I remember going to the Engine, East end club and the Bewick for the discos.. memories of my youth.. nothing left of wallsend now...

@karenm12161

3 жыл бұрын

@@thevoid6818 When you go back it feels like you dont belong.. so much has been demolished and changed in some way... wish I had a time machine to go back for one last visit.. 😔

Wow wow wow !!!loved these vids and music just most befitting ,perfect spot on yes 👌

Place of my birth and very proud of it too.

Was born in Wallsend so many years ago. Now weep at what has been lost.

Used to pedal like hell on my bicycle down the dip at Camp Road ( 0:33 ), it was the nearest thing to a rollercoaster !

It brought back happy days in 1970s old wallsend

I grew up in Headley place as a kid then moved down south and now every time I go back home something has been knocked down I knew everyone in Wallsend once upon a time now because its all changed my house I grew up in has been knocked down everything is different its like I'm a stranger there now it's so sad I loved Wallsend still do but only the Wallsend I remember

Remember, as it was, so it can be again.

Was that wallsend shipyard or not cos my sissters man worked on the cranes there over 20 year and if its Wallsend shipyard I worked on fisher Street opposite the shipyard , couldn't get on the bus home at night as I lived in walker the buses used to be crammed packed with hundreds of men/ lads 👍 was a really busy community down there , all the pubs and houses all gone it's a ghost town ,sad memories when we drive past Me mate lived right near ship yard ,and her brother worked at ship yard , really hard working community all gone 😢 Thank for the memories

aye many good memories of the launch of the ark ,i was part of the crew that built the launch platform for the QM, where were the nurses,firemen,ambulance crews, teachers, train workers, miners, when our jobs were getting sold down the river, paid a pittance for doing the best shipbuilding in the world, forgotten by everyone, shame on you all, get back to work , you bring shame on all those who actually work for a living.

They should be ashamed of letting the yards go. They were the pride of the Tyne and the men who worked there. I served my time at Swans, happy days.

Had some good runs ashore in Walls End lovely people always friendly ❤️

Wallsend is just charity shops and takeaways such a shame deserves so much more but I’m still proud of the place let’s hope better times for this place is just round the corner 👍👍

1.58 my parents still live in the house that was once next to the bingo hall. What was a bingo hall is now a block of flats! YUCK!

engine inn, i saw it get burned down by some kids from churchill high school (was wilington) my nan lives in Edward road and her back window faced it. And my sister lives in one of the flats that the willington pub turned into, in the cellar there are still all the old bar stuff and signs. Hope you enjoyed this comment.

@geordielassie1

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Darcy Wilmington pub? Remind me where that was again? I'm how'd on born and bred xx

@geordielassie1

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Darcy ah I know where you mean now, I remember it as mickeys xx

@geordielassie1

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Darcy such a shame all the pubs are gone, was plastered in most of them at some point! Me and my fella have been together coming up to 18 years now and had most of our first dates at the east end club and a couple at the North, used to be a good night out, all the pubs round how'd on now are always full of young charvers! I remember the 14 stories being knocked down, our headmaster at holy cross school took us to watch the, being demolished, told us it was part of history, after I had my first child I ended up moving into the 'new' houses where the 14 stories used to be! This video has brought back memories that were a lifetime ago but yet only seems like yesterday xx

@geordielassie1

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Darcy 1:48 is that St. Peter's church at the top of the bank, I can't remember it looking like that at all xx

@newmillmarketing2096

6 жыл бұрын

Yes it is at the top of Church Bank (appropriately named come to think of it) Victor Products factory behind it and the road leading back over the Burn bridge towards Holy Cross. My old schools (Central infants and Middle) just out of shot on the right. Used to go into Victor products canteen for my dinner where we spent our dinner money from school. Unless we bought some 'chinese' chips from the Hong Kong takeaway off Wallsend High Street. Security at school was non existent in the early 70's !! Thinking about it there were 4 schools within about 400 yards of each other, the 2 centrals, St Peters and Burnside unbelievable when you think how things are now. That's not including the other Wallsend schools either. Its great to look back at what it used to be like, I recognise all the places in the video as thats where I was born and bred but so many of them are now completely gone. My school mates dad was the landlord in The Engine Inn for a while and I spent many hours upstairs in the old part of the pub playing Subbuteo table football and recording noises and voices on a tape recorder. State of the art technology then. Times change but memories last forever. Thanks for the video - great viewing for a distant geordie.

Fantastic photographs.

0:28 the might Mauritania

Is it BOB Dylan 🤔

@djangsthemangs4085

5 ай бұрын

Mark Knopler (with Sting also)

I will be truthful, The men killed the yards on the tyne... To many strikes.. I know because I was one of them men...

@bruceburns1672

3 жыл бұрын

Same here in Australia , all the yards that made the huge steel ships shut down because of the Union anachy , the Asians actually went to work to work , Australians went to work to do as little as possible , ghosting was the order of the day , one bloke would sign on for six others , Fabian Socialism from the Labor Party and the Unions have ruined this country , its now basically becoming a Chinese and Indian colony .

@fava7753

3 жыл бұрын

I have heard exactly the same comment from many of the yards ex workers in England , Tyneside . The union men themselves killed the shipyards in the end by Thier stupid reasoning for strikes . One in particular was to be called over , , coffee machines . It never happened , mainly because the then owner , called Thier bluff . Ok , I'm supplying you all with work . To feed your families . I am trying my very best to win new contracts to keep you employed . . . You go on strike . . And I will close the gates behind you all . Finally . . He wasn't bluffing . He meant it in no uncertain terms . . Would he have closed the gates . . . YES . DEFINITELY . . .

@Glenn1967ful

Жыл бұрын

@@fava7753 Car factories were even worse, particularly British Leyland. They once went on strike over the colour of their overalls. Also they were making rubbish cars people didn't want to buy,. I took a chance on buying an Austin and it was nothing but trouble and I had to more or less give it away. Bought a foreign car and it hardly ever went wrong.

@alanwann9318

Жыл бұрын

I was there 20 years ,later a union representative the men went on strike once a year for better wage offer in the 70,s we were out 6 weeks this saving the company money,