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  • Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
  • Historical look where Newcastle came from. Some old footage but more a history of Newcastle, features Joseph Swan, Robert Stephenson and William Armstrong
    In no way do I own the rights to this clip, it's a BBC programme and I'm only making it available until it's available in the BBC archives.
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  • @justtrynasurvive
    @justtrynasurvive 3 роки тому +72

    Best city in the UK hands down. So greatful to grow up here.

  • @pulchralutetia
    @pulchralutetia 3 роки тому +87

    I was born in Newcastle and lived there for twenty years. Probably the friendliest city in England.

    • @scorchx3000
      @scorchx3000 3 роки тому +3

      Not if you wear Sunderland colours during the Derby.

    • @pulchralutetia
      @pulchralutetia 3 роки тому +4

      @@scorchx3000 Mackems are different, like.

    • @arthurcallahan753
      @arthurcallahan753 3 роки тому

      @@pulchralutetia aye can’t disagree with that like

    • @gojifan_no7
      @gojifan_no7 2 роки тому

      Thx

    • @Lat265
      @Lat265 Рік тому

      The city was infamous for football hooliganism!

  • @leeharwood9624
    @leeharwood9624 2 роки тому +9

    Makes ya proud to be a geordie watching this 🖤🖤🖤

    • @annchurchill2638
      @annchurchill2638 Місяць тому

      I llived there for a year but never got able to indertsand Geordi.In everyday English I was able to read some.Great sense of humor

  • @rosemarywaldie4958
    @rosemarywaldie4958 9 років тому +87

    My husband and I are Geordies...although we have lived in USA since 1979...we never forget our roots! and we are very proud of them!!

    • @andrewbrooks9508
      @andrewbrooks9508 8 років тому +8

      u should return some time :)

    • @leegilholm697
      @leegilholm697 7 років тому +5

      Rosemary Waldie proud to be a geordie

    • @philgray1023
      @philgray1023 4 роки тому +2

      @@andrewbrooks9508 No they need some Geordies over there to make sure they don't mess with Mason Dixon line. Took a lot of rulers to get that straight!

    • @justworstevie473
      @justworstevie473 4 роки тому

      @@philgray1023 *Don't mess with the Dixons or their lines.*
      *As a Dixon from the toon I'm canny glad I came across this comment, I wouldn't have known about this Mason-Dixon line if it weren't for you.*
      *Cheers matey.*

    • @charliealder3522
      @charliealder3522 4 роки тому +1

      Just remind your American friends that their country was built on a Geordie invention. 😉

  • @Alex-wy9cq
    @Alex-wy9cq 3 роки тому +45

    We moved from Newcastle to New Zealand in 2006. I miss my family there and I want to go back again soon... Proud to be a Geordie

    • @Keenangoal
      @Keenangoal 3 роки тому +1

      Your not missing much I promise you

    • @fredpond1087
      @fredpond1087 3 роки тому

      but for how long?.

    • @jimreid6370
      @jimreid6370 3 роки тому +1

      Full of back stabbers!

    • @Alex-wy9cq
      @Alex-wy9cq 3 роки тому

      @@fredpond1087 i would just visit,, I’m happy here in NZ

    • @patrickwoods5739
      @patrickwoods5739 3 роки тому

      I done the same but to Australia, miss Newcastle!

  • @janicekevinhands5335
    @janicekevinhands5335 6 років тому +85

    I remember as a child I used to play on the Roman wall. I had a wooden sword and a dustbin lid I used as a shield to fight off all those invaders that came from other parts of the world to save my beloved "Denton Burn".
    Then along would come a Policeman to burst my bubble just as I was getting on top of it all. Then I remembered someone said, "He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day" so I did a bunk in to "Denton Dean" where I could hide out for ages (possibly 15 minutes) then once more climb the wall and back into the fray, phew! it was hard work being a six year old in those days.
    Kevin (Geordie in Australia)

    • @DM-sd1fg
      @DM-sd1fg 3 роки тому +7

      Thanks for sharing your memory, it brought a smile to my face😊 as I can just picture a kid doing exactly that.

    • @drew.swinburne
      @drew.swinburne 3 роки тому +2

      me to but i am still a kid so i still do it

    • @drew.swinburne
      @drew.swinburne 3 роки тому

      @@DM-sd1fg me to

    • @leemichael2154
      @leemichael2154 2 роки тому

      Say oi oi to the ozzys for us kid!

