Driving around Fenham in the 1980s
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- A compilation of video clips of Fenham and surrounds from the early to mid1980s.
Includes:- Fenham Hall Drive, Cedar Road, Hadrian Road, Bolbec Road, Newminster Road, Two Ball Lonnen, West Road.
Never take this video down , as mundane as it might of seemed at the time , it's pure magic . Thankyou .
I can’t imagine living on any of these noisy streets, sadly a reputation of much of the UK today.
So many fantastic memories of growing up in Fenham. Streets are so quiet unlike now. Take me back anyday!👌
I just love watching this all my memories of back then ,I miss those days ,its changed for the worst, people not the same now, enough said wish we could bring good old days back ,good memories.
Great to see this . Love the scene of the West Road compared to the filthy mess it is today. ..
I know back when people were normal nice and clean abs know people are just filthy and disgusting and think they are “hard” but they’re nobody
Not much traffic
Just found this and thank you so much. As you drive up the West road at the beginning past the Denton, I know it’s a Sunday morning because my White Triumph Stag WLX135S, is beside my Father in Laws Volvo 265 GLE estate outside our baker Williams Pies next door to the Fox and Hounds.
That's fantastic you saw tha, t memories for you
@@jean2740 thanks Jean. Hope all is well. X
Wow that's fantastic !that your car was there bit of luck eh 😊
I thank you also 😊@@TheHyperbeau
This is fantastic! An 80s view of the area I grew up in in the 90s. Thank you for your video.
A miss the yellow busses. And it's nice to remember the roads with no bumps
I had couple relatives lived up there when it was a canny place , .most of now passed away and there children gone to four corners of the globe
Fantastic videos! It's like going back in time, fascinating seeing Fenham back in the 80s. I lived just off Fenham Hall Drive then on Two Ball Lonnen (was hoping you would drive past my house, but not quite lol) Thanks for sharing!!
Somewhere there's a video ( sadly I don't know which channel)where they include parts of FHD & bits of Two Ball Lonnen / Cedar road - number 12 bus journey to Byker back in my day
Fantastic memories! I lived (when I was a student) at St Mary's College on Fenham Hall Drive in the early 1980's.. Fond memories also of Arnold Ogilvies Fish & Chip shop. We used to to call in occasionally after a night out for 'chip flavoured grease!' :-)
Fabulous time capsule film , I recognise many of those streets and buildings . Love these type of uploads a real living history . Thanks for the effort of uploading this many more people than have commented or given the thumbs up have enjoyed it I'm sure of that .
God fox and hounds, used to drink there 1991 when lived down west road. Memories. ThAnks.
This just appeared on my suggested videos thingy in August 2021. I got really excited when you drove past the Alfa Romeo Alfetta at 2:31 because it was the same colour as my dad's 1978 GTV. Plus... I used to live in Fenham in the 1990s. :)
Wow I remember these days. great video
The first dash cam
Wow the streets were so clean back then..
If they had shown you pictures of central Newcastle, particularly by the quayside, it would have been a different story. Very run down and dirty.
You might upset some people now saying that °• but your one thousand per cent SO !@RIGHT 😊
A wish it was like that now...love your channel mate keep up the great work !
I lived in Fenham as a child in the late 70s
Brilliant brilliant brilliant - thank you for posting.
Filmed from two different cars, one of them is a Volvo 345 & he mentions it at the end of the video, the Volvo has windscreen wipers for a left hand drive car, obviously it was too expensive to alter them for a better right hand drive build. Halfway through the video the cars windscreen wipers are in the more usual right hand drive configuration & the later it swaps back to the Volvo 345.
Aye the head rest is a dead give a away , well spotted Colombo .
Nothing on the roads...bliss
And you have to ask yourself why. The answer is that those times were thoroughly depressing with huge amounts of unemployment. Few people could afford a car.
@@zeddeka exactly. The 70s were much different
Yes to many car's now to many people over populated for such a small city/country
Eye !!a bit of heaven back then on a Sunday and Wednesday 😊
Great to see two ball lonnen kenton bar Cowgate etc its changed so much since then loved the 80s growing up around there going to school at English martyrs school and then St Cuthbert high school with the famous Declan Donnelly in my year happy days.
I lost my bearings at times but I recognised Kenton Bar - I went to Kenton School . Lovely to see the yellow bused .I remember the 12, 32 & the 2 to Montague Est
Wow 😊
Ahh now I see how we could play in the streets!
