I have lived in Wallsend all my life, I am 57 years old now! I was born here, but it is interesting listening to an outsider talking about my life long home town, I enjoy it! I would love to see you do more on Wallsend and it's history, it wasn't always full of houses, mostly things like Chicken Road around the corner from where I live on station road. Well, Chicken Road was named after the Chicken farm that now leads onto a big field where we all take our dogs for a walk. But in the days when it was a Chicken farm, there would have been no houses then, maybe just small homesteads? Our estate wasn't built until around 1935, just before WW2.
@kanolowther192
6 жыл бұрын
Got to say I’m glad somebody is doing this I’m only 24 but I’ve witness many pieces of our yesterday heritage vanish in my lifetime in wallsend and it me such a shame when we have such a rich history and soon it will be forgotten, take the crow hide on crow bank a really rich piece of history now destroyed
@Wordavee1
10 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! I went to school & lived in Wallsend from the age of 12 to 28, with a few years in my teens in Little Benton, and Teams in my 20s. I started as an office boy at 15 in the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co then as an apprentice fitter in Swans, working in the Neptune yard, & on the Esso Northumbria. I worked in the Yard Engineers office from the age of 19 until I left at 28. I lived in Holly Ave right next to the station, and bought my first house in Diamond St.(@ 2:40 yeah hey!) A few years ago I was inspecting and certifying the cranes which I used to climb, then a little later certifying the cranes which dismantled them when they were sold to an Indian firm. Sad to see it all gone now, Jimmy Nails song Big River takes me back whenever I hear it.
@martinkulkarni3569
2 жыл бұрын
I’m a Newcastle Westender, but have lived in Wallsend for over 26 years and love the town. I own a big Edwardian four bed terraced house, which still has most of the original features, which I love.
@shaylyc
10 жыл бұрын
I'm from Pensacola, Fl, USA. I enjoyed your video very much. I have a friend who was born near Wallsend and it was a delight to see more about the area.
@johndurkin6382
2 жыл бұрын
I lived most of my life in wallsend it's changed so much especially in the last few years it used to be a wonderful community sadly that's been lost now with the closure of the shipyard now it seems soulless like a town that doesn't know what to do with itself
@eddypineddy5297
5 ай бұрын
Excellent video and presentation. Thank you
@marksinclair6518
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this.Very enlightening
@TabletopJoe33
10 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. It was these kind of small details that first got me interested in architecture and design in general and both the effect these things have on our psychology and what can be learnt about the psychology of an era from them.
@Rainandrelax2024
7 ай бұрын
I was born in wallsend, I lived in a "Tyneside flat" in Laurel street Wallsend in the early 70s when i was 3 then moved to Kings road North to another flat until i was 7 before moving to Cramlington then Lancashire where i still live now. I remember my grandad teaching me how to play bowls at Richardson dees park. Nice memories.
@DaithiDublin
10 жыл бұрын
Another great initiative! We have something like that here in Ireland, too. I recently had an appointment in my town and while looking up the location on Google I found an architectural record of the building. It was really nice to see, but it only contained a wide external photo, and no details that I could see. I must have a nose around t'internet and see if any exist.
@johnwmhodgson
7 жыл бұрын
very interesting video. my family cane from wallsend. the houses on equitable and mutual streets were built by the co-op and their names reflect cooperative ideals. The cooperative society was extremely active in wallsend.
@blindelflunk
10 жыл бұрын
A lot of metalwork on the outside of the houses, especially low railings - as evidenced on front walls - in Wallsend (and elsewhere, I'm sure) was cut off and sent for scrap in the 1940s for the war effort. My parents suggested the metal was, probably, never used as intended.
@rangatang100
3 ай бұрын
Wonderful brother 🙌 born in Wallsend
@Chrisheron78
4 жыл бұрын
Cracking video my friend!
@ThePeaceableKingdom
10 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Very interesting. Useful too, for those in the U.K. I suppose - though the principles are applicable nearly everywhere. (As I look around I see there's a quite a bit of "recent archeology" due in my office!...)
@terryatkinson2264
5 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this video, thanks.
@geordielassie1
10 жыл бұрын
I'm how don born and bred and find this fascinating, can I ask which schools are involved in your project x
@AngloSaxonWheatFarmer
3 ай бұрын
Dunno if you’ll ever see this but I was on one of the high school groups you took out to look at all the buildings and the high street, year 8 if I remember correctly, and I recall you getting quite mad at us because we quite clearly didn’t give much of a damn about what we were doing Now as a 24 year old history man I wish I had appreciated your visit more and so here it is in retrospect.
@nleighton7110
7 жыл бұрын
I live in North shields now but my parents still live in wallsend near the high st and have done for 36yrs in the same house. I love wallsend it's a great place.
@braddazztravels6004
6 жыл бұрын
Great video 👍
@keenan1972
5 жыл бұрын
Wow i found this very interesting
@jennytalia226
8 жыл бұрын
The door at 3 : 56 i'm afraid is a relic of the early 1970's as I remember selling these when they first came out from a D.I.Y. warehouse that stood at the top of Benton Way in Wallsend.
@Archaeos0up
8 жыл бұрын
That's excellent! A bit of a mystery solved. I knew they had to be local at least! Thank you :)
@jennytalia226
8 жыл бұрын
Archaeosoup Productions No problems , I was born in Wallsend in 1958 and lived there until 2010. By the way, that soup looks suspiciously like my old school dinners !
@patrickspeer2990
8 жыл бұрын
Very cool, no one ever does this kind of study of detail, I thought I was the only nut lol. I thought everyone would like this link - old pics of the whole Newcastle, Tyneside, Sunderland, Shields areas. Are there any abandoned industrial stuff left to see in this area, or has it all been redeveloped? I about the Swan Hunter Shipyard, but it seems mostly gone now, nothing left to see. www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/albums/
@paulcrombie9623
Жыл бұрын
But wasn't Wallsend the beginning of the wall? The end of the wall was infact in Carlisle, so the historians have got it wrong all along, this annoys me, as the Romans arrived from the East not the West!
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