Proud to be working with the Tynesider and all the other fantastic organisations in Gateshead Town Centre. We're trying our hardest to bring that vibrancy back to the High Street and supporting our local community the best we can. 💚
The council needs to start explaining what's happening with the regeneration project. They must have bought a lot of properties down there with compulsory purchase orders.
Good luck to Lee and Louisa ! What a brilliant initiative. The local Council would do well to sit with this couple and see how they can help. It does not have to cost money. A bit of red tape cutting would help. They could maybe find space for a Community hub somewhere.
That’s every other day haha! We have a few events coming up on our Facebook page but we do Tynesider Disco most weekends & Tynesider Soul Club 1st Sunday of the month.
Another great report Eddie I go to Gateshead once a week so I know a pub I will visit next time got to support small businesses like this one what great people.
You can tell Lee and Louisa are genuinely trying their best to do their bit to bring some joy to the area they care about so much ,good on the pair of you and I wish you a lot of success , thanks for another great video Eddie
Bravo sir! As a Geordie Cavalier now residing in Guangzhou China, who was born and grew up in Gateshead Low Fell, this warmed me noodles and Peking Duck no end. Any mention of 'Shepherds' takes me way way back. In it's heyday, Shepherds made Fenwicks look like Open all hours x Do carry on sir x
My Dad was Born in Low Fell in 1916 but he was born when it were County Durham. When he died in 2000 they put Gateshead on his death certificate. Had to bury him in a Durham Coffin to make amends
Excellent upload indeed, & a good interview. What a lovely couple. ( My Mother used to be a barmaid in the Blue Bell pub ) Visiting the area over the years since 1982 it is sad to see the decline which unfortunately is common in the once thriving high streets. Good luck indeed to the new pub owners & will surely say good day on my next visit.
This is a great video Eddy and what a brilliant initiative in Gateshead!! Going to pass this one to my parents in case they fancy jumping on the bus through of a Wednesday. Thank you for these great videos! I miss the NE. Sadly, I live in Leeds now (boo).
I'm from sunderland and had a mate who lived near the pear tree on sunderland road , spent a lot of Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons on the high street in the early 90s blue bell , the Grove, curlys , the traf and if we had owt left dinner in Gloucester on the sunday Was always busy and full of characters . Been through it a few times since , very sad . Have really fond memories of the high street ,they were great days
Thanks for starting out at my favourite pub. The Microbus and The Station East are the beating heart of Gateshead which attracts excellent musicians and bands to complement their excellent and very reasonably priced craft beers. As for the southern part of The High Street it needs pulling down and replaced with open spaces which could bring some much needed beauty to this bleak area!
It’s the people that make the pubs, we love the Microbus & Station East because they are ran by lovely people, fantastic beer and have a great community. The hub of Gateshead’s social scene.
When I come down in 3 weeks I will need to visit the pub. You showed my old Rangers pub the Blue Bell many great Sundays in there watching the Rangers matches.
Nice to see a spark of life back in the old place, my Mam used to work in Shephards as well. My Nana lived on Rochester Street in a home she had eleven kids in until the council compulsory purchased it and knocked it down for the horrible 70's things they put up. Gateshead council have a lot to answer for I think
I grew up on Coatsworth Road area and I couldn’t believe the change there recently. Gateshead high street has been going downhill for years, ever since they closed down the old Odeon building. Love the videos Eddie, just found your channel recently 👍
Haven't seen Gateshead High Street for about 30 years as I've moved away. Although I'd heard it had declined, I am shocked at just how much. Trinity Square looks fab now though. Good on them at the Tynesider for injecting life back into the high street. It is a fantastic idea because so many older people don't feel safe at night but still want to go out. Very impressed with the Railway Quarter because that used to look so dingy and dirty but now it looks bright and welcoming. Can't wait for your next video.
I come back up to the North now and then because it brings back so many memories. My dad came fron Dunston as well as my auntie. My mother came from Newbiggin by the Sea so i usually stay there when i come back. I am pleased i have found this channel. I have subscribed.❤
There’s not much of the high street left, over the years it’s been slowly flattened. I still love Gateshead no matter how much of a dump it’s become. Good to see new businesses giving it a go though. It gives a bit of hope for the future.
Definable going to call in to this pub although I live 5 miles away from town centre but this couple are absolutely great and yeah I will patronise their pub shortly.
