Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding area older photos. 1981.
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- Newcastle upon Tyne. My brother took these photos for me in early 1981. I moved away from Newcastle in 1971 and wanted to see what some of the area was like at the time. They were taken on slide film, and I've just digitized them.
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I can't get over how dated these pics look . I lived through those years in Newcastle , those landmarks are familiar to me , yet they somehow feel like a window into history (not literally) .
The one thing it shows is a mans life , lived, is punctuated by images of his past and the world turns onwards relentlessly changing before our eyes without us even noticing ....thanks for the upload .
Thank you for this window into our past .
O how I wish they were still like this we've lost our city and our country
Yes, I know how you feel! Thank you for watching.
2 of my mates and I used to go to Westgate Road every Saturday (where Ken's Motorcycles was located) when we were 16 years old (1983). It used to be heaving with bikers and their bikes. Great days never to be repeated i'm afraid.
I havd great memories of Westgate hill too. Spent many an evening buying chips on Elswick Road with friends and walking down past Kens, Harry Wood's and Kitsons drooling over the bikes in the windows. This was about 1969 to 1971.
Saturdays on the 'Hill'..and you knew there would be a wheelie king along every 5 mins.
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I was the same age back then, I used to go on my Fizzy. I have the exact same model now
Thanks for taking the time to do this I appreciate your efforts and takes me down memory lane ..
Shad ow. Thank you for your comment. Glad you liked them. I have others on TH-cam too you might like to see.
Brought back great memories seeing these images. Thank you
Great 80's photos David and nicely put together, some very familiar shots of the town.
Interesting video - recognised my old school. Captions describing the locations would be helpful.
It actually makes photo's look authentic,we wouldn't want photo's to be HD, better this way😊
Love seeing old pics and vids of the Toon. I was 3 yo this year thanks 👍
My home town. I was a teenager already and remember used to ride on my bike a lot with friends and morning paper round and sitting with the milk man on his rounds in freezing cold. Good old days....
I grew up there too through the 1960's. Still visit when I can. Thanks for your comment.
This brings back memories of the 70s. I used to go to Westgate road on a saturday when all the bikers would be there showing off their bikes and pulling wheelies up the hill. Those were the days I remember with a sense of fondness
I used to go with a few mates around 1970, get some chips on Elswick Road in the evening and walk down the hill drooling over the bikes in the windows. No bars on them then, dead easy to see....great times.... I moved away in 1971 so missed the 'Hill' as it was later known. Thank you for your comment. 👍
I used to go to Kens a lot in 79/80 there was another bike shop opposite I think it was called Harry Wood or something like that brings back memories Thanks
Hi Dave. Thank you for watching. Yes, Harry Wood was a bit further down on the opposite side, and when I lived up there ( to 1971) there was also another one called Kitsons. Glad you enjoyed them. 👍☺️
Davey these are great I remember these times when I moved to Newcastle really enjoyed seeing them like a window into the past pure gems.
Thank you Michael, much appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed them. There's a few other videos of mine too if you haven't already seen them.
@@DavidGarside I've subscribed no problem there.
I miss those yellow buses. Made the place unique, at least for me. It shocks me to see how “old” these look yet I was there!😮
Yes, me too. Part of my childhood growing up in Newcastle was riding on these old buses including the Trolley Buses too. Great memories!
Remember we used to go to the Kard bar for records and tapes then go up Westgate Rd to look at the bikes. We were happy then with just doing that on a Saturday. Then going to Maddison's for the lasses.
Great video! A real trip down memory lane! The Toon is still the greatest city in the world!!!
The toon WAS !!!the greatest ,now sorry it's a scruffy forighners place.
But yes it was fantastic for a night out in the days gone by 😊
mad to think I was only one year old when them were taken
Thanks for the photos, enjoyed them.
Great Trip down memory lane
Thank you Geoff. 👍
Tynemouth Plaza. Was a tragedy when it burned down. Great pictures to take wee trip down memory lane. I was 7 when these were taken and recognise a lot of them. Thanks!
Yes, my brother told me about the Plaza after it had happened, very sad. I'm pleased you liked the photos here.....so much has changed since then, and I notice it more when I visit the area.
I spent so much time there. First in the roller rink, and once I was old enough to drink, every friday and saturday in Surfers bar for years. It was so sad when it burned down.
Sorry Doon, but the plaza was a blot on the landscape.
Fabulous video, David! Bringing back lots of wonderful memories. Great to see The Rock pub, the local pub in Cruddas Park!. Love the groovy music, too! Thanks for posting 👍
Thank you again Chasidah. If you have a camera, you could start doing photos like this and of everyday life.....They will become historical records in the future like my videos. Just a thought for the future .
