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Great pictures and memories thank you

I throughly enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing it with us. Yx

Very interesting. The 1905 Leicester hunger March to London was led by Amos Sherriff who never went to school, worked from the age of 6 couldn’t read or write until his 20s and rose up to be Lord Mayor.

My parents were the first residents in their flat in Derwent Tower in Dunston in the early 70s. They had to move out shortly afterwards because of the terrible damp. It had been very badly built and also used to sway excessively in the wind. They always tell me the story of when my uncle went round to fix a lamp they had and managed to fuse the entire building. There was a couple of deaths in the tower during its lifetime - shortly after it was built, someone fell down the lift shaft. He had called the lift and got in when the doors opened - but the lift wasn't there. In the 80s, a lady fell from the top floor (the exact same flat my parents had lived in) - it was believed at the time that she may have been pushed. Apparently before it was built, the council had wanted to build a number of similar towers in that area. They were warned by the architect not to build even one because the ground was so unsuitable, but they went ahead regardless. The underground carpark used to flood and was often closed as a result. All in all, it was an example of the disastrous building programmes that so many councils in the UK undertook in the 1960s and 1970s. Shoddily built, inappropriately designed and becoming a haven for antisocial behaviour over the years. The neighbouring maisonettes in Dunston had the same problems, as did other similar buildings in Gateshead, notably in Clasper Village and St Cuthberts Village.

Remember ganing doon the key on a Sunday morning and giting stopped of the swing Bridge opening. Amazing days .

I’m a Battle of Dunbar survivor descendant. Robert Dunbar

does anybody know the proper name of bar run by Herby Spires then his son Hylton in saltmeadows

Its mad to think some of those people could have been my granny or granda , or even their mams and dads

I am sure I went to school with Richard. St Mary’s

Great video of times oadt

Why do they not include, my family who bought the original house " The Towers" which is now the crematorium. Nor do they include the various statues, which were given to the art galleries in Gateshead and Newcastle

enjoyed the podcast

my great grandmother was baptised in stcuthberts church.

Id love to go ghost hunting here.

I lived on faraday grove for years and had my first baby there. Always used to visit saltwell park daily, we loved it no matter the weather 😊

My grandad used to play bowls there when I was young. They used to let me play as long as I had the right shoes on. I still have his set of woods. I went back a couple of years ago. The once perfect bowling greens are now full of weeds. It broke my heart when I saw them.

Wonderful recommendation, it has made me want to buy and add to my reading list- thank you ☺️

brilliant this

5:40 Sled lane pond also known as "Willies Well " is still there and just as weedy. Unfortunately angling is no longer permitted.

‘Frost on the inside of the windows’ I was still living like that in 2010. In an unmodernised cottage in the Scottish Borders. Only the coal fire for heat & water. No radiators, no other fireplaces apart from the living room. It was one of the best times of my life living there though.

Good video I really enjoyed it. 👍🇬🇧

Hi Vall do you do talks. for ladies groups xx

Remember much of this well, there was so many pubs on the high st that we used to try and have a half pint in each but rarely made it farther than Rowells which had the coldest beer on the street due to the sandstone cellar, not a nice place to be at throwing out time.

Very interesting, thank you 🙏

Fabulous background, many thanks. I was about ten years old when I used to visit Saltwell Airways, it was a wonderful thing to see! In case people don't know, you'd go in via the airplane's steps and leave by sliding down the emergency escape chute at the back. It was in great condition ❤

Very interesting. I love history. I have an Ancestory that was shipped over to the Colonies on the “Unity” as a prisoner of war at 17 years old. Alexander Bow.

Very Informative ,Particularly I Liked the photo of the frontage of Tuckers ` Turks Head Brewery ` . A very important photo record that is ,of the site of this long gone Tyneside area brewery. Note the exterior water tank up near the roof line of what must have been the actual brewhouse buildings in the rear . The tank was likely the Main/ or secondary (later addition ) brewery ` Liquor ` (i.e brewing water supply ) vessel . Sited in order/ commanding the other vessels themselves on the various floor levels Inside the brewhouse itself . Water supply would either be directly off the City/ public mains or more likely ground water, i.e. ` surface ` well or deep Artesian bore hole at the site itself . the Latter sources of water supply were generally the norm for 19thcentury breweries , rather than having to use a municipal water supply.

