Thank you so much Michael 🙏👊🏻

@@TynesideLife I've commented elsewhere, but I'm sad you present a pretty one-sided view of Byker. I was a resident for a decade until last year and was gutted to leave. Byker has its challenges (largely because it has been chronically deprived of resources) but most people are golden - and the sense of community there is like no other I've experienced. If you fancied capturing another side of life to balance out your 'research' I can think of some good people and initiatives to connect you to!

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That made me smile and nearly cry reading your comment. Godbless you

I fully agree, managed to move to the country to see my days out in my tiny bungalow.

Please don't say that. Your life is precious

Bless you! There is always hope. Geordies are a tough breed and I had the honour of living in Newcastle for 7 years. Byker and Walker will always be in my prayers.

I know how you feel I’m 23 and I don’t even want to live the rest of my life due to how nasty and horrible the world is now. And the way things are going

Same from Park End

In my street neighbours knew where each hid their door keys

Your so right the community spirits are well gone

Thank you Derek ☝️👊🏻👍🏻

I’m in Yorkshire, we didn’t have central heating until I was about 10, I still remember having bed cardies and ice on the inside of windows. Just a gas fire & those horrible calor gas things. Before Christmas the heating was broke for 2 days, I don’t know how we coped before 😂 we don’t have a gas or electric fire though, but I don’t remember they giving out much heat. After the council did the heating it was great, you could go to friends’ houses abd you knew how to put their fire or heating on when instructed 😂

Thank you Chris 🙏👊🏻

Oh it was lovely place for first dozen or so years , mostly byker folk lived in New Berlin wall. Then as they died off ,new younger one's moved in from places like cowgate, Benwell ,Elswick from every where ,and BANG !!it went rapidly down hill . And now ,well I wouldn't even think of going over that neck of the woods, as used to live a stones throw from there when I was younger, then my parents died ,they where born and bred over that way , . I hot out and moved right away fast as .

Cheers Andy 👊🏻👍🏻

Thank you Ewan 👍🏻

Had to Google her name she is beautiful still going strong at 76 love the way she explaining what it was like to live there.

@@StuartWhelan-up8vs She seems like an amazing woman, the full documentary about her on KZfaq is well worth a watch!

TBH bath houses need to make a comeback, so many of us are so poor to cost of a bath is too much on the gas, especially through the winter, it's back to the old strip wash from the sink.

Thank you for sharing David 👍🏻

Tom's was amazing.

Yes I used to go to the pictures at the very bottom of shields Road with me friend ,oh it was a lovely friendly place ,a hood vibe ,everyone knew everyone on Sheila's Road ,thst was before it looks now, dirty rundown ,and hardly an English shop in sight. I've heard it's dangerous to walk on sheilds Road now for pick pockets, and druggies.

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Me to it's heart rending , the good memories ,it not the place I loved so much

Thank you David 👊🏻👍🏻

My dad went to Bolam Street school as a child ,he's long gone now, I don't know if the school is still there or not it was proper victoriana building

Hang on a second. I’m from walker. Whats your maa called?? 🫣

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Thank you for sharing

Hope you’re okay Martin 👍🏻

I well recall the coal shed & outside loo/ potties under the bed. It was that way where I was born in Shildon too. Wishing you a full recovery.

Thank you Ken 🙏

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How can anyone have sympathy for these people. They all got a free education and all the opportunities they needed to do something with themselves. If they chose to mess about at school, not take life seriously and continue down the road to nowhere that's on them.

@@frankdux5693 If only life was that easy. My father worked in a Steel Mill. His job was hard and poorly paid, every day he drummed it into me that he didn't want me to follow him into that place. He encouraged me constantly, praised me when I did well and pulled me up when i messed around. Some people never get that support.

BoldenBig Lad .. excellent comments. & in agreement.

@@frankdux5693When I had 'opportunities' my father supported and encouraged me to take them. When I treat them lightly he let me know just how lucky I was to have them. He worked at a Steel Works as a labourer. It was hard, unsafe and low-paid work. He never wanted me to follow him into that environment. I didn't and have worked in Software Development all of my working life. Some people don't get that support, love, etc.

Cheers David 👊🏻👍🏻

Thank you for sharing Suzanne

Thank you for sharing Steve 👊🏻👍🏻

London Is a bigger shit hole

London now so another shithole then one far far far worse

I was born in London... moved to Benwell in '79. Went to Rutherford. Moved to Walker and got the 39/40 every day there and back.

