Love the Bridges, love the Quayside and love the Toon! It’s full of surprises isn’t it!!? Your research into the history along with the delivery is a pleasure to listen too. Looking forward to more!
Great video, I have only visited Newcastle recently and I must say it's one of my favourite places in the UK! I wish I watched this video before my trip. Beautiful city, convenient transport (metro service is fantastic) and very friendly people!
I enjoyed that thanks, I'm a Mackem but am interested in all North East history and have learnt a couple of things there. Sadly our own town council(s) in Sunderland through the years have managed to obliterate almost all of our historic buildings, Newcastle hasn't suffered quite as badly thankfully. The Crown Posada, by the way, is a great bar!
Being brought up in this region, there are still things I did not know about. Especially the great fire of Newcastle. Your videos are amazing. So informative. Cheers, marra. Keep up the good work.
I love the history of Newcastle. You should do an hour long documentary, or even longer if needed, detailing the history of the city. You could use old photos and show how much things have changed over the years. I was amazed watching a film called Payroll. It’s crazy how much the world has changed in 50 years and it is almost terrifying to imagine where it could be in another 50…
I agree, the world is changing rapidly! I’ve no plans to do a long video like you mention as there’s no advantage for me to put everything into one video. Breaking it all down into bite size chunks keeps my viewers engaged and helps the channel grow. Thanks for the message 👍🏻
So true. If somebody offered me the chance to look through a view finder showing what life will be like in 50 years time...i`d refuse to look. Its mad that we live in a world where cash is a nuisance to companies, I agree that Eddie could do an hour long doc detailing all the history of the city
In the early 1960’s my Mother worked in an office next to Bessie Surtees House, which is now all the same building. She worked on the 3rd floor, the rest of the upper floors were empty. I used to explore the old building on Saturday mornings when she was working by herself. Behind it was a very narrow medieval back lane or street, which could be accessed through a pub yard at the bottom of Dean Street. There is a bit of a cliff face there with ancient steps leading part way up, you can probably still see them from the Moot Hall car park. I was about 12 years old, and totally fascinated with the buildings. The upper floors had not been converted to offices, so we’re still as they were originally. The Company She worked for was Foy, Morgan and Company, they were Timber shipping agents. Later moved into Exchange Buildings.
The Quayside...this takes me back. When I lived in Newcastle in the early 80's this was a favourite haunt. We'd start our drinking in the Crown Posada, then the Red House and then go on to The Cooperage if there was a band on (Arthur 2 Stroke and The Chart Commandos for preference) otherwise we'd go up to The Baltic pub (not the arts centre which was still an empty warehouse). Occasionally we'd go on the Tuxedo Princess nightclub boat but I preferred Tuxedo Junction in the town. I can still remember some old, derelict wharfs near the site where the Millennium Bridge is now sited...there was a sign there which said "Trespassers who are not drowned will be prosecuted ". Happy days.
Hi Eddie I think the manager of the Crown Posada told me once that it used to have windows all the way down one side of the building but they blew out during the war so they bricked the holes up and then put all the mirrors on the wall to create light. Might have got the story mixed up after a couple of pints though 🙂
For all work started on the Sydney Harbour Bridge first' the Tyne Bridge was actually completed first' it was due to the sheer size of the thing. The size difference is immense! If you ever go to Aus be sure to do the guided tour over the span. Great content as always 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video. The Crown Posada is on the list to visit next time in visiting from the Midlands. My daughter is at Uni in Newcastle and it's interesting to pick bits of local history from your videos.
It’s lovely to see the old history remembered Eddy and shared with our younger generations. As you didn’t mention who built the swing bridge, I’m hoping that there will be, at some time in the future, a video on the history of it, and that of one of Britain’s greatest engineers and industrialist of his day, William Armstrong?
The Quayside is truly the crown jewel of Newcastle and its appalling the council has allowed to the iconic Tyne Bridge go to the state its in now. Its rusty and covered in bird poo. It's tragic to see it in that state. Thr council refuse to spend the money on it's repairs and repaint. Tragic
Another great history lesson Eddie! Thanks very much for improving my home town history. I've forwarded tyem to friends and family who also love them.🙂
Eddy .. I've just very recently found your channel and I'm loving it. Great work. As for the Crown Posada, check out the track by Smoove and Turrell. It's a fantastic tribute to the establishment. It's on their album "Crown Posada".
From a fellow Geordie now living in Liverpool, thank you so much for doing this video. There is nothing like returning to Newcastle by train & looking down river to see the Tyne Bridge. I will never tire of that feeling for home. Very best wishes & please keep up all of the good work.
In the late 90's I was situated just outside of Exeter, 8 bloody hours on trains and seeing the Angel and then the Tyne bridge always filled me with joy
@7:08 you can see the Offshore bar. One of my favorite bars ever. The Quilted Camel was equally as good as well, right next door. People don't realize that the quayside was THE place to be. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. How lucky was I to be have my youth at the same time as the quaysides heyday.
@@TynesideLife Actually, there was a rumor going around back in the day, not sure if it’s true, that David Ginolas wife wouldn’t let him frequent the Quayside unless she was there with him. Brilliant times.
