6 to Midnight
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- A day in the life of Newcastle, this is a 17 min film Amber made in 1974. A lot has happened since - to Amber and Newcastle! If you'd like to help crowdfund the film we're making about Newcastle now, go to www.indiegogo.c...
6 to Midnight was made for Newcastle City Council, who rejected it. 'It might be all right for the Straw Dogs generation,' was one of the councillors' comments - probably the only time an Amber film has been compared to Sam Peckinpah! They're relaxed about it these days - and quite supportive of Amber - but apparently they weren't keen, at the time, on the shots of meat being unloaded on the pavement outside the Grainger Market - and possibly on the number of For Sale/To Let signs on Grey Street.
I have seen a lot of old footage here of Newcastle over the years but this film has to be one of the best. Cheers for uploading.👍🇬🇧
Brilliant ! Fantastic shots of old vehicles and ' interesting ' hairstyles . Newcastle is a nice compact City, lots to see and do and you don't have to walk miles to get around it. Spent my teenage years in the Handyside Arcade with all the other Hippies.......The Kard Bar....Fynd.....Ultima Thule.....fantastic times. Drinking in The Man on the Moon, The Old George and the brilliant Juke Box in The Haymarket.....in the words of the Likely Lads song, Tomorrow's almost over , Today went by so fast, the only thing to look forward to, is the past !
Fantastic! Newcastle looked so much better then, not a charva in sight.👍👍👍
You must remember many of the people in this video would have been close relatives of these charvas. Society just went mad and things changed, not for the better.
not an foreign immigrant around either . .and so much better for that definitely !!!
skinheads 70s , 60s teddy boys .every era had its version of chavs
Im old enough (just!), to remember some of this!
Great blast from the past, Thanks for posting this :)
A wonderfully sentimental stroll down Memory Lane for me there.
I was in the fruit game myself for many years at the featured Gateshead Market so it was great to see the hustle and bustle again.
On 15 odd minutes there is a Mole Construction truck ,Mr Mole used to come in my fruit shop most weeks or he I would take the produce to his home.
(He was a wonderful man)
I think the chap with the sideburns on the fruit market is called Colin and he is still portering there to this day.
I wish the camera would be taken further down the Cloth Market, to show how White Hart Yard is today. My first job from leaving school was in the Yard: C Hall, a wholesale supplier of household items- I remember the Addis sponge floor mop would properly wring out water, unlike the same mops do today! I have to use my hand to squeeze out the water! There was an optical lens manufacturing next door, also Russell, that had an auction sale every Friday if I remember. I think back to those days with great fondness - anyone like me wishes they could find a secret door to the past?
At 13.26 I got a shock seeing my late Mother!
Thank you for uploading this
Goosebumps for the past❤
Seen my ex & others on here brought back memory's galore! Is there any footage of "W. Robinsons Book Shop" I worked there for a few years !
Fantastic, So atmospheric, Thank you. I was born in Gateshead 1967, so you have given me a peek at my home town before I existed. [;0)
I worked in the fruit market for 9 years bulman and leatherland and Holford bradnums had sum good time miss all the lads
That's when I loved the city
i know what you mean mate ..its hard to love a foreign-controlled cess pit isnt it ? ! . . . . .
Awesome film ...shows how we were betrayed by zog . . . . . !!!!
Tragic.
@@DavidRenwick-t1e its a crying shame ...People dont realise this is just the start of 'multi culturalisation' ...by the time they realise the threat ...it will be too late ...!!
Well worth the watch
11:50 im sure that's Mrs Robson coming out of Marks & Spencers with the purple looking bag with white polka dots & other bags she has in front of her. Stephen & Elaine Robson's mam when they lived in Felling on Abbotsford Road right next to the footbridge crossing the by pass....
so much has changed but the heart of the city remains
..not really ...the MP is nigerian for a start . . . ..85 percent of residents of newcastle are of foreign -extraction ..-the place is horrific for natives . . . hardly a success story , but nigh on criminal !!!
There were three Watergate hearings: April 1973, August 1973 and April 1974. The Guinness ad behind the Venture bus (still in original livery) at 5:45 hints at the middle date of the three
7:26 6 and a quarter percent interest on your savings at Barclays
Why does it fell like this film is from a thousand years ago?
2.23 is some comb over...
I would have been 9 when this was made and still attending West Jesmond infants school. So much has changed but it's surprising what is the same.
Old Newcastle films don't come better than this
Wonderful to see Newcastle how it used to be :-)
Yep you dont appreciate it at the timr
..before ZOG flooded the trash in . . . . .!
Think that's Billy Finlay from Newcastle Labour club at 2:29. He was on the barrows for years.
So this is awesome!!!
Stunning
Was pedestrianized in August 1974 for mains diversions to enable the construction of Monument Metro which opened in 1981/2
At least the trains ran in them days
1:18 the old YMCA under demolition for Eldon Square - Sidgate mall
Actually I think that is Cross House on Westgate Road. The YMCA building was demolished in 1972.
Ah the days when no one was up and on the roads at 6am lol
Newcastle on 17th August 1973
This is great. I like the lack of a narrator, makes it so much more atmospheric...kind of a "Koyaani-Scotswood"
MY city
destruction at its best, the gud old days
Why do I have a head like a cat on here?
Correction- Just noticed this was made in 1974, Sorry for being dim ! ;)
Like Sunderland me self.. better night life.. I think people of Newcastle got a horrible sense of humour...
irs mainly pakistanis now anyway .....