There was a quarter of the blooming cars compared to now!
And that was because that era was full of unemployment and poverty. Very few people could afford a car. It wasn't a golden age.
This was great thank you, my area so enjoyed it.
Video gold! My dad used to live in that area in the 80’s.
Class rickety old bus stops with grannies in them. Nostalgia gerld.
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Eh !!grannies in the bus stop, everyone all ages ?.😊
if only it was like this now
??? What ? You mean depressed and with massive unemployment like it was then? Those times were depressing and grey.
Sad but our past is gone forever replaced with horror !!!
Ahhh.......where have these days gone.
Little traffic and part of that is all speed bumps.
Gone gone gone our past has been deleted wiped out
Eye !!we used to get pennies a ride fella on a Sunday morning , if yi had a penny you could get a short journey down the road ,on his little poney and track oh happy childhood 😢😊
Used to live in Denton Burn and sat on the seat at the end of Broadwood Road and collect car numbers in the late 50s . Have to say did not get many had more luck naming the models. My uncle Charles used to work in the Fox and Hounds before the war, sadly lost at sea on minesweeper HMS Ganley, just off coast at DDay landing site. My mam, his sister my mam, worked with him.
I remember when I got me first car journey, as I had only been on buses , in this area .me and a friend tried thumbing a lift to Ponteland , and got pur first very safe !!! Lift , cos in those days it was common to see people thumbing lifts, and I couldn't work out what a seat belt was, and how to fasten it.
I look back with embarrassment 😊
Great video. Many thanks.
Great video,nowt has changed bar the West rd👍🤣👍
Eh !!!nowt changed ?.
Eee I lived in the Nurses home on west road in the 80’s as worked at the General hospital , Happy Memories So safe ! Wouldn’t even walk down there now ! So Dangerous !
The nurses home was used to house nurses, there was even a tunnel connecting the home to the General however the nurse home was later used as immigrant housing, so sad
According to some people watching vid ,they saying it was an awfull place and violent, they must be wearing blinkers today, cos it is bad today ,it was bad back then but not as bad as today.
Horrid today
Take your VERY !life in yer hands walking that way now ,either day or night
I used to go to Lumley ,the dentist . A big house on the corner of 2 Ball Lonnen & the West Road. Mam used to cut her hand on the door knocker every time It was turned into a nursing home ,maybe early 80's
Great video, i used to live on ponteland road,happy memories.
Wasn't the famous bakery on Ponteland road
@@jean2740 Yes indeed there was ' Carrick's Bakery ' on Duridge Drive & Ponteland road , really big place
Fenham doesn't even resemble Fenham now wow how it's changed so much used to be a lovely place really lovely place ,not now it's just so sad.
What a cracking film.....
It’s amazing to see where I live so long ago
Beautiful .
Great video once again!
The original dashcam.
Forgot about all the TEXACO garages around here 😁
No humps bumps or chicanes, highways uncluttered with signs ,good old roads when they looked like roads
Eye it's like going to the fun fair now ,when your on the roads it's either dodgem cars or the wall of fear, with all bloody speed bump just wondering how long it will be before they put speed bumps the council on motor ways ,using OUR COUNCIL TAX !!
This is great..Did anyone spot the Every Ready Lorry?
0:29 oh, a Lada Estate!
1:23 oh, another Lada!
1:32 oh, and a Lada again!
6:41 Lada detected
7:14 yeah, that's a Lada
8:24 it's a Lada, don't turn away!
8:36 two Ladas in one spot!
11:07 Lada or not?I guess it is
Lada is love, lada is life
Love this.
Loved the old cars, they had character, not like todays cars they all look boring and the same and there's too many of them!
Why stop there? Why not go back to using horse and carts? They had even more character, I'm sure.
Yer so right wS just saying same thing to my grown son , about today's same old same motors😊
@@zeddeka Are you being sarcastic I can't tell? 🤣
What happened England?
We are not allowed to say ,how dare us
@@jean2740
I'll say it anyway.
Ask the government's !!
Wow past my old house and the VW beetle was ours 0.48 .
I bet you felt a pang for your past aww sad now today everything changed😊
@@jean2740 Fond memories, I remember my late mother driving me to the beach as a kid in that VW Beetle. I go back to Fenham every few years just to reminisce.