Offshore 44 one of my favorite places and memories of Newcastle, ......driving up overnight from the Midlands, with my Whitley Bay Princess, ........lunchtime 'stotties' and feeling the world opening up at our feet ! Missing those days.
Love this, at the time of writing this comment I've just got home after walking through the quayside from work, despite being such a small city were lucky to have such a massive hub of British history packed into it
Another great video Eddie! Was there 2fires in the Quayside ? Just I was taught in primary school that there was a fire either the first or 2nd World war when a ware house storing sugar was alight for a while and the Germans missed the chance to obliterate the Quayside ?
Yeah. In the video I’m referring to the ‘great’ fire of 1854. It destroyed the quayside on both sides. I bare a linguistic faux pas at the beginning when I said 1954. I think I did say 1854 later on. Glad you like the videos 🙏🏻
That was a wharehouse at Manors goods railway station. Hit in 1941 by German bombs, it burned for a week being full of sugar & margerine, a quite flammable combination. Those of us growing up with coal fires knew that sugar will revive a sluggish fire.
The only place on the Tyne that comes close on the bridge count is Haltwhistle with five. A disused railway viaduct, two disused road bridges, ant two road bridges on the A69 town bypass.
We LOVE the Crown Posada...a few years ago after going on a record shop tour/ buying spree, we popped in and the barman said we could play our Vinyl Records once the owld regulars had listened through theirs that were lined up....p.s: have you had a Pie, peas & mash from the Red House Pub near to the Bessie Surtees building?
I'm a couple of days late with a comment as I had no internet where I live but back on now. Another great history lesson Eddy very interesting and the bridges are always a big feature in Newcastle. I remember when I was a kid my dad would take me and my brothers on a Sunday to see street acts on the quayside.
Thanks for the history lesson and Great video Eddie as a life long Newcastle fan and not born a Geordie great to know more history about the city so thank you
Just watched that documentary about that Finnish lady who lived in byker and took pictures. It’s lucky that she did that because it was demolished soon afterwards.
Brilliant I love your videos all the goodies should watch them. I was born and bred in Newcastle and a lot of things you talk about I did not know, more please great research.
Great video Eddy, got me thinking about the old Tuxedo Princess nightlife boat that was on the Tyne remember a mate telling me about the time he went there and bumped into Emlyn Hughes and a few other big name footballers.
@@TynesideLife maybe another video there i loved the boat i remember benson&hedges doing a promo and getting loads of tabs coz not many ppl smoked them haha glad i gave up
The "Five Bridges Suite" is a modern piece of music, written in the 1960s, combining classical music and jazz. Written about the UK city of Newcastle upon Tyne, it was released as an album by the Nice as Five Bridges,
I remember taking my sister's ex-husband round Newcastle. Took him on the blinking eye bridge to get a photo of the Tyne Bridge. It turned out that the timing was perfect. The sun had just gone down behind the horizon but was still illuminating the clouds in the background. The photo looked great. Walking back up from the quayside was also funny, as he's Dutch, so had no concept of a hill.
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Eddy I love the history. Looking forward to the video about Cesar visiting the Tyne. I also have a future video request for you. Can you make a list of must see places for a foreigner’s first trip to Newcastle? I’m hoping to plan a trip there for next year and go to my first match in person! ⚫️⚪️
Interesting and accurate video, luckily enough to have live about 5 mins walk to the Redheugh bridge and watch the latest one being built, do you remember a boat called the Bessie Surtees constantly on the Tyne. Massive fire tried to get the chronicle interested into doing a historical piece about 3 years ago.
You might have mentioned the Roman name for this place was "Pons Aelius" from the original roman wooden decked bridge. Emperor Hadrian who built the roman wall had the family name Aelius.
I’ve covered this in a recent dedicated video I’ve done about the Tyne Bridge history Ashley. Check it out 👍🏻 I also covered it a few days ago in my daily quiz which you’ll find on my UA-cam community tab.
The Swing Bridge was actually the first bridge in the world to be operated by hydraulic power. Our great hero Lord Armstrong saw it as a great means to expand his new invention which literally went on to shape our modern world. It still works using water and not hydraulic fluid as its power source and still has its massive accumulator to harness its power. You should make a video all about the stretch of the Tyne from the Scotswood Bridge to The Quayside. There's a lot of well placed information boards to help you. Also tie in the history of Scotswood Road which was famous for having a pub on every street corner. Another great but perhaps less well known hero was the photographer Jimmy Forsyth who was famous for his book Scotswood Road which in addition to stunning photos also told stories about the area. Jimmy was a good mate of mine who always carried a plastic bag full of old Kodak Brownie cameras instead of the trendy Japanese and German cameras other leading photographers used. He was a lovely modest man who would talk about meeting the French master photographer Cartier- Bresson who is still regarded as one of the best ever in history. He on the other hand thought Wor Jimy was better!
