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The Cambois Nudist Beach

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

For twelve lang months they gave it a try
To this day I divvent kna why
Cos the weather was never warm nor dry
On the Cambois nudist beach

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Get yourself to Beamish

An old co-op shop with a Newcastle Breweries van parked outside.
July 19, 2019June 18, 2019 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

Get yourself to Beamish, the open air museum
‘The North of England’s heritage’ is its’ task and theme
Now Beamish has come of age since nineteen seventy
When it opened for the first time for all the world to see

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Goodbye Killingworth Towers

Killingworth Towers
June 24, 2019 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

Chorus
So it’s goodbye Killingworth Towers
You should never have been built at all
There’ll be plenty of cheers and not many tears
When Alcatraz begins to fall

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At The Oxford (A Tribute to Don Smith)

Queue outside the Oxford Galleries
June 18, 2019 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

CHORUS;
At The Oxford in Newcastle, that’s where we used to meet
There were plenty’ lasses on the floor dancing to the beat
And if you got to take one home, your night would be complete
There was many a match made at The Oxford

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A Good Old Geordie Song

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

CHORUS
Ye cannit beat a good old Geordie song
That ev’rybody knows and sings along
Songs from Newcastle where we all belong
Ye cannit beat a good old Geordie song

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Gazza The Geordie From Gateshead

June 29, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ Leave a comment

He was born and bred in Gateshead, this famous Geordie lad
And on his seventh birthday, got a football from his dad
It didn’t take him long to learn to play that game
Though the other kids scoffed him, he was on his way to fame

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Tall Ships on the Tyne

March 6, 2018March 7, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 1 Comment

They came for the Tall Ships Race in the summer eighty six,
From a dozen diff’rent nations there were eighty diff’rent ships.

CHORUS : The week there were Tall Ships on the Tyne,
The week there were Tall Ships on the Tyne,
Even the Queen made a visit to the scene,
The week there were Tall Ships on the Tyne,

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The Great North Run

September 11, 2017March 5, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 4 Comments

CHORUS: It was thirteen miles at the most on the Great North Run
From Newcastle to the South Shields coast, on the Great North Run

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The Hoppings Song

Photo of Me and my syster Pamela on the Super Jets at The Hoppings on the Town Moor in the 1980s
June 7, 2017 ~ jmchild ~ 1 Comment

In Newcastle on Tyne ev’ry year,
On the Town Moor there is a fair,
The Hoppings in the last full week of June.
The largest travelling fair around,
Gets the show off the ground,
Race Saturday commencing at twelve noon.

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Cramlington Village Fair

Photo of Me, cousin Helen & Dad Wilf playing this song outside the Blagdon Arms at the fair in the 1980s
June 5, 2017August 10, 2018 ~ jmchild ~ 3 Comments

One sunny Sat’day morning, aroond the middle of June,
The wife sez “We’re ganning oot, it opens at twelve noon”,
The place was packed when we arrived, the Mayor of Blyth was there,
And we had a good time at, the Cramlington Village Fair.

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