I enjoyed your video as I have been going to Beadnell for 45 years! My grandparents had a caravan on Beadnell Links from the 1970's when it was very much different from what it is now. A lot of the charm of Beadnell has been taken away with regeneration and has spoiled it by becoming too commercialised. I've spent the best years of my life at Beadnell and nearby Seahouses. Where you started your video that shop used to be called 'Sea Breeze' for many years with the chip shop next door. Those houses next to it were not there as it used to be an old depot type place with old buses there. The Art Deco house opposite was always there but has been modernised. The phone box has been there many years too. Within the village itself if you were walking towards the church along that road there was a pub set back from the road which has been demolished which was next to the grand building now known as Beadnell house. It used to be a grand hotel and bar and as a child we would have meals and drinks in there. Further along is the Craster Arms which used to be mainly a pub that did only did a few pub meals. It had a pebble car park that used to host car boot fairs and the garden to the side was grass with picnic benches on.. Opposite the Craster Arms is now a cafe but it used to be another village shop which sold local jams and produce, the newspaper, food and great toys like kites, foam aeroplanes, buckets and spades, it had tonnes of toys and was a cracking shop with lots postcards, bookmarks tea towels and other memorabilia bearing 'Beadnell' . Keep walking around the curve and you come to Beadnell Towers.. It was called 'Porkys' or something like that in the 90's which infuriated the locals but was called something else before that when I was a small child. I can't remember the original name. Keep walking around the corner more and there was a junior school and the woman's institute both which held summer fayres, jumble sales, and events. You used to be able to walk straight through from that spot through the gates through the farmers field into beadnell links caravan site but there has been so much regeneration that they built a housing estate on some of the land and are building a restaurant too. There were concrete bunkers in the farmers field and on the corner from the main road used to be the actual working farm. You could smell the silage from miles away. It had a large blue flue type thing you could see pointing up from the farm. The barns had straw and hay bales in there that smelled really strong. There was an organisation going around in the 80's called The Beach Mission and it went round the caravan sites and beaches advertising children to learn about jesus and the bible. They hosted bbq's, fun days etc to give the parents a few hours peace. If it rained we would sit inside the farms barn on the hay bales and listen to stories and sing religious stories. The large Art Deco House called Fraggle Rock has been there as far back as I can remember along with that lovely little row of fisherman's cottages. I have actually been inside the fraggle rock house about 28 years ago at a party. It was incredible the view from the living room looking out to the sea was amazing. I went in once. I still play on those very rocks around the house as I find it very peaceful. Walking along that road towards to cliffs and Ebbs Nook are some of my favourite ever views. As a teenager who spent all of the 6 weeks summer holidays, Easter week, blackberry week and every single weekend of the season at the caravan it was my second home for a large chunk of my life. Us regulars on the site formed friendships with the children who lived in Beadnell itself and also in Seahouses. My step sister lives in beadnell still today!. We would jump off the cliffs at Ebbs Nook only at very high tide, and jump the harbour walls at high tide. The house next to the limekiln we all know who lived there for many years but he us a private person... Let's just say fluorescent socks, and colourful suits and leave it there. The art deco house opposite that house is where my friends lived 2 sisters and a brother we would play in that house too. If you come off the beach onto the car park there was only toilets on that site and nothing else until they built houses and garages next to it.. That used to just be grass... Straight opposite the farm which is now houses... The car park housed a wooden hut which used to rent out wetsuits and surf boards.... No it is a completely different business which has built stone building which does water sport activities. If you walked into the caravan site from that point there used to be a telephone box and the original wardens office and all alongside the right perimeter of the site was for tourer caravans with awnings. The original old caravans of our youth were more spaced out, had no toilet, drinking water, bathroom or shower. You got your drinking water from the site tap, you went to the toilet in the toilet block during the day.. (You had to have multiple keys as they kept getting lost), at night you peed into a bucket which was turfed out into the sluice in the back of the toilet block. The toilet block had a few sinks and mirrors to get a morning wash and brush yr teeth. They had a shower block based in the middle of the site which had about 10 shower cubicles in them, sinks and even washing machines. You could only get a hot shower with a token which originally cost 7 pence per token then went up to 10p per token. You roughly got about 8 to 10 mins of hot water before the token ran out and it turned to cold again!. There was 1 phone box per site and so you usually had to queue to use the phone box after 6pm when it was cheaper.. No mobiles then! Caravan had gas lamps to be lit as lights, the television was linked up to a battery. There was only basic electric on site. A walk through to the 2nd caravan site was called Swinhoe links and also had 1 phone booth. If you kept on walking through the site to reach the fields for a walk you had the farmers fields on the right which grew pea pods and the grassy dunes on the left. There was once a BMX course built in there, before you came to the bridge named 'The Nanny'. You could see white swans at the nanny sometimes. Cross over the bridge and keep walking before you got to Liw Newton you would pass another working farm which was known as the 'peacock farm' and you'd see beautiful peacocks and there would be loads of stray peacock feathers strewn around to pick up... Although it was said to be bad luck to put them in the caravan. We would cycle to low newton by the sea and back to the caravan. We used to make seashell bracelets and anklets and take seaweed to the caravan to tell the weather forecast. Played swingball outside at the caravan every day and sledged down the sand dunes, played rounders on the beach, flew our kites on the beach. Swam in the sea every day after home and away and neighbours!! 😂 The best times ever!

It's good to see that those who can afford it modernise the properties so tastefully. I love art deco. I was there on 26 and 27 Apr 2023 doing the England Coast Path. Lovely cost and good video.

Typo error 'low newton'. Also there was a very good site shop on beadnell links for many years but that has been shut a long time. It stocked fresh bread buns, eggs, milk, bacon, sweets, toys, newspapers etc and other necessities needed. You would buy your shower tokens from the warden... When you could catch him! Loads of us constantly had our wetsuits hanging on a hanger to dry outside the caravan.. Most of the time it was still damp to put back on cos you'd be out in the sea all the time! When we were really young we never had wetsuits.. Just went into the sea with a bather one and maybe a t shirt and old trainers for navigating the rocks!!

Shavenhaven - Harbour Rd best house + views in Beadnell