I knew about the chain bridge at Blaydon. I’ve covered in my Blaydon Races video, but it didn’t use chains from the Sydney Harbour Bridge as that wasn’t built until 100 years after the chain bridge opened.
great video of the area . but you missed out on the scotswood bridge between newcastle and gateshead . you may also want to look into the history of the building on the newcastle side of the swing bridge. it was a morgue once upon a time. keep up the great work as i really enjoy the history of newcastle
Thanks Anne, glad you like them 🙏🏻 I was just focussing on the bridges classically associated with the Quayside area. I think there’s 26 bridges all told, including footbridges. Yeah, there’s plenty of fascinating buildings and lots for me to cover 😃
Great video Eddy, I love watching videos about history but when there about local history they mean that little bit more. Some very interesting points discussed in this video that I didn't even know about lol
Good video. I certainly didn't know anything about Quayside other than knowing it was there! Not being local I found it really interesting. Look forward to seeing more.
@@TynesideLife Eddie, do you know what the ruins are along from Gateshead stadium? Up the road from what used to be the elephant and castle? It looks like part of a castle but I can't find anything about it!
@@TynesideLife thanks Eddie I passed it yesterday and I thought who'll know what that is because I've tried to find out for years and I've read all the history books I can but never found anything about it. I remembered you do a bit of walking close to there and thought you may have an idea!
For twenty years the metro has been going to Sunderland. You make a strange observation on a very small point on a video that wasn’t even about the metro 🤷🏻♂️
@@TynesideLife For Wearside for the first 20 years, we had to take a train to Newcastle then after a few years it was taken to Gateshead and South Tyne, and correctly as you say the last 20 years it was taken to Sunderland and replaced the train, but even now a huge amount of Sunderland is not covered by the Metro system, having moved to Newcastle from Sunderland 22 years ago its easy to see how wonderful the Metro is in Newcastle, Gateshead and North/South Tynesides, but the biggest thing I have found about Newcastle is the amount of monuments and statues local people don't know who they are, I won't mention football because we all know Sunderland has the best stadium in the 4th division.
@@StormTrouper3 you seem to be motivated in wanting to be argumentative about subjects not related to my videos. Anymore messages of a similar nature snd I’ll block you. Sorry 🤷🏻♂️
You will more than likely know this but when ever I see the Tyne bridge it always reminds me that in world war II the bombers mistook the South Shields bridge as the Tyne bridge and completely destroyed shields market place and surrounding areas. If they didn't make that mistake would we still have the Tyne bridge? Probably not. Every now and then us sanddancers still find unexploded bombs when the gardens are being excavated. I remember as a kid someone found one in the yard a couple streets away from me when having the tarmac redone.
Aye there was a shelter at the marketplace that was directly hit, the marketplace is the burial site of it, used to have stones where from an aerial view it was the Union flag, but the council dug them up 🤦🏽♀️
Interesting to note only one person died during the construction of the bridge.. mad when you look at the old photos/footage of the blokes shimmying their way along beams with no safety gear, just flat caps and tweed jackets! Also with the great fire, I read that large debris was blown 3/4 of a mile away and it was heard as far away as Hartlepool!
@@robtodd444 yeah that’s right about the explosion. It was described as being like a volcano erupting and 3/4 of a mile is roughly Ouseburn. Only one building was untouched on the quayside
Hey, great video.. I’m also starting my History of the Tyne Series great work on telling the stories. I love the history of the north such an amazing past.
Did you know one of the original bridges was destroyed in the Great Tyne River Floods in the 1700's? And Bessie Surtie's(sp?) elopement to Gretna Green was supposedly made on horse by way of the Dog Leap Stairs - around the base of Dean Street. I always remember my Nana pointing that out when I was a child and being amazed at the steepness of them!
The History of the Crown Posada is facinsting. The name crown 👑 on that site dates back 230 years with it being a small pub on the quayside surrounded by a rabbit warren of smaller businesses and residential properties. The closer you were to the river the closer you were to the money so space on the quayside was tight. The Spanish sea captain story is actually just that, a story. A former landlady called Christine made it up one quiet afternoon with the regulars and like Chinese whispers it slipped into fact. The Tyne was one of the busiest trading ports in the world back in the late 1800s and Spain and Portugal were frequent visitors. To a point there was a Spanish consulate in Milburn house. The majority of these sailors wouldn’t be bilingual and being in a foreign land the word Posada (meaning resting place or inn) would jump out as a place to get a glass of wine and likely other activities 😏 The snug was the vip section which charged more for a pint so wealthy traders and ships captains could drink I disturbed by riff raff and the pub gained a few extra coppers and prestige. I could go on all day. Great video
Great video Eddy. Do you use a teleprompter ? If so which one are you using ? I want to be able to talk more in front of camera but want to do be shooting outside like your good self.
You do a great job then, it would take me ages to rehears and I'd still miss something. Here's my channel ua-cam.com/channels/8UIu5po6PQQBt2B6n4t8yA.html
At the beginning I say 1954, which of course is impossible.
Please ignore that linguistic faux pas, I meant to say 1854, which I state later on. 👍🏻
I’m a student in Newcastle and I love hearing about the history of Newcastle and surrounding areas, keep the videos coming Eddy!