@@DavidGarside - yes, it's a great idea. Thankfully, YOU did, David- & we are all benefiting from your skill! 👍🙂
Thank you. Some of the photos can be credited to my Dad and Brother though as I'd have been a bit young to take some of them. 😁😊
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I used to live in Buckingham street in the 1960's. my mam used to shop at the near by coop and bought fruit at Bowman's greengrocers next door to Buchanan's toffee shop at the junction of Westgate Road and Elswick Road.
This is way before I first knew Newcastle.
Wow thanks a million mate lovely pics 👍🏼
Thank you, glad you enjoyed them.
I remember when we lived upstairs to Ray's Cafe on Elswick rd. I'm 64 now but was only about 3 yr old at the time. I remember my mam telling us that our electric bills used to be huge, but we later found out that our electric wiring had been connected to the duke box downstairs in the Cafe. How weird eh ! I always remembered her telling us about that.
I purchased my first motorbike there.
Great photos. I lived in Newcastle for all the second half of the 80's. My favourite city in the world I think. Quick question: Are Geordies incapable of making crap TV series? When the Boat Comes in, Likely Lads, Spender, Vera, Auf wiedersehen and many more etc etc - every one a winner!!
Thank you John. I grew up there through the 1960's and live 300 miles away now, but still call it my home town. Yep, Likely lads were my favourite, but the others were great too. Glad you enjoyed the pictures...have you seen my other videos of the area ?
Same writer for likely lads and Auf weidersehen.. 👍
Kids TV Razzmatazz! 80s pop music TV show
Just be thankful you didn't watch byker Grove!
Oo byker, byker, 'Grove' ... 🤮
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This program gave rise to the two most popular dwarfs on TV:
Ant & Dec 👦🧑
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Although they're from royal bloodlines that no one knows or has heard about..... 👍
David like you I now live over 400 miles away but Newcastle will always be my home and I will return as my family all have instructions to take my ashes back and to throw me in the Tyne....
@@DavidGarside Hi David, sorry I've only seen this response now as I was notified of another response from Geordie 9696 stating he wants his ashes thrown in the Tyne (good man Geordie - it's important to make wishes like this known to the next gen to prevent any arguments). David Garside - I haven't seen any of the rest of your youtube offerings but will most certainly start perusing now. I love the place so much! Many thanks (and this from someone born and raised in London - by Irish parents it must be said).
Yes, I still love to go back and have a look round...lots of changes though, but memories still bring me back. Thank you for watching. 👍👍
Looking back this was a simple time There was not the division we have today Work REst and Play in the city i loved
Thnk u for these memories..very important
We must never forget
Happy days. worked at Harry woods as a sprog bike mech, 77 before joining RN. can't forget speedway fun , Jawa 500 . C15. and some other beast at a beach on north east coast
Cheers 👍🇬🇧
Couldn't believe how much Westgate Road had changed when I was there last week.
Yes, I've been back many times over the years and its totally different to how I remember it from when I lived in the area. Thank you for watching.
..its not 'Way aye man' any more its 'Allah wakbah man' ...
Eye a bit of an eye opener ?😊
@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr23this is so true 😊61
the roads are so quite back then
Remember those days well - it's still so striking how run down, grey and dirty large parts of the north east were. Some older people often talk of the industrial north east as some kind of golden age, but it took a huge toll on the environment and people's health. I think we'd all be fairly shocked if we could go back and see those days.
Much rather live in days gone by than today
2:30 I painted one of those houses a few years ago lol
AH THE HILL GOOD OLD TIMES
Bought my Lambretta SX200 from Kens 1968 great shop
Yes, Me and a friend spent many an evening walking down the road with chips from Elswick Road looking at the bikes in the window. 1969 to 1971....great memories.
1:08 I've always said that that roundabout should never have been removed due to access to the swing bridge from Forth Banks area
Ps Your brother took some canny photos
Bought an 80 cc Yamaha from Ken's in 1968, fell off, sold it !
Oh dear, did you get another bike ?. I had a YG1 for a short time in 1974.
@@DavidGarside No. Never been on a bike since 😀.
thanks a bunch from myself and lots of others also as a biker westgate road bike shops was a welcome sight regards JT
Thank you John. Glad you liked it. I used to walk up and down this road with my mates most evenings staring at the bikes through the window back in 1970/71.....
