Benwell and some of the families who once lived in the area. This is Part 1 of a series looking at and remembering life in Scotswood Elswick and Benwell.
Brought up in Strathmore Crescent and went to the Original Canning St School..... Been back to that area recently and what a shithole it has turned into.
I grew up in Benwell in the1960's. There was a real community spirit- evident in your fantastic video. Children playing together in the back street, adults socialising. Now, the children are glued to screens indoors & the adults much the same......... Love the vintage/contemporary comparisons. Brought back lots of lovely memories! .........
Perhaps they'd be safer glued to their screens. let's not forget what went on in Benwell back in the day, eh? The unsolved rape and murder of 11 year old Alan Graham in Benwell in 1970. Mary Bell and the appalling things that her prostitute mother and many others around her were up to. Let's not whitewash the past, eh? there were some very, very nasty things going on in Benwell back then.
Isn't this the place where they broke into that special needs school (twice) and trashed it a few years back, it was all over the news? They'd broke in, obviously on drugs or pissed, because they found some paint in there and daubed foul obscenities all over the lawns. Hadrian School on Bertram Crescent in, Benwell, was by vandals. Slurs aimed at handicapped pupils were painted on the playground, minibus windows were smashed and paint was thrown over specialist play equipment. Staff say outdoor storage boxes at Hadrian School, Benwell, were ransacked for paint and chalks, which were used to daub “disabled cunts” on school signs and on the surface of play areas over the weekend. The windscreens and side windows of the minibus were smashed, and paint was splashed over play equipment and a sculpture donated by the local community. Head teacher Chris Rollings said: “I’m frankly gobsmacked at the language being used. Whether it’s teenagers or whoever has done this, there’s no excuse in this day and age for people to talk about disabled children in that way. "It beggars belief that this kind of sick attitude could exist, when people now know far more about disability than previous generations.” “I’m shocked at the extent of the damage and what they’ve said - when my site manager told me what had happened I was in disbelief, thinking ‘how low can you get?"'
Pity you don’t go somewhere, you racist prick. What did your good old fashioned Anglo Saxon father do for a living then? My Indian father came here to finish his doctorate in maths and physics, stayed, and educated hundreds of mostly Anglo Saxon students to degree level at what used to be the Polytechnic, now Northumbria University!
@@martinkulkarni3569 Martin, I was brought up in Benwell in the 70's and now have lived in Scotland for 30 years. Come down to almost all of the Newcastle home games and when I park up at Western Ave and walk down to St James, I feel like a stranger in my own country. That isn't me me being racist, I'm simply stating a fact. The West End has fallen....
@@neilt7145 It is still your country, but it also their country.’Their’ being whoever you mean. People have a right to live anywhere they want or need to. Besides, when did this country become yours, and stop being someone else’s?
Benwell now - where the toddlers scream at you - and the parents at Greggs and worse than the kids - sadly they move them to other places in the city and then you get whole family of chavs - ruining that nice bit ( drugs fighting gobbing off )
On going story. Im in the east end and the estate is lovely except from one "family".... Council Karen screaming at her kids at the top of her lungs morning night and noon, telling them F this and F that". Her kids screaming back at her all day long. Youths sitting outside her house huffing those gas baloons and smoking weed. The area is lush, and she brings it so far down. I honestly think we could sort out so many problems if they just built some big, basic needs housing blocks on the outskirts of the city and shifted all council tennants into them. Free up neighbourhoods from the more criminal elements of society so tax payers can live in peace. Also we could sell off the expensive council housing, which would alleviate the housing crisis and lower first time property proces. Building a block of flats for 10k per flat and shifting benefit scroungers out of 250k houses into them. Its insane we give them free houses at a time when hard working tax payers cant get one themselves.
