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11 unusual facts about Tyneside


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Anthony Brown, a Tyneside boat builder, develops the first crude riggers on rowing boats for racing.

Darron McDonough

He was Kevin Keegan's first signing for Newcastle United in 1991, but only three matches into his time on Tyneside a snapped achilles forced an end to his career.

George Burton Hunter

Sir George Burton Hunter, KBE (19 December 1845 – 21 January 1937) was a British shipbuilder based on Tyneside.

Godfrey Mark Palmer

As the scion of a famous business family in North East England, Palmer took an interest in shipping and the large industrial works on Tyneside.

Irene Ward

A strong advocate for Tyneside industry and social conditions, she lost her seat in the 1945 general election, which Labour won by a landslide.

Joe Jopling

Jopling worked on South Shields shipyards, playing football at a junior level in Tyneside, before he signed professional contracts with Aldershot in August 1969.

John A. Tully

He was born on Tyneside in northern England in 1947 and is descended from English and Irish forebears.

National Amalgamated Union of Labour

It soon established branches outside the Tyneside area, particularly in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, so in 1894 it renamed itself the "National Amalgamated Union of Labour".

Tyneside

Tynesiders may have been given this name, a local diminutive of the name "George", because their miners used George Stephenson's safety lamp (called a "Georgie lamp") to prevent firedamp explosions, rather than the Davy lamp used elsewhere.

This was led by German immigrant cutlers and sword-makers, probably from around Solingen, who fled from religious persecution at home and settled in the then village of Shotley Bridge, near Consett.

Vic Keeble

He moved to Newcastle for £15,000 and played for the Tynesiders in the 1955 FA Cup Final, he is the only surviving member of Newcastle United's famous 1950's FA Cup winning sides.


ComputerTown UK

An example of such a group was 'ComputerTown North East' (Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Gateshead) which met in the Tyne & Wear Science Museum cafe (and thus could claim to be the first ever cyber-cafe on Tyneside).

Edward Corvan

Although Corvan was not born a Geordie, he was considered "a consummate master of the patois of Tyneside".

Faith school

Dr Paul Kelley, head of Monkseaton High School in Tyneside, proposed plans to eliminate the daily act of Christian worship and cause "a fundamental change in the relationship with the school and the established religion of the country".

Henry William Clothier

In 1905 Clothier went to Tyneside to work with Charles Hesterman Merz and Bernard Price and joined Mr Alphonse C. Reyrolle at A. Reyrolle & Company in 1906, and remained employed with them for the rest of his life.

Larkman

From about 1860 onwards Larkman families moved further a field to the growing industrial centres - Tyneside, Teesside, Birmingham, Manchester and the Midlands.

National Amalgamated Union of Labour

The trade union was founded in 1888 as the Tyneside and District Labourers Union, and it participated in the National Labour Federation.

North Tyneside Loop

The North Tyneside Loop refers to the railway lines in North Tyneside from Newcastle upon Tyne via Wallsend, North Shields, Whitley Bay, Backworth, Benton and South Gosforth back to Newcastle.

Stevenson High School

George Stephenson High School, a secondary school in Killingworth, North Tyneside, United Kingdom.

Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery

The meeting was held in response to statements by Commander Bedford Pim, Royal Navy, that a modern ironclad warship could do untold damage to the towns of Tyneside due to the poor state of their defences.

Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads Company

The Northern General Transport Company (a subsidiary of British Electric Traction took a controlling interest in the Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads Company in 1913.