My family migrated to Australia in 1966, my father worked for Bradmill at Rutherford, used to climb up the sign at the entrance like money bars, we lived at the mill like many families, loved it, also stopping at Oak on the way home from the beach was always a treat, so glad I was fortunate to grow up in that time, finally left Newcastle in 1994 after 15 years in the RAAF of which 12 were at Williamtown, great memories thanks for posting.🙂
Dude this you Tube needs more thumbs up. I see the mix of late sixties onwards thru the 70s here. I loved the old Newcastle. Not the yuppy blow in town it is now. This does give a heap of old memories a refresher. Thankyou.
this great video brought back memories of when newcastle steelworks was using the soaking pits with the charging crane taking ingots out of moulds ready to be treated in soaking pits
Sad to see all the industries on this post.(Which built Newcastle) and was the backbone of economic development GONE. 1970 the future for Newcastle was looking Great. Then State and Federal Government FUCKED that right up .50 years Slowly replaced Australian jobs for foreign PRODUCTS resulting in all mentioned industries in this video Closed.
Once the most beautiful rural city on the coast of Australia, full of colour and history. Now a dull grey coloured city of concrete beehives and described as Sydney's new northern beaches. More expensive More congestion More parking meters More homeless More empty shops A Baron main Street Gone are the historical facades and the character that made it what it was. A new name for the city of Newcastle is warranted, the rural city of newcastle is no more....!
Actually life here is really good these days. I've been here for 32 years and I don't think it's ever been as enjoyable. Way more stuff to do in your spare time, and the variety of work and employers here is better now. I agree though that there are some negatives like higher house pricing, and driving/parking is now more difficult during peak times. Don't lament the loss of the good old days. It's still the good old days.
Fuck! Talk about time warp! And sadly things like the oak and Tooheys factory aren't there now. And what the fuck happened to the water fountain at jeso? And what happened to the night life? Oh that's right... GLADYS!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😠😠😤
I feel exactly the same way. This video shows how strong we were and our potential. The ‘Our Town’ spirit. Now it’s gone. Breaks my heart. Interesting how they feature all the parking in town like DJ’s and the council car parks. Now there’s no parking, no business and no life in there anymore. What the hell happened? 😒💔
@@kangablue4502 ...morals were lost, as people move away from our Christian base so then does the enemy move in. It is the same all over the West. More people at that time valued the truth. I'm just glad that I knew that time in Newcastle,....the children now never will unfortunately.
Gabriel Arch I’m glad I remember the REAL Newcastle too. I’ll treasure those memories and hold them dear. It saddens me also that the younger ones won’t ever know it and have that deep connection to it we do. It’ll die along with us oldies. This really was a bittersweet video to watch. It made me realise all the wonderful things we were, and see all the things we’ve gradually lost. I can see our amazing and proud spirit dying with all the blow-ins with zero connection to this town. The last five years have seen the most negative changes. The only people who are happy with it are the out of town developers, and the Newcastle councillors taking under the table payments to destroy us. The one thing I love is seeing the real people of this town passionately speaking up! Look at the comments for this video. Look at social media pages dedicated to Newcastle of old. There’s very rarely a comment that supports the ugly and unwanted changes. Most are voices right from the true heart of Newcastle telling it how it is, and proudly wearing what it is to be Newcastle born and bred, for all to see. We never wanted to be a mini Sydney or outer suburb of it. Most of us can’t stand the place! I’m so proud of my fellow Novocastrians. We’re still alive and well, even if our town has become a dead and empty echo of what it once was. Sadly, we told the council and state government all of this rubbish ‘revitalisation’ would be bad for Newcastle . It turned out even worse than we feared. They didn’t listen and we were right all along. Now they want our ‘input’ to fix it. IDIOTS. We can’t get it back and we’ll never be the same. Nuatali Nelmes, Jeremy Bath and Gladys Berejiklien have quite literally sold us out, and have a LOT to answer for 😡. Their ‘legacy’ if you will, is a destroyed but once fiercely proud and wonderful town. 💔
@@kangablue4502 ...see,....it is in that word "spirit". This is a time prior that one holds in ones heart, this never leaves a person, just as a loved one never leaves your heart. I am just thankful that I got to live in that innocent time. The so called "progressives" of today, the Feminists/SJW's & the Globalist Left are only progressive in "immorality"....and that will be their fate.