    • @Lat265
      @Lat265 Рік тому

      Life was so good there, that she immigrated to Australia!

  • @Happyheart146
    @Happyheart146 3 роки тому +7

    I played on Tanfield railway and the banks of the Tyne. Worked at the Grainger Market and was published in the Lit & Phil.
    Lost family in the pit disasters. My family were ship builders, colliers and architects.
    I'm so proud of my roots. Born in the 70's, a teen in the 80's. I think I was the last of a free generation.
    I've rang bells around Durham, but one day, I'll get to Newcastle to ring. I'll be ringing for my roots.

  • @PS-bg4nr
    @PS-bg4nr 3 роки тому +8

    I have lived in Newcastle as a business student in 1969.. I loved the city and its market.later I shifted to Oxford on work permit. I loved the city and your video which reminds me of my old days. Thanks for the video, Ram Saxena, New Delhi

  • @Behappy62
    @Behappy62 Рік тому +3

    Had a good day out there yesterday, great video

  • @oregon433
    @oregon433 5 років тому +69

    And yet still the northeast gets the bad end of the stick time and time again.

    • @Evemeister12
      @Evemeister12 3 роки тому +10

      To be fair, most parts of the UK get a shitty deal these days

  • @cloudnineballoonsuk4059
    @cloudnineballoonsuk4059 4 роки тому +19

    I am not originally from Newcastle but so love this beautiful place. 👍🏼

  • @paulwatkins2601
    @paulwatkins2601 3 роки тому +5

    I live in America now but when I lived in England I worked as an installation engineer and visited most of these areas . I have also stood at he base of the angel of the north.

  • @Bunmaskka
    @Bunmaskka Рік тому +6

    I've just moved to Newcastle and watching this video makes me feel good about my decision. This city is filled with so much history !!! Such a fantastic video!!! Thank you for this.

    • @seandrew7837
      @seandrew7837 Рік тому +2

      Welcome. Pop to Wallsend any time for a pint. 🍻

  • @dorothyandrews8872
    @dorothyandrews8872 3 роки тому +10

    Just came across this by accident and so glad I did. I left for Canada in 1966 when I was 21 and I didn't know half of the things I learned here. I was back last in 2016 and things had changed quite a bit. I actually got to press the button to move the Millenium Bridge. It was a real thrill since I hadn't seen it before. You have awakened so many memories with all the film from town, and I lived close to Angel of the North. Thank you will be watching this again.

  • @alexthorpe2522
    @alexthorpe2522 Місяць тому +1

    Very interesting and the presenter's enthusiasm is infectious. Was sad when it ended.

  • @philipdawes2661
    @philipdawes2661 9 місяців тому +1

    Thoroughly enjoyed this program. As a northerner (born Durham) I grew up with 'the toon' and this program brings back fond memories as well as fascinating achievements. All presented by a guy who obviously not only enjoys his work but has a real passion for it.

  • @haroldburton3725
    @haroldburton3725 3 роки тому +25

    This was one of the most interesting and informative videos I have seen on UTube. England would be much less of a country if not for Newcastle's role during the industrial revolution. Also loved your "Jacob's Jacket," which was as lively and fun as your presentation.

    • @PS-bg4nr
      @PS-bg4nr 3 роки тому +1

      I have lived in Newcastle as a business student in 1969.. I loved the city and its market.later I shifted to Oxford on work permit. Thanks for the video which reminds me of old days. Saxena from new delhi

  • @charliealder3522
    @charliealder3522 4 роки тому +151

    I think it's safe to say, love us or hate us England would be stuffed without us Geordie lads inventing and building everything 😂😂

    • @HedleyOnTheHill
      @HedleyOnTheHill 3 роки тому +2

      agreed

    • @daveuk4111
      @daveuk4111 3 роки тому +4

      I thought teesside built the world which it did 👍

    • @roryt9751
      @roryt9751 3 роки тому +10

      The world would be much worse off without Geordies...love you people, salt of the earth.

    • @bostonblackie9503
      @bostonblackie9503 3 роки тому +2

      Glasgow was the industrial city in the Empire!

    • @geraldwalsh6489
      @geraldwalsh6489 3 роки тому +4

      I used to work with a Geordie here in Ireland...love the accent!

  • @shaunlowthian213
    @shaunlowthian213 3 роки тому +12

    I had a few days up in the area between lockdowns. Newcastle, Alnwick, Bamburgh up to Berwick. It really is a fascinating and beautiful place. I could live there gladly.

