Brings back memories....my grandparents lived down the road in The Grove and one of their sons, my uncle, along with his father both served their time in the electrical dept. of the iron works. In later life, my uncle worked upstairs in the repair dept of Forsters shop, fixing televisions and radios. When young, I recall visiting him and being amazed at his skills. The tv sets had tiny screens compared with today, but they were very bulky due to the size of the crt (remember those?).

I'm just watching your video because i lived in Ebchester 10 years, i nearly fell of my chair when you said you are living in Poland, so am i and i'm half Polish, my 2nd wife is Polish we live near Bydgoszcz

@VanlifewithAlan

3 жыл бұрын

That is strange - I was in Bydgoszcz only three weeks ago, although I am in Germany now and will be returning to Nałęczów in October!

@neonskyline1

3 жыл бұрын

@@VanlifewithAlan bit of a hump from here, i've got a cousin in Warsaw, we've got this lurgie lockdown thing easy here compared to other countries, it's much better here mind, lovely country

@VanlifewithAlan

3 жыл бұрын

@@neonskyline1 I think the lockdown in Poland is better now than in other countries but six months ago it was the toughest anywhere! It was OK for me, as I was on a campsite near Wrocław in my motorhome!

@neonskyline1

3 жыл бұрын

@@VanlifewithAlan lol cool

I love Consett I miss it very much…

@VanlifewithAlan

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't until I saw your comment and it made me think that maybe another visit is in order. This was filmed 12 years ago.

i was born in blackhill just down the road and had lived there most of my life i remember the places and still go there the one thing i don't miss is when it snows and you stuck. great video.

I was born in Consett in 1969 and moved to Billingham. Have now been living in Sydney for 20 years. My nana lived on oakdale road (Margaret Barrett). The Barrett, Kirkup and Carey family make up my clan. Still have family there and love visiting when i can. Desperately trying to buy a Consett football club top. Thanks for the videos

@VanlifewithAlan

Жыл бұрын

That is a great comment Michael, I would have asked my father about your family had he still been alive, he possibly could have arranged the football club top too, as he was linked to the club for many years. I have not been back there since this was filmed although I will ask my sister if your family name means anything to her!

My dad born and bred in consett he lived on Dixon street then the crescent Bridgehill

@VanlifewithAlan

2 жыл бұрын

I remember Dixon Street. It was rather like two streets, so people living there had both the front entrance and the back entrance in Dixon Street. Half way down Blackhill Bank, near the park. That takes me back 45 years.

Its probably morrisons now, there was no retail park back then. We stayed for weeks at shotley bridge, in the crown and crossed swords hotel,

The cinema that burnt down was the Rex in 1967. The Jobcentre now stands on that site.

@VanlifewithAlan

2 жыл бұрын

I can remember the neighbour coming round and telling my mother that it had burned down. My earliest memory is of being in the cinema and the seat kept coming up as my weight was not enough to keep it down.

@EnglishHuscarl Thanks!! I think that was summer in Consett!!

Thank you, nice to hear from you. I can recall one year - perhaps it was 1978 when we had one metre of snow outside on 1 May! I suppose it is similar today!

@dmf2475

3 жыл бұрын

I remember building an igloo in my Grandmother's backyard in Sherburn Terrace and that was Easter 1981!

GO MY HOME TOWN

The old bus station was demolished in 1993/94.

@VanlifewithAlan

7 ай бұрын

Are you sure ? - As I seem to remember it coming down in 1980 - unless we are talking of different things!

@sonofcrow I don't see the link!

Bellamys Bar must 've been handy in later life?

I can't remember any flat fields in Blackhill - but if you don't mind the slope when playing footy then no problem!

I'm sure you're full of good intent, but Eggs and Edwina Currie or Gerald Ratner and Gold seem to come to mind !!!

Dave, my recollections are seeing the Wizard of Oz there. All I can remember was that I was not heavy enough to keep the seat down and apparently I ended up on my mother's knee. The next is a year or two later possibly when a neighbour came round to say that it was burned down and my mother asking me if I remembered being there. Throughout my time there I believed that the Rex was where I said it was here, so thanks for pointing this out!

09:10 The grey building used to be the abattoir. I did the rendering on the outside of the building around 2009, it was a big job as it was practically two streets worth of it. I think Elliot Hurd still owns the building.

@VanlifewithAlan

8 жыл бұрын

+acidphaze I don't remember the abbatoir but my mother told me all about it!

day before my birthday 15 december 1983

haha that silver corsa at 56 seconds is my sisters

Alan it was in st. cuthberts avenue not actually in blackhill if you know what I mean where the cornershop is and lots of construction :(

I remember the cinema at the top but I was very young when it burnt down so I may well be mistaken. Where was the Rex?

That is well after my time! I do not know where the Presto store is!

@TakeoverPodcast1

6 жыл бұрын

There is now a massive tesco where the iron works used to be

Alan the Rex cinema was about 100 yrds to the right of the carpet place as you're looking at it. They rebuilt on the land it's now the job center.

I left 35 years ago too lol

dam me and my friends got banned from the library and now its closing so many good memories lol

@TakeoverPodcast1

6 жыл бұрын

It's still open

Do you have a son called James Heath.

0 views I must be the first one.

I live in black hill and I really like it there is a big field so I can play footy with my mates. Consett is BEAST

Good video mate, typically shite Consett weather.

@EnglishHuscarl

3 жыл бұрын

I just got a notification that you loved my comment 9 years after I wrote it. Better late than never I suppose 😂

Honestly I’m sure I went to school with you lol

@VanlifewithAlan

4 жыл бұрын

Which school did you go to Andy? Your name does not ring a bell to me!

Two quid for fish and chips???.It's over a fiver at Churchdown chippy.TalK about the North South divide!!!

Prety

It must have been fishcake and chips!

Schoolchild? Oh dear!

No, I don't have any children.

what an awful place so frab and depressing . If u wanna die in boredom then live in this place

@TakeoverPodcast1

6 жыл бұрын

It is not boring I live there

@TakeoverPodcast1

6 жыл бұрын

Consett is not boring u don't know

right shitole this place and I am stuck there cos no one has any dough to buy my house just shit and so many yobs and only one pastime drinking

I work there about 1987 on the new Presto store on the outskirts,