My Dad's family was Blyth. We grew up in Morpeth when it wasn't as posh as it is now. But Blyth always felt special and more alive. I'm 46 now This video makes me feel nostalgic but I know things have gone downhill. I love Blyth Spartans and I go to Blyth when I can but its the images from the 80s that I have in mind when I go. In my opinion it's a town with so much potential. Always was and should be.
ASDA was the final nail in Blyth's coffin but the local planners did everything they could to destroy a busy shopping town, people used to travel to Blyth to shop, they don't need charity shops, bookmakers and Wetherspoons, everything the shopper needs is now on the outskirts of town at the big ASDA and no one shopping there shops in the town centre, blame Northumberland County Council's planning department,
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I love this, thank you so much, from a Blyth lass living in NZ xx
Nobother brings back good memories
So grateful for this post - and wonderful to hear genuine admiration for Blyth … good to see some of the architectural gems we have now all but lost …
It'd be nice just to go back in time for a weekend...can you imagine trying to explain to somebody back then what awaits them for the next 30+ years.
Much better times in the past, and it's only getting worse in the future
@@geordieurbex2200 100% mate 👍
It was thriving then full of life prosperous even..a far cry from the way it is now..and I should know I've lived there all of my life
My Dad's family was Blyth. We grew up in Morpeth when it wasn't as posh as it is now. But Blyth always felt special and more alive. I'm 46 now This video makes me feel nostalgic but I know things have gone downhill. I love Blyth Spartans and I go to Blyth when I can but its the images from the 80s that I have in mind when I go. In my opinion it's a town with so much potential. Always was and should be.
so sad it was more alive than is now
ASDA was the final nail in Blyth's coffin but the local planners did everything they could to destroy a busy shopping town, people used to travel to Blyth to shop, they don't need charity shops, bookmakers and Wetherspoons, everything the shopper needs is now on the outskirts of town at the big ASDA and no one shopping there shops in the town centre, blame Northumberland County Council's planning department,
I everything is spaced out in blyth, but online shopping has killed off little towns all around the country
Interesting. Noticed the old church before the Keel Row.
Yeh central methodist church, demolished in 89 for the keel row, nd looks like keel rows on its last legs now
@@geordieurbex2200demolished next year I heard
Born in blyth….. shame about those listed staithes didn’t go to plan all gone!
To be fair almost all gone anything of use anyway shame!
They were destroyed by fire nd had to be pulled down
I remember sering this on TV. He made things sound better that what they were even then. It's only gotten worse, thanks to this government.
Full of litter and smackheads now
Hey i live here 🤣🤣
Was full them in the 80s wasn’t called heroin capital of the n e for nothing