Will do Hector, thank you 🙏🏻
Love the Bridges, love the Quayside and love the Toon! It’s full of surprises isn’t it!!? Your research into the history along with the delivery is a pleasure to listen too. Looking forward to more!
Thanks Jan 🙏🏻
Love Newcastle, a fantastic city full of great friendly people , they are a class apart.
Agree ☝️
Canny lads and lasses.
Love these local history videos Eddy! I drop bits of knowledge in through the day to my wife and she thinks I'm reet clever ;)
Haha! Whatever works 😉
Great video, I have only visited Newcastle recently and I must say it's one of my favourite places in the UK! I wish I watched this video before my trip. Beautiful city, convenient transport (metro service is fantastic) and very friendly people!
Thank you 🙏🏻 and glad you enjoyed city and my video 👍🏻
One of my favourite places the Crown Posada, glad it’s back open again
Me too 👍🏻
I enjoyed that thanks, I'm a Mackem but am interested in all North East history and have learnt a couple of things there. Sadly our own town council(s) in Sunderland through the years have managed to obliterate almost all of our historic buildings, Newcastle hasn't suffered quite as badly thankfully. The Crown Posada, by the way, is a great bar!
Thanks for reaching out Malcolm and yeah unfortunately Sunderland hadn’t been cared for as much as it should have. 👍🏻
Love these style of videos, even though I live in Newcastle helps me find out how little I know lol. Great video Eddie!
Haha! I’m learning a lot too Lewis! So much fascinating history!
From one Geordie to another. Thanks for a brilliant view on the city.
My pleasure Mark 👊🏻
Being brought up in this region, there are still things I did not know about. Especially the great fire of Newcastle. Your videos are amazing. So informative. Cheers, marra. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Michael 🙏🏻
I love the history of Newcastle. You should do an hour long documentary, or even longer if needed, detailing the history of the city. You could use old photos and show how much things have changed over the years. I was amazed watching a film called Payroll. It’s crazy how much the world has changed in 50 years and it is almost terrifying to imagine where it could be in another 50…
I agree, the world is changing rapidly! I’ve no plans to do a long video like you mention as there’s no advantage for me to put everything into one video.
Breaking it all down into bite size chunks keeps my viewers engaged and helps the channel grow.
Thanks for the message 👍🏻
So true. If somebody offered me the chance to look through a view finder showing what life will be like in 50 years time...i`d refuse to look. Its mad that we live in a world where cash is a nuisance to companies, I agree that Eddie could do an hour long doc detailing all the history of the city
In the early 1960’s my Mother worked in an office next to Bessie Surtees House, which is now all the same building. She worked on the 3rd floor, the rest of the upper floors were empty. I used to explore the old building on Saturday mornings when she was working by herself. Behind it was a very narrow medieval back lane or street, which could be accessed through a pub yard at the bottom of Dean Street. There is a bit of a cliff face there with ancient steps leading part way up, you can probably still see them from the Moot Hall car park. I was about 12 years old, and totally fascinated with the buildings. The upper floors had not been converted to offices, so we’re still as they were originally. The Company She worked for was Foy, Morgan and Company, they were Timber shipping agents. Later moved into Exchange Buildings.
Thank you for sharing that Alan. Fascinating stuff! 👍🏻
The Quayside...this takes me back. When I lived in Newcastle in the early 80's this was a favourite haunt. We'd start our drinking in the Crown Posada, then the Red House and then go on to The Cooperage if there was a band on (Arthur 2 Stroke and The Chart Commandos for preference) otherwise we'd go up to The Baltic pub (not the arts centre which was still an empty warehouse). Occasionally we'd go on the Tuxedo Princess nightclub boat but I preferred Tuxedo Junction in the town. I can still remember some old, derelict wharfs near the site where the Millennium Bridge is now sited...there was a sign there which said "Trespassers who are not drowned will be prosecuted ". Happy days.
Brilliant memories Derrick 👍🏻
Arthur 2 Stroke - damn fine band!
21 strangers & legendary heroes too.
Hi Eddie I think the manager of the Crown Posada told me once that it used to have windows all the way down one side of the building but they blew out during the war so they bricked the holes up and then put all the mirrors on the wall to create light. Might have got the story mixed up after a couple of pints though 🙂
Well he didn’t tell me that, if it’s true… 😮
For all work started on the Sydney Harbour Bridge first' the Tyne Bridge was actually completed first' it was due to the sheer size of the thing.
The size difference is immense! If you ever go to Aus be sure to do the guided tour over the span.
Great content as always 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you 🙏🏻 👍🏻
Great video. The Crown Posada is on the list to visit next time in visiting from the Midlands. My daughter is at Uni in Newcastle and it's interesting to pick bits of local history from your videos.
Thanks Matt 🙏🏻
Loving the historical videos Eddy! Glad to see your channel getting the recognition it deserves :) Makes is proud to be a Geordie!
Thanks Geordie 🙏🏻
@@TynesideLife Thank you Eddy. Hope to meet you in the toon one day!
Totally agree!
