NORTHUMBERLAND STREET IN NEWCASTLE THEN AND NOW video Colin C

I would like a pound for everytime I have walked up and down Northumberland Street in Newcastle. I was there just before Christmas and added some pics. For me it has lost something from what I remember in the 60's and 70's but only my opinion. Hope you enjoy the look down Memory Lane.

[markjohnson]

For me it brings back memories of the trolleybuses with the Christmas lights spreading across the street and of course Fenwick's window. Great video just wished you a picture of the busker and his accordian

[chasidahL]

Such an interesting video, Colin. So many memories of Northumberland Street. Dancing & singing down the street with my friends after watching T-Rex, David Bowie, Bay City Rollers at the City Hall. My favourite memory is of gazing at the beautiful Fenwick's Xmas windows, hand in hand with my beloved Mother and Grandmother, marvelling at the sparkling lights and shimmering displays. Thanks for a lovely walk down memory lane, Colin, and Happy New Year!👌

[stevesmith]

Another brilliant piece of nostalgia Colin, similar memories to yourself, catch the bus outside the old Birtley baths off at Worswick street.
when we outgrew the short back and sides at Harker's in Birtley it was the western Saloon on the corner of Worswick street I got a Rod
Stewart cut my mates got Bowie cuts! the Big panoramic screen at the Queens cinema and dad taking me to all those war films and having
to go with Mam to see The sound of Music!

[carolec.outandabout]

Brilliant video hubby. I agree, I preferred it before it was pedestrianised xxx

[davee]

I remember Callers Xmas window display was magical for me as a young lad and unfortunately never to return after the fire. My memories of the town include the blind accordion player outside Fenwick's and queues waiting to use the row of public phones opposite Grey's Monument on Blackett Street. The town centre in the 60's and 70's always seemed to be packed with people and is not the same now.

[andrewjohnalbrighton]

Another fantastic video from Colin . I hope your good lady and yourself are well and safe and enjoying your New Year . We are all fine and looking forward to a decent Year . ATB, Andrew .

[joebarr]

Brutal architecture spoils the look now

[barbararay]

Thanks for posting this. Preferred it back then but maybe that's because of happy memories of being young, going shopping with friends and everything to look forward to.

[wallyreeve]

I worked in Turner's Photographic laboratories above Freeman, Hardy & Willis in Northumberland St. In 1951.Fond memories, all changed now. Wally Reeve

[cesirwin]

Hey Colin, posted on another of your brilliant vids about sharing people and memories, how about you give a link to individual still photos, ...along with comments at the end of the presentation

[christinehales]

I remember the 33bus I travelled on it from my home to Jesmond Rd when doing voluntary work 😂at the Fleming Memorial

[victorsauvage]

Your opinion is there opinion of a man who has good judgment.

[jimmycrosby]

I remember traffic running down Northumberland Street and in my opinion things are much better since pedestrianisation. It makes shopping and walking a much safer thing to do.

[cesirwin]

Down from Worswick st /aka bus yem was enlightening

[Jeffybonbon]

I used to love shopping in Northumberland st in the 1970s and 80s I went there in 2022 and i was shocked at how it had changed my view is retail in the City is finished the council have a view its a student city and geordies dont live there or shop there in 2023

[autumnleaves]

Interesting to see those 1970s shots with the streets so crowded, that's how I remember it. My family moved to Ponteland from down south in 1970 and then left the area in 1984. I'd thought the pedestrianisation of Northumberland Street was much earlier than 1998. I don't think you get such large crowds of shoppers now. Some of the architecture is ugly, especially the 70s monstrosity Pearl Assurance House, that brutalist style has nothing going for it and Newcastle got its fair share of that type of building in the late 60s to late 70s. I well remember Amos Atkinson shoe shop, my late mother bought our school shoes there often. A branch was still going in Morpeth when I moved here in 2006 but closed a few years later.