It’s wonderful trying to save your area, im from Sunderland but always big up all the north east ( bar football 😉) hope Gateshead town centre can get back to something like it used to, great place
Got the bus from Newcastle to Whickham,via Gateshead, at traffic lights just past the junction past High Level bridge,I had the opportunity to to look at the buildings, absolutely beautiful some of them, especially the old Lloyds bank, so sad to see them in decline
I can still sing the ad song for Shepphards & I left the NE 50 years ago 😄sadly it's the same in many city centres ,the rise out of town retail parks hasn't helped. Where I live now even some charity shops have closed.Good luck to those trying to make a difference
The luftwaffe did less damage to Gateshead High Street than the Liebour controlled council has done What needs to be investigated is the £23 million wasted on building a locked up never used car park and the wasteland next to The Sage where the supposedly £90 million original cost of an unwanted or needed music venue in direct competition to The Sage has ballooned to £350 million This invisible venue was supposed to be built and operational this year Gateshead High Street is best avoided, it's literally the dirty back lane leading to the bright lights of the big city
Used to love the bustling high street when we were younger. 62 now. As apprentices at Clarke chapman, we used hit the high street when we finished for Christmas, pub crawl around, and finish at the Trafalgar. Which was in falling distance of the bus home. Great times.
Hi Eddie, loved the video, I was born in the street at the start of the video when you mentioned the toilets. I was born in Chandless st on xmas day 1948. By the way the toilets are still there underneath the road surface. They were not destroyed just covered over.
Class video Eddie loved shepards going there with me mam in the 70s hopefully people come together to save these high streets all over the country.. internet shopping has changed the high street and it now has to adapt and change to suit peoples needs
I'll mention this on my show on Radio Tyneside Eddy, what an absolutely brilliant Idea and what lovely people, Lee and Luisa. Hats off to them for wanting to make Gateshead a brighter place and happier place.
Hi mate. Just subscribed. Remember the high street vividly and shepherds. Was born in granville street in 1967, used to walk up the high street home with me mam. Remember laws and the pork shop. Me mam cleaned on Jackson street and the Metropole. Keep up the good work mate.
Brilliant. There are some amazing people out there trying to make lives better for folk in Gateshead. I'm from Sunderland but I lived in Deckham for a few years on Northborne Street and used to love going down town and over to Newcastle. One of my favourite places was Linntone Hifi shop but I did hear it sadly closed. Next time I'm home I will visit Gateshead town centre and have a pint in one of the pubs.
Cracking video. I pass through here often and seen a decline over the years. Such a shame as I live in Gateshead too. Hopefully it picks up but with councils and internet shopping a lot of places are either there or heading in the same direction. Top stuff lad 👍🏻
I worked as an engineer on the trinity square project and thought at the time this could suck the life out of the town.Giving everyone the same shiny anodyne version of a town they’ve got elsewhere isn’t gonna bring money to a place.Its character that makes you want to come to a place and that’s formed by generation on generation of people of the place and what they bring to it. The place you didn’t go was the black bull.I regularly run up as it’s something of a legend on the punk scene as much as trillians is on the rock and metal scene and the punk scene is much bigger than people realise(big influence on a lot of current massive bands and the festivals get serious numbers)and Maz that runs the place goes back to the broken doll on westgate rd and has seen them all and still knows most.Great people,should definitely put a bit of a spotlight on them.One of the many varieties that are the spice of life making a place special
Great vid Eddie,,Absolutely fantastic what Lee & Luisa are doing ⭐️🙏🏻was in the tynesider few weeks ago ,very friendly bar great atmosphere,would definitely recommend going …(hopefully catch up with them the next time ,see you in Ibiza 😉😁)
Remember was thriving here when I was growing up in the 80s/90s. Such a shame places like these are going to the nakkers yard now with lack of investment , online shopping and lack of money in people’s pockets. Sad to see. Ps….Eddie, get yourself over to Felling and do one on the Merry Widow of Windy Nook. I’m not going to stop asking 🤣👍
Would love to see the High Street come alive again had some great times in the Blue Bell and the Nags head and of course the Trafalgar well done again Eddie
I was born and raised in Gateshead. My grandma worked at the co-op my grandad worked at the QE I used to hang round with my brother at the indoor market and get me hair cut at Adrian's
Nice one Eddie👍🏻 good luck to Lee and Louisa doesn’t look like they’re short of business on a Wednesday so I’ll pop in another day and give them a little bit of custom.