It’s lovely to see the old history remembered Eddy and shared with our younger generations. As you didn’t mention who built the swing bridge, I’m hoping that there will be, at some time in the future, a video on the history of it, and that of one of Britain’s greatest engineers and industrialist of his day, William Armstrong?
Yeah that was an oversight to mention him but I may do a separate video for that 👍🏻
@@TynesideLife and maybe a little visit to his hydro-electric house at Cragside?
The Quayside is truly the crown jewel of Newcastle and its appalling the council has allowed to the iconic Tyne Bridge go to the state its in now. Its rusty and covered in bird poo. It's tragic to see it in that state. Thr council refuse to spend the money on it's repairs and repaint. Tragic
I agree but it’s the sign of the times Chris. The whole of the public sector is haemorrhaging
I use to live in Newcastle for four years I love ❤️ Newcastle I live in London now but Newcastle is amazing 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you 🙏🏻
Another great history lesson Eddie! Thanks very much for improving my home town history. I've forwarded tyem to friends and family who also love them.🙂
Ahh that’s brilliant thanks James 🙏🏻 Remind them too subscribe to help my channel 👊🏻
Did there not used to be rowing boat ferry from the quayside
I’m not sure John 🤷🏻♂️ what do you know?
Eddy .. I've just very recently found your channel and I'm loving it. Great work. As for the Crown Posada, check out the track by Smoove and Turrell. It's a fantastic tribute to the establishment. It's on their album "Crown Posada".
Ahh that’s great John, I’ll check it out. Thank you very much 🤛🏻
From a fellow Geordie now living in Liverpool, thank you so much for doing this video. There is nothing like returning to Newcastle by train & looking down river to see the Tyne Bridge. I will never tire of that feeling for home. Very best wishes & please keep up all of the good work.
My pleasure Neil. Check out my two videos on Ouseburn 👍🏻
In the late 90's I was situated just outside of Exeter, 8 bloody hours on trains and seeing the Angel and then the Tyne bridge always filled me with joy
@7:08 you can see the Offshore bar. One of my favorite bars ever. The Quilted Camel was equally as good as well, right next door. People don't realize that the quayside was THE place to be. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. How lucky was I to be have my youth at the same time as the quaysides heyday.
Haha! Me too Paul! Twenty odd years ago it was heaving!
@@TynesideLife Actually, there was a rumor going around back in the day, not sure if it’s true, that David Ginolas wife wouldn’t let him frequent the Quayside unless she was there with him. Brilliant times.
Offshore 44 one of my favorite places and memories of Newcastle, ......driving up overnight from the Midlands, with my Whitley Bay Princess, ........lunchtime 'stotties' and feeling the world opening up at our feet ! Missing those days.
My daughter just learned about the explosion at school, apparently it could be heard in Alnwick and Hartlepool 😮
That’s right. Hope she enjoyed learning about it 😊
Cracking video. Crown Posada is my favourite pub.
Great pub 👍🏻
Love these videos! Really like hearing about local history, i never knew about the fire!
Thanks Olivia 🙏🏻
the boulders from the explosion are still in st marys church yard.
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I used too work at offshore44 back in the day maybe 20 years ago now, shit I feel old
Haha! 😅
Crown Posada...quality old school pub..been in a few times when visiting Newcastle 👏👏👏👏
Great pub 👍🏻
Eddy I only wish you had been my history teacher!! Class aboot the Ceaser quote, top one mate!😀
Haha! Cheers Ant 🙏🏻
Crown Posada is a fantastic bar
God a miss yem!!!
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I can’t get away with the way you say redheugh, nevertheless mint video mate.
You must be a posh Geordie then 😃
Love this, at the time of writing this comment I've just got home after walking through the quayside from work, despite being such a small city were lucky to have such a massive hub of British history packed into it
Thanks bud 👊🏻 Newcastle really is a fab city all round
Thank you so much for your very interesting videos. Please keep them coming, very enjoyable to watch and listen to. 👍😉👏 xx
Glad you like them Marion 🙏🏻 don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t 😊👍🏻
Another great video Eddie! Was there 2fires in the Quayside ? Just I was taught in primary school that there was a fire either the first or 2nd World war when a ware house storing sugar was alight for a while and the Germans missed the chance to obliterate the Quayside ?
Yeah. In the video I’m referring to the ‘great’ fire of 1854. It destroyed the quayside on both sides.
I bare a linguistic faux pas at the beginning when I said 1954. I think I did say 1854 later on.
Glad you like the videos 🙏🏻
That was a wharehouse at Manors goods railway station. Hit in 1941 by German bombs, it burned for a week being full of sugar & margerine, a quite flammable combination. Those of us growing up with coal fires knew that sugar will revive a sluggish fire.
The only place on the Tyne that comes close on the bridge count is Haltwhistle with five. A disused railway viaduct, two disused road bridges, ant two road bridges on the A69 town bypass.
We LOVE the Crown Posada...a few years ago after going on a record shop tour/ buying spree, we popped in and the barman said we could play our Vinyl Records once the owld regulars had listened through theirs that were lined up....p.s: have you had a Pie, peas & mash from the Red House Pub near to the Bessie Surtees building?
