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Newcastle Statues
There are four on a building in Northumberland
Street - Thomas Bewick, Harry Hotspur, Sir John
Marley and Roger Thornton. Wor Jackie Milburn
has a statue outside St. James' Park
The lone miner stands atop Burt Hall in
Northumberland Road. George Stephenson
stands near the Central Station. At his feet
are his four friends (usually with traffic cones
on their heads) The railway engineer,
the track-layer, the coal miner and the blacksmith.
Queen Victoria sits in imperial non-amusement
outside St. Nicholas' Cathedral.
St George and the Dragon are locked in eternal
battle in Old Eldon Square.
Lord Armstrong stands outside the
Hancock Museum. King Neptune rules on top
of the old Fish Market on the Quayside.
Earl Grey is on his high column at the top
of Grey Street. And here's one that I bet you
don't know. ....... The big Vampire Rabbit
crouching behind St Nicholas' Cathedral in
the churchyard., above the office
doorway. And of course, the two Golden
Ladies. One in Clayton Street and one in
Northumberland street on the Northern
Goldsmith Clocks.
-"Tinseltoon or One night in Newcastle,.
"Christopher Goulding
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The Cloth Market |
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Sandhill Wine Pant |
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The White Cross |
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The West Gate |
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The Groat Market |
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Old Castle 1810 |
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Saint Nicholas' Church
A.D- 1091- the fourth year of William Rufus the church
of St. Nicholas was
founded by Osmond Bishop of Salisbury- Ellison
St. Nicholas in the midst of the Towne; a long faire and
high Church having a stately
High stone Steeple, with many pinakles; a stately stone
Lantherne standing upon
foure stone Arches builded by Robert de Rhodes (otheres
claim it was Robert Rhodes Esq.)
Lord Priour of Tynemouth in Henry VI dayes. It
lifteth up a head of Majesty, as high above the rest
as the Cypress Tree above the low Shrubs- Gray, Chorographia,
1649.
My attitude high, my Body foure square;
My Foot in the grave; my Head in the Ayre;
My Eyse in my sides; five Tongues in my wombe;
Thirteen Heads upon my body; foure Images alone.
I can direct you where the Winde doth stay,
And I tune God's Precepts twice a Day.
I am seen where I am not;
Tell me now what I am and see that you misse not.
-Ben Johnson,Riddle on St. Nicholas' church writen as he passed through
the city.From: The Chorographia.
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The Kee |
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The High Level Bridge |
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St. John's and Vicarage |
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Head of the Side
c. 1890
A popular house frequented by poets and fraternal organizations. |
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Stephenson's Monument |
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Pilgrim Street Gate pre 1802 |
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The Sandhill |
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The Black Gate |
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Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings....,
Thomas and George Allan, NewcastleUpon Tyne, 1891.
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