Spennymoor Flashback 2010 -1991 County Durham
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Including 'flashbacks' to Bella Dents, Gordon Marshall butcher & the Outdoor Market just a small selection from many videos, which I recorded in 1991.
The fashions may have changed but one thing that stands out to me is just how busy both the market & shopping precinct were back in 1991.
Then the pessimists were already saying, that the market & town centre were finished, can any decline be reversed?
The USA leads the way & the UK now follows, in the States Market Street is now empty but shopping malls flourish, let's hope that the same isn't true for the U.K because whatever happens we can't go back.
'The Players Navy Cut' in part of the video was an original advertising poster that had been posted onto the ceiling of Bella Dents in the early 20th Century. The shop was an off license in King Street Spennymoor. The poster was approx. 8ft x 5ft & had a gas light suspended from the ceiling at the centre of it, Bella Dents ceased trading in circa 1994-95.
I believe that Bella Dent died in the late 1970's; I can remember her standing outside of the shop or sweeping up but never serving me. She I suppose represented the last the of the Edwardian era in Spennymoor & this also included her dress It was very unusual in the 1970's to witness Bella wearing clothing from a bygone era.
I visited the shop many times in my life & eventually purchasing some of the drawers from the shop when it was being converted into the Royal Balti.
Legend has it that the original poster is still beneath the suspended ceiling of the Indian restaurant that it later became.
There was also 'Mucky Bella', as a child in the early 1970's I would play along the former railway cutting at the rear of Kenmir's factory / Rosa School.
The cutting was then being used as the local dump. We had loads of great fun making camps & lighting fires but we always scattered to a safe distance whenever we saw Bella walking along the line towards us, wearing a plastic carrier bag on either foot, poverty was still rife in Spennymoor even in the early 1970's.
its proper sad to see it the way it is now i remember as a kid how busy it used to be and every shop on the precint was open im only 23 but the change is massive wish the town could pick back up abit
Thank you for sharing your video, I moved away in 1968 and miss my home town, if you have anymore would love to see them.
Pleased that you enjoyed! There a several other Spennymoor videos and post card slide shows at my channel. Enjoy!
Seeing this brings back memories, we used to own the little Indian restaurant opposite the night club on the high street, we used to live in Grasmere road and i can remember going the Spennymoor Grammer school which i have just seen was demolished in 2015... what a shame such a great school.
Hi, I can remember the Indian Restaurant, nice food too. Spennymoor has changed the Nightclub, The Top Hat is now no-longer, it's being converted into a dance studio. The Kingfisher is next to be demolished and replaced with a new Aldi Store, the world continues to evolve, we don't stand still.!
@@DurhamTelly can you tell me the name of the little Indian restaurant to settle a debate? 😅
Thank you Alan ! I dont know where Spennymoor is, but I will ask my mate Bill Holmes in Murton...he will know !! What a thoughtful caring film,loved the old footage,and overall a delight to view !! Jack Devonport Tasmania
Born and bred there we owned nicholsons bakers shop. Great times
I remember it well, lovely stuff especially the bread, was Duncan the baker?
I remember Georgina Nicholson and the bakers. I was a friend of your dad John Campbell, lovely man, and a great decorator.
Thanks for taking the time to comment,I have a other footage of Spennymoor from that time to sort one day, this is one of my earlier videos so a little rough compared to much of my newer vids. Spennymoor has lost most of its character, the future looks bleak but I could be wrong?
Here is one of my earlier vids, which is strangely receiving many views from around the globe at the moment (RUclips is great for that).
I shot footage in my home town of things that I knew would change, then I had to wait twenty years to share the video. I have more footage shot at the same time and plan to do make some more in due course.?
How Times Have Changed From a Great Market and great shopping to this
Cheers , my partner is from the Bessemer park estate in Spenny. We have been in the Vic pub and the Penny gill, shame about the shopping centre though!
The shopping centre has always had empty units, since it was built. I has simply died since I filmed it in 1992.
Petwise has been closed for years. The same shop sign still remains. Recently the famous bakery had to close. Sad times for the small independent businesses.
Times are rapidly changing and so is Spennymoor.
True, sadly.
ty so much for this movie
Another happy viewer, I have other footage from then that I will upload one day..?
home town yayy 😁
the place is a dump now days half the place is boarded up n most the factory have shut or moved its a shame
Moved from sunlun to spenny in 2004, people on York hill estate were right twats to anyone new who moved in. Every shop on festival walk was open and it was a canny little town. Slowly got shitter and nearly all shops there are now gone. Jubilee park looks better since the redo a few years back. Moved just outside spenny now
I love this video the old memories of Bella dents and the market on a Saturday this is the spennymoor I love.
Can anyone remember a Christopher Bestford or a Margaret Bestford from round Spennymoor?
Rhiannon-Mia Bestford X yes I can lived next door to them Peter ball