Grew up in the west end of Newcastle and spent a lot of my life on both the west road side and Cowgate in the 1980s including I was born at the General hospital and went to Pendower school.
Thanks for all memories do you have any more?
Sounded like madness on the radio at the start
6:51 Raoul Moat's house.
True
Eye passed his house so often ,sad 😢😊
@jean2740
Hi jean sorry took me so long to reply, I grow up in cowgate 1974/1986 then moved to Kenton bar estate..
I went clubbing with Raoul and trained in the same gym (park view sports center)
My good friend moved into Moats old house on edgefield avenue..
At 5:42 that's my fathers yellow ford cortina parked outside 238 ponteland rd 😂😂
Memories
God clean streets nice gardens pity alot of the 'new' clientele do not give a shit about the place
At the very start my street was on the right hand side😯
Wow Fenham without the feeling of being stabbed
Very true 👍
And the feeling of not being the odd man out ?..😊
Wow, I can remember the Denton pub Cavalier restaurant, did a great scampi in a basket! Happier days, before mass immigration.
I think everyone at some point went into the Denton pub ,oh happy days😊
Absolutely heartbreaking to see how it has changed in my lifetime . That's not Racism by the way that's fact !
I know what you mean, if we weep for our past, we are called
It's very striking how few people there about and how few cars there were on the road. The mid 80s was a very grey, desolate time in Newcastle. Huge employment and a lot of people simply couldn't afford a car. It was very much like the Smiths' song, "Every Day is like Sunday". Silent and grey.
Yes but at least it was .much more easy to get a job it wasn't all doom . And gloom and wasn't a mucky place .million times better than today
'EDILS' is actually a Morrissey track and it's an absolute classic. I do enjoy The Smiths, too.👍
Compared to today nah
@@jean2740 Eh? It was twenty times HARDER to get a job back then. Unemployment was through the roof. Remember 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' in the 1980s? about Geordies who had to go to Germany to find work because there was none at home??? As for muck - that was a million times worse too, in no small part from all the air pollution. The buildings in town were often scruffy. Just look at all the old videos of the Quayside from back then - it was a scruffy dump. I've seen a few of your comments on different videos now Jean and you seem to live in some fantasy world about the 1980s.
Oh and got married 19thJuly 1980 at st James and st Basils
Fantastic video! Was that Shipley avenue that was filmed at around 2:52 ?
Eee Presto Lol ,Do you have any night life from the 80, s in Newcastle 😊
Haha, they drove down my old Street - Newminster Road.
That name sounds familiar Graeme, are you on this video by any chance? th-cam.com/video/77BDEL0iIjg/w-d-xo.html
Used to live in the next road, Tillmouth Gardens!
That where my aunt lives😊
@@jean2740 We lived at Number 41, about mid-way down the street, between the West Road and Cedar Road
@@CaptainCryptographer I don't think I'm on that video, I'm Graeme Murray, went to Stocksfield Avenue Primary and then Rutherford. I'm on another TH-cam video, entitled "Neighbours on Newminster Road"
th-cam.com/video/mJ1JBNqD5mw/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
I seen my house
Fenham was better in the past
Yrs it was .
Before the invasion!
True.
how very true !
Newcastle isn’t that diverse compared to other uk cities
True 👍
@@endangeredstraightwhitemal5124 Also TRUE 👍
various clips between a five year period (82-87)
Shame on all you racist commentators - lowering what is a pretty moving and obviously a family film - the thing that is most interesting about this film is the people driving about - the everyday conversations and normality of it all.
This bit of West End (Fenham Hall Drive end) today is much the same - and what bit of West Road are you remembering as not being a bit run down or shit? The 80s/90s when car crime was proper rampant, riots, house break ins? or in the 50s/60s/70s when folk were living in absolute squaller in Arthurs hill and Benwell/Elswick? Or do you hark back to the even better days - mass unemployment and even worse living conditions. Sorry you must mean when it was all fields? the late 1800s?
How is it racist?
56.41 million people in the UK in 1984 & 66.04 million people in the UK in 2017. Immigration does have something to do with the increase in people in the UK. Why is it racist to comment about this? It's a great video & shows what society was like thirty five years ago, I like seeing all the old cars & the lack of litter most of all! :-)
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Amazing, no ali akbars anywhere.