  • @dpedroam4107
    @dpedroam4107 Рік тому +3

    Fun fact, when I was an apprentice electrician, I was tasked with doing some work on a cctv camera on the corner of one of the buildings on grays St. I pushed the wrong button on the cherry picker sending it smashing into the corner of the building breaking the ornate corner of the building off. I still look up at that corner every time I'm in the toon. Sorry I was 16 and this was 22 years ago.

  • @JohnSmith-ng9lo
    @JohnSmith-ng9lo Рік тому +2

    As proud Geordie born in Benwell my whole family worked in either Swans, Parsons and Vickers Armstrong and I can still remember the pubs at the end of every street along Scotswood Road to Marlborough Crescent.

  • @Annagrefberg
    @Annagrefberg 9 років тому +58

    One of the most loveliest cities I have ever visit. I wish I lived there....

    • @Matt-jv2gy
      @Matt-jv2gy 4 роки тому

      IBeLIEve InTheTruth but i do

    • @meganrowland5870
      @meganrowland5870 4 роки тому +2

      I do

    • @mrsupermannow
      @mrsupermannow 4 роки тому +3

      Terrible place, not friendly .... lots of drunk and drug addicts ...

    • @MrJazzflute
      @MrJazzflute 4 роки тому +21

      @@mrsupermannow Idiot

    • @garymortonnelson6948
      @garymortonnelson6948 4 роки тому +6

      Lived there for 10 years before emigrating to Australia fantastic place and people

  • @chih-chienwu5757
    @chih-chienwu5757 3 роки тому +7

    This is a very interesting class of Newcastle's history and the development of a new modern era from every aspects.Great job.

  • @johnsimpsonkirkpatrickhist1372
    @johnsimpsonkirkpatrickhist1372 9 років тому +6

    A fascinating story. I never get tired of watching this video

  • @CushdelaCush
    @CushdelaCush 3 роки тому +4

    Had goosebumps watching this.

  • @Vshekar-cp1em
    @Vshekar-cp1em Рік тому +2

    Very good commentary in British style, and proffesional presentation!!!!!🤔👏👏👍👌

    • @Vshekar-cp1em
      @Vshekar-cp1em Рік тому +1

      Very educative and marvelous histroy of Armstrong!!!!! Hatsoff to the govt and scientists who scraped city to the modren world!!!!!!"👌

  • @traceyayre3247
    @traceyayre3247 5 років тому +11

    Thank you for this, starting to appreciate the history of Newcastle, we have sooo much history but few know about it.

  • @falp006
    @falp006 3 роки тому +7

    I was student in that city, such a nice place! Great memories from Newcastle upon Tyne.

  • @carolwoodhouse4311
    @carolwoodhouse4311 4 роки тому +3

    Thanks for that. Off to visit Newcastle soon and will enjoy it all the more for this background.

  • @sivanandk.c.7176
    @sivanandk.c.7176 2 роки тому +1

    My son is there now and I shall visit this place in the near future.

  • @fjbvgvgi
    @fjbvgvgi 8 років тому +31

    study here,i think one of the best city in the UK!

    • @BenzBarkz
      @BenzBarkz 7 років тому +2

      YUE ZHOU agreed

  • @tellingfoxtales
    @tellingfoxtales 7 років тому +21

    That coat is amazing.

  • @stefanopenrhyn8614
    @stefanopenrhyn8614 9 років тому +12

    My old town where I used to live as a child. Magical

  • @darger3
    @darger3 5 років тому +8

    Just arrived here and loved your info on the city!

  • @erlandandersen5782
    @erlandandersen5782 8 років тому +43

    Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing. I unfortunately haven't been to England yet. When I go there, I definitely should visit Newcastle. Obviously a nice city with lots of interesting stuff of both modern and historical kind.

    • @Zooumberg
      @Zooumberg 8 років тому +16

      I live in Newcastle, you'll love it here. It has a great nightlife. If you ever decide to come, give me a shout and I'll show you around.

    • @gabrielbejenaru2549
      @gabrielbejenaru2549 4 роки тому +6

      Been living here the the past ten years and I will never ever move anywhere else, live it here. People are nice and funny too, especially compared to those down south (London area). Plenty sights to see and mint night life (Newcastle is known around the country for that). Great universities (I've been to one of them and I can say they are value for money).