Some very, very dark things going on in Benwell and the surrounding areas back then if you scratched the surface. There were two child murder episodes that tell us a lot about what was happening. Firstly, the unsolved murder of 11 year old Alan Graham in Benwell in 1970. A neglected child left to wander the streets and who had developed a serious smoking habit. God knows what he did to get the cigarettes, but he was found murdered and sexually abused. The story of Mary Bell who grew up nearby is instructive. A community scarred by poverty. Her mother a professional prostitute in an area with a lot of casual prostitution because of the poverty. The violent child abuse Mary went through from her mother and her customers, far from rare there and in other poor communities in Britain. Mary's mother actually sold her at one point to another woman and her sister had to go and get her back. Human nature doesn't change - extreme conditions make a lot of people go off the rails. Benwell and other areas back then were no exception. You scratch the surface and you often find something very dark. The casual prostitution problem, driven by poverty, went on well into the 1980s when many women would flock towards Rye Hill touting for business to earn money to feed their kids. A pattern common in many poorer parts of the UK. The problems you see now aren't new. They were always there.
The whole are of Newcastle is a living hell, full of druggies and piss heads, who do nothing but steal to get their next fix, either it be for hard drugs or alcohol! What a mess!
Always has been mate. Just look at what happened in the rape and murder of poor 11 year old Allan Graham in Benwell in 1970. Not to mention what was going on with Mary Bell, her prostitute mother, and some of the very dodgy people in the area. As someone at the time said, in Benwell and Scotswood in the 1960s 'every second house homed a prostitute of one description or another - forced into it by poverty'.
You mean repeated Tory government cuts to Newcastle council funding? Its difficult to spend the money fixing problems and supporting people when the Tories took it all away.
Love the style of this, and part 2. Thanks
Thank you for your kind comment
WE LIVED AT JOAN STREET FRANK STREET AND WENT SOUTH BENWELL SCHOOL BACK IN THE DAYS YOU COULD LEAVE YOUR DOORS OPEN
Brought up in Strathmore Crescent and went to the Original Canning St School..... Been back to that area recently and what a shithole it has turned into.
Agree mate I was born in Durdham street , just outside gates to Canning street school happy memories wouldn’t want to go back now
I grew up in Benwell in the1960's. There was a real community spirit- evident in your fantastic video. Children playing together in the back street, adults socialising. Now, the children are glued to screens indoors & the adults much the same.........
Love the vintage/contemporary comparisons. Brought back lots of lovely memories! .........
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Perhaps they'd be safer glued to their screens. let's not forget what went on in Benwell back in the day, eh? The unsolved rape and murder of 11 year old Alan Graham in Benwell in 1970. Mary Bell and the appalling things that her prostitute mother and many others around her were up to. Let's not whitewash the past, eh? there were some very, very nasty things going on in Benwell back then.
My childhood was here
2.00 I fell down some stone steps just like those in Kingsley Terrace back in 1966 (ish) and still have the indentation and scar on my forehead.
FANTASTIC VIDEO a wish it could all be brought back ... thank you so much
Home ❤
Isn't this the place where they broke into that special needs school (twice) and trashed it a few years back, it was all over the news? They'd broke in, obviously on drugs or pissed, because they found some paint in there and daubed foul obscenities all over the lawns. Hadrian School on Bertram Crescent in, Benwell, was by vandals. Slurs aimed at handicapped pupils were painted on the playground, minibus windows were smashed and paint was thrown over specialist play equipment. Staff say outdoor storage boxes at Hadrian School, Benwell, were ransacked for paint and chalks, which were used to daub “disabled cunts” on school signs and on the surface of play areas over the weekend. The windscreens and side windows of the minibus were smashed, and paint was splashed over play equipment and a sculpture donated by the local community. Head teacher Chris Rollings said: “I’m frankly gobsmacked at the language being used. Whether it’s teenagers or whoever has done this, there’s no excuse in this day and age for people to talk about disabled children in that way.
"It beggars belief that this kind of sick attitude could exist, when people now know far more about disability than previous generations.”
“I’m shocked at the extent of the damage and what they’ve said - when my site manager told me what had happened I was in disbelief, thinking ‘how low can you get?"'
I hate to say this generation is NO better no respect for anyone or anything ,it's the rotten world we live in
Benwell went to Pakistan!!