Gateshead was rundown even as a kid. I do miss Law’s Herbal Supplies next to Curley’s which no longer exists as they used to serve sarsaparilla. The guy who owned it his dad owned it before him.
Great video. I'm in Newcastle and not really familiar with Gateshead. I did recognise the Central Bar only because I'm sure it featured in an episode of Vera. 😂
It's the whole country now less shops and more homeless alcoholics etc. Our country is being destroyed by a tyrant narcisist right in front of us and we just watching it happen. Sad really I miss the 90s when everyone was happy and north east was bouncing.
As much as I hate Starmer, and by golly I detest him, he's only been in the job 5 minutes. You might want to consider that all the working class people who kept on voting Tory and therefore austerity are the turkeys who kept voting for Christmas time and time again.
shocking mate yet another town looking in a state. Aye I remember Shepherds of Gateshead its where my Mam used to do xmas shopping when she got her Provi loan haha. Well done to the people trying to salvage the area and great to see those guys having fun.
I used to work at the careers office opposite the bus station and then at the civic centre in mid 90’s. I moved to Leeds for University and actually did my dissertation back in 1998 about the downfall of Gateshead High Street and the impact caused by the Metro Centre.
This situation is common in high streets all over the country. The wealth distribution has changed drastically over the last thirty years. The rich have got a lot richer while the working man and women are barely surviving. Plus online shopping has got a lot to do with the decline of the high street.
Over aggressive traffic wardens killed that high street for me. Pounced as soon as I parked outside of, and went into the Post Office a good while ago. Was parked only a couple of minutes. Appealed to council, and told they had zero tolerence parking rules and NO grace period at all. People wont go to shops if they get fined for doing so. Looks like the awful council are still happy to keep aggressively destroying Gateshead.
Great interviewing, I cannot believe those ladies were in their 70’s wow 😳 looked younger……shame just crossing water changes the urban landscape and lives of those there.
The top end of Gateshead High Street has been buggered since at least the 1970s, the bottom ends knackered because the traffic has nowhere to go except into Tesco's car park
Rarely ventured into gateshead, very little reason to go when Newcastle had so much more. I did go in the late 80s a few times, and it was rough back then. Not in the high St, but I remember going to a gun shop a few times. Weirdly located in what was probably previously a corner shop on the end of a brick terrace st.
Houw 👊Yuh alreet bonny lad . Belter video this one eddy. What the hells happened to the heed .I haven't been ower Gateshead since my driving ban a couple of years ago.i knew it was in decline but I didn't expect to see it looking so empty.i half expected one of them ball thingymajiggs to roll past... 🤔 Tumbleweeds ☝️🤓 that's the thingymajiggs I was on aboot. Anyway crackin' stuff eddy 🤝
That pub you mentioned - the closed-down bookies - was called the Rector House. It was back-to-back to a pub called the Fox & Lamb on Burdon Street. Is the Tynesider housed in the old Barclays Bank building?
Gateshead high street was ruined when they built the monstrosity of the big Tesco. There used to be a class market and loads of little local high street shops but now everyone just goes to the big supermarkets
Wish something could be done about people putting their crappy graffiti tags on everything.... I see some of the same tags all over every part of Newcastle / Gateshead city centre and most of the suburbs. It really brings areas down. 'Broken window theory' is real.
Gateshead hosted the garden festival and allegedly was funded in thousands to help projects did it happen no coatsworth rd and the high street have been left to rot 😢so well done to the people from the tynesider age uk micro bar and the few existing bars encourage ment is needed to welcome the locals back and the few hundred students housed in the Tesco student accommodation
Recognise that drone shot eddy hope recognise that place that you showed us I recognise that place because walker terrace cedars college gateshead is there
It's a massive upgrade to down here people are so rude and unfriendly in Plymouth that's why I can't wait to move and see the back of the place. Great video as always Eddy maybe see you in 10 days for a birthday pint in the strawberry :)
Having lived in various places around the country this is the same story in most places. Retail parks drawing trade out of the high streets is the death of the high street and places near to somewhere larger such as Newscatle have the double problem of retailers going into Newcastle as it is near and the Retail Parks. I think the high streets have to shrink and the property get repurposed so they don't look like a wasteland.