    • @samyandkitty8399
      @samyandkitty8399 3 роки тому +2

      I’m a geordie by birth but I’m Scottish and Irish Catholic by birth. Geordie people told me eff off back where u came from when I was a kid because I spoke like mum. I’d Irish. They are racist here but it’s a beautiful historical city. Just ignore the uneducated racists because the educated people in Newcastle are absolutely awesome lovely people

    • @AMG63
      @AMG63 3 роки тому +3

      @@samyandkitty8399 I'm a geordie and I'm not racist, if you dont believe me ask worlass she has 2 black eyes.

    • @2112jonr
      @2112jonr 3 роки тому +1

      @@samyandkitty8399 Yep, I saw lots of racism as a kid too. No signs you'll be any better off today, you're stuffed if you're not white, Geordie and English speaking. Friendly it is not. Unless you're already a Geordie.

  • @Cruzy1892
    @Cruzy1892 Рік тому +1

    I was on the train yesterday and recommend this video to 2 South American lasses who were travelling through Newcastle on the train. 😂
    I even informed them that Lucozade was made here.

  • @callumgrimes6789
    @callumgrimes6789 9 років тому +15

    I live a 5 minute walk from George Stephenson's cottage.

  • @euanelliott3613
    @euanelliott3613 4 роки тому +4

    The Iron Bridge where Micheal Caine and Dorothy White argued in Get Carter in 1971, and Tony Beckley and George Sewell chased him in the red Jaguar with the passenger door missing.
    RIP Tony and George.

  • @greathey1234
    @greathey1234 9 років тому +89

    "Newcastle is a fighting city", indeed

  • @leegilholm697
    @leegilholm697 7 років тому +12

    What a great city

  • @twangbarfly
    @twangbarfly 9 років тому +4

    Great documentary - thanks!

  • @sarahgardiner1649
    @sarahgardiner1649 3 роки тому +6

    I’ve been in the lantern of the swing bridge and down in its guts below the waterline. It is operated by hydraulics and turns on rollers- Armstrong used the same principles in gun turrets. Beautiful bit of kit.

  • @HedleyOnTheHill
    @HedleyOnTheHill 3 роки тому +14

    37:40 bloody hell how old is this documentary i haven't seen one of those buses in years! but i really loved this documentary really interesting

  • @MrJulioamaral
    @MrJulioamaral Рік тому +1

    I am speechless!

  • @estebanposadaduque6415
    @estebanposadaduque6415 3 роки тому +1

    ... wtf ... came for the N.C. story and this man explained/described in the best way the ROMAN WALL in a couple of seconds ... such a good job ...thankyou SIR ...

  • @stevecarr3019
    @stevecarr3019 3 роки тому +7

    I’ve lived here for 62 years, whilst it’s not perfect it doesn’t have the same racist or drug problems that most uk cities have. The city centre is very safe and has a good selection of bars and restaurants. It’s certainly not a shithole".....

  • @aaronl9369
    @aaronl9369 10 років тому +18

    I live in Newcastle
    And I'm proud

  • @kevinclark2856
    @kevinclark2856 6 років тому +11

    my grandad was forman on tyne bridge

  • @ladycharlenegrace8023
    @ladycharlenegrace8023 5 років тому +9

    This is so interesting! I would love to see all this for myself up close!
    Go Newcastle!

  • @oliversmith7203
    @oliversmith7203 8 років тому +9

    Beautiful, vibrant city.

  • @MrThatguywhomakesvid
    @MrThatguywhomakesvid 7 років тому +7

    Proud to be a geordie!!

  • @mattvjmeasures
    @mattvjmeasures 3 роки тому +2

    Did my Masters at Newcastle Uni. Loved living in that city.

    • @Rhys-gv3ir
      @Rhys-gv3ir 3 роки тому

      What did you study

    • @yourmum69_420
      @yourmum69_420 2 роки тому

      I'm living in a house with uni students right now in Newcastle

  • @joppadoni
    @joppadoni 5 років тому +2

    I love this bloke :) what a fascination of wonder. Love it. Wonderful Video of the place i call home.