Was born in the 70s in newcastle,was away for 10years came back end of 2019,the whole character and atmosphere has gone,now a vapid place of mercs and bmw's lycra and betas.
Newcastle council certainly screwed Newcastle's future starting with stopping the train and replacing it with a tram. The place is dull and lifeless now
Has it? The vibrant small bars. And night-life beg to differ. 3 small bars have opened during covid alone. Investors re developing the east end. Revitalising old buildings and re freshing streetscapes while retaining vital building facades I've only seen boarded up in my near 15 years of living in newcastle. Light rail. Continued re development of honeysuckle. The 3 or 4 new hotels slated to open in the coming years. Yeah. Turn town....
@@mikeybeloved I totally concur. I came to Newcastle 16 years ago and it was in many parts a dump. The inner city particularly. Now it's turning into a showpiece of beautiful harbour and beach views as well as featuring some great eateries for all tastes. Perhaps Tobes wants the pollution and the bombed out looking city centre as it was. Sure there was perhaps a vibrant community feeling that pervaded Newcastle back in the day but change is inevitable. Be it what you want or not, take the good from it and embrace it. I'm 64 and I'm fed up with people telling me how great the good old days were. Get over it.
My family migrated to Australia in 1966, my father worked for Bradmill at Rutherford, used to climb up the sign at the entrance like money bars, we lived at
the mill like many families, loved it, also stopping at Oak on the way home from the beach was always a treat, so glad I was fortunate to grow up in that time, finally left Newcastle in 1994 after 15 years in the RAAF of which 12 were at Williamtown, great memories thanks for posting.🙂
A brilliant reminder of the Newcastle of old, so good
Dude this you Tube needs more thumbs up.
I see the mix of late sixties onwards thru the 70s here.
I loved the old Newcastle.
Not the yuppy blow in town it is now.
This does give a heap of old memories a refresher.
Thankyou.
Awesome footage.
this great video brought back memories of when newcastle steelworks was using the soaking pits with the charging crane taking ingots out of moulds ready to be treated in soaking pits
Love newcastle 😍😍😍you can see the change now
I see the changes. Not ones for the better.
my hometown... city actually!
Mine too
mickfizz1 can we just go back to being a big country town? I loved it then
This makes me sad Newcastle of my Childhood in the 1970s was a thriving place not like it is these days
Love Newey!
Try NEWCASTLE. That other silly name does not exist when these videos were made thankfully.
Dannie McCulloch Gee you’d be fun at parties wouldn’t ya ..
Sorry for having an opinion.
0:32 Pacific Highway Adamstown Heights.
Sad to see all the industries on this post.(Which built Newcastle) and was the backbone of economic development GONE. 1970 the future for Newcastle was looking Great. Then State and Federal Government FUCKED that right up .50 years Slowly replaced Australian jobs for foreign PRODUCTS resulting in all mentioned industries in this video Closed.
Newcastle, a city on the grow :P
Simpsons fan?
Once the most beautiful rural city on the coast of Australia, full of colour and history.
Now a dull grey coloured city of concrete beehives and described as Sydney's new northern beaches.
More expensive
More congestion
More parking meters
More homeless
More empty shops
A Baron main Street
Gone are the historical facades and the character that made it what it was.
A new name for the city of Newcastle is warranted, the rural city of newcastle is no more....!
💔😞
Actually life here is really good these days. I've been here for 32 years and I don't think it's ever been as enjoyable. Way more stuff to do in your spare time, and the variety of work and employers here is better now. I agree though that there are some negatives like higher house pricing, and driving/parking is now more difficult during peak times. Don't lament the loss of the good old days. It's still the good old days.
Fuck! Talk about time warp! And sadly things like the oak and Tooheys factory aren't there now. And what the fuck happened to the water fountain at jeso?
And what happened to the night life? Oh that's right... GLADYS!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😠😠😤
Who are the narrators?
That was Newcastle's peak,....when it was sincere, honest,......it is not that now, that Newcastle has died.
