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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2011
- Short poetic film made with former Benwell resident Yvonne Young, reflecting on her childhood memories and emotional relationship with the area.
Based on a piece of text written and read by Yvonne. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Yvonne, Thank you so much for your memories of Benwell. It all helps me build a picture of the area rich in my family history and with the places that once named after my family, will be there forever. Kind Regards, Ross Buddle Atkinson
This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for taking me home. Wonderful x
Beautifully put🙌🏻
Smashing up communities is how they control us....divided we fall.
It was never about regeneration💔😓
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much x
Poignant though accurate reflection of a time gone by.
Thanks Yvonne.
Ah Geordies, - memories, philosophy, poetry in speech the best people in the world...
I so hear you , you make me understand what I feel and what it is xx
Absolutely fantastic video and words etc well done and thank you
Really enjoyed this, I was born in 77 and moved away aged 17, still have family and friends who live there and still love going to visit
i lived in cambell st, then moved to elswick st flats, then moved us agin to jubillee estate miss my old comminty this little film brought a tears to my eyes as you made it so nice and proud to come from west end newcastle big thax to you
Excellent presentation, sympathetically narrated, more please
Moving video with poetic narration. I've lots of memories of the area.
that's so moving for me feel the same as Yvonne I was born maria street 1960 born upstairs front room doctor kumar delivered me i always drawn back to benwell can still see the ghosts to
Good one Yvonne’s. Lots of memories. Irene x
Every time you look at your photo's the memories must come flooding back of a time before mobile phone's , computers & fast living....good film, joy to watch............
Thanks
I'm drawn back there. I walked with my dog from Westerhope to St John's cemetery recently. All changed and everyone I knew gone. Sad.
I live in Whickham now but only yesterday I had a drive over to Benwell where I was brought up. My old house at 93 Maughan st is no longer there and I was trying to pinpoint where it was. I drove into the Rachel Maughan Estate but have no idea who she was. Can anyone help. It was very nostalgic and brought back many memories. Now having seen Yvonne's video even more memories came flooding back. Thanks Yvonne
i love watching &listening to the vidio !!Tho am a few yrs later since it was made..But having moved from Scotswood rd when i was a bairn to a new posh flat in Elswick St..the memories are still with me&tho iv moved around a lot im my life!!Elswick st is Where my heart is oppisite Crem!!Beautifull seniments..well done..xNee,Gray
Great to watch Yvonne. Very evocative.
when I think of where I grew up, my mind goes back 60 years, the roads are gravel and cobbled, EWS is painted on the walls, the old man's shelter is still there (made from an Anderson shelter) the gas lamps I shinned up to light my cigarettes, I expect to see the man who sharpened lawn mowers and hedging sheers on his bicycle, the food van outside my old house, the Methodist chapel, miners welfare hall and my Sunday school but they were all demolished in the 1970s along with the brickworks and woodyard, it's like they exist somewhere I can't go. the new has been there longer than the old but when I think of the area it's the old I see not the new, we live in two worlds, the one we are presented with and the one we want. I think !
To anyone who visits here. I run a get together at Labour Club in town from 1.00 every 2nd Wednesday in the month. People from West End but friends of those who lived there more than welcome.
Great video.
I lived in Helen st and had a crush on a girl called Christine Love , she had a sister called Patricia who lived opposite on Atkinson road ..l remember a shop called Applebys where l went with sledge to get a 28ib bag if coal in the bleak winter of 63'
John Marlay lower school makes a brief appearance here. I unfortunately was a pupil there...a lot like being in a young offenders home, despite being innocent. Dreadful place with dreadful alleged teachers.
My nan lived in Clara Street
We lived in nourtgbourn Street it was bloody haunted I tell u
My best mate, Paul Wood lived in Northbourne Street. No 99 or 101 I think.
Wonderful film. Why were the Planners, Council and T Dan Smith so incompetent and unfeeling to the community? T. Dan Smith himself ie 'One Coat Smith' was indeed not right in the head, great talker yes, but if only the North East had been lucky enough for him to have lived in some other part of the country, as far away as possible! I met one of his neighbours once, she described him as the most awkward man she had ever met.
Excellent sentiments Yvonne. Love it. Is that you in the pics btw.?
Never checked this video for years. Talking about it today with a friend and noticed your question. Yes that was me wandering around. Was down there yesterday shopping in a Lebanese supermarket that was once The Benwell Hotel pub.
@@clik365 Never the Benwell bar lol 😢
why doesn't she move back?
All of the old community has gone. I only know two or three people there now. Moved out in 73 but i was there yesterday at a knitting group with those people who are left. Shopped at a Lebanese supermarket which was once the Benwell Hotel pub.
@@clik365 much love... i was a nipper then... have you seen the video called 'Closure of small shops in Benwell 1979' on here, it's gem :)
i got my head stuck in the wood @ 0:36 when i was around 4 years old haha...not sure how i got out now...
@@TheWeardale1 Ha Ha. Those wooden slats were awful. I went into a supermarket there when it first opened and tins and goods were stacked high on pallets. There was no atmosphere in the place. My mother and brother lived across the road at Suttons on the top floor. Watched the closure of small shops a while back. Archive for Change filmed me also. Judith Green (The woman wearing the pink large collared shirt) She still does lots in the community creating free books. Womens Lives, Men's Lives etc. Great place to be brought up.
@@clik365 yeah, some great old videos to watch on youtube... i lived in suttons dwellings from a toddler until i was about 4 - then koved to benwell dene terrace until a year or so later when my parents divorced and we moved to scotswood...
I've type up thousands of pages (word documents) of my live story up until my 30s (51 now)...tho, not sure who would be interested in reading it..
@@TheWeardale1 Try Summerhill Books. Local publisher who published my Benwell Remembered, Westenders and Westenders Part 2. Andrew Clarke.