  • @retrogamer33
    @retrogamer33 5 років тому +31

    The river doesn't "narrow" it narra's"

    • @MacStoker
      @MacStoker 5 років тому +2

      the rivva narras not river? lol ;-)

    • @lightmyway1327
      @lightmyway1327 5 років тому +6

      If you're from Jarra. Never hear anyone this side of the water pronounce it like that. Maybe a slight hint of an "I" at the end but not "A"

    • @T-800..
      @T-800.. 4 роки тому +4

      @@lightmyway1327 proper dodgy southern accent them jarra folk like!

    • @leeharwood9624
      @leeharwood9624 2 роки тому

      @@T-800.. howling

  • @nixonsmateruby1
    @nixonsmateruby1 Рік тому +1

    Lived in Newcastle all my life and NEVER saw the swing bridge move yet. Haha

  • @MrJohnAndrewhall
    @MrJohnAndrewhall 3 роки тому

    Fantastic, I served my time at Vickers Armstrong, those enormous lathes were down in 52/51 shop. Later I worked at Imperial College where a gentleman called John Chambers PhD.(me technician) worked on Kevlar rope.

  • @chrismac2234
    @chrismac2234 2 роки тому +7

    The debt that the world owes to those Geordies is uncountable.

  • @jeffallinson8089
    @jeffallinson8089 3 роки тому +5

    So interesting, that was superb! Love Newcastle, it is a fab place and its past is just mind blowing.

  • @ste6826
    @ste6826 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant introduction to Newcastle. One small error, the map at 3:25 shows the Roman crossing in the wrong place, it’s actually 5 miles up river in the same spot as the Swing Bridge today.

  • @thelasthomelyhouse
    @thelasthomelyhouse 3 роки тому

    I am proud to call this place home

  • @alanhindmarch657
    @alanhindmarch657 3 роки тому +5

    He said, “I’m going to see Rocket,” sat on a replica of Locomotion No 1. Rocket although built in Newcastle was used on the Liverpool Manchester Railway.
    He called the Tracks, The Newcastle Road, Railroad (not America), it was a Waggon Way.
    Armstrong’s work were at Elswick, not Elsick, the W is sounded not silent.
    He also failed to mention Stephensons also invented Miners Safety Lamp called the Geordie Lamp.

    • @yourmum69_420
      @yourmum69_420 2 роки тому +2

      @@eridamus1971 He also said that the current (900 year old) castle is the "NEW" castle, from which the city gets its name.
      However, according to all the plaques and visitor information at the castle this is false. The old motte & bailey castle which was there previously was actually the "NEW" castle, as it replaced the Roman fort and was obviously new at the time. The city gets its name from that old motte and baily castle.

    • @leeharwood9624
      @leeharwood9624 2 роки тому

      @@yourmum69_420 interesting because I have a 100+ year old photo of the castle and on that pic it says that it's the OLD castle of Newcastle 🤔 meaning there was a newer castle somewhere. And iv noticed that Kings college University looks a like a more impressive version of one of the castles in London 🤔🤔🤔

  • @abigailwimbush5557
    @abigailwimbush5557 3 роки тому +3

    Born, raised in the countryside just outside of it and going to university there to study civil engineering. I'm a geordie and proud to be one!!

    • @abigailwimbush5557
      @abigailwimbush5557 3 роки тому +1

      I hate how the North East was destroyed in the 90s by she-who-shall-not-be-named when our coal and shipyards were shut down. The damage the riots left can still be felt today (Meadow Well still has all the metal works everywhere). I live in Haltwhistle (a small mining town along Hadrians wall) and its sad how little employment there is due to there being no mines open. You can walk up the "Halty burn" to see the remnants of the old mines and even the ruins of a water mill from the 1800s. The fact that London has the cheek to ask for a water line from Kielder reservoir after destroying the North (and continuing to do so by taking the Lindisfarne Chronicles which if kept in its home in Northumberland would generate business and tourism would increase) is just insulting. I haven't met anyone in the North who doesn't resent the South even a little.
      Worst part, Northern academic talent moves south (it's dubbed "the brain drain") so it's not like we can keep any people who'll become rich up here!!
      The North East is decaying and under appreciated by the South. It is rich in history and spirit. Makes me want to cry the thought that my home will some day be forgotten.

