@@lawfulbeneficiary1731 Couldn't disagree more. The futher back you go the the more pride the country had. I've seen enough footage of suburban street from then with mixed races living in harmony and acceptance. White and black children playing side by side. Whatever degeneracy that happens will always be linked to the minority of criminals and lowlife racists that exist. The difference now is the media are too lazy to tell the real racists off (which wouldn't listen anyway) & so they just persicute all white people as racists, which is very wrong!

@@lawfulbeneficiary1731: Thank's for sharing the glaring light of your identity.

@@eddyvideostar regardless all I know is if you read my comment and still believe before was better times you’re an idiot. If you went back you would’ve probably been dead in the war and if not dead waking up with ptsd every day screaming while waking up do you know how many high ranking soldiers I’ve talked with who literally said they were forced to kill families including children most of them were scarred beyond repair nor to mention how England looked like a dump for a while even years after the war... sk I don’t get why people are saying England used to be so clean unless they’re only referring to small sections or the areas in the clip... I do admit however everything was cheap but with the depression in the 30s and when you hear how the government in England treated white white and black people it’s disgusting Every generation sugar costs the past humans are as predictable as ever but in reality life wasn’t as good

Isnt that saying something !

Now that is a great point….so true. I pray all those classical structures are still standing. I’ll do Google earth view to see. The two story beaux art looking building at the end of the street was builded to curve with the street. The Cathedral of Saint Nicholas is in the backround. As a boy from Pa, I became obsessed with this town….and it is a town because it has a Cathedral. It must on PBS and then I followed up on it at the library. Anglo’s stopped having children it would seem. The vacuum beckons, the old wall of the city kept out the madding hoards once before……this may well be the Britain will have to go again. It’s not going to stop soon enough. The baby mills and the four wife marriages are going to breed you out. You are up against the Vandals of ancient times, but instead they now talk about conscription to fight the Russian’s. That makes total sense, doesn’t it? Who will they conscript? And who will head to this farce? And what’s the pay off? Who will you come home to, but the people you don’t know…….if you even come home. Boy, do we need Donald Trump back so to set the world straight again.

And done deliberately!

Well said and facty

Factual

Good man, much love from a 20 year old lad from Newcastle. I look at this an wish I was back then instead. For these days are bleak looking.

Me too

Sergei Bagin 'Calm and Romantic'.

@@markblakeut: Thank you, Blake: Appreciated. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/acuEhrhnmcfZpKs.html

I know EXACTLY what you mean ... The "Career politicians" who have destroyed the UK should be rounded up and put in prison for what they have done to this ONCE beautiful and PEACEFUL country.

@@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 They all live in big houses in the countryside away from the chaos they created.

@@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 So if a criminal commits crime that is a politician's fault? Blaming every problem on politicians is a cop-out

@@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 It is if the politicians/ EU knowingly bring dangerous criminals into the country

Yes yes.

Still is tbh

A time when organised criminal gangs were milking my step dad's business dry in the Haymarket. When thugs broke down our front door with sledge hammers at 2AM to give him a message about shutting down part of his business. When polio was still a thing. When we were dog poor and couldn't afford a pair of shoes when the old ones split. Mary Bell was growing up in slum conditions of Scotswood at this very time. I'd like to say a few things about the police and justice but that would take a while. My rose coloured glasses of nostalgia are well and truly broken.

It's a shame but it's never gona happen but we can dream.

Ain't never gona happen mores the pity eh.

Sorry England as we k ew it long gone sad as it is

True 👍

Your all mental if you want to go back to that

I was born in late 50s and I would go back to those day's at the drop of a hat . I always sit and day dream of our old newcastle good memories cos only bad horrible place now

Also good was the Christmas display at Caller's furniture shop on the other side of Northumberland Street from Fenwick's. Sadly, on the evening of 30 November, 1969, the store was destroyed by fire, probably caused by an electrical fault in the decorations. The building had to be demolished, as did buildings in Saville Row and North Street. At least it all happened on a Sunday evening, when hardly anyone was around, and nobody was seriously hurt. Northumberland Street never conveyed two-way traffic again. A replacement Caller's opened on the site in the summer of 1971, and has either been completely rebuilt, or demolished already.