Well done to the tynesider great to see the older generation have somewere to go and have some fun
Proud to be working with the Tynesider and all the other fantastic organisations in Gateshead Town Centre. We're trying our hardest to bring that vibrancy back to the High Street and supporting our local community the best we can. 💚
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Eddie you do a cracking job promoting and keeping us informed on our beautiful region. Love Gateshead high street well done The Tynesider
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The council needs to start explaining what's happening with the regeneration project.
They must have bought a lot of properties down there with compulsory purchase orders.
Good luck to Lee and Louisa ! What a brilliant initiative. The local Council would do well to sit with this couple and see how they can help. It does not have to cost money. A bit of red tape cutting would help. They could maybe find space for a Community hub somewhere.
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Microbus is an incredible bar. One place that absolutely deserves to do very well
Well done Lee and Louisa, should do gatherings for 30s, 40s, and 50s too! ❤
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That’s every other day haha! We have a few events coming up on our Facebook page but we do
Tynesider Disco most weekends & Tynesider Soul Club 1st Sunday of the month.
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Another great report Eddie I go to Gateshead once a week so I know a pub I will visit next time got to support small businesses like this one what great people.
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Fantastic Eddy, great to see smiles once again on Gateshead high street. Good luck Tynesider, looks a lovely venue
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You can tell Lee and Louisa are genuinely trying their best to do their bit to bring some joy to the area they care about so much ,good on the pair of you and I wish you a lot of success , thanks for another great video Eddie
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Another great vlog, Eddie. Great to see something positive about Gateshead town centre.
Well done Eddie, another brilliant video, you always show Tyneside in a positive view
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Well done Eddie - great to highlight what’s going on and bring communities together - keep it up.
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I used to work at Shephards of Gateshead in the mid/late 70s
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Bravo sir! As a Geordie Cavalier now residing in Guangzhou China, who was born and grew up in Gateshead Low Fell, this warmed me noodles and Peking Duck no end. Any mention of 'Shepherds' takes me way way back. In it's heyday, Shepherds made Fenwicks look like Open all hours x Do carry on sir x
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My Dad was Born in Low Fell in 1916 but he was born when it were County Durham. When he died in 2000 they put Gateshead on his death certificate.
Had to bury him in a Durham Coffin to make amends
Excellent upload indeed, & a good interview. What a lovely couple.
( My Mother used to be a barmaid in the Blue Bell pub )
Visiting the area over the years since 1982 it is sad to see the decline which unfortunately is common in the once thriving high streets. Good luck indeed to the new pub owners & will surely say good day on my next visit.
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Another fine video Eddie .. I'm glad to see the is people trying to breathe life back to Gateshead high street
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Another great video Eddie, I love what Lee and Louisa are doing in here. It might be a good thing for other pubs to do in other areas.
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This is a great video Eddy and what a brilliant initiative in Gateshead!! Going to pass this one to my parents in case they fancy jumping on the bus through of a Wednesday. Thank you for these great videos! I miss the NE. Sadly, I live in Leeds now (boo).
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I'm from sunderland and had a mate who lived near the pear tree on sunderland road , spent a lot of Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons on the high street in the early 90s blue bell , the Grove, curlys , the traf and if we had owt left dinner in Gloucester on the sunday
Was always busy and full of characters .
Been through it a few times since , very sad .
Have really fond memories of the high street ,they were great days
Thanks for starting out at my favourite pub. The Microbus and The Station East are the beating heart of Gateshead which attracts excellent musicians and bands to complement their excellent and very reasonably priced craft beers. As for the southern part of The High Street it needs pulling down and replaced with open spaces which could bring some much needed beauty to this bleak area!
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It’s the people that make the pubs, we love the Microbus & Station East because they are ran by lovely people, fantastic beer and have a great community. The hub of Gateshead’s social scene.
Well done Ian!! Shoutout to Gary, Suzy & Phil also who’ve do an amazing job, fantastic bar x
When I come down in 3 weeks I will need to visit the pub. You showed my old Rangers pub the Blue Bell many great Sundays in there watching the Rangers matches.
Another great video Eddie.. looking forward to coming over sometime next year and would definitely be hitting up up for a tour around the toon lad!!
