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2 unusual facts about Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne


West Moor

It was so-called because it lies to the west of the ancient Killingworth Moor, which has now disappeared under development.

William Hetherington Shipley

Shipley continued with his ballooning and parachuting and carried out a jump descending on Newcastle Town Moor in about 1896.


Abel Chapman

Today his stuffed animals can be seen on display at Sunderland Museum, the National History Museum in London and the Great North Museum in Newcastle.

Acoustic Live in Newcastle

It was recorded and released shortly after the studio album The Soul Cages, at the Buddle Arts Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 20 April 1991.

Alice in Sunderland

It focuses upon the eponymous city, but also covers other towns and cities in North East England, such as Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham and Hartlepool.

Arnold Tustin

Tustin started working in 1914 at the age of 16 as apprenticed to the Parsons Company of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Bugatti Type 57

In 2008 the Bugatti Type 57S with chassis number 57502 built in 1937 with the Atalante coachwork for Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe was discovered in a private garage in Newcastle upon Tyne, having been stored untouched for 48 years and known about only by a select few people.

Caroline Corr

The Corr siblings were appointed honorary MBEs in 2005, in recognition of their music and charitable work which has raised money for the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, victims of the Omagh Bombing and other charities.

Catherine McKinnell

McKinnell was born in Denton and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, where the attended the Sacred Heart Comprehensive School in Fenham.

Christian Allhusen

In 1827 in Newcastle, a businessman in the grain trade, he went into partnership with Henry Bolckow.

Clas Ohlson

There are now 12 stores in England and Wales, including Manchester, Leeds, Watford, Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Liverpool, Merry Hill, Cardiff, Doncaster, Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Conn Standish O'Grady

He was an active glider pilot as late as the 1950s, belonging to the Newcastle Gliding Club.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

Edmund Fortescue

In the ‘Propositions of the Lords and Commons for a peace sent to His Majesty at Newcastle’ in July 1646, he is included in a list of persons who are to be removed from ‘his majesty's councils and to be restrained from coming within the verge of the court, bearing any public office or having any employment concerning the state’.

Elaine Willcox

Wilcox was born in Berlin, after her father was stationed in the city as part of the Royal Engineers, she was brought up in Newcastle where she stayed to complete a degree in English and History.

English Freakbeat, Volume 4

Shorty & Them is a band from Newcastle that relocated to Germany and released an album there in conjunction with a Liverpool band, the Roadrunners; this long version of "Dimples" is taken from that LP.

Erik Routley

He was chaplain of Mansfield from 1948 to 1959 and then held appointments as minister in Edinburgh and Newcastle before becoming Professor of Church Music at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey in 1975.

German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin

The British freighter Domingo de Larrinaga was on her way from Bahía Blanca to Newcastle with 7,000 tons of grain and a crew of 36.

History of the Jews in North East England

The community was established at the end of the 19th century when Eastern European Jewish refugees, Eliezer Adler and Zachariah Bernstone chose to leave the Newcastle upon Tyne congregation, which they viewed as too lenient in religious matters, and crossed the river to set up a new synagogue.

Hyrum M. Smith

From October 1896 until February 1898 he presided over the Newcastle Conference.

Ignacio Urrutia Manzano

As such, he was sent to supervise the construction of several ships that were being built at the Armstrong shipyards in Newcastle upon Tyne.

International Young Publisher of the Year

Among finalists from Argentina, Colombia, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines and Poland, the inaugural IYPY finalists went on a tour of the UK publishing industry to London, Cambridge, Tiptree, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Aberystwyth and Hay-on-Wye.

J. Meade Falkner

After Oxford, he was a master at Derby School, then went to Newcastle as tutor to the family of Sir Andrew Noble, who ran Armstrong Whitworth Co., one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world.

Jesmond Dene House

Jesmond Dene House is a 19th-century mansion house at Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne, England which is now a hotel.

Julia Tobin

Julia Tobin (born 1955 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English actress from Newcastle upon Tyne, and is best known for playing Brenda Hope in the comedy drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Joan of Arc in the music video for "Maid of Orleans" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands

The first, broadcast in 2011, focused on seven foundation doctors at Newcastle General Hospital and Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne, three of which were newly qualified FY1s and four being FY2s.

