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Brilliant cheers 👍🏆🇬🇧

Brilliant!

Nice work Andrew

In 1997 as a young student I got a summer job as a labourer with a construction company called Brims. We were installing a huge machine base in the Austin & Pickersgill engine works. I was amazed to see how they put together these huge ships engines which you could walk around inside. For a reason I can't remember, one time later I found myself in Jarrow working mens' club one lunchtime and was talking to a group of retired shipbuilders who were having a bit of a laugh with me when one of them said to me very seriously "the Tyne is finished, it is the end of the Tyne for shipbuilding" Then he said "do you know what they are going to do with it"? When I said no he replied "They're going to fill it in with concrete and make a motorway all the way to Newcastle" Whereupon the whole gathering burst out laughing even though they knew that the Tyne was dying as a shipbuilding river. I'm now retired but I've never forgotten those days

I've been using this clip as a teacher with A Level Geographers for some years now and just wanted to say thanks to whoever put it together. There is no better resource to explain 'sense of place' and the feelings and connections people have to places, and how this can be changed and affected by globalisation - many thanks! So great to hear these stories about the Tyne.

how on the tyne is all mine man how.

All the shipyards on the Tyne should have been converted into trough making works to supply the House of Common criminals in Westminster....They would never run out of work...In fact they would have expanded.

HWTL

I'm part of that history ❤

MY DAD WAS A DOCKER IM 72 AND STILL HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD DAYS IT WAS ONLY A FEW MINUTES TO SPILLERS THAT WAS MY PLAYGROUND FOR ME AND MY BROUTHER

MAGGIE THATCHER KILLED THE TYNE , SHE HATED US

Me dad started work in swan hunters when he was 14 year old as a riveter’s catcher then he went riveting when he served his time. And when the riveting phased out he served his time again as a welder. First spot welding then full welding. He worked there all his working life and retired at 65. He died in when he was 67. Poor bugger never had a proper retirement. I am now 71 myself and still miss me Fatha RIP DAD.

Hi Andrew would you consider doing an interview re the Made of Steel project and your involvement?

I was born in the terrace houses over looking Swans when I was 13 years old sold the papers on the ferry landing for 3 years the river would be thriving city boats tankers fife banana boats started swans traing center 1972 oh happy times look at Wallsend now😢😢

Wonderful video. Thank you.

In the early 70's I worked in commissioning of ships instruments! I travelled to Japan Mitsubishi , Singapore Sembawang and Jurong yards, Portugal Lisnave and most of the shipyards in Europe and Scandinavia.. Most of these yards had seen good investment. I then went to Swan Hunters and the yards were a mess! Like going back in time! Side launching some of the big tankers was just unreal! Archaic attitude that eventually killed them!

Are the people who played the sleeping couple in this commercial ticklish?

Absolutely brilliant well done

I started in Fisher Street training school in 74 and spent most of my time in the Neptune yard worked on HMS Newcastle Cardiff and York to name a few and finished on Largs Bay. I moved to Shrewsbury in 2003 and I'm still upset at what the government did. My late great dad Paddy (Padeye) Joyce was and still is the best Caulker Burner the river ever had and to say he was peed off when the shut Swans is an understatement. It bit be a lump to my throat when I watch anything to do with the way we were treat

Who are the actors that sleep on the mattress in this commercial?

Aye home sweet home❤️

I just made a video about Swans :)

I see War Memorials for servicemen but i see no memorial to the working man on the Tyne they are forgotten They are the Men and women who built the Royal Navy ships to fight two world wars

Excellent video!! Your content deserves a service like Promo*SM!!

Beautiful made me think of my da a Geordie lad miss him😢

Excellent video

must be sad for any of the old boys that remain in the area today

Easy really, Tyne build a ship for £10m, workers earning £10 an hour and work 40 hours a week. South Korea build the identical ship for £1m workers earn 50p an hour and work 60 hours a week NO CONTEST

Lived on the Caer Urfa for years On the south coast

Same story for the Consett iron company nearby. Everyone worked there,now it’s all gone.

My dad started his apprenticeship at swan hunters in 1954 he worked there every day until he died in 1982 this documentary is very sad hats off to all the guys wherever you are living or dead who built the most awesome ships in the world

A left Whitburn comprehensive school 1991 yts on trawlers out a North Shields Len Jensen was ower boss cracking fella he got ower yts transferd to Tyne towage working for Micky devlin was slave labourer but we loved it we were there for the last ships ever to be launched out a swans HMS RICHMOND we were there when all the yards went through the death throws all the ship yards on the Tyne we were used to decommission the dry docks etc same with the WW2 ship HMS CAVALIER we were sent onboard to catch the ropes for the dunheron and pengarth ower tugs so as young nosey yts lads we thought let’s gan for a wander we were walking around a complete black ship inside when we came across crews cabins so out comes a lighter to get a better look around fcuk me place was full of manikins dressed in anti flash gear and overalls what a fright we got pmsl happy happy times hard work , a was later crushed few years later at the quay on waggonway road jarra between a tug and the old shields ferry frieda Cunningham ended up going deep sea after that , thanks for uploading this brought back many a memorie of times long gone . Liam

permission to come a board sir.

hello sir, a new friend thank u 4 sharing

i remember when i was young there was jobs and work for every one smiths swans hawthorns readheads brigams the middledocks tde wallsend slipway and many many more all the way down the river tyne shore

Some good memories, it's sad to see the decline of such a great river.