    • @abigailwimbush5557
      @abigailwimbush5557 3 роки тому +1

      @Tommy T I'm sure our homes will be places to be admired again someday. Places that'll make bloody London blue in envy and maybe give back our artifacts/heritage (it's hilarious that during the great North exhibition we had to ASK London to borrow our first steam engines, did we also have to ask to borrow the lindisfarne chronicles? Ya know, the book that involved Saint cuthburt who is buried in Durham, the book that was written at the lindisfarne Island so really the book has no business in London).
      The North is strong, so strong. I plan on staying in the North so if it is ever regenerated, I can see it returned to its former glory

    • @eightace2000able
      @eightace2000able 2 роки тому +1

      @@abigailwimbush5557 did you know Haltwhistle is the exact Geographical Centre of the United Kingdom?! From Heddon-on-the-Wall myself, like to get up your way in summer with my kids to visit the (bizarrely located) outdoor pool! 🤣

    • @abigailwimbush5557
      @abigailwimbush5557 2 роки тому

      @@eightace2000able yeah I did know. One time I had some southerners ask me where in the village the actual center of Britain is. Must admit I didn't know though. Honestly so proud to come from Northumberland

  • @peteredwards338
    @peteredwards338 3 роки тому +3

    The disused railway bridge at Wylam is a forerunner to the Tyne and Sydney Harbour bridges ,built ,around 1874 .

  • @lorrainegriffiths554
    @lorrainegriffiths554 Рік тому

    my grandfather down the line was a keelman, love this video

  • @Gkuljian
    @Gkuljian 3 роки тому +8

    Incredible. I had no idea Newcastle was so pioneering. I can hardly believe Armstrong's house. And even knowing about steam turbines, I did not know it was invented by Parson.

    • @adamski6312
      @adamski6312 3 роки тому +2

      And to think they considered pulling Armstrong’s statue down due to slavery links.. or rather because he sold arms to folk who were pro-slavery

  • @speckledjim9895
    @speckledjim9895 5 років тому +22

    " 'am gannin doon the toon man."

  • @joannespatharis3524
    @joannespatharis3524 3 роки тому

    Love it ! Thank you !

  • @gimmibrit
    @gimmibrit 3 роки тому +1

    I Live in Newcastle since I was 16, Now im 33 yrs old. And Im proud to live here would never go bk to my hometown. Newcastle has always been my home.

    • @chrisdawson6156
      @chrisdawson6156 Рік тому

      Hi there you must love newcastle to bits

    • @gimmibrit
      @gimmibrit Рік тому

      Yes I always wanted too live here since I was a Teenager. I just fell in love with the place, I dont know what makes it special maybe has something too do with nostalgia..

  • @adamwnt
    @adamwnt 10 років тому +24

    Been in Newcastle and liked it very much, I think I'd even live there

    • @KathD10
      @KathD10 6 років тому +5

      I do live here and I love it! I'm so proud when I tell people I'm from Newcastle.

    • @cyrilsneer6984
      @cyrilsneer6984 3 роки тому

      Don't count on getting a council house unless you are a fake asylum seeker or worship a religion with a nonce as a profit

  • @carlskyejacobson8714
    @carlskyejacobson8714 3 роки тому +1

    I think the 39 people who disliked this must have thought the presenter was rolph harris

  • @1justpara
    @1justpara 3 роки тому +5

    Wherever you go in the world you will find *A Geordie*. Look at us now. :( All those things stripped from us. So sad.

  • @BrandonPeaTYVY
    @BrandonPeaTYVY 9 років тому +4

    That why I'm going to Newcastle for a trip tomorrow

  • @alexanderosborne1288
    @alexanderosborne1288 3 роки тому

    Use to live this programme, back in the old days when the history channel actually had proper history programmes.

  • @LUNE.44
    @LUNE.44 3 роки тому +4

    If you want a true taste of Newcastle culture, search Buzzcocks Lessons in life

  • @G-Linka.
    @G-Linka. 7 місяців тому +2

    I only discovered this fact recently, and it is that Lucozade was created in Newcastle by a pharmacist..!
    I’m local to the area, and I only found this out not long ago.

    • @eridamus1971
      @eridamus1971  6 місяців тому +1

      and Domestos, Andrews Liver Salts and BeRo flour!

    • @G-Linka.
      @G-Linka. 6 місяців тому +2

      @@eridamus1971
      Cheers for that info…
      Learn something new everyday.
      👍

  • @MDP112
    @MDP112 Рік тому +1

    For a long time I’ve thought Newcastle and the surrounding areas are the centre of the world. In many ways for many reasons they are

  • @kippen64
    @kippen64 3 роки тому +3

    Fascinating. The presenter does remind me of Rolf Harris and that's a weird feeling.

