. Well it now has 1.8k likes, and still, no new video! Whats going on?
Cool.
You're 1700 likes late posting the next bit.
As with so many cities it appears that the use of vehicles rules decision making ! Thank goodness common sense came forward with the concrete catastrophes 😳
So called ‘town planners’ in the 60’s to the late 70’s and after, destroyed the history of Newcastle. Had they left the ancient buildings alone, Newcastle today would be a jewel of an historic English city. Nothing was spared by the crooked planners. The whole of old Byker was torn down, every house, every street, every beautiful Victorian pub and hotels, whole communities ripped apart. If they had just modernised housing and saved the buildings, Byker would be like Beamish is now.
Still a beautiful city, but the 70's planners really do have a lot to answer for.
I like videos like this. I remember the 70’s 🙈 and the gradual replacement of the old buildings with the new. Ironically I now work on a lot of the newest buildings going up. Near Swan house roundabout (bank house) is being completely demolished to build apartments. And did you know most of the flats actually on swan house roundabout are empty? I like the fact that the old vs new photos are shown side by side. Not all then and now videos do that. 👍
I moved to Newcastle in 1979. I remember all the 'new' buildings and the brutalist shopping centre, the shiny Metro system and the slow destruction of the heart of the city. It has not been improved much over the years but it is a great city to live in.
watch 'spender' also, with Jimmy Nail, to catch the last of Newcastle before its latest major transformation
Brilliant video.... really enjoyable, although progression is sad
3:29 aye it was changed when the monument metro stations was being built
Love seeing how newcastle used to look i remember a lot of how it used to be back from when I was a kid ,I remember dirty dick he was a herbal doctor he made a lot of people better he had a shop just up from malbourgh
You have one guy to thank for saving those buildings, can't remember his name, anybody ?
i miss the 1800s
Lying bastards! Where's this other video then like eh?
I remember watching Get Carter when I was 17 and liking the grim looking buildings and dark streets of Newcastle at that time. It's changed since 1971 but there was a charm about it.
I was working in the Red House at the time. Some of the film crew of Get Carter came in for a meal/drinks. Have to say, i think i prefer OLD Newcastle. I was born in Walker, but am now in Wales. Miss my home town occasionally...
My g/ ma lived next to the Crem ,I remember dad & my brother going to watch them film the opening scenes .Most of the people on dad's side of the family ( dad & mam too) were cremated there
Sacrilege all the beautiful buildings torn down to be replaced by soulless replacements.
Dan Smith has a lot to answer for....and he pressed all his proposals through during the university holdays when no protests despite the start of a campaign previously.
None of those buildings were demolished under T Dan Smith. He always gets the blame for what his Conservative successor, Arthur Grey, really did.
Yes I understand those shaky old mix of quaint buildings tightly packed in narrow streets, I suppose needed replacing as they were past their best.....but why the heck demolish that lovely architecturally proud hotel at the end? Pure wanton destruction & STUPID. A SHAMEFUL act of Insanity by authoritarian powers yet again!!!
I remember before the central motorway(a created traffic jam)
This shows the decline of free movement. The town is now being systematically purged of cars without a care for how people need to be able to travel through it for all kinds of reasons. Shortest routes etc. No new infrastructure. Immigration through the roof.. It's unrecognisable from my youth.. Not all bad but, not a place I call home any longer.. The metro centre was built in the completely wrong place. Too.
It's striking how absolutely scruffy a lot of the city was in the old photos. The colour of the buildings on Grey Street in the 1960s photos is particularly shocking. Stained black because of the filthy air pollution. I for one am very glad those times are long gone.
Not if you belive the councils.. It's never been as clean but at a cost. Clean Modern engines but yet they blame cars for everything.. There's an agenda and we're not privvy to it Tolls will be next and the end of cars in Newcastle is on the horizon. Unless electric. Forced to trade up and into further debt or keep paying for inflated fuel prices where 60% goes in tax.. 😠 Purge us of the nazis in Newcastle Council. Labour Party... (Socialists) National socialists, AKA Na-Zi
Seems they are on a constant mission to wreck the city. 1970s concrete certainly done there bit but its happening all the time. They pulled the annex building down at Burnside high school in Wallsend, that should have been preserved. I appreciated that building as a kid in the 90s.
I completely agree... All traffic. Must be rerouted around the centre and eventually I can see this place being a residential area. No infrasture being built to ease traffic. Tolls will eventually be introduced to force people away from travelling through. Even though this is the quickest route etc. No thought given to how people will cope? Or maybe too much thought on the stress it'll bring to thousands of people. Planned choas... The A1 is 3 worse now, than 10 years ago. And that effin metro centre is built in the wrong place. Blocking potential roads and easements bridges and more. Welcome to socialism.. Nazis
@@pww7872 Heard a while back that they were thinking of taxing people for buying from online stores because of the state of the highstreet... its all of the reason you've stated that caused the decline in the first place so seems they just invent problems to introduce news taxes
@@zombiesbyte331 I absolutely agree... That's it exactly, and those taxes will come soon, I'm certain. Use the taxis and buses to perfect the system first and then the rest.
Regarding the Zigzag building on the left - 4:15. I grew up living in that building. It was The Manors Social Club and my dad was the club steward for many years. Opposite was the Manors Railway station, with clock tower in white on the roof.
Even that has gone now. It burnt down and has now been demolished.
Great but I demand part 2!
Certainly not improved the image. Soul less, depressing and drab. Could say the same for other cities. Why so many make terrible decisions and demolished areas and buildings to create this ugliness instead of preserving it's uniqueness and history. Wouldn't it be wonderful if our elected representatives thought that way.
Agree. Alot of this destruction happened after WW2 and wasn't as a result of bombings. Most of these changes took place in the 1960's and 70's when they had grand designs on making (British) cities fit around the car. It's easy for us today to say 'what were they thinking?', but back then they didn't like Victorian/Edwardian buildings and wanted to replace them with modern 'Brutalist' style office blocks. The phrase 'in the name of progress' was used alot then too!
Fantastic video! thank you for your work on this. Music perfect too. Fascinating look into the past with some things changed for the better and some simply criminal what they did in a name of progress. Lets hope lessons have been learnt.
Fantastic to see Newcastle upon Tyne in the past, very interesting, specially as it's my home town.
Just subscribed.... loving the history of Newcastle
Unfortunately, as an architectural technician I did the detail drawings for the reconstructed stone cladding on that last building. If clients wanted modern then they often got it. It was considered right at the time but I agree that a lot of work that went on then shouldn’t have.
serving your penance
Love and appreciate life as it was back then. Life has certainly changed. Love the background music. Thankyou for posting. Watching from NORTHUMERLAND.
Everything has got worse including the people if you know what i mean.
beach life idiot