@@andrewtaylor5984 cant remember Callers but happy times as a young kid everything seemed vibrant to me then

So very very true 👍

time flies ,

I love life then not now its not the same now its not our britain any more

Yes to everything you just said , it's made out by press everyone of today is happy the way our country has turned out

@@jean2740 Jean the press is full of lies these days.Young 'uns cant see the brainwashing going on.....

Yes and when they do realise what's going on it will all be game over , lamb's to the slaughter is what I say

@@jean2740 You are so correct,I hope one day all the sheep see whats happening..🤞

nothing the matter with Eldon square we would be stuck in the dark ages if everyone thought like you did.Move with the times or become extinct.

@@toonarmy8524 - Its absolutely nothing to do with becoming extinct. They ruined a wonderful old city centre to build a 1970's brick shopping arcade and an urban motorway cutting the city in half. The Germans (Europe's leading industrial nation) would never have done that to one of their great cities and they could hardly be said to be stuck in the dark ages. Newcastle city council now openly admits with hindsight much of it was a horrible mistake made in the days of the very corrupt T Dan Smith. That fine gentlemen later served 10 years imprisonment as a result of his interesting relationship with developers. You don't appear to know much about the history of your own city.

@@markrl75 unfortunately im not a historian and dont claim to be. but i do know living in the past isnt going to get you anywhere. you have to move with the times. oh and just for the record most of the place used to look like beirut in the late 60 s early 70 s it was a minging hole.

@@toonarmy8524 - Newcastle in the 1960's was still very much an industrial city with its buildings covered in soot and it was still recovering from the war. The wonderful old buildings in what is now called Grainger Town have been transformed from soot stained black to their original sandstone brown and look magnificent. The Eldon square city centre area was allowed purposefully to run down to make its subsequent demolition more acceptable to the public. It was all carried out by a corrupt city council under the leadership of T Dan Smith who claimed he was creating 'The Brasilia of the North' while taking huge back handers from the developers for which he was later jailed for 10 years. But please don't take my word for this look it up for yourself and you will be both astonished and disgusted with what was really going on in your city during that period. Thank you for your replies.

Eldon square has been very successful though for the city.

Sad bit them times are gone for ever ,we are all controled told how to live what we can and can't say.

It wasn’t just a cinema : the Stones played there, and Dusty Springfield !

I agree. It's so sad. I dont feel like going into the town anymore it's awful. Used to be a beautiful vibrant place. Its ruined

Totally agree. The wonderfully historic Grainger town has been allowed to deteriorate beyond belief. The City Council are under the impression that all people want when they visit the place is fast food , nails and hair salons . Many of the traditional shops went bust or moved out long ago . Many buildings are being turned into accommodation for the future when it follows Manchester in becoming a place where locals can't afford to live . Anyone coming for the nightlife will find a vast difference from 80s-90s . It's not progress as I see it , it's the exact opposite.

I think a great number share your view I loved Newcastle But I just dont wish to go near the center in 2022 The Council has a lot to answer for IMO

Lovely view of a Leyland-bodied Titan among the buses. The views probably date from 1968, for instance, the footbridge over Northumberland Street at Cook's Corner dates from that year. There are no trolleybus wires, which mean that the scenes are post 1966, whilst Market Street and Blackett Street are both one-way, effective from August 1967. There is a bus stop in Grey Street. No buses used Grey Street as long as Blackett Street was two-way. Bigg Market is still two-way; the massive one-way system round the Central Station was introduced in three stages in the autumn of 1968. Also visible is the old Town Hall, by then an exhibition centre. The Newgate Centre is under construction. Northumberland Street is still the A1, and many of the buildings depicted have disappeared for ever.

Wait till diversity is finished with it Sir

What you said ,is what I say on a daily basis .

The UK has gone down the pan.Just look at the woke bbc and tv ads and see if Im wrong....

True 👍

@@paullacey2999 reactionary

@@jean2740 reactionary

Two of my older sissters worked in Mark Tony,s back in the day they loved it 😀

Saturday afternoon going to the tatler cinema them mark toneys for a knickerbocker glory !

I was in Mark Toney's this afternoon, six quid for an ice cream!!!

@@jillparkin2541 wow thats crazy !

The replacement began later in Newcastle. I lived in Leicester in the 90s for a short time and it used to reassure me that Newcastle was not like that dump. It's still not as bad but whole areas are now immigrants and students

Well said the great replacement.