So your heart will always belong to newcastle is what your saying. I feel the same ,. Bit could never ever go back ,as its not my bonnie newcastle anymore, just beautifull beautifull memories of growing up there, and playing out ,eith all my lovely friends 😢😢😢😢😊

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I agree with much of what you say but I think it’s an oversimplification to place so much emphasis on ‘unskilled refugees’. Those people get stuffed into places deemed to be sh*tholes already. It’s not, in my opinion, their presence that leads to the decline of an area (though you could argue it accelerates it); more that them being housed there is a sign that things have already gone wrong. The failure to make any effort to replace the industries obliterated from the 60s through to the mid-nineties, or to retrain anyone who worked in them was the end for a lot of working class areas in cities across the North of England. The expansion of the welfare state in lieu of finding ways to offer people opportunities was shortsighted and possibly even more expensive. It created generational poverty and an underclass who are trapped by circumstances and condemned to live the same kind of lives as their parents and their own children. All very sad, very avoidable and all created from a callous disregard for the working classes by policy makers.

@@badofcheese Agree with pretty much all of what you say, although you say I place 'so much emphasis on unskilled refugees'. I highlight that there are other issues also contributing to the areas decline. However placing those unskilled refugees in an area that already has pre existing socio economic issues really has not helped at all. My observation simply highlights the range of issues in the area contributing to its decline. Hopefully within our lifetime the area will see an uptick in skills and economic growth whatwith the investment in heavy industry on the banks of the Tyne in the east end. We can but live in hope.

What's your problem with immigrants? 🤔

@@sbaby-kg8hn focus on my FULL comment. CLEARLY...you havent.

@@sbaby-kg8hnbig problem with immigrants coming over on boats, all young men with mobile phones, coming to this country purely for free housing, food a free life that they really don’t deserve. It’s disgusting that they come here and are immediately housed, yet there’s people born and bred here who can’t get a flat or a house, generally you’re waiting 15 years for a council flat, yet come over on a boat and you immediately get one. They generally come here with no skills, no desire to integrate or work, currently they come here as Islamic extremists who will no doubt eventually cause problems in this country. Anyone with common sense can see the issues. Yet the woke liberals keep letting them in and are determined to ruin the country. Legal immigrants who work and integrate are fine. I’ll wait for the “British empire” response that has no bearing on the current issue

Thanks for sharing John 👍🏻

Parishes store I loved that store

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Meant to say the best you’ve done, documentary worthy

Totally agree, we've seen countless examples of architects designing social housing projects that are utterly demoralising to look at and live in. I'm no expert but you've got to question how much of a factor the archetecture is in the rise in crime and anti social behaviour in these kinds of neighbourhoods.

Big families! My Dad was one of 13

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Haha! Cheers Ian but even if they did I’d say no. I prefer being my own boss and a lone wolf 🐺 👊🏻

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Wow! Hi Gayna! Lovely to hear from you! You still in? I was officially diagnosed as Autistic over 3 years ago, (which explains a lot!) 😅😬

@@TynesideLife I am still in, but am seconded at the moment and hoping to stay that way for as long as I can! Lovely to see your face on my screen, love the video's, you have found your calling. Be lovely to meet up for a chin wag some time 😊

@@eddietaylor1154 drop me an email Gayna. enquiries@tynesidelife.com Don’t want to put my personal one on here

Cheers Geoff 👊🏻👍🏻

And it had a Woolco !

Well I was brought up in killingworth and moved into the byker wall 😂 so clearly I didn't get the memo 😅

Cheers bud. I’ll have a think on it 👊🏻

Thank you Leanne

Thank you Bonnie 🙏

They have systematically destroyed communities

Thank you for sharing Martin 👊🏻👍🏻

Thank you 🙏

Local problems are managed by local councils and other local authorities Lee

People always blame the government, its local councils who are responsible, people in the area keep on complaining but keep voting Labour, if people want change THEY have to change.

Cheers Jamie 👊🏻👍🏻

Thanks for sharing Jamie 👍🏻

Not sure what she’s doing now

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Thank you Suzy 👍🏻

That’s really appreciated thank you Gary 🙏👊🏻👍🏻

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Ahh interesting stuff Kevin. You’re famous 😃 Thanks for sharing 👊🏻👍🏻

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Take your life in your hands in East end

That’s appreciated mate 🙏👊🏻👍🏻

Thanks for sharing Michael 👊🏻👍🏻

Have you seen my West End video Rob?

@TynesideLife just watched it mate! Now I'm onto the Mary Bell one, my mam remembers that case. Fascinating stuff, love the old footage. Really well made videos, just subbed.

@@robroy488 cheers Rob 🙏

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Welcome aboard Chris 👊🏻👍🏻

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Thank you 🙏 👍🏻 You’ll be able to see the boundaries on Google maps 👍🏻