  • @johnclayden1670
    @johnclayden1670 2 роки тому +1

    Of the Angel, there may be many copies.
    There is certainly one - in smaller scale - on the south bank of Lake Burley in Canberra.

  • @samyandkitty8399
    @samyandkitty8399 3 роки тому

    I miss my home city so much.

  • @petertyson1112
    @petertyson1112 3 роки тому +1

    It needs to be pointed out that both the Tyne Bridge and the Sydney Harbour Bridge were both built on the Tees, near Middlesbrough, by Dorman Long. The parts were then transported to where the bridges were to be built and were erected there.

    • @petertyson1112
      @petertyson1112 3 роки тому +1

      @Ian Concannon indeed. My brother visited Australia a couple of years ago and sent me photographs of "Dorman Long" plaques that he'd seen on various bridges.

  • @maxsteelMountainLover
    @maxsteelMountainLover 4 роки тому +2

    My favourite city to live in.

  • @gedman9527
    @gedman9527 5 років тому +19

    Aye, im a proud geordie

  • @mohamedahmedgomaa
    @mohamedahmedgomaa 6 років тому +3

    AMAZING CITY

  • @matthewsatalic7767
    @matthewsatalic7767 Місяць тому

    Respect from a local 1 ironworker Chicago

  • @bhavinparekh3490
    @bhavinparekh3490 3 роки тому

    Very good video 📹

  • @HenryMcGuinnessGuitar
    @HenryMcGuinnessGuitar 4 роки тому +1

    Well I was the 1000th like! Can we go through how the rotating bridge works, please - I didn't quite catch that (except that it was "wonderful")
    I was like this at school - always looking out of the window at the crucial point in the explanation. Also my teachers used to be experts at turning out brains into rice pudding, through sheer boredom

  • @davt8615
    @davt8615 4 роки тому +3

    Here's something my dad n co used to paint them bridges in the the 40,s n 50,s

  • @yawarhayat2119
    @yawarhayat2119 2 роки тому

    Home sweet home. God bless our city and lovely people. 🥰❤️🥰

  • @markrowland1366
    @markrowland1366 3 роки тому +1

    First, atmospheric, steam engines hoist water from mines. They weighed a hundred ton, so great enterprise to make them mobile. My father ran narrow guage, all wheel drive, locos over wooden tracks.

  • @mikewray6387
    @mikewray6387 3 роки тому

    at the start of the video you can see the tuxedo princess under the tyne bridge, man i miss that floating nightclub.

  • @estebanposadaduque6415
    @estebanposadaduque6415 3 роки тому +1

    indeed .... THIS IS A SUCH one of a kind english gentleman : so cool ....

  • @NymeriaMeliae
    @NymeriaMeliae 7 років тому +7

    The Sydney Harbour Bridge was a copy of the Hagg Bank Bridge (aka the Points Bridge or Wylam railway bridge) which crosses the Tyne in Wylam and is the oldest bridge of that design in the world. So the Tyne Bridge might've been started after the Sydney Harbour Bridge but both bridges are a copy of a bridge that crosses the Tyne.

    • @ferryman4520
      @ferryman4520 7 років тому +1

      Nymeria Meliae sorry, The Tyne Bridge and Sidney Harbour Bridge were taken from the Hell Gate Bridge near New York which opened in 1918. Sidney Harbour Bridge was begun before the Tyne Bridge but took longer to build so the Tyne Bridge opened first. Joseph Swan was not born in Newcastle but in Sunderland.

    • @NymeriaMeliae
      @NymeriaMeliae 7 років тому +2

      Don't believe everything you read on wikipedia. The Hagg bank bridge was the first through-arch bridge in the world and opened in 1876 considerably earlier than the Hell Gate Bridge. It is inconceivable that the people who worked on the Tyne Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge would not have been aware of the bridge across the Tyne at Wylam.
      I don't think I mention Joseph Swan.

    • @PatrickKelly-lz3pv
      @PatrickKelly-lz3pv 5 років тому

      Built by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough

    • @adamski6312
      @adamski6312 3 роки тому

      I used to walk over the top of the hagg bank bridge when I was a kid. Makes me shudder when I think about how stupid that was

    • @twangbarfly
      @twangbarfly 3 роки тому

      @@NymeriaMeliae Yeah, but that's just a Mackem being a Mackem and venting his grief that he's not a Geordie :-)

  • @mikenealings1792
    @mikenealings1792 3 роки тому +1

    What a place! Happy days

  • @senianns9522
    @senianns9522 Рік тому +1

    Dorman Long of Middlesbrough designed and built the bridge! Oopps!