Pity you don’t go somewhere, you racist prick. What did your good old fashioned Anglo Saxon father do for a living then? My Indian father came here to finish his doctorate in maths and physics, stayed, and educated hundreds of mostly Anglo Saxon students to degree level at what used to be the Polytechnic, now Northumbria University!
@@martinkulkarni3569 Martin, I was brought up in Benwell in the 70's and now have lived in Scotland for 30 years. Come down to almost all of the Newcastle home games and when I park up at Western Ave and walk down to St James, I feel like a stranger in my own country. That isn't me me being racist, I'm simply stating a fact. The West End has fallen....
@@neilt7145 It is still your country, but it also their country.’Their’ being whoever you mean. People have a right to live anywhere they want or need to. Besides, when did this country become yours, and stop being someone else’s?
@@martinkulkarni3569 Well said! 👌
@Sharon - absolutely! We all have more in common than our differences.....
Benwell now - where the toddlers scream at you - and the parents at Greggs and worse than the kids - sadly they move them to other places in the city and then you get whole family of chavs - ruining that nice bit ( drugs fighting gobbing off )
On going story. Im in the east end and the estate is lovely except from one "family".... Council Karen screaming at her kids at the top of her lungs morning night and noon, telling them F this and F that". Her kids screaming back at her all day long. Youths sitting outside her house huffing those gas baloons and smoking weed. The area is lush, and she brings it so far down. I honestly think we could sort out so many problems if they just built some big, basic needs housing blocks on the outskirts of the city and shifted all council tennants into them. Free up neighbourhoods from the more criminal elements of society so tax payers can live in peace. Also we could sell off the expensive council housing, which would alleviate the housing crisis and lower first time property proces. Building a block of flats for 10k per flat and shifting benefit scroungers out of 250k houses into them. Its insane we give them free houses at a time when hard working tax payers cant get one themselves.
Some very, very dark things going on in Benwell and the surrounding areas back then if you scratched the surface. There were two child murder episodes that tell us a lot about what was happening. Firstly, the unsolved murder of 11 year old Alan Graham in Benwell in 1970. A neglected child left to wander the streets and who had developed a serious smoking habit. God knows what he did to get the cigarettes, but he was found murdered and sexually abused. The story of Mary Bell who grew up nearby is instructive. A community scarred by poverty. Her mother a professional prostitute in an area with a lot of casual prostitution because of the poverty. The violent child abuse Mary went through from her mother and her customers, far from rare there and in other poor communities in Britain. Mary's mother actually sold her at one point to another woman and her sister had to go and get her back. Human nature doesn't change - extreme conditions make a lot of people go off the rails. Benwell and other areas back then were no exception. You scratch the surface and you often find something very dark. The casual prostitution problem, driven by poverty, went on well into the 1980s when many women would flock towards Rye Hill touting for business to earn money to feed their kids. A pattern common in many poorer parts of the UK. The problems you see now aren't new. They were always there.
I remember people mentioning Mary Bell .I wasn't aware of her awful upbringing
Should be titled "Where did Mogadishu go ? " Relocated to Benwell aided and abetted by Newcastle City Clowncil.
Benwell changed it name to new Sodom and Gomorrah,
The whole are of Newcastle is a living hell, full of druggies and piss heads, who do nothing but steal to get their next fix, either it be for hard drugs or alcohol! What a mess!
Beruit - but worse!
Whole of Newcastle is nothing like the West End or Byker -
Always has been mate. Just look at what happened in the rape and murder of poor 11 year old Allan Graham in Benwell in 1970. Not to mention what was going on with Mary Bell, her prostitute mother, and some of the very dodgy people in the area. As someone at the time said, in Benwell and Scotswood in the 1960s 'every second house homed a prostitute of one description or another - forced into it by poverty'.
Most of us went to Newbiggin Hall Estate and thank god we did and all down to T. Dan Smith and his Marxist council.
Yes true 👍
You mean repeated Tory government cuts to Newcastle council funding? Its difficult to spend the money fixing problems and supporting people when the Tories took it all away.
So what did happen.. I can’t remember that trippy musak, remember everything black and white though 🥴