this is great, but the picture of Metrople at 4:06 can't be 1970 there is a poster of the Singer SEAL and his a kiss from a rose, which came out 1994. I'm guessing the vision hire was a longtime closed shop then. Be interested to her other people views. but loving the video

Absolute dump of a place

Very interesting video. I remember Gateshead in the early sixties. I was employed by Walls meat division as a van boy delivering to Gateshead , Prudhoe and Hexham. There were so many old buildings around in those days including the pubs. I have fond memories of that old blue star sign. I always thought the general decor of Vaux pubs was a little better, not so much black! Well presented and thanks for the blast of nostalgia. - Ex Machem in Wiltshire.

I knew that one of my ancestors lost their premises in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle,(Hayes Bakers) to fire during 1854, but I never dreamed that it was such a great disaster

This made me not to read it

Very informative. My great great grandfather was born in Gateshead in 1845. His family worked in the Hawks Ironworks at New Greenwich. In 1871, he lived in Heworth (St. Alban Parish) and came to the United States in 1873.

I lived in the Felling in the 60's/70's and went to Highfield school for my sins, then moved to Winlaton when I got married, so did it the other way round . Happy Days, Great video.

The council knocked our house down on Clavering avenue to build the Derwent towers!

I loved the 70's.... We lived next to Noble & Lunds factory. One of my sister's worked at Jackson's The Tailors along on the by pass. We used to get xmas decorations out of the skips outside of Matadors Paper Mill which they threw out if they had any little faults. 😄 Get our ham shanks & bacon bones from Crawfords to make soup. The school that became Colemans Plastics was said to be haunted. 👻 It was. It was empty after being Colemans & a few of us went in through the open windows at the back & heard stuff moving so we legged it out of there much quicker than we climed in! 😳🏃 😆 Those were the days! Great fun we had. Had quite a few power cuts. Our mams used to turn off our tellys when we got thunder & lightning. Dragones ice cream was the best! 😋 Showaddywaddy broke down in their van on the by pass on way to play at the Newcastle City Hall & we got their autographs. True, they broke down at the bus stop along on Abbotsford Road along from the footbridge. Nice guys they were to us. Those fantastic fun days are long gone. 😔 The air we breathed was fresher. People were far nicer to each other. Jeez! 😒 Look at the world now.....🤦

I remember everything from the 70's being a kid then. Crowhall Towers at the start of this footage are empty & coming down next year apparently. Hoggarts pickled onion factory my mother worked there. She used to come in stinking of them! 😂

Super work .

[photo at 8:25} I lived in the second block down above the shops and my Nana lived above us. Outside toilet at the back. This photo would have been taken from the Ritz picture house.The far left of the photo is the beginning of what we called the Crezzy [Crescent] where we'd play as kids .Memories.

prettier in its haydays

William Wailes who originally owned the park was quite a busy man during his lifetime. And very prominent in his field of stained glass manufacturing. Not only did he fabricate the glass for the west window of Gloucester Cathedral, and a stunning example that is, but he was also commissioned to glaze decorative windows for many churches around the country, including 2 or 3 in Kent, where I, as a native to Gateshead now live. But it didn't stop there. His work can be seen as far afield as Sydney, Australia. And Pennsylvania, in America. And even in Mumbai, in India. So the local boy of Gateshead was well sought after for his work, it seems, and he has left a lasting legacy. I wonder where his descendants are now, and what they do? It would be interesting to know if they are still involved in the same industry.

We need so much more of our collective memories and local histories recorded like this don't we?

I think it looked much better then than now ❤

Very informative video.

Remember before the rocket in Dunston there was a pig farm

Very thought provoking.

I'm from Lobley Hill anyone else from that era

I was born in Queen Elizabeth hospital lived in Lobley Hill for 21yrs anyone else here from that era

Were the pit houses not for whickham pit which was where the old folks home is. The wall is still there and I remember the pit buildings still there up to the mid 70's...? I thought Axwell pit was at the bottom of whickham bank.

Born and Bred Gateshead 1960. Went to Saltwell Park as a boy, still do occasionally. As a boy i used to see a wide variation of wild birds? Now you hardly see any? I reckon the massive amount of Squirrels, Magpies and other Crow species are killing them.