St Cuthberts Village - Gateshead

[Canadian-Geordie]

I used to live in Bellshill Walk in "the village" from 1976 when i was 8 until 1983 when the family moved to Canada. Big culture shock as you can imagine!

I came back to the UK and visited where St Cuthberts Village used to be and couldn't believe the change with the new housing. It's not there anymore! Does anyone else remember how it used to be or does anyone else have any photos of the area? I have some fond memories of the mischief we got up to.

ps --wasn't the Get Carter movie filmed there too?:)

[bensham-ben]

i remember those flats, heres a link to a pic I found.
http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/Local%20Studies%20Photos/Jpgs/GL002579.jpg

[Mel D]

Haha Blast from the past - I used to go there all the time as a kid, it was a great place to knock around. I bet ya those in the new village hieghts wouldnt live there now. Oh does anyone remember the roof gardens that some of the houses had (great views)!!!!:)

[slacker]

:) pleased i avoided the place!

[exiledgeordie]

Great Place, what does it look like now?

[PRESS GANG]

Used to love the village it was like a rabbit warren great for hide and seek. but was a bit ruff in the early eighties.

Didn't Britt Eckland live their before she actually started acting.......

........Cos she didn't in Get Carter.

[bensham-ben]

Haha yeah it was rough in the early eighties, I think all the tenants got a couple of grand each when they were essentially evicted for demolition. It was supposed to be used to help them refurnish their new homes :)

I wonder what it was really spent on? White lightning comes to mind :)

[sandra]

I think most of the same people actually still live in the new housing called village heights near gateshead metro the people in the village got offered first choice on them so it probably is still rough, just looks prettier.

[bensham-ben]

I know for a fact that Britt Eckland did live in the village in the 60's. She used to drink in the Crown bar at the end of coatsworth road. Im sure i saw michael cain in there too but he defo didnt live in the village at any time. I think Alf from corrie used to live in bensham too but left after he met Mr Cain in the carpark in gateshead!

[CHeezer]

Worked in the doctors where alf used to go after he'd met Mr Cain, when the doc asked what was wrong he replied

I feel a bit flat.

[mikey78]

Ive seen you on stage before Cheezer - think it was at the old Talk of the Tyne!

[tommyteams]

We're do we start well

Its a river

It's got a lot of bridges

Fish love it

It used to have a night club

It goes from the sea to in land

Boats float on it


seriously what is the Talk of the Tyne a comedy club or something

[mikey78]

Just got an email to say someone replied to this post!

Well. Talk of the Tyne was a night club owned by the Comedian Bobby Patterson (i'm sure it was). It was next to the metro station at Gateshead but has since been knocked down and is now a piece of grass. Only drinks in plastic glasses there mind haha.

[Lee M]

It was at the top of the bank from TSB now lloyds, it was some place lots of fighting and it was only plastic glasses and was the sort of place were the lasses were after you with only one thing on there mind i went through a phase of going there and the Coconut club what the HECK any way i got through it and i'm here to tell the tale.


RELIEF

[martin R]

Do we have some of Tynesides hardest on this site or something these places where well tough and you didn't go there unless with some locals from the Chandless estate. Never been and had it not been for any of the earlier posts i would have expected them to be still buzzing away to the sound of MONKEY music

[Neil Downs]

Is what i thought this pthread was all about, the place was a hell hole full of wrong uns and lets be honest they have doomed its repalcement by calling it village heights i mean when you get rid of a place like that surely you want to break all ties.Don't ya

[toon-what]

Whats your thoughts
http://www.tynesideforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=267

[Baldy Bill]

Is just as bad as the place it replaced i mean surely they could have thought up a totally new name for this god forsaken site it just links the place back 30 years.

[bensham-ben]

Never as bad as cuthberts village lol!....at least most of them work in village heights.

[harry]

Where was that?

[daveylad]

Imagine Gateshead fc being on prince consort rd when the village was up . It would have the hardest team in the league haha

[Glenn A]

It was knocked down in 1994, one of my mates lived there for 2 years when he worked doing the trolleys for British Rail and moved back to Cumbria when he was told the estate was going. Said it was OK as he was on the trains most of the time, but his wife, who came from Newcastle, hated it as her flat was expensive to heat and was damp.

[HeederBaal]

Did she have a garden on the roof? I know they had flat roofs on the upper level maisonettes (the ones you had to walk through a tunnel to get to the front door:)) -mental-The roof was just like one big garden. I had family there and if i stayed there the trains would always keep me awake at night.

[Glenn A]

Hello, Heeder Ball, I'm not sure which level they lived on, but the flat was a case of needs must. Also as they owned a Lada, they knew it wasn't likely to get twocced.

[HeederBaal]

haha im surprised the lada still had its wheels..there wasnt parking near to the flats was there?

[kelly-1980]

I had never heard of such a place until now, but just looked it up. The place looked really rough and miserable. Apparently an 18 storey block still exists. Can't picture it though as I don't think I've ever been there.