I'm a couple of days late with a comment as I had no internet where I live but back on now. Another great history lesson Eddy very interesting and the bridges are always a big feature in Newcastle. I remember when I was a kid my dad would take me and my brothers on a Sunday to see street acts on the quayside.
Great memories Nic 👍🏻
Thanks for the history lesson and Great video Eddie as a life long Newcastle fan and not born a Geordie great to know more history about the city so thank you
My pleasure 👍🏻
loving your videos it is bit sad not see alot of good youtube channels in newcastle i would say for me you in top 10 youtube channels in newcastle
Top 10?! Top 3 Hassan 😅😉
Just watched that documentary about that Finnish lady who lived in byker and took pictures. It’s lucky that she did that because it was demolished soon afterwards.
Brilliant I love your videos all the goodies should watch them. I was born and bred in Newcastle and a lot of things you talk about I did not know, more please great research.
Will do, thanks Harry 🙏🏻
Great video Eddy, got me thinking about the old Tuxedo Princess nightlife boat that was on the Tyne remember a mate telling me about the time he went there and bumped into Emlyn Hughes and a few other big name footballers.
Ooh I’ve had some nights on there! 😅
@@TynesideLife maybe another video there i loved the boat i remember benson&hedges doing a promo and getting loads of tabs coz not many ppl smoked them haha glad i gave up
@@thebigrighthand7728 great times 😆
Awesome video, I'm enjoying learning about Newcastle and it's history in these video's.
Thanks Michael 🙏🏻
Who cares about Scotland 😆
I’m being a dope here, you’ll have to explain the Scottish connection with the video? 😬
Grew up in Newcastle and moved to New Zealand a few years ago. Your channel brings back so many great memories. Love the channe mate keep it up👍⚫️⚪️
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Glad you’re enjoying it 🙏🏻
The "Five Bridges Suite" is a modern piece of music, written in the 1960s, combining classical music and jazz. Written about the UK city of Newcastle upon Tyne, it was released as an album by the Nice as Five Bridges,
I remember there was a Five Bridges Hotel too in Gateshead. Fascinating stuff 👍🏻
I remember taking my sister's ex-husband round Newcastle. Took him on the blinking eye bridge to get a photo of the Tyne Bridge. It turned out that the timing was perfect. The sun had just gone down behind the horizon but was still illuminating the clouds in the background. The photo looked great. Walking back up from the quayside was also funny, as he's Dutch, so had no concept of a hill.
Haha! Love it 👍🏻
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Eddy I love the history. Looking forward to the video about Cesar visiting the Tyne. I also have a future video request for you. Can you make a list of must see places for a foreigner’s first trip to Newcastle? I’m hoping to plan a trip there for next year and go to my first match in person! ⚫️⚪️
That’s a good idea and I’ve been thinking of doing something like that. Keep an eye out and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss it 👍🏻
What a great video and look at that sun!! Would love more on the history the beautiful Toon ⚫️⚪️❤ Thanks for this Eddy!
Thanks Nicola 🙏🏻 Have you seen my other history videos about Newcastle?
@@TynesideLife I have indeed!! Love them!
@@renny.nicola thank you 😊
Interesting and accurate video, luckily enough to have live about 5 mins walk to the Redheugh bridge and watch the latest one being built, do you remember a boat called the Bessie Surtees constantly on the Tyne. Massive fire tried to get the chronicle interested into doing a historical piece about 3 years ago.
Ahh no I didn’t know about that. Sounds really interesting!
You might have mentioned the Roman name for this place was "Pons Aelius" from the original roman wooden decked bridge. Emperor Hadrian who built the roman wall had the family name Aelius.
I’ve covered this in a recent dedicated video I’ve done about the Tyne Bridge history Ashley. Check it out 👍🏻
I also covered it a few days ago in my daily quiz which you’ll find on my UA-cam community tab.
As a historical building ie tapas bar signage is a disgrace to the management
Congrats on 8k! Well deserved!
Thanks Will 🙏🏻
Another great video! Thank you 💖 I took a walk along here last week 💖
Glad you enjoyed it Lisa 😊
The Swing Bridge was actually the first bridge in the world to be operated by hydraulic power. Our great hero Lord Armstrong saw it as a great means to expand his new invention which literally went on to shape our modern world. It still works using water and not hydraulic fluid as its power source and still has its massive accumulator to harness its power. You should make a video all about the stretch of the Tyne from the Scotswood Bridge to The Quayside. There's a lot of well placed information boards to help you. Also tie in the history of Scotswood Road which was famous for having a pub on every street corner. Another great but perhaps less well known hero was the photographer Jimmy Forsyth who was famous for his book Scotswood Road which in addition to stunning photos also told stories about the area. Jimmy was a good mate of mine who always carried a plastic bag full of old Kodak Brownie cameras instead of the trendy Japanese and German cameras other leading photographers used. He was a lovely modest man who would talk about meeting the French master photographer Cartier- Bresson who is still regarded as one of the best ever in history. He on the other hand thought Wor Jimy was better!