@Skankhunt42 yes Blair was a tory not a Laber man in all but name, but I agree with you that was the start of it , true.

Xmas window was amazing back then , now it's got nothing at all to do with Xmas, Xmas means nothing now lost its sparkle ,there only a memory ,shame .

It's everything but xmas now.

Long as it keeps others happy, but not the true people

I noticed this too, thank for the explanation.

I was not aware that somebody fell off the bridge. Please remember that in 1968 Northumberland Street was the A1 trunk road. There were two footbridges across Northumberland Street, the other was at the Northumberland Road junction. The need for both bridges ceased in May 1970, when John Dobson Street was opened.

That's very true

Sad to look back we all been robbed of our past 😪 only got footage like this to bring our memories back 😍

@@jean2740 your so right It was better in lots of ways life was more stable then and i dont think there was the greed at that time

Newcastle always used to have such a buzz about it, now it's unkempt, expensive, and full of undesirable people

The night life I would think is awfull now to much fighting not safe 😔

Was .

No not now, very boring, go some where else

@jmc Yes was there yesterday felt like I was in Africa, also the beggar's on streets everywhere, most are on drugs, its not the city it was, its long gone

@jmc I worked at bakery near Haymarket and they all had places to live, you would hear then talk and they would get food and drinks off people buying them for them, in shop where I worked, they didn't want them, they wanted money, for Drugs, they would argue and fight and this was at 6 am sometimes. Police would come and do nothing.

No pics of the trolley busses unfortunately

​@@toonmag50 You will see from previous comments of mine that the scenes cannot be earlier than August 1967. Trolleybuses in Newcastle finished on 1 October, 1966, and all the overhead had gone by early 1967.

Newcastle no .... But places like London and Birmingham were even in the 60s and 70s

I think the scenes date from 1968; please see my other comments.

Looks. Wet much like Glasgow

I thought the same thing smarter people , now it's trainers and jogger bottoms for every thing.

@@jean2740 and scrubs and trainers for nurses in place of starched suits, stockings and shoes.

Cars were shite and unreliable, you ever heard of punk rock? What you on about man 🤣

ah yes because nose rings and dyed hair is such a global disaster

At the time the footbridge was erected, in 1968, Northumberland Street was still the A1 main road. There was a second bridge, erected a few months earlier, at the other end of Northumberland Street, by the Northumberland Road junction.

@@andrewtaylor5984 Thanks Andrew 👍

Eldon Square best thing about Newcastle now

@@andrewtaylor5984 Thank you Gary for asking I was wondering about that too as I'd never seen that bridge before. Cheers Andrew, these pieces of history are priceless.

Now Eldon Square is no shops inside only eateries can't fathom that out, we all need shop's.

😢 Never thought it would happen to Newcastle but it has.

I so agree with you and i am not a racist but i know what you mean 100%

Yes look who is running OUR !!! COUNTRY AND towns .

Not as bad as some other cities

@@Matty12333 Give it time ...2/3 years. Thats all it took to distroy my town, 3 stabbings and 1 murder last Friday.

Race is absolutely irrelevant do you think heaven or hell is segregated? Instead of focusing on colour focus on the root problem. Why did the teenagers of this generation shun manners and respect and become fixated on rebellion and make degeneracy cool. Naturally when you have children and your children children have children you create a generation of degeneracy too. Not rocket science instead why don’t you people focus on your finances to put your children into a position where they’re around classy respectful people in private schools or home school them to create respectful children or work in a community centre to stop children from being influenced to do nonsense that would help there’s loads of ways to combat social degeneracy but you would rather complain on someone’s skin colour

That's true a handbag was a means to carry our stuff ,nothing els ,now it's let's buy a handbag for as much money as possible waste of good brass.

No playing the fog on the tyne .

Wasn't a dirty old town it is filthy old town now

@@jean2740 you are spot on . . Merry Christmas I'm out n about in Tynemouth 🥳

Newcastle is such odd place now, could be any city

That is so true yes dirty old town . They destroyed our town and country.

Only white folks you mean

@@fathiftaita9690 That is EXACTLY what he means. My late grandfather fought for six years in the second world war for this now toilet bowl of a country .. He will be turning in his grave. We have been sold down the river by "Career politicians" They are a disgrace.

