Cool video 5* My Grandpa helped build the metro between Jesmond and Central Sation to the QEII Bridge. Did you know the only part of the Metro that only belongs to the Metro is betweeen Jesmand and the QEII Bridge. CoachAlex1996
It was Rod Griffiths who was supposed to be the inspiration for Roger Mellie, as the writers of Viz saw him when they visited the Tyne Tees studios. I worked for Tyne Tees at the time.
30 years ago where's the time gone.I remember being at Heworth that day to see the Queen lovely woman,took her time to speak to the kids this really brings back the memories
Great clip. Nice to see footage of Newcastle in 1981. I wonder if the Games Gallery shop at 1.42 was an early computer games shop? (for Ataris or something)
Yes there is a bit missing from the titles. VHS tapes were so expensive in those days (equivalent to £32 each in current money - 17p a minute) that a lot of irrelevant bits got paused.
I just had a quick look in The Times and Guardian for the following day and there is no mention of the threat during the visit. It could have been the IRA or just an individual.
What an incredibly dated, plummy voice that reporter has (two amusing things: the way he sounds extraordinarily reverential but gets the Queen's formal title wrong, and the way he pronounces "nonetheless", which suggests that he was actually a Northerner underneath). "becoming a grandmother again" must refer to the announcement that Princess Anne was pregnant with Zara (not that I care, really: I just *know* these things).
Cool video 5*
My Grandpa helped build the metro between Jesmond and Central Sation to the QEII Bridge. Did you know the only part of the Metro that only belongs to the Metro is betweeen Jesmand and the QEII Bridge.
CoachAlex1996
how nice to see tom coyne again thank you
It was Rod Griffiths who was supposed to be the inspiration for Roger Mellie, as the writers of Viz saw him when they visited the Tyne Tees studios.
I worked for Tyne Tees at the time.
30 years ago where's the time gone.I remember being at Heworth that day to see the Queen lovely woman,took her time to speak to the kids this really brings back the memories
Great clip. Nice to see footage of Newcastle in 1981. I wonder if the Games Gallery shop at 1.42 was an early computer games shop? (for Ataris or something)
Yes there is a bit missing from the titles. VHS tapes were so expensive in those days (equivalent to £32 each in current money - 17p a minute) that a lot of irrelevant bits got paused.
You're right! I've changed the year.
RIP Tom Coyne
That's Tom Coyne - *reputedly* the inspiration for Roger Mellie in Viz. Allegedly.
Actually the Tyne Tees presenter who was the main inspiration for Roger Mellie was Rod Griffith.
Wow those trains look old!!!
A month later? Hmmm, they might already have been working on that one then!
How can anyone diss the 1979-88 TTT logo, it's iconic! Mind you, the "Flowing Rivers" ident of 1988-89 that replaced it was the best of the lot.
Mike Neville wasn't it?
Tom Coigne ?
What a snivelling report.
Who was the bomb threat by, the IRA?
I just had a quick look in The Times and Guardian for the following day and there is no mention of the threat during the visit. It could have been the IRA or just an individual.
What an incredibly dated, plummy voice that reporter has (two amusing things: the way he sounds extraordinarily reverential but gets the Queen's formal title wrong, and the way he pronounces "nonetheless", which suggests that he was actually a Northerner underneath).
"becoming a grandmother again" must refer to the announcement that Princess Anne was pregnant with Zara (not that I care, really: I just *know* these things).