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Nice to see a spark of life back in the old place, my Mam used to work in Shephards as well. My Nana lived on Rochester Street in a home she had eleven kids in until the council compulsory purchased it and knocked it down for the horrible 70's things they put up. Gateshead council have a lot to answer for I think
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I grew up on Coatsworth Road area and I couldn’t believe the change there recently. Gateshead high street has been going downhill for years, ever since they closed down the old Odeon building. Love the videos Eddie, just found your channel recently 👍
Thank you 🙏 got my first tattoo on ‘coatsy road’😅
@ haha bet you had a pint in the Honeysuckle too … or maybe that was before your time 😃
Haven't seen Gateshead High Street for about 30 years as I've moved away. Although I'd heard it had declined, I am shocked at just how much. Trinity Square looks fab now though. Good on them at the Tynesider for injecting life back into the high street. It is a fantastic idea because so many older people don't feel safe at night but still want to go out. Very impressed with the Railway Quarter because that used to look so dingy and dirty but now it looks bright and welcoming. Can't wait for your next video.
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I come back up to the North now and then because it brings back so many memories. My dad came fron Dunston as well as my auntie. My mother came from Newbiggin by the Sea so i usually stay there when i come back. I am pleased i have found this channel. I have subscribed.❤
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@TynesideLife You are most welcome hinny 😊
There’s not much of the high street left, over the years it’s been slowly flattened. I still love Gateshead no matter how much of a dump it’s become. Good to see new businesses giving it a go though. It gives a bit of hope for the future.
This is really nice to watch, positive vibes where it’s needed 😊
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Another great vlog Eddy. Cheers!
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Great sots very well done
Definable going to call in to this pub although I live 5 miles away from town centre but this couple are absolutely great and yeah I will patronise their pub shortly.
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It’s wonderful trying to save your area, im from Sunderland but always big up all the north east ( bar football 😉) hope Gateshead town centre can get back to something like it used to, great place
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Got the bus from Newcastle to Whickham,via Gateshead, at traffic lights just past the junction past High Level bridge,I had the opportunity to to look at the buildings, absolutely beautiful some of them, especially the old Lloyds bank, so sad to see them in decline
Excellent informative video as always Eddie
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It's brilliant to see someone doing something positive in Gateshead AND being successful too. Well done Eddy, another great watch mate. 😀
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I can still sing the ad song for Shepphards & I left the NE 50 years ago 😄sadly it's the same in many city centres ,the rise out of town retail parks hasn't helped. Where I live now even some charity shops have closed.Good luck to those trying to make a difference
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The luftwaffe did less damage to Gateshead High Street than the Liebour controlled council has done
What needs to be investigated is the £23 million wasted on building a locked up never used car park and the wasteland next to The Sage where the supposedly £90 million original cost of an unwanted or needed music venue in direct competition to The Sage has ballooned to £350 million
This invisible venue was supposed to be built and operational this year
Gateshead High Street is best avoided, it's literally the dirty back lane leading to the bright lights of the big city
Used to love the bustling high street when we were younger. 62 now. As apprentices at Clarke chapman, we used hit the high street when we finished for Christmas, pub crawl around, and finish at the Trafalgar. Which was in falling distance of the bus home. Great times.
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Hi Eddie, loved the video, I was born in the street at the start of the video when you mentioned the toilets. I was born in Chandless st on xmas day 1948. By the way the toilets are still there underneath the road surface. They were not destroyed just covered over.
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Class video Eddie loved shepards going there with me mam in the 70s hopefully people come together to save these high streets all over the country.. internet shopping has changed the high street and it now has to adapt and change to suit peoples needs
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Great vid....good luck lee and louise..shound like a cracking day in gateshesd...in the 80s gateshead a great nite out...
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I'll mention this on my show on Radio Tyneside Eddy, what an absolutely brilliant Idea and what lovely people, Lee and Luisa. Hats off to them for wanting to make Gateshead a brighter place and happier place.
Thank you very much Mike 🙏👍 there’s some amazing work going on and I’m sure they’ll appreciate the publicity.
So sad to Gateshead high street. Hat's off to that young couple bonkers and brave I say . Shepherd's did you say. Top-man
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Flatten the top end of the high street build residential housing. Get rid of the flyover the whole area would look so much nicer.
They should build an indoor mall like in places like Wallsend.
Hi mate. Just subscribed. Remember the high street vividly and shepherds. Was born in granville street in 1967, used to walk up the high street home with me mam. Remember laws and the pork shop. Me mam cleaned on Jackson street and the Metropole. Keep up the good work mate.
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Brilliant. There are some amazing people out there trying to make lives better for folk in Gateshead. I'm from Sunderland but I lived in Deckham for a few years on Northborne Street and used to love going down town and over to Newcastle. One of my favourite places was Linntone Hifi shop but I did hear it sadly closed.
