I was 13 years old, had just started high school. Wham freedom was number 1 in the charts! Ghostbusters was in the charts and i had been to Newcastle 1-1 Nottnm Forest the day before so I remember it was very cold over that weekend.
Remember going to Santana's restaurant in the 80s in Jesmond . Queueing up outside to wait for a table with the smell of the cooking making your mouth water.
Love this - thank you so much for taking the time & trouble to make these recordings & to share them. I was there - 1981 - 1988. Who needs dash-cams! Even love some of the music... Thanks again - social history with personal meaning which many will enjoy, even if they don't leave a positive comment. +++++++
I used to go to the flemming nuffield unit on Burdon Terrace, Jesmond NE2 3AE when I was a kid now im 28 it closed and is now a care home since about 2014 was for children with special needs and mental health issues .was very important part of my life i had some fab times and fun days there 😀
Thank my friend what a lovely memories this video absolutely make my Day wish I turn the clock back “Jesmond the place bring a lot beautiful memories succes always whatever you doing for sure you make people Happy
Because not everyone had need of a car, because public transport was that much better, and there weren’t as many people, full stop! I didn’t leant to drive until I was 26 and had been in the navy for years - I left Newcastle in 2004 and for all my life had never learnt to drive til then, I had my feet, my bike and the metro and the buses.
Lived in a house immediately to the rear of Whites Hotel which caused all sorts of problems with parking, noise etc. The punchbowl has just been done up, but when I was young it was run by Len Mitchell, ex NUFC and a good and very popular pub.
wow proper time capsule.....nothing has changed , but it has all changed...great foresight to do the videoing all those years ago!...'keep ya eyes on the bloody road!' hahah
JESMOND, NEWCASTLE, BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, MIDDLESBROUGH, STOCKTON, YORK & YARM - UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. They married in Yarm in 1941. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1). Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks. When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs lived in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. He also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne. So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs! Details of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974.
So cool. So much has changed, but it’s weirdly still the same. Thanks for sharing! (Selfishly I hope you have more to share!)
God what I would give to turn back the clock even just for a hour
If i had my way i'd gladly live in a continuous time loop from the late '70s to the late '80s.
@@hallgos7319 ha ha I say that all the time if they ever invent a time machine and say its one way I'll go without batting an eyelid :)
Thanks for sharing this. Reminds me of the journey we’d take to my dads work in jesmond in the 80s.
wonderful, especially seeing the original benton bank before the bypass was built around 93' - i lived in granville gardens in the early 90s :)
I was born in West Jesmond in 1979. Check out Armstrong bridge and the coast road before the bypass went in! To be fair this is also sandyford too.
I was 13 years old, had just started high school. Wham freedom was number 1 in the charts! Ghostbusters was in the charts and i had been to Newcastle 1-1 Nottnm Forest the day before so I remember it was very cold over that weekend.
great memories
Remember going to Santana's restaurant in the 80s in Jesmond . Queueing up outside to wait for a table with the smell of the cooking making your mouth water.
Love this - thank you so much for taking the time & trouble to make these recordings & to share them. I was there - 1981 - 1988. Who needs dash-cams! Even love some of the music... Thanks again - social history with personal meaning which many will enjoy, even if they don't leave a positive comment. +++++++
Thank you Newcastle Upon Tyne & UK - Video from the past
, Very cool!
I used to go to the flemming nuffield unit on Burdon Terrace, Jesmond NE2 3AE when I was a kid now im 28 it closed and is now a care home since about 2014 was for children with special needs and mental health issues .was very important part of my life i had some fab times and fun days there 😀
Awesome video brings back memories of living in Jesmond in the 1980s
Thanks for sharing. Less cars on the roads either moving, or parked ( Even if it was filmed on a Sunday).
look how quite the roads are
Why anyone would use up expensive film on this beats me, but I'm glad you did! It sparked off a lot of memories of my teenage years.
Thanks for these vids mr Clark's
Thank my friend what a lovely memories this video absolutely make my Day wish I turn the clock back “Jesmond the place bring a lot beautiful memories succes always whatever you doing for sure you make people Happy
Why were the roads so quiet?
Because not everyone had need of a car, because public transport was that much better, and there weren’t as many people, full stop! I didn’t leant to drive until I was 26 and had been in the navy for years - I left Newcastle in 2004 and for all my life had never learnt to drive til then, I had my feet, my bike and the metro and the buses.
Brilliant!
Lived in a house immediately to the rear of Whites Hotel which caused all sorts of problems with parking, noise etc. The punchbowl has just been done up, but when I was young it was run by Len Mitchell, ex NUFC and a good and very popular pub.
lack of traffic is amazing
wow proper time capsule.....nothing has changed , but it has all changed...great foresight to do the videoing all those years ago!...'keep ya eyes on the bloody road!' hahah
44 years later . leicester it,s like a jungle :)) btw nice city in 80s
JESMOND, NEWCASTLE, BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, MIDDLESBROUGH, STOCKTON, YORK & YARM - UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps.
Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. They married in Yarm in 1941. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1).
Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks.
When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs lived in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. He also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne.
So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs!
Details of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974.
Does the mid 80s still feel relatively recent ?
The '80s is always a recent decade to me. More so considering how hopeless and horrible modern times are.
Hallgos73 I was born in 1995
@@forza223bowe5 '73 for me. '95 was still a good year though. I was happier back then.
Hardly any traffic
40 years later
I'm just here for the cars
a felow clark good old days
2:07 4 Course Sunday Lunch £4.75 I'll have some of that!! 😋
off course its raining
Won't be allowed to drive down a lot of those streets now the lefty council has closed them off for emissions 😢
Good times,till the world went to shit.😢