Valley View

The India Summer elongated even in November Jarrow, normally the scrub hawthorn trees of Primrose Dene, braced against Arctic Winds. In The Last Summer Like This, On Simonside Playing Field, the Summer of 1964, talented goalkeeper Robert Gallagher’s already joined eyebrows knit tighter, as his Bette Noir accuses him of ironically ‘missing the banana shots'. Robert had just failed to join the Human Queue, joining instead the back of a Mongolian tribe queue, a minority in Jarrow, Hebburn and Felling.

His tormentor, an informal gas meter emptier, a sallow Kasper-like Kes figure, was suggestively implying Robert resembled a monkey. From stage left, a detective and a uniformed officer, emerged from a sky blue and white Hillman Imp, approaching us. Kasper, when asked his name, replied Tony Hancock, adding it’s based on body parts, pointing at them in order (Toe Knee Hand C*ck). ‘Comedian, Eh?’ The Filth replied both Police Men, exiting left.

'Männer? Polizei Männer?'.

Robert worked a lifetime collecting Bingo numbers, a true Everyman, centre of a network of admiring and loving friends. Robert’s disarming intelligence shone through when he smiled, and bonded me to my elder brother Bede.

Robert slept 24 hours, days on end, only emerging to visit The Neon, or Sign On.

‘Neon Licht, schimmendes Neon Licht’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyqz_qr4PAI

The Neon’s neon sign, luminous and on, white at night, and, at Three in The Afternoon just there: Then unkempt and flickering, then disappeared.

The Neon Friends converged to Jarrow Cemetery Corner ‘sunderland‘, overlooking The River Don, going in to character, like, like, as if choreographed by a levitated puppeteer. The Chip Shop Blond Angel In Black, her hair Jet Black: In her lapel a Black Rose. This lady dignified the ceremony like a Glinting Black Gem.

‘For a minute the sky pours into the hole like plasma. There is hope, it is not given up.’

Hedworth

Transport Through The Ages: Ox Wagon

Mention of The Kicking of the Ball’ is here taboo, however, on first seeing Eleven Men halted by Finchley Road Swiss Cottage Public House Beer Garden,(tbc) dressed in the new fashion of wearing Newcastle United shirts: How would this qud beat Arsenal today at Old Wembley, first Swilling Pints so?

South Shields and The Outlier The Scotch Estate split Black and White v Red and White: Newcastle v Sunderland.

Jarra Lad Uncle Pat, Comedian and Robin Hood Public House Master of Ceremonies: ‘Suggestive Affirmation’ but with no on-line evidential backup of the plaques inscription : ‘Pat Jarra Lad played alongside Jackie Milburn then for Hartlepool.' The Shields Gazette and South Shields may have photographs and articles not available on The World Wide Web. Question: Did Uncle Pat really play for Newcastle United and was it a woman or computer answering The Turing Question?

Some of these Geordies and Mackems are buried with in Jarrow Cemetery, with Newcastle and Sunderland enamel badge cartouches on their headstones.

Seedy Hopper records: Onlooker Uncle Pat watches Seeker Dan fight any stranger, backed up on by Chicken Welsh on The Roman Road, Newcastle to South Shields, on the grounds they were Newcastle B*stards.



A horses head left nearby by Stan or Jimmy Mallam, and live chestnut one