One of the best videos on here.

Will say one thing, I worked in the shipping industry for 21 years, But I remember when Swans Hunters got took over by a Norwegian Guy.. I was working at the Wallsend Appledore next door, There was to many strikes going on at the time same with the Howdon yard, It's a shame what has happened to the ship building & ship & repair.. But the men at couple of the yards did kill the shipping industry on the Tyne.. Men were going on strike time & time again.. It killed it for the future generations.. The last ship I worked on was the HMS Westminster..

Just watched, fantastic . Many memories of my few years at Neptune.

An excellent video.. and so true!.. I remember those days so well.. the saddest part of it.. there’s no recognition, by Councils.. of our history!.. and a history it was!.. we lost more Merchant seamen from the Tyne, than any other country in the world!!.. The gentleman who skulled across the Tyne.. please tell him I did that to.. at only 10 years old.. and fast I was.. even took the tug boat men over to the “Maximus”.. I live in Perth, Western Australia now.. and no matter how long I live here.. my heart will always be by the Tyne, and it’s memories.. such good people! Remember our tradesmen were highly sought after everywhere in the world.. our own Government sold its own people out.. God Bless you all..

That brings back mixed memories. I remember when ships were tied up 3 abreast as I went on my uncle's ship as a kid. As a teen I worked for wailes dove bitumastic (hebburn) as a contractor and cleaned and bitumened tanks up and down the tyne. The characters I worked with were hardened ex - seamen some of whom had been torpedoed during the war but had hearts of gold and brilliant senses of humour. After that I joined the merchant navy as a cadet for Stag Line North Shieds( you can still see the building across from south shieds with a stag on the gable end). Both the merchant navy and shipbuilding were decimated by Maggie with no chance being given to reopen yards as property speculators moved in to build over certain yards and others landscaped. I live in the midlands now but the first place I come to see is the Tyne as it is so much more than just a river

Fuck I long for this sort of thing, I’m Hebburn lad and moved to Australia been here for 6 years ( age of 23) and sometimes i just want to hear that Georgie voice and history, I’m so proud of my life being from the north of England.

I grew up in Wallsend... I live down south now and when I go home now I feel like a stranger as everything I ever knew as a kid including the house I grew up in in Headley place is gone such a shame I love Wallsend but the Wallsend I remember

Tyneside, in common with all heavy industrial areas in this country, is a land of ghosts and always will be. We need to be in contact with our ancestors. This is something Tory bastards will never understand.

I grew up on Victoria Street across from the main gate where Smith Dock workers (including my granddad and uncle) would go each morning. I remember there was a man stood outside the main gate selling The Shield’s newspaper and each Friday he would have the latest comic books from the USA - Superman, Batman, Hop-along Cassidy etc. - for sale. Granddad would have me pick out one for myself and one for my cousin (I got to read his before he got it). I loved growing up on the Tyne. I lived there from 1945 until 1968 until I emigrated to Canada. How little did I realize that within just a few short years hence the Tyneside that I knew would no longer be. I loved my childhood. From playing by the riverside near the end of the wood yard to the river’s edge. My life with my friends would have put a smile on the face of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The years as a teenager swimming in the old public pool in Tynemouth and relaxing on the beach with all of my street friends. The teenage dances with the advent of rock’roll (Elvis, Little Richard,, The Everly Brothers (not a Beatles fan). Great times. I would not have changed my child/boyhood for anything. I did the best thing my dad told me by emigrating to Canada. I have a better life but boy, do I relish my having grown up in North Shields. Lots of very fond memories. We’re told that at the moment of death our past flashes before our eyes. If that happens I have much to look forward too!

Around 1983 we were standing waiting at the gate hometime,A welder known as Rudyard Kipling commented ",ONE DAY THIS WILL ALL BE GONE" Everyone laughed at him but me .I took notice and took my redundancy eventually going to work on the Oil Rigs There was no investment in the yards we used 1800,s tools .

I used to sell news papers at the ferry in the 70s.

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Roughly1990 I took a ship into smiths dock for refit. The day before our crew paid off we went to the pub outside the gate called the Wolsingham I think. We got our drinks and the barmaid asked us to sit in the corner out of the way. We did even though the pub was empty. The barmaid then put opened bottles of brown ale and schooner all along the counter 3 deep. The yards whistle went and 30 sec. later the bar door burst open and dozens of workers piled in drank the beer and left 1/2 your later, no money changed hands. We were puzzled and asked the barmaid what about payment. She then explained that every man stood in the same place every day, under the counter in front of him was another schooner filled with bottle caps that he had drank. Friday was early finish day and pay day and everyone would square away their bill. I asked what happened if a man didn't pay the answer was no brown ale on Monday, no one ever defaulted. How times have changed.!!!

It’s sickening how an industry just disappeared overnight and was sold down the river by labour and conservative governments in the 70’s,80’s and 90’s now it’s nothing but memories and a pretty river