Leamside Line

The Leamside Line (originally part of the Durham Junction Railway) is a railway line in the North East of England, branching off from the main East Coast Main Line (ECML) at Tursdale in County Durham, and continuing north through Washington and Wardley, finally joining the Newcastle upon Tyne to Sunderland line at Pelaw.

Liverpool poets

Other related poets include the Londoner Pete Brown (who wrote lyrics for Cream), Pete Morgan and Alan Jackson (both associated with the 1960s Edinburgh poetry scene), Tom Pickard and Barry MacSweeney (both from Newcastle), Spike Hawkins, Jim Bennett, Heather Holden, Mike Evans, Pete Roche and Henry Graham.

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

The collection had initially been housed in the Black Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne, the home of the city's Society of Antiquaries.

Necmi Sönmez

Necmi Sönmez studied art history, Byzantine art history and classical archaeology in Mainz, Paris, Newcastle and Frankfurt am Main.

New Castle Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Named for the famous coal city Newcastle upon Tyne in England, the area contains large veins of anthracite coal and has a long history of coal mining; strip mining continues there to the present day.

Newcomen Society

There are regional branches in England: Midlands (Birmingham), North West (Manchester), North East (Newcastle), Western (Bristol) and Southern (Portsmouth), and one in Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh).

Novocastrians Rugby Football Club

Novos were formed in September 1899 as Old Novocastrians Rugby Football Club by a group of former pupils of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Ravi Deepres

His first solo exhibition, Patriots, shown at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in 2003, explored aspects of patriotic and national identity around the football World Cup and European Championships.

still.moving - A collaboration with :zoviet*France:, commissioned by David Metcalfe Associates, (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) for screening during live performances by :zoviet*France:.

Ridley Railway Bridge

Ridley Railway Bridge is a railway bridge carrying the railway between Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle across the River South Tyne near Ridley Hall in Northumberland.

Robert George Gammage

He stopped briefly in Harrogate, where he had an introduction from his employer in Sherbourne to a coach trimmer who had moved there from Dorset, and he finally arrived in Newcastle in September 1842.

Ross Adams

Ross Adams is an English television actor originally from Newcastle upon Tyne best known for his role as Jeff Bowyer in the BBC Three sitcom The Gemma Factor alongside Anna Gilthorpe, Claire King, Gwyneth Powell and Angus Barnett.

Samuel Segal, Baron Segal

He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, Jesus College, Oxford (Exhibitioner; Honorary Fellow, 1966), and Westminster Hospital (Scholar).

Sheriff Hill Colliery

Sheriff Hill Colliery was situated at the summit of Gateshead Fell at the boundary between Sheriff Hill and Low Fell approximately 2 3/4 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne.

Shola Ameobi

Born in Zaria, Nigeria to a family from Ijumu Local Government Area in modern day Kogi State, Ameobi moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, England when he was five.

Slampt

Slampt (also Slampt Underground Organisation) was a record label set up in Newcastle, England in 1992.

SS Desabla

The SS Desabla was built by Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1913 for Bank Line, Glasgow (Andrew Weir Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd).

Stuart Emerson

Emerson met singer Lorraine Crosby in Newcastle upon Tyne when he was looking for a backing singer for his band.

Tomasz Bajer

The artist has been a two-time grant holder of the Ministry of Culture and an artist-in-residence in Carrara, Essen, Strassbourg, Munich and Newcastle (UK); nominated for the Europaeisches Kolleg der Bildenden Kuenste in Berlin.

Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne

Freemen of the city have the right to graze cattle on the moors, the rental income is distributed through the Town Moor Money Charity.

Trish Williamson

The daughter of journalist Harold Williamson, who notably worked on the BBC current affairs and documentary series Man Alive in the 1960s, Williamson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and studied at Durham University.

Trongate

The London based retailer Selfridges acquired the former Goldbergs site on the corner of Trongate and Candleriggs on which to build a new department store which promised to revamp the area significantly, although progress on this stalled indefinitely after the sale of Selfridges to Canada's Galen Weston in 2003, who intended to revamp Selfridge's flagship Oxford Street store rather than open in Glasgow and other cities such as Newcastle Upon Tyne, Leeds and Bristol.

William Fisken

He was sent to the presbytery at Newcastle upon Tyne, and preached as a probationer at the adjoining village of Stamfordham, where in 1847 he was ordained into the priesthood.


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