  • @PCLA7
    @PCLA7 9 років тому +16

    Newcastle must never forget it's past and everything it's gave to this planet.
    Protect your heritage at all costs - A Geordie Nation is counting on each
    other to be good stewards of this amazing city for those who call it home
    both now and importantly in the years to come .
    The days of the wrecking ball should bare witness to the irrational and
    irresponsible city councils who previously laid waste to some of this
    Toons most iconic structures for the sake of the now derelict high rises
    and poorly designed glass boxes that blight the landscapes .

    • @greathey1234
      @greathey1234 9 років тому

      International companies will not occupy listed buildings. High risers are not an eye sore, they look modern, are more efficient and houses people who have the money to regenerate the derelict city centre.

    • @PCLA7
      @PCLA7 9 років тому +1

      greathey1234 A naive point of view fostered most likely from years of suffocating
      left wing philosophy and uni indoctrinization - Your infamous glass shoe boxes bring
      a blight to this country and this planet - Efficient maybe but at what cost - An eyesore
      to most, dirty and shabby in less than a dozen years with never a care for those living
      and working in their shadows - Form may follow function from behind those rose
      tinted spectaculars but you only have to take one look at Newcastle's Coop building
      rising from the ashes as one example to understand the importance of a city's heritage
      and the men and woman who designed and built it to endure and for everyone to enjoy
      for centuries to come .
      Want to design something useful have a crack at Fire Stations - Hospitals - Schools
      now there's something something to really keep you busy . PC LA

    • @greathey1234
      @greathey1234 9 років тому

      PCLA7​ I had lived in Newcastle's city centre for years when I was a student, more specifically in the City Quadrants near Centre of Life. I have seen Newcastle transforming from a boring dangerous derilect city to a modern bright shiny cosmopolitan area full of modern cafés and smart looking people. I understand that the natives love their tradition and history and having read about Grainger Town, who can blame you. However, if you want to attract new money you must make some compromise and get rid of old monstrous buildings that no one is interested in anymore. Both Labour and Tories understand that and honestly new money has been very good to the UK. Can you London without foreign investors pumping billions and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs?

    • @PCLA7
      @PCLA7 9 років тому +2

      greathey1234 Todays architects have done more damage to Newcastle's skyline than the Lufwaffe during all of Word War II - Local people, who you kindly refer to as ' Natives ', never get to voice their opinions, their City is designed by vacuous committee's who care nowt for the population, instead care about trying to make one of Britains greatest examples of Georgian architecture look like the departure lounge at Dusseldorf airport - Look what they did to Central Station, the flats surrounding St James' Park, Northumberland street, and whats planned for the Quayside, and all of this under the banner of modernity and sustainability - I live in restored 1926 4000 square foot home that is the envy of my neighborhood unlike the teardown concrete bunkers that are starting to rear there ugly heads only to become instant eyesores at the expense of my cities dignity PCLA

    • @greathey1234
      @greathey1234 9 років тому

      PCLA7 Come on man, the Sage and Millinium Bridge are magnificent. I don't know what happened to the Central Station but it looks too old to me. I remember when St James Park was overshadowed by the brewery but honestly I prefer the new hotel and university buildings that replaced the defunct brewery. Don't forget the hundreds of millions of pounds invested by Newcastle university and foreign companies creating jobs for what I have to say some of the worst unemployed regions in the UK.

  • @billpowdrell
    @billpowdrell 10 років тому +3

    For a historic video of "Vickers Armstrong" google up "Vickers Centenary".

  • @niftyfiftycampingadventure795
    @niftyfiftycampingadventure795 3 роки тому +2

    As a Geordie born and Bread. London have let this Magnificent go to ruin.. Unforgiveable.. Newcastle is the U.K.

  • @Winelighter
    @Winelighter 7 років тому +6

    Proud to be a Geordie.

    • @neonskyline1
      @neonskyline1 4 роки тому +3

      being a geordie is something to be proud of, but not being British

  • @PatrickKelly-lz3pv
    @PatrickKelly-lz3pv 2 місяці тому

    Invention of the light bulb was Joseph Swan, born in Sunderland,

  • @mic.kelly86
    @mic.kelly86 4 роки тому

    Cool vid