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East End Community & Voluntary Sector Forum Time Line |
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Year |
UK and World Events |
Community Events |
Personal Events |
| 1860 | . | St Michael's, Byker built | |
| 1900 | St Anthony's, Walker built | ||
| 1901 | Queen Victoria dies after 60 year reign | ||
| 1902 | . |
Grandmother born. Lived in a caravan under Byker Bridge |
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| 1910 | Mam born in Byker at the Salvation Army. From her birth, she had a good life, lived to be 86, had a big family and was a good mother. | ||
| 1912 | Sinking of Titanic | Great-grandparents moved to Walker from Ireland | |
| 1914 | Outbreak of World War I | Hexham Avenue built | Peter Giles, a 17 year old Byker lad, shot as a deserter, by comrades, for being back late from leave. |
| 1918 | World War I ends | ||
| 1920 | Walker Estate & Rochester Building built | My Granny moved here from Ireland. | |
| 1921 | I was born 28th May | ||
| 192? | Wall Street Crash - start of Depression | Population of Byker (including St Anthony's and St Anne's) was 43,000. Population of Byker in 2002 - 8,500. | |
| 192? | Velvet City demolished | ||
| 1930 | I was born in Walker Road, near Ouseburn Glasshouse Bridge and attended Ouseburn School. | ||
| 1930s |
Pits closed down. Various spice, egg & kipper factories in Ouseburn. Broken Kippers Pottery Bank and St Anthony's Estate built. Shipbuilding ongoing |
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| 1933 | Jarrow March | Building
started on St Martin's Church, Byker
Cambrian Estate, Diamond Row built. |
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| 1937 | Holy Jesus Hospital residents move to Spital Tongues | Born late 1930s at Kirkwhelpington | |
| 1939 | Outbreak of World War II | Air
raids
People say nearly every street in Byker had a theatre |
I was married |
| 1940 | In the 40s we all had to sleep together in one bed with an army blanket and slippy mat or coat to cover ourselves up to keep warm | ||
| 1940s | Bombing of Goods Station Shieldfield and East End. | ||
| 194? | The
sugar warehouse was bombed and went up in flames - the whole East End
smelt of toffee for days.
Gas tank fire started by incendiary bomb. Naval yard bombed. |
Born in Byker and lived in one room with Mam, Dad and two sisters till I was 7 years old. | |
| 1945 | World War II ends | ||
| 1950 | Married
and moved to Gosforth
I remember we would get the tram from Byker down to Walker
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| 1950s | Food
rationing continues after the war
Mid 1950s, Hungarians and Czechs move to the area Shipbuilding starts to decline
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In the 50s we would go and have fun at the local church where the vicar would let us have records to play and have a dance with the lads who the girls had crushes on | |
| 1953 | Coronation of Elizabeth II | Moved
to Walker and had a proper house when I was 7
We got our first TV We had a street party for the Queen's crowning. We all got a mug. |
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| 1955 | I was born | ||
| 1960 | All
local cinemas close down
St Anthony's house built |
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| 1960s | Development of new estates on outskirts of city - people move out. | Several
of us born in 60s.
2 daughters born |
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| 1961 | Start of Beatlemania | Maling Pottery closes early 60s | I
moved to live in Heaton with my grandparents.
Went to my first dance |
| 196? | Cuban Missile Crisis | ||
| 1963 | Assassination of John F Kennedy | ||
| 1965 | St Michael's, Byker site redeveloped in mid 1960s. | ||
| 1968 | British
Army moves into Northern Ireland
Outbreak of Vietnam War |
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| 1970 | Byker
Wall development starts
Community Development starts in Byker |
Joined Residents' Group | |
| 1970s | Lads
still got jobs in shipyards and docks through dads and uncles
?Local shops: Parrishes, Wilks, Evan, Pledges, Hardys, Woollies. Late 70s: closure of shipyards |
Mum
worked in Parrishes
Reached pension age Mother died Son born |
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| 1975 | Belmont Methodist Church built | ||
| 1979 | Thatcher
government elected
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Newcastle
Women's Aid begins
Walker Health Project starts Byker City Farm opens |
Founder
member of Community Association - still going
Met my partner |
| 1980 | I
was born
Became active in community |
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| 1980s | Cheap
package holidays available
World economic recession |
Decline
of docks
High levels of youth alienation and unemployment |
83
- first child; 84 married & bought first house; 85 - second child
84 - first married; 87 - first daughter |
| 1982 | Falklands War | Moved
back to North East
Visited Byker as a student |
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| 1983 | Had my first child | ||
| 1984 | Miners' strike | ||
| 1985 | Live Aid | Father
died; I moved to Whitley Bay
5 grandchildren born |
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| 1986 | Community
Care Act
Chernobyl |
National
Trust launches Youth Project in Newcastle
Parrishes closes |
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| 1989 | I bought a house in Walker Vale | ||
| 1990 | East End Parent & Toddler Forum forms | I move back to Newcastle | |
| 1990s | 90
- married; 92 - first child; 94 - second child; 96 - third child
93 - first child; 94 - start work in Byker |
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| 1991 | 91
& 92 - Riots in Newcastle and Liverpool
Gulf War |
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| 1993 | Berlin Wall comes down | Youth exchange to Hungary | |
| 1995 | Women
Away forms
BARC move to 11-13 Raby Cross |
Golden Wedding | |
| 1996 | National Lottery starts | Byker
Resdients' Forum
East End Partnership starts Thomas Gaughan Community Centre and West Walker Community Wing open |
Start work in East End |
| 1997 | Labour elected | Byker
Sands Family Centre opens
Ouseburn Partnership starts |
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| 1998 | Byker Community Education Project opens | Began post in community | |
| 1999 | Regional dispersal of asylum seekers begins | Going for Growth starts | Started uni |
| 2000 | National Trust Inner City Project moves to Holy Jesus Hospital | Started
working in Walker
Second child born Second time at uni |
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| 2000s | Much
less employment - lack of choice
Money-rich private development alongside the Tyne |
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| 2001 | Sept
11th World Trade Center
War in Afghanistan |
East Area Asylum Seekers' Group starts | |
| 2002 | East End Partnership ends | ||