Every saturday afternoon it was walrons then carmicheals then cowies then the dean and finally westgate hill kens harry wood and all the rest of the bike shopsback on the bikes and back to the bottom of chester-le-street for a natter and home in the bath clean jeans white shirt white socks and down to chester ballroom,your pics have brought all this back and i once again thank you for it,to this day i still go on the hill to browse and get bits and bobs for my bikes and who knows i might bump into you one day Regards JT PS i forgot my creap sole wedges
Thank you John. I live 300 miles away now so don't get up there much. We did walk up last year when up in Newcastle. Used to live near Cowies....esrly days, all the bikes downstairs in the basement....unbelievable smell of oil, petrol and old bikes, then they moved them to the top floor. My brother got his Enfield from there. Dene motorcycles on a Saturday....up the wooden stairs...Norton on the stand at the top.... Oxford Galleries.....oh the memories......
My mate work in Kens on Westgate Rd 1979 ' 1981
What about Wrights motors ? I worked there in 1987/8 (Shaun) with Billy, Squeaky, Percy perfect Now I also appreciate radio 2. Hope your well Bob
Hi Shaun. I'll tell him you saw this and sent the message next time I speak to him. I'm his brother, living down south but whenever we were up there we parked nearby and got the Metro into town. I'm sure I must have met you at some point. Look me up on Facebook, Bob is s friend of mine on there. 👍👍
Wonderful pictures and memories. Do you still have the original slides? I think they could be scanned more effectively these days. Thanks for sharing your photos. I think I should maybe start trying to make some of mine into short videos too. Inspirational stuff!
Thank you David. Yes I do still have the originals....I may redo them at some point.... possibly give them a clean first. Yes, I and many others would like too see yours too. 👍🙂
Ha Ha , Kens motorcycle shop ! He must of made a fortune, everyone bought their first bike from him.
jenny talia I got my first bike there ! I miss that place, Westgate road isn’t the same nowadays
@@lk9027 my first motorcycle was from Ken's. Happy days.
@@geoffpope5076 yea was a great day out looking through all the bike shops! Fond memories
Yes me 750 Norton atlas when mick worked there as sales man and Jo was in parts
Now that's the newcastle I remember and worked in as a girl 😢
Bought my first bike from Ken's.
I (with friends) spent many an hour drooling whilst looking through the windows. Nowadays you can't see in to the shops properly because of security shutters etc....a real shame ! Thank you for your comment. ☺
The hill is shit hole these day..
Compare that to it in the 80s when out was fun... Choka blok with motorcycles and the rest... 👍
Gibraltar rock pub still there but not moving with the times.
Not dog friendly and the carvery is pants....
Look how clean Benwell was... WAS!
Richie the mage Me too. Just over £500 for a Suzuki 250 GT in 1974 if I remember correctly.
@@pww7872 Seems that Asians love to live in squalor and litter.
I was born and bred in Benwell and nowadays it it full of litter and rubbish on the streets.
The past is another country, they do things differently there.
Rutherford school 1982 to 1986 still there today was born on west road went to school and probably end up in to crematorium
Ngl the metro station kinda looks modern in 1981
He Northumberland coastline is the most spectacular in the UK. Devon/Cornwall are both beautiful but Northumberland e.g. Amble, Sea Houses etc.. Unreal
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Used to live in Normanton terrace just off Westgate Rd this was my walk into town past the second hand shops and porn shops.
I used to court a lad from Normanton terrace , he was my first boyfriend , wonder what became of him ,S Nickle 😢😊.
This was way way back in the day.
David your photos are amazing.
How do you transfer slides to pc as i have a load of photos that i want doing but never found equipment to do it successfully.
Morning Graham.
Thank you, much appreciated.
I use a ' Veho Smartfix (vfs-014-sf) which I purchased from Amazon.
It can copy slides and negatives onto an SD card which is then put into the pc, pictures transferred and edited if you have the facilities.
Here's a link to it.
Thanks again.
David,
www.amazon.co.uk/Veho-Smartfix-Megapixel-Negatives-Compatible/dp/B072KKDL3N/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PP1VJQY6R0X3&keywords=veho+smartfix&qid=1562915565&s=gateway&sprefix=Veho%2Caps%2C421&sr=8-1
@@DavidGarside Thanks David
I know its bit difficult to get the true quality looking on you tube but how do you rate the quality when looking at the scanned images on your PC/ laptop compared to the original slide
Hi Graham. I find the scanned quality is quite good but never as good as the original slide. The digital image is a better copy than the old film slide copier I had used yo give me. The Veho has a small amount of light adjustment on it which gives a bit of scope as you save the image, but as I said, not as good as the original. I think they copy quite well onto TH-cam, although generally the scanned image is a little better in my opinion, depending of course on the original slide quality. I hope that all makes sense !
No problem. Sorry I couldn't help.
Hi Led Zeppelin. Sorry I can't reply directly to you. Yes it is the Plaza. I believe it burned down in the early 1990's. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Oh what was that advert on the radio of some Indian bloke saying his shop was on Westgate road next to the motorbike shop? I think there was a great kebab shop there too.