Will do thanks Steve 👍🏻
Did you know that further upriver, near Blaydon, was the Chain Bridge, made from remnants of chains from Sydney harbour bridge left here.
I knew about the chain bridge at Blaydon. I’ve covered in my Blaydon Races video, but it didn’t use chains from the Sydney Harbour Bridge as that wasn’t built until 100 years after the chain bridge opened.
great video of the area . but you missed out on the scotswood bridge between newcastle and gateshead . you may also want to look into the history of the building on the newcastle side of the swing bridge. it was a morgue once upon a time. keep up the great work as i really enjoy the history of newcastle
Thanks Anne, glad you like them 🙏🏻
I was just focussing on the bridges classically associated with the Quayside area. I think there’s 26 bridges all told, including footbridges.
Yeah, there’s plenty of fascinating buildings and lots for me to cover 😃
Great video Eddy, I love watching videos about history but when there about local history they mean that little bit more. Some very interesting points discussed in this video that I didn't even know about lol
Glad you enjoyed it Geordie 👊🏻
Good video. I certainly didn't know anything about Quayside other than knowing it was there! Not being local I found it really interesting. Look forward to seeing more.
Thanks bud 👊🏻 I’ve just gone two videos on Ouseburn which is a stones throw from the quayside
The history vids are just as good, if not better than the footy vids,keep them coming Eddy.Fancy a win at Leeds Eddy?
Cheers Raymond 👊🏻
With no new centre back, I have to be honest and say that I can’t see us getting anything against Leeds 😬
Lived in Newcastle all my life never new of the crown pasada definitely giving this a visit. Love your videos eddy down to earth genuine bloke
Cheers Harry and glad you like the channel 👍🏻
Mate, as a Geordie who, for one reason or another hasn't been there for years, thank you.
Thanks Michael 🙏🏻 don’t forget to subscribe and check out my other history videos 👍🏻
And apparently Bessie Surtees and her boyfriend escaped on horseback up castle stairs just a bit further along the quayside
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Eddie, do you know what the ruins are along from Gateshead stadium? Up the road from what used to be the elephant and castle? It looks like part of a castle but I can't find anything about it!
@@treywilson3680 no I don’t mate sorry. I’ll do some research 🧐
@@TynesideLife thanks Eddie I passed it yesterday and I thought who'll know what that is because I've tried to find out for years and I've read all the history books I can but never found anything about it. I remembered you do a bit of walking close to there and thought you may have an idea!
The Metro was never a good thing for Sunderland, as it never went there until recently,
For twenty years the metro has been going to Sunderland. You make a strange observation on a very small point on a video that wasn’t even about the metro 🤷🏻♂️
@@TynesideLife For Wearside for the first 20 years, we had to take a train to Newcastle then after a few years it was taken to Gateshead and South Tyne, and correctly as you say the last 20 years it was taken to Sunderland and replaced the train, but even now a huge amount of Sunderland is not covered by the Metro system, having moved to Newcastle from Sunderland 22 years ago its easy to see how wonderful the Metro is in Newcastle, Gateshead and North/South Tynesides, but the biggest thing I have found about Newcastle is the amount of monuments and statues local people don't know who they are, I won't mention football because we all know Sunderland has the best stadium in the 4th division.
@@StormTrouper3 you seem to be motivated in wanting to be argumentative about subjects not related to my videos.
Anymore messages of a similar nature snd I’ll block you. Sorry 🤷🏻♂️
@@TynesideLife I am so sorry if it comes across that way as I wasn't wanting to be, it was just my opinion.
Keep up the fantastic Videos, Subscribed . Great work fella
Appreciated John 🤛🏻
Loved the vid! Often drink in the crown posada and wondered how it had such an odd name? Now we know! Brilliant!!! 👍😊🍻
Glad you enjoyed it mate 🤜🏻
Cracking video mate.. Interesting stuff never knew about the fire.
Cheers Pat 👊🏻
Magnificent stuff as always pal. One of my favourite places to visit with work !
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Mint channel this Eddy keep it up mate, great content❤️
Thanks Geordie 🙏🏻
I’ve had many of slurps in that pub Eddie lol 😂
Brilliant 👊🏻
Need a visit into the Crown pasada .. noticed titanic plum porter on.
Do it 👊🏻 mention my channel name when you do 👍🏻
Great video! Thanks so much for this!
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I seem to remember as a kid on holiday , late'40's early '50's going to a market on the quayside on a Sunday morning . Or am I imaging it.
No that’s right, it’s still there. I did a video about it a couple of years ago 👍🏻
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You will more than likely know this but when ever I see the Tyne bridge it always reminds me that in world war II the bombers mistook the South Shields bridge as the Tyne bridge and completely destroyed shields market place and surrounding areas. If they didn't make that mistake would we still have the Tyne bridge? Probably not. Every now and then us sanddancers still find unexploded bombs when the gardens are being excavated. I remember as a kid someone found one in the yard a couple streets away from me when having the tarmac redone.
No I didn’t know that Sarah and I’ll look into that. It’s fascinating!