That's very 👍

Newcastle isn't too diverse compared to other places

It’s nothing to do with immigrants and more so to do with what is cool the 60s was the start of social degeneracy that shunned societal standards of modesty and respect hence why the mini skirts started to arise the only reason you considered london as good back then is because the older generation was still alive that had modesty and standards when the boomers grew up look how london started to spiral downwards when the older generation (there parents died) most of you are so focused on race you miss the root problem

When this generation of the 60s and 70s started going against manners and respect and was all about rebellion you can’t be a generation that is all for rebellion then when it spirals even worst in the younger generation you can’t complain when you started it. People only had manners and respect and modesty from there parents when the boomers of the 60s and 70s thought they can make there own rules you see the rubbish they left society

@@lawfulbeneficiary1731 so it's our fault blacks are stabbing each other, Pakistan grooming gangs are reaping white kids and break down in respect because it was my generation, easy to pick on people you hate

@@gavindouglas7020 I didn’t say that all I said is if you start a generation that glamourises degeneracy and rebellion as cool don’t blame the younger generation when they glamourise rap music and gangs and all other degeneracy as cool too.

@@gavindouglas7020 look at anytime before the 50s and you will see black/Pakistani whatever were wearing suits respectful and had manners the only difference that changed was the societal views which led to complacency and disrespect to be the norm the world would’ve been entirely different if the boomers actually followed there parents And unfortunately children have no one for guidance even if they have parents because most parents act like there children most adults even dress like there teenagers so there’s no distinct difference between man and child so disrespect is easier look like a child get treated like one. Before there was distinct differences that differed a child from a man now there’s none. And unless you’re a dad that dresses in suits all the time is always well mannered and respectful etc etc don’t talk about other people without fixing yourself

@@gavindouglas7020 we live in a generation where most children don’t have no one to look up to if they tried regardless of race I’ve seen white,black etc people dress horribly compared to where before people had standards and wanted to be well mannered and this was reflected by how they dress when you wear dignified clothing one is more inclined to be more dignified and respectful now you have white black people going out in pyjamas the adults swearing in front of there children it’s gone to nothing it has nothing to do with race and more to do with what is cool like i said when manners was the fashion any time before the 60s everyone was well mannered... make the fashion to be disrespectful and you will find a society where most people are disrespectful simple now a prisoner from the 1930s unfortunately has more manners than a middle aged man today sad

If you think politicians are "naive" then you are the naive one. They are psychopaths!

Yes it's a third world country now not a English person hardly in sight

All stealing our rights and freedoms while we sleepwalk

Blacks were all in London and didn't go up north too racist for them. Only Africans are invading north nowadays.

If only you knew this was the very generation that started social degeneracy the boomers were too busy rioting and protesting for “freedom” which was just a play to make people hate each other and fill nations with drugs and rebellion then all the other generations fell down with this. Also in the 80s and 90s prison owners started owning record labels to induce further chaos and destruction and what you see from then to now is a continuation all you people are so small minded and built to hate each other you will never be united like this and see the bigger picture

Also they did a study that boomers who inherited valuable things such as there parents antique cars jewellery etc only 13% of boomers actually inherited anything to there children in the 60s when people started dressing down and manners and respect wasn’t cool anymore this lead to the downfall we see in society it has nothing to do with a race and everything to how they program society. You complain about Muslims but yet Dubai is one of the safest countries? Why do you think so much people and white people especially are going wake up stop thinking so small minded

Mary Bell ?

​@@Robin07136 no tod slaughter

The trolleybus system ceased in 1966, and I am certain that the film dates from 1968; please refer to my comments elsewhere.

Venture busses were a slightly different yellow and had a burgundy stripe. Venture busses were never late

@@toonmag50 I forgot about them, Venture,plus there were others like Tynemouth, Sunderland and District and, I think, Gateshead, which were all merged into Northern.I think that prior to the NBC United carried a red livery and also a cream one perhaps the cream one was used for more upmarket longer distance services?

@@kevanhubbard9673 united were almost pillar box red, and northern a dark red. I

@@kevanhubbard9673 Gateshead corporation had a blue green livery but I can't remember what the ok busses looked like as never used them ,but saw them going south out of the toon.

@@toonmag50 circa about 1969 or 1970 when I was very young my mother took us to London on an overnight United bus but I can't remember what it looked like or its colour.Probably the year after it would have been painted in white National livery and a few years later National Express.