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excited to watch my city grow

To anyone who is criticising the newer developments in the area, just know that before they were built, the land was most likely abandoned shipyards or derelict brewery’s. As someone form the wider Newcastle area, these new developments are only a positive for the city as they help to revitalise derelict industrial buildings

It's absolutely depressing to see those glass and steel high rises polluting glorious British cities. One day you'll wake up in a dreadful hybrid of Hong Kong and Dubai. Obnoxious.

These videos are of such a high standard. Need more recognition

Newcastle claim gatesheads skyline South bank of the tyne and millenium bridge, whenever see on tv or whatever is referred to as newcastle. When i have been to newcastle, the local people do not put visitors correct. No mention of gateshead at all

Growing up in the 80's we used to call Byker wall the lego houses. I have a totally different view on tall buildings after the Twin Towers incident and reinforced by the Grenfell Tower, I don't like them at all now

Newcastle doesn't really have a skyline, it looks very old dated and ugly.

If it was accessable it would be a bonus. Retail don't want to go to a no go area. They should have looked after and nurtured what they had got instead of wasting money on opposition around the city. It's typical of decisions made by people who have no business accumen.

Very well made video, one of your best. Great narration, and I really see the effort you've put in. Great shots of the bridges too, I didn't realise how impressive they are

Very informative.

Thank you for this timely video, I'm visiting Newcastle for the first time tomorrow. Can't wait.

Another Jordan Reeve banger

Sunderland is a city of sanctuary for illegals and not a safe place..and its was never put towards the residents as the council done it on the sly

My home city born and bred

Enjoyed watching your video. A good review of tower blocks in Newcastle, both those that were built and those that are long gone. You did mention that you are not keen on the exterior of Cale Cross House. The new exterior is the third time that the exterior has changed. The original exterior was black panelling! Fitted in with the soot covered buildings of the time but not after those buildings were cleaned up!

Very enjoyable video. Although distant I like the view you get from about 3 miles out from the top of the old pit heap in Wallsend, part of the Rising Sun Country park

Great video Jordan

Councils should take note that most people don't want to live in a tower block. Housing should be human sized. Also as more offices allow remote working and digital storage of files, there isn't the need for huge offices. How about they build elegant buildings that compliment the surrounding buildings and not stick out like sore thumbs.

There is a small model of the city centre just inside Newcastle Uni's King's Gate building on Barras Bridge, opposite the Civic Centre. It's squeezed under the though, stairs so it's easy to miss. There used to be a small cast bronze model on the pavement opposite the station but I don't know where that is now.

Excellent video, thanks Jordan

Very nice but not much of a skyline really. Newcastle needs some nice tall skyscrapers in the city centre.

What a great and well put together video.

An excellent and well structured video Jordan, that shows me parts of Newcastle and their history I didn't know exist..

Another excellent video and future resource 👍

14:54 Strangely enough Cale Cross house and the old Bass HQ in front of it, get a big thumbs up from two visiting Americans @ 1:38 in the video 'Exploring NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE: Is this the best city in the UK?!'. They just love 'New Castle's' mix of new and old.

Any day with a new Jordan Reeve video is a good day.

Makes me want to head into Newcastle with my camera, nice work♥

Admirable work, as usual!

skyscrapers as they exist today are hideous and are only built to fatten the pockets of the developer, we need properly designed and unique buildings of quality materials like brick, and should respond the existing historic fabric of the area

I started my first job ín Newcastle in 1971 walking from the old Haymarket bus station past St Jame's and the Newcastle Brewery on to Blandford St to the dress factory I worked in at Duke House .I went back recently and there are no original buildings left. I can remember being sent to the button factory and collecting the daily newspapers from the little newsagents on the corner of Westmoreland Road near the Marlborough cafe.

I've actually worked in the cale cross building and it's almost as troubled as when it was first built the internal refurbishment is taking months over schedule and has already changed hands back in december when the main management company ran out of funds and in general the management of work inside is in shambles the workers have a very negative look on the work and how management is handling it especially considering the fact that alot of the plasterboard panels for the walls is carried manually up the stairs which has caused a few accidents and lots of fatigue when the service elevator which is fully working and able to carry materials up and down is prohibited for some arbitrary reason

excellent video.

it would be nice if Northumbria Uni release the 3d model into the public domain

Weird how the government plans to to good for us but when it comes to it they are all liars init for the money while us lot suffer to this day, but they will never beat us geordies ❤

Council let the developers tear down the green market and now the are making a bloody mess of the grainger market butchers bakers and even the candlestick maker has pissed off this has got nothing to do with changing times the simple fact is the retail units are empty cos the bloody rent and rates are too high!

Loved the green market.......what were they thinking while re vamping it to a nothing block of rubbish. Loved Sun Travel which we used loads x

They done the same to south shields and are doing it right now as i speak 5 old buildings up to now I've seen removed they don't want us to know the truth my lovelys but we were promised everything will come to light and it is... all our beautiful churches 🙏

Any idea when all of these projects will be finished?

I remember when they were called shopping centres and not a 'mall', whatever that means.

I heard that River Wear explanation as well, and it’s clearly convincing looking at the topography. I may have heard it at a Geology lecture at uni. Which I had a better source than that (no pun intended) sorry

I grew up in Elswick and later lived in Summerhill Square which, I heard, was only spared demolition because Jane Gifford and her friends started a housing co-operative there, though @craigix rightly mentions local architect Richard in a comment below. One of our family friends was Joyce, who grew up in Scotswood road. She used to feed me Sunday dinner. Later she moved into one of those tower blocks. The open waste-bin by the lift had a sign saying, "In case of nuclear war take shelter in this bin - nothing ever hits it." When I was a lad there was massive unemployment and alchoholism all around. My dad, stone deaf, had grown up in Elswick and smoked 40 cigarettes a day, which the doctors at the time considered perfectly healthy. He'd bought his house when the whole west end was prosperous. My Dutch immigrant mother set up a day centre in Noble Street for early years children and their parents. I used to visit her work sometimes.

The buildings are not that bad, but why aren't the top architects from North like Foster and Partners being invited to design some of the buildings. What about the role of Town Planning stull suffering from the 1970's roads policy with a modern rapid transit system on viaducts to match London, e.g., the Docklands Light Railway.

What accent do you have?! I'm getting Leicestershire and Southern elements and northeast elements

Wonderful video Jordan, my Grandfather built the Garage in the 30s. Great to see it before demolition (as I live in Sydney), truly appreciate it! It has had a good innings from it's heyday, quite an inspiring idea to develop this type of modern facility in the heart of Newcastle back in those times.

How to tack grate city like Newcastle and distoy it grate history

sort of, sort of

Vote Labour get rubbish.

I always wondered, how much would it have cost to refurbish the old houses. To my mind, perfect starter homes within a ready made community. Stripped back to bricks and roof, surely modern plumbing, electrics, insulation and windows would have cost less than those awful towers. I lived in three different terrace houses in different parts of the city, loved working on them as they had good bones…

Lived there for 20 years, from the end of the 1960s and saw many imposing buildings destroyed, not just old Eldon Square, but the Y.M.C.A and an exhibition hall in the Bigg Market. However, the disruption during the construction of the Metro system was well worth it and the city seemed to be really on the way up. Have not been back in recent years and fear that disappointment could await me.

The town centre is a rathole though labour ruin everything