Thanks Sarah 😊
Aye there was a shelter at the marketplace that was directly hit, the marketplace is the burial site of it, used to have stones where from an aerial view it was the Union flag, but the council dug them up 🤦🏽♀️
@@oliviabrown8688 thanks Olivia 👍🏻
Could you please do a video on the island that used to be on the Tyne kings meadow?
Hi Simon, I might include that in a future ‘five things’ video. 👍🏻
A man never sounds prouder than when he’s from newcastle and he’s talking about newcastle 😂
Of course you can apply the same principle to anyone, anywhere 👍🏻
@@TynesideLife I’m probably bias
On the right there you've got THAT BAD BOY! (The Tyne bridge)
Quality mate. Loving your content, from a fellow Geordie 👍
Cheers Rob 🙏🏻
Interesting to note only one person died during the construction of the bridge.. mad when you look at the old photos/footage of the blokes shimmying their way along beams with no safety gear, just flat caps and tweed jackets!
Also with the great fire, I read that large debris was blown 3/4 of a mile away and it was heard as far away as Hartlepool!
@@robtodd444 yeah that’s right about the explosion. It was described as being like a volcano erupting and 3/4 of a mile is roughly Ouseburn.
Only one building was untouched on the quayside
Hey, great video.. I’m also starting my History of the Tyne Series great work on telling the stories. I love the history of the north such an amazing past.
Thanks Rochelle and hope it goes well 👍🏻
Brilliant video. Thanks.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Did you know one of the original bridges was destroyed in the Great Tyne River Floods in the 1700's?
And Bessie Surtie's(sp?) elopement to Gretna Green was supposedly made on horse by way of the Dog Leap Stairs - around the base of Dean Street. I always remember my Nana pointing that out when I was a child and being amazed at the steepness of them!
Ahh the old Tyne Bridge destroyed in 1771 😆
I’m born and bred Newcastle (West Denton) and didn’t know half of what you have explained in your videos. Love your delivery mate keep it coming.
Thanks bud 👊🏻
Very interesting mate well put together.
Thanks bud 👊🏻
Good video Eddie , I’m looking forward to the big match today. Have you any predictions, mine is 2-1 the Toon HWTL
1-0 to the toon mate 😅
The History of the Crown Posada is facinsting. The name crown 👑 on that site dates back 230 years with it being a small pub on the quayside surrounded by a rabbit warren of smaller businesses and residential properties.
The closer you were to the river the closer you were to the money so space on the quayside was tight. The Spanish sea captain story is actually just that, a story. A former landlady called Christine made it up one quiet afternoon with the regulars and like Chinese whispers it slipped into fact.
The Tyne was one of the busiest trading ports in the world back in the late 1800s and Spain and Portugal were frequent visitors. To a point there was a Spanish consulate in Milburn house. The majority of these sailors wouldn’t be bilingual and being in a foreign land the word Posada (meaning resting place or inn) would jump out as a place to get a glass of wine and likely other activities 😏
The snug was the vip section which charged more for a pint so wealthy traders and ships captains could drink I disturbed by riff raff and the pub gained a few extra coppers and prestige. I could go on all day.
Great video
Brilliant history account mate 👍🏻 thanks for taking the time to fill in some gaps
Really interesting video again Eddy. Look forward to more! I didn’t know about the Great Fire of Newcastle 🔥
Glad you liked it bud 👊🏻
Great video Eddy. Do you use a teleprompter ? If so which one are you using ? I want to be able to talk more in front of camera but want to do be shooting outside like your good self.
Hi Mike. No I don’t.
I make bullet points of what I want to say and then rehears a little. It usually takes me a couple of goes 😅
What’s your channel?
You do a great job then, it would take me ages to rehears and I'd still miss something. Here's my channel ua-cam.com/channels/8UIu5po6PQQBt2B6n4t8yA.html
@@suspectsh3 if you’d like some (humble) pointers, just drop me an email 👍🏻
Thanks!
Another most informative video,keep them coming and g’day from Brisbane!👍
G’day Winston and thank you 🙏🏻
Great video again, subscribed now... keep them coming mate. Imagine having a channel thats better than the BBC😄
Haha! Cheers Jonny 👊🏻
I see the Tyne bridge as one of those mini architecture models you see of the full size one.
Interesting
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Sydney harbour bridge is know locally as the coat hanger.
It also just celebrated its 90th birthday with a big event.
Is the Crown Pasada the pub in the old Michael Caine film Get Carter?
He Sean, no it’s the Victoria Comet opposite Central Station. I did a video that covered it in my Arsenal pub crawl video. 👍🏻
@@TynesideLife Thanks Eddy I'll check that video out, keep up the good work 👍
@@seanventress6728 cheers bud 👊🏻
Great Video! Explained the story really well. Subscribed :)
Thanks Adam 🙏🏻
These videos are incredible!! Thank you Eddie. ❤️ my favourite city in the world. I could watch your videos all day!
Thanks Will 🙏🏻
Ah this is great, many a class evening I've spent in the Crown Posada since the 80s - think it's time for another Quayside night out!
It certainly is! 😃