I feel exactly the same way. This video shows how strong we were and our potential. The ‘Our Town’ spirit. Now it’s gone. Breaks my heart. Interesting how they feature all the parking in town like DJ’s and the council car parks. Now there’s no parking, no business and no life in there anymore. What the hell happened? 😒💔
@@kangablue4502 ...morals were lost, as people move away from our Christian base so then does the enemy move in. It is the same all over the West. More people at that time valued the truth. I'm just glad that I knew that time in Newcastle,....the children now never will unfortunately.
Gabriel Arch I’m glad I remember the REAL Newcastle too. I’ll treasure those memories and hold them dear. It saddens me also that the younger ones won’t ever know it and have that deep connection to it we do. It’ll die along with us oldies.
This really was a bittersweet video to watch. It made me realise all the wonderful things we were, and see all the things we’ve gradually lost. I can see our amazing and proud spirit dying with all the blow-ins with zero connection to this town. The last five years have seen the most negative changes. The only people who are happy with it are the out of town developers, and the Newcastle councillors taking under the table payments to destroy us.
The one thing I love is seeing the real people of this town passionately speaking up! Look at the comments for this video. Look at social media pages dedicated to Newcastle of old. There’s very rarely a comment that supports the ugly and unwanted changes. Most are voices right from the true heart of Newcastle telling it how it is, and proudly wearing what it is to be Newcastle born and bred, for all to see. We never wanted to be a mini Sydney or outer suburb of it. Most of us can’t stand the place!
I’m so proud of my fellow Novocastrians. We’re still alive and well, even if our town has become a dead and empty echo of what it once was. Sadly, we told the council and state government all of this rubbish ‘revitalisation’ would be bad for Newcastle . It turned out even worse than we feared. They didn’t listen and we were right all along. Now they want our ‘input’ to fix it. IDIOTS. We can’t get it back and we’ll never be the same.
Nuatali Nelmes, Jeremy Bath and Gladys Berejiklien have quite literally sold us out, and have a LOT to answer for 😡. Their ‘legacy’ if you will, is a destroyed but once fiercely proud and wonderful town. 💔
@@kangablue4502 ...see,....it is in that word "spirit".
This is a time prior that one holds in ones heart, this never leaves a person, just as a loved one never leaves your heart.
I am just thankful that I got to live in that innocent time.
The so called "progressives" of today, the Feminists/SJW's & the Globalist Left are only progressive in "immorality"....and that will be their fate.
Was born in the 70s in newcastle,was away for 10years came back end of 2019,the whole character and atmosphere has gone,now a vapid place of mercs and bmw's lycra and betas.
Gods country
it was a fantastic city it's such a shame how the ring ins and council destroyed the city it is now dead as a door nail
Says you? Who judging by your uploads lives in bali
If only they new
it is dead now
the death of Newcastle when BHP close down
@VORTEX bahahaha!!!!!! Yeah hey.🤬🤬🤬🤬 Used to love catching the ferry into the top of town wid my mum now it's a shit hole
yes mate I remember 1985 all over newcastle bhp steel dominated the landscape
You can’t walk anywhere at night in Newcastle now without being attacked by a methhead
Newcastle council certainly screwed Newcastle's future starting with stopping the train and replacing it with a tram. The place is dull and lifeless now
now the university is filled with full fee paying chinese while Australian students go to Tafe
You say that like there's a problem?
Place is turned into turd town.
Has it? The vibrant small bars. And night-life beg to differ. 3 small bars have opened during covid alone. Investors re developing the east end. Revitalising old buildings and re freshing streetscapes while retaining vital building facades I've only seen boarded up in my near 15 years of living in newcastle. Light rail. Continued re development of honeysuckle. The 3 or 4 new hotels slated to open in the coming years. Yeah. Turn town....
@@mikeybeloved I totally concur. I came to Newcastle 16 years ago and it was in many parts a dump. The inner city particularly. Now it's turning into a showpiece of beautiful harbour and beach views as well as featuring some great eateries for all tastes. Perhaps Tobes wants the pollution and the bombed out looking city centre as it was. Sure there was perhaps a vibrant community feeling that pervaded Newcastle back in the day but change is inevitable. Be it what you want or not, take the good from it and embrace it. I'm 64 and I'm fed up with people telling me how great the good old days were. Get over it.