I dont remember an advert, but I do remember there was a gentleman who lived in one of the houses nearby that repaired zips in trousers.
And there was also an Indian clothes repair shop just over the road, I got a skirt repaired there that's long gone😊
Is that Rutherford secondary modern in the second photo? It looks familiar but I'm wondering if I've got it mixed up with another school from the time. Many thanks for posting these by the way.
Hello Paul. Yes, it's Rutherford Grammar School on the West Road. My brother went there in the 1960's. I believe it changed names some time later. Thank you for watching and your kind comment, much appreciated! 👍
@@DavidGarside you're welcome David. I went to the grammar school further along the road in the 1970s. I remember my shock at seeing loads of Asian kids on the same bus going along the West Road for the first time in my young life.
I had much to learn of course 😁
Yes, many changes in the area since then. My brother was the clever one, I went to Slatyford Comp 😁, left in 1970.
@@paulsnaith9677 Nowadays the Asian kids will get amazed to see a white kid on the bus I expect.
What happened to mr almand - I do zips Behind the motorbike shops?😀
th-cam.com/video/46dUJ1sHrJ8/w-d-xo.html
Yes I well remember Mr Almond with his great adverts.
I wonder what happened to him.
I expect he's dead by now.
Pity you didn't have photos of my old school at Chapel House.
billyrich70. I think I've got one of Mary Trevelyan somewhere.....I don't know where your school was as I only went to the above and Cambridge Street school.
I think he means st aidans school in chapel house mate.
@@DavidGarside do you have any of westerhope area?
I don't I'm afraid. Only around the areas I lived or visited. Sorry !
@@DavidGarside no worries thanks for the reply!
I just thank God you haven't got the picture of me in 1980.
Sitting on a swing in the summertime in leopard skin trunks, 😂
That's probably a good idea not to have photos like that. 🤣
Innocent times as a child from the wst end.. 👍
(west Denton swimming pool was amazing when growing up)
Well.....as it happens! 😄😂😂
Seriously though.....thank you for your comment. I wish I'd done so much more of this type of thing.....hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it !
@@DavidGarside
It is, it's always going to resonate with some, and some more than others... It does me!
Akin to pathe news films etc minus being narrated by a 'posh' bloke, historical and informative.. 👍
Great to see people have this stuff still...
I went to Montague baths quite a few times.....took some courage to go off that top board ! We mostly used Northumberland baths though as we lived near the town and it was nearer there....having said that...the no 2 bus went along Westmorland Road and terminated at the baths.....
They ruined central station by making it a pedestrian only accessible it was much better when you could drive right up to the entrance
It was better but there was always tons taxi's blocking everywhere. Now the toon is a one way system with stupid bus lanes which you don't realise until you get round the corner and they have bus lane cameras rigged up too, ready to send you a nasty surprise in the post.
Although I don't live up there now, I still come up now and again, and also watch TTTV at home. I know what you mean about the Bus Lane leading down to the m/way and also the no-car lanes. When I lived there you could drive both ways in Northumberland St....how things change eh? Thank you for watching.
And every one went there to go to photo booth to get a picture taken .
I loved old station ,it is not !!!the same place now 😊
Northumbria motors was that not Cowies at one time?
Yes, it was Cowies during the 1960's when I lived near there. My brother bought his Royal Enfield Continental from there, and me and a friend spent hours in there looking at the bikes.
Is that 1st School Slatyford ?
Yes Andy. I also have a video on here of the school too, taken in 1991.
David Garside , that's awesome. I attended Slatyford for a couple of years around 1977. Sweet memories.
Andy Cowx. Thanks Andy. Glad you liked it. I left there in 1970. Did you find the other video?
Andy Cowx. Here's the link for you..... th-cam.com/video/rQabOzIpWhg/w-d-xo.html
I started at Slatyford in 1980
No sign of graffiti and litter, maybe photographer avoided those places ?
No, my brother took the photos that were relevant to my memories. If there'd been graffiti etc, I'm sure he'd have included it for me! 👍☺️
@3:10 is that the Gibraltar rock ?
It is. 👍 I have another video from around the area on here too.
I goto Newcastle college tryvelean build
Id yhr second pic the old Rutherford Grammar ?
Yes, Rutherford Grammar, my brother went there. Thank you for watching.
It was defintiley a thing to go up westgate road occassionally stopping to look at bikes... ha hah
I spent many an evening staring at the bikes with my mates after getting chips from the chippy on Elswick Road.....
The name rings a bell. Did he live in Mulberry Place ( no 6 or 7 ?), motorbikes and scooters and later a skip lorry ?
STEVENP Newcastle is the