My Dad's family was Blyth. We grew up in Morpeth when it wasn't as posh as it is now. But Blyth always felt special and more alive. I'm 46 now This video makes me feel nostalgic but I know things have gone downhill. I love Blyth Spartans and I go to Blyth when I can but its the images from the 80s that I have in mind when I go. In my opinion it's a town with so much potential. Always was and should be.
ASDA was the final nail in Blyth's coffin but the local planners did everything they could to destroy a busy shopping town, people used to travel to Blyth to shop, they don't need charity shops, bookmakers and Wetherspoons, everything the shopper needs is now on the outskirts of town at the big ASDA and no one shopping there shops in the town centre, blame Northumberland County Council's planning department,
Terrible shame a building like that was demolished just to make way for some bland, boring nondescript shopping centre - which will also be demolished .
@@geordieurbex2200 now I can take some blame there I'm as guilty as sin on that score. And what a shame about that church they got rid of to put keel row there. Sad times.
@JohnKobaRuddy same thing will happen to the new cinema being built, cinemas struggling ATM then they build a new 1 not very smart, will last a few years
The people in the comments from Blyth who are slating it are part if the reason why the town centre is the way it is. How many of you chose to shop in Cramlington? How many of you didnt protests ar cuts, closures, removals and demolitions? Only sat there and whinged on Facebook? How many of you are actually involved in the communities where you live in any meaningful way? How many of you engage with the parish and county council on the future of the town centre and the townscape? Exactly. Straight to complaining on social media but doing sod all to reenergise and revitalise the place you live in. If you take off the rose tinyed glasses for a minute and actually look at Blyth, Cowpen, Newsham and Bebside as a whole, combined we have a hell of a lot going for us, but no, its easier to wish you were back in the 60s/70s/80s.
I bet you that United Reform Church building still sits there. Hell hath no fury than that put upon a town planner who proposes to pull down a very old church building...
It was thriving then full of life prosperous even..a far cry from the way it is now..and I should know I've lived there all of my life
My Dad's family was Blyth. We grew up in Morpeth when it wasn't as posh as it is now. But Blyth always felt special and more alive. I'm 46 now This video makes me feel nostalgic but I know things have gone downhill. I love Blyth Spartans and I go to Blyth when I can but its the images from the 80s that I have in mind when I go. In my opinion it's a town with so much potential. Always was and should be.
I love this, thank you so much, from a Blyth lass living in NZ xx
Nobother brings back good memories
So grateful for this post - and wonderful to hear genuine admiration for Blyth … good to see some of the architectural gems we have now all but lost …
It'd be nice just to go back in time for a weekend...can you imagine trying to explain to somebody back then what awaits them for the next 30+ years.
Much better times in the past, and it's only getting worse in the future
@@geordieurbex2200 100% mate 👍
ASDA was the final nail in Blyth's coffin but the local planners did everything they could to destroy a busy shopping town, people used to travel to Blyth to shop, they don't need charity shops, bookmakers and Wetherspoons, everything the shopper needs is now on the outskirts of town at the big ASDA and no one shopping there shops in the town centre, blame Northumberland County Council's planning department,
I everything is spaced out in blyth, but online shopping has killed off little towns all around the country
Disagree on Wetherspoons if it wasn’t for them a town would be dead, no jobs,and magnificent old buildings would just be knocked down.
looks good in the 80's it's gone down hill a long way now
so sad it was more alive than is now
My dads family lived in Cowpen he always joked “the posh part of Blyth “😊
@@JetR1968 haha I think he was being sarcastic
Interesting. Noticed the old church before the Keel Row.
Yeh central methodist church, demolished in 89 for the keel row, nd looks like keel rows on its last legs now
@@geordieurbex2200demolished next year I heard
Terrible shame a building like that was demolished just to make way for some bland, boring nondescript shopping centre - which will also be demolished .
Lived in cowpen Blyth. Years ago. It was decent then
I remember sering this on TV. He made things sound better that what they were even then. It's only gotten worse, thanks to this government.
Born in blyth….. shame about those listed staithes didn’t go to plan all gone!
To be fair almost all gone anything of use anyway shame!
They were destroyed by fire nd had to be pulled down
The fashions and hairstyles back then made peope look older and imporverished : (
Hes only missing out the massive drug problem that ripping though the heart of the town and it still is to this day
@@jordangreaves2307 like most other places
The place was a mess by then but still better. Keel row did a number on Blyth.
@JohnKobaRuddy keel row just about to be demolished aswell, all town centres are going this way, this is what happens if you shop online
@@geordieurbex2200 now I can take some blame there I'm as guilty as sin on that score. And what a shame about that church they got rid of to put keel row there. Sad times.
@JohnKobaRuddy same thing will happen to the new cinema being built, cinemas struggling ATM then they build a new 1 not very smart, will last a few years
The people in the comments from Blyth who are slating it are part if the reason why the town centre is the way it is. How many of you chose to shop in Cramlington? How many of you didnt protests ar cuts, closures, removals and demolitions? Only sat there and whinged on Facebook? How many of you are actually involved in the communities where you live in any meaningful way? How many of you engage with the parish and county council on the future of the town centre and the townscape?
Exactly. Straight to complaining on social media but doing sod all to reenergise and revitalise the place you live in.
If you take off the rose tinyed glasses for a minute and actually look at Blyth, Cowpen, Newsham and Bebside as a whole, combined we have a hell of a lot going for us, but no, its easier to wish you were back in the 60s/70s/80s.
@@xanderside8899 well said
I bet you that United Reform Church building still sits there. Hell hath no fury than that put upon a town planner who proposes to pull down a very old church building...
@@Crazy1Clive was knocked down for the shopping centre, the shopping centre is itself getting knocked down next week haha
@@geordieurbex2200 Good Lord, I didn't think that was possible with such buildings ... when did this happen?
Don't bet on it they've done it in Oldham
United Reform Church (the red brick one) is still there, the Central Methodist one Grundy's Infront of at the start was the one pulled down
Full of litter and smackheads now
Hey i live here 🤣🤣
Was full them in the 80s wasn’t called heroin capital of the n e for nothing