Next time I'm home I will visit Gateshead town centre and have a pint in one of the pubs.
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Cracking video. I pass through here often and seen a decline over the years. Such a shame as I live in Gateshead too. Hopefully it picks up but with councils and internet shopping a lot of places are either there or heading in the same direction. Top stuff lad 👍🏻
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I worked as an engineer on the trinity square project and thought at the time this could suck the life out of the town.Giving everyone the same shiny anodyne version of a town they’ve got elsewhere isn’t gonna bring money to a place.Its character that makes you want to come to a place and that’s formed by generation on generation of people of the place and what they bring to it.
The place you didn’t go was the black bull.I regularly run up as it’s something of a legend on the punk scene as much as trillians is on the rock and metal scene and the punk scene is much bigger than people realise(big influence on a lot of current massive bands and the festivals get serious numbers)and Maz that runs the place goes back to the broken doll on westgate rd and has seen them all and still knows most.Great people,should definitely put a bit of a spotlight on them.One of the many varieties that are the spice of life making a place special
Great vid Eddie,,Absolutely fantastic what Lee & Luisa are doing ⭐️🙏🏻was in the tynesider few weeks ago ,very friendly bar great atmosphere,would definitely recommend going …(hopefully catch up with them the next time ,see you in Ibiza 😉😁)
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Thanks for a video on my town! I may go and do some business at GBC :) and definitely go to the Tynesider! Big love!
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This is great Eddy....such a positive bit of awesome!
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Remember was thriving here when I was growing up in the 80s/90s. Such a shame places like these are going to the nakkers yard now with lack of investment , online shopping and lack of money in people’s pockets. Sad to see.
Ps….Eddie, get yourself over to Felling and do one on the Merry Widow of Windy Nook. I’m not going to stop asking 🤣👍
Cheers Russell. Already done one of Felling 😃
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Another fantastic upload, thanks eddy. 50k subs well done
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Would love to see the High Street come alive again had some great times in the Blue Bell and the Nags head and of course the Trafalgar well done again Eddie
Next time we come over to gateshead from Canada we'll certainly be visiting those businesses and spending a few quid
I was born and raised in Gateshead. My grandma worked at the co-op my grandad worked at the QE I used to hang round with my brother at the indoor market and get me hair cut at Adrian's
Nice one Eddie👍🏻 good luck to Lee and Louisa doesn’t look like they’re short of business on a Wednesday so I’ll pop in another day and give them a little bit of custom.
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Gateshead was rundown even as a kid. I do miss Law’s Herbal Supplies next to Curley’s which no longer exists as they used to serve sarsaparilla. The guy who owned it his dad owned it before him.
I used to make a point of calling in to Laws for a glass of sarsaparilla when ever I was in Gateshead. Wonderful shop.
@@heathersmith394 In my later years at school I would actually skip school and I would visit Law's for a sarsaparilla. I miss them.
lovely to see some nice news for a change! Amazing content as always mate
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Great video. I'm in Newcastle and not really familiar with Gateshead. I did recognise the Central Bar only because I'm sure it featured in an episode of Vera. 😂
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It's the whole country now less shops and more homeless alcoholics etc. Our country is being destroyed by a tyrant narcisist right in front of us and we just watching it happen. Sad really I miss the 90s when everyone was happy and north east was bouncing.
Yep this country is in big trouble
As much as I hate Starmer, and by golly I detest him, he's only been in the job 5 minutes. You might want to consider that all the working class people who kept on voting Tory and therefore austerity are the turkeys who kept voting for Christmas time and time again.
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We turned our backs on the God of our ancestors and thought the devil didn't exist. Well we're gonna find our the hard way
@philtate1029 I never turned my back on God I tell to him everyday snf thank him rvdrydsy for my life
Great video Eddie
Sad to see I spent my youth there the pubs were once so vibrant .
We know Gateshead council and the MetroCentre killed it dead .
Michelle is a lovely lady. Thanks for the video very interesting
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shocking mate yet another town looking in a state. Aye I remember Shepherds of Gateshead its where my Mam used to do xmas shopping when she got her Provi loan haha. Well done to the people trying to salvage the area and great to see those guys having fun.
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Station/ central/ microbus are absolutely class little pubs
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I used to work at the careers office opposite the bus station and then at the civic centre in mid 90’s. I moved to Leeds for University and actually did my dissertation back in 1998 about the downfall of Gateshead High Street and the impact caused by the Metro Centre.
This situation is common in high streets all over the country. The wealth distribution has changed drastically over the last thirty years. The rich have got a lot richer while the working man and women are barely surviving. Plus online shopping has got a lot to do with the decline of the high street.
Hats off to them for doing this, Gateshead council want to hold their heads in shame for letting it get to this state
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Wow,brilliant and interesting another top video Eddy, these are top drawer even if you don't live in the Tyneside area.
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Over aggressive traffic wardens killed that high street for me. Pounced as soon as I parked outside of, and went into the Post Office a good while ago. Was parked only a couple of minutes. Appealed to council, and told they had zero tolerence parking rules and NO grace period at all. People wont go to shops if they get fined for doing so. Looks like the awful council are still happy to keep aggressively destroying Gateshead.
Great interviewing, I cannot believe those ladies were in their 70’s wow 😳 looked younger……shame just crossing water changes the urban landscape and lives of those there.
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The top end of Gateshead High Street has been buggered since at least the 1970s, the bottom ends knackered because the traffic has nowhere to go except into Tesco's car park
I remember the pet shop that sold cats and dogs in the indoor market.
Rarely ventured into gateshead, very little reason to go when Newcastle had so much more. I did go in the late 80s a few times, and it was rough back then. Not in the high St, but I remember going to a gun shop a few times. Weirdly located in what was probably previously a corner shop on the end of a brick terrace st.
Nice jacket also 👍👍
They used to be a lot of good shops in Gateshead
Go girls go😊😊😊😊
They were handing out free coffee (and access to toilets) during the Great North Run, hope they make a success of it.
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Spent a year working up there on the metro, ah the Trafalgar in Gateshead proper boozer
Houw 👊Yuh alreet bonny lad .
Belter video this one eddy.
What the hells happened to the heed .I haven't been ower Gateshead since my driving ban a couple of years ago.i knew it was in decline but I didn't expect to see it looking so empty.i half expected one of them ball thingymajiggs to roll past... 🤔 Tumbleweeds ☝️🤓 that's the thingymajiggs I was on aboot. Anyway crackin' stuff eddy 🤝
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That pub you mentioned - the closed-down bookies - was called the Rector House. It was back-to-back to a pub called the Fox & Lamb on Burdon Street. Is the Tynesider housed in the old Barclays Bank building?
Thanks for the info Lynn. Not sure if the Tynesider was Barclays or not
Gateshead high street was ruined when they built the monstrosity of the big Tesco. There used to be a class market and loads of little local high street shops but now everyone just goes to the big supermarkets
Eddie the dj.....go for it 😂😂😂😂
Used to love going to Woolworths.
Wish something could be done about people putting their crappy graffiti tags on everything.... I see some of the same tags all over every part of Newcastle / Gateshead city centre and most of the suburbs. It really brings areas down. 'Broken window theory' is real.
Yes well we painted over the ones on our block and enquired about the other which are private and council owed.
Yeah, Gateshead, like most old town centres in the dying….. Such a shame to see this happening all over.
Gateshead hosted the garden festival and allegedly was funded in thousands to help projects did it happen no coatsworth rd and the high street have been left to rot 😢so well done to the people from the tynesider age uk micro bar and the few existing bars encourage ment is needed to welcome the locals back and the few hundred students housed in the Tesco student accommodation
All high streets are inactive
Thanks to metro centres
Retail parks
And Amazon
Times and shopping habits have changed
And there will be no going back
one of the best city in the uk newcastle on ya doorstep nd gatesheads a dump. hold ur heed in shame gateshead council!!!
Recognise that drone shot eddy hope recognise that place that you showed us I recognise that place because walker terrace cedars college gateshead is there
I was born st Mary's court gateshead so yes massive change
Just spotted one of my old work colleagues about 10 minutes in!
It's a massive upgrade to down here people are so rude and unfriendly in Plymouth that's why I can't wait to move and see the back of the place. Great video as always Eddy maybe see you in 10 days for a birthday pint in the strawberry :)
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Having lived in various places around the country this is the same story in most places. Retail parks drawing trade out of the high streets is the death of the high street and places near to somewhere larger such as Newscatle have the double problem of retailers going into Newcastle as it is near and the Retail Parks. I think the high streets have to shrink and the property get repurposed so they don't look like a wasteland.