Lovely videos showing the city exactly as I remember it whilst I was living up there as a student between 1984 and 1987/88 and adopting it as my second home (from Liverpool originally) so much that I kept returning almost every year long after graduating in 1987, to catch up with my Newcastle social circle, until about 1995. I even remember the very same newspapers sellers shouting out 'Chronicle!' along Northumberland Street. The previous video (Part One) showed some wonderfully nostalgic footage of Clayton Street, Newgate Street, Bigg Market and Grainger Market as well! I lost count of how much time I would spend mooching around the old Grainger Market soaking up the atmosphere. Everything about the city then was great in so many ways - a real vibrant shopping, club and pub scene all around and best of all, it was really cheap to live back then too. Loved the old Quayside Market and the old pubs along there, the floating nightclub Tuxedo Princess, and the truly amazing Handyside Arcade / Leazes Arcades - sadly long consigned to history when Eldon Square shopping mall extended across Percy Street in the late 1980s to try and make itself bigger to compete with the Dunston Gateshead MetroCentre..
You would be amazed how many people are looking for Ronnie Gill around Newcastle city centre, blokes shouting his name out all over the city. Still hasn’t been found.
Agree. Society was much more accommodating then. There was also a lot more pride in our regional cities too. A proper sense of community. I remember that Newcastle had a great punk/skinhead/psychobilly scene around those years. As a spiky haired student myself living there in 1984-1987, I was always in the Handyside Arcade browsing in the shops there selling posters, army surplus and t-shirts. And also the Army Navy shop along Pilgrim Street where I bought my first pair of Monkey Boots. In early 1985 I also got my first proper pair of ten-hole black Doc Marten boots from one of those shops in Handyside for just £10 - second hand it had to be said, as being a student I couldn't quite afford a brand new pair from either one of the Army Stores or the two great footwear stalls inside Grainger Market that specialised in amazing 14 hole Doc Marten (some steel toed) boots in Black, cherry, white, grey and navy blue! I was always in those military surplus shops as well as Flip which used to be on Fenkle Street. Amazing memories I have of those times.
Looks a lot nicer and cleaner and more inviting then it does today would love to go back and have a look around take pictures and video wonder what I was doing when this was taken would of been 9 and probably a lot happier with no bills and dept 😄.
Love this - thank you so much for taking the time & trouble to make these recordings & to share them. I was there - 1981 - 1990. Thanks again - social history which many will enjoy, even if they don't leave a positive comment. +++++++
I popped into the city centre this morning and was quite shocked at just how many homeless people were populating the streets. A most sobering sight to be sure.
BUT how many of these people are homeless or just down and out looking for money for a fix , in the pat there where real genuine homeles people in town who had fallen on real hard times my heart used to break for those people, but now they are stoned
Wasn't the place so much cleaner and underpopulated ,streets so clean ,now that place is like a huge bin people thousands upon thousands of undesirable walking around
It's so strange to recognise this place as MY home, personally MINE, then to realise that soooo many other people before me, and after me, feel the exact same 😊 It feels small enough to be local and personal. I wonder if people from the likes of London feel the same way about their city.
Not a charver in sight. The young lads and lasses all looking bonny and doing their own thing. Nobody begging, nobody aking for the lend of a tab, no bloody foodbanks. And they call it progress.
Well said, David and i'm in total agreement with you. Such scum are one of the major reasons the U.K. is a pale shadow of it's former self. I noticed charvers starting to seep into society back in the late '80s and they infest the country now.😡
Absolutely - and we all know why the country is the way it is now, because apathy and selfishness in society itself has let it slide into the destitution that we now see everywhere. It's a malaise which just got bigger and bigger the more supposedly 'advanced', 'sophisticated' and 'technologically savvy' civilisations and society in general has become. Back then, there were also problems and political unrest (see the Miners strike for example), but people still pulled together and a sense of community and accountability prevailed nevertheless. When I left in 1988 and returned a year or two later to visit my friends, I was shocked when they told me how bad parts of the west end - where I lived as a student - had become due to the deprivation and anti social behaviour that started to spread. Places like Benwell, Elswick, Scotswood, and West Denton etc.. even parts of Fenham. It was the beginning of the moral decline of the UK as a whole sadly.
People would go to the town as a real day out in those days , now it's only go if it's important avoid at all costs it's a horrible place overcrowded , and hang on to your bag at all costs.
I visited the city centre earlier today and all the ignorant idiots with their heads hopelessly buried in their mobile phones was making my blood boil to no end.😡 Walking while oblivious to everyone and everything else around them. Such staggering stupidity.😖
God, how i wish i could step into this video and embrace my past again.
My lovely city that once was ,is no more, i weep for my town and all who's hone before her😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤😊
Lovely videos showing the city exactly as I remember it whilst I was living up there as a student between 1984 and 1987/88 and adopting it as my second home (from Liverpool originally) so much that I kept returning almost every year long after graduating in 1987, to catch up with my Newcastle social circle, until about 1995. I even remember the very same newspapers sellers shouting out 'Chronicle!' along Northumberland Street. The previous video (Part One) showed some wonderfully nostalgic footage of Clayton Street, Newgate Street, Bigg Market and Grainger Market as well! I lost count of how much time I would spend mooching around the old Grainger Market soaking up the atmosphere. Everything about the city then was great in so many ways - a real vibrant shopping, club and pub scene all around and best of all, it was really cheap to live back then too. Loved the old Quayside Market and the old pubs along there, the floating nightclub Tuxedo Princess, and the truly amazing Handyside Arcade / Leazes Arcades - sadly long consigned to history when Eldon Square shopping mall extended across Percy Street in the late 1980s to try and make itself bigger to compete with the Dunston Gateshead MetroCentre..
I studied in Newcastle during the same period. These places are forever etched in my memories.
You would be amazed how many people are looking for Ronnie Gill around Newcastle city centre, blokes shouting his name out all over the city. Still hasn’t been found.
I get it Ronnie Gill oh yes !!!
That's bloody funny 😄 I'm now in stitches good one 👍
I was eight in 1985 and i would do anything to be able to drive one of those old cars but only for a half hour😊
I was a punk rocker in 85 and now I am happy just being alive .great times the 80s nicer people
Great times indeed. Gone but never forgotten.
Agree. Society was much more accommodating then. There was also a lot more pride in our regional cities too. A proper sense of community. I remember that Newcastle had a great punk/skinhead/psychobilly scene around those years. As a spiky haired student myself living there in 1984-1987, I was always in the Handyside Arcade browsing in the shops there selling posters, army surplus and t-shirts. And also the Army Navy shop along Pilgrim Street where I bought my first pair of Monkey Boots. In early 1985 I also got my first proper pair of ten-hole black Doc Marten boots from one of those shops in Handyside for just £10 - second hand it had to be said, as being a student I couldn't quite afford a brand new pair from either one of the Army Stores or the two great footwear stalls inside Grainger Market that specialised in amazing 14 hole Doc Marten (some steel toed) boots in Black, cherry, white, grey and navy blue! I was always in those military surplus shops as well as Flip which used to be on Fenkle Street. Amazing memories I have of those times.
Looks a lot nicer and cleaner and more inviting then it does today would love to go back and have a look around take pictures and video wonder what I was doing when this was taken would of been 9 and probably a lot happier with no bills and dept 😄.
Was 5yo in 85 oh wish i could go back in time so much better back then no zombies on mobiles
Damn right. I was 12 back in '85 and it was one of the happiest times of my life.
Yes I wish I could go back to then as well, before I got grey hair and varicose veins. The enlarged aorta wasn't a problem then either.
@@philgray1023 I'm so creaky in the mornings now i could do with a spray of WD40 when i get up. Sciatica isn't exactly welcome either.
Cheers for this post. More feelgood footage from a feelgood era. Give me yesteryear over current year any time.
Yes very true 👍
Love this - thank you so much for taking the time & trouble to make these recordings & to share them. I was there - 1981 - 1990. Thanks again - social history which many will enjoy, even if they don't leave a positive comment. +++++++
Can hear the chronicle seller, great video!
I popped into the city centre this morning and was quite shocked at just how many homeless people were populating the streets. A most sobering sight to be sure.
Back in the day homeless meant homeless now it's just beggers that's a totally different thing it's awfull
BUT how many of these people are homeless or just down and out looking for money for a fix , in the pat there where real genuine homeles people in town who had fallen on real hard times my heart used to break for those people, but now they are stoned
Yesterday once more.
Prefer the then to now.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💖💕💟💓💜💝💛💚💗
You and me both.
Always when we where not afraid in our own city😢😢
Wasn't the place so much cleaner and underpopulated ,streets so clean ,now that place is like a huge bin people thousands upon thousands of undesirable walking around
We need nostalgia now more than ever in these oppressive Orwellian days.
True
We need to remind our future generations that newcastle wasn't always a forighners paradise
Where this video is taken not much has changed other than the people.
Mostly geordies then .
Magical
A magical time to be a kid for sure.
I speak from personal experience.👍
@@hallgos7319 not many Georgia's to be found around day time hours in town
Brilliant 👍🏻
Hard to even notice our newcadtle now but those where the days it was great 👍.
But it's filthy now
It's so strange to recognise this place as MY home, personally MINE, then to realise that soooo many other people before me, and after me, feel the exact same 😊
It feels small enough to be local and personal.
I wonder if people from the likes of London feel the same way about their city.
Yes we are not alone but told to say nowt
Notice how thin everyone is, and how busy is the toon, before online shopping!
People were generally nicer and more likeable all round back then. Nowadays people have changed and it's definitely not for the better.
Hallgos73 I second that, Newcastle isn’t that friendly these days
Did you see how much a Wimpy burger cost? That's why they are thin.
From 1985 to all the way to your comment in twenty eighteen of course times will be a lot different 😆
Eye not 5hat many takeaways it was mostly all English food ,boring as it was it was our traditional food ,
Not a charver in sight. The young lads and lasses all looking bonny and doing their own thing. Nobody begging, nobody aking for the lend of a tab, no bloody foodbanks. And they call it progress.
Well said, David and i'm in total agreement with you.
Such scum are one of the major reasons the U.K. is a pale shadow of it's former self.
I noticed charvers starting to seep into society back in the late '80s and they infest the country now.😡
Absolutely - and we all know why the country is the way it is now, because apathy and selfishness in society itself has let it slide into the destitution that we now see everywhere. It's a malaise which just got bigger and bigger the more supposedly 'advanced', 'sophisticated' and 'technologically savvy' civilisations and society in general has become. Back then, there were also problems and political unrest (see the Miners strike for example), but people still pulled together and a sense of community and accountability prevailed nevertheless. When I left in 1988 and returned a year or two later to visit my friends, I was shocked when they told me how bad parts of the west end - where I lived as a student - had become due to the deprivation and anti social behaviour that started to spread. Places like Benwell, Elswick, Scotswood, and West Denton etc.. even parts of Fenham. It was the beginning of the moral decline of the UK as a whole sadly.
Yes the place we used t call our newcastle is long gone it's been given away ,looks like a third world country
Have you got any more of this?
God, i hope so. Nostalgia-tastic!
People would go to the town as a real day out in those days , now it's only go if it's important avoid at all costs it's a horrible place overcrowded , and hang on to your bag at all costs.
WOW!! I'm loving these videos. Bloke just lying on the grass Haha you wouldn't do that these days
No cos he would either be mugged or beaten up .
Ahh the late 20th Century 😢
As a disillusioned, disheartened, disappointed and dissatisfied fortysomething i find there's more that makes modern life worth leaving than living.
I remember Malcolm the Chronicle seller.
Wimpey Bar, much better than McDonalds shite.
Takes you back the wimpy bar
I visited the city centre earlier today and all the ignorant idiots with their heads hopelessly buried in their mobile phones was making my blood boil to no end.😡
Walking while oblivious to everyone and everything else around them.
Such staggering stupidity.😖
I like to think the '80s didn't ram countless charity TV commercials down our throats too.😡
I was 22 with sun in bleached hair lol.
Exactly the same here man
No Golden Arches to inflate the waistline 😂
Inflated waistlines are all too common these deplorable and draconian days.😞
The blubber brigade in all their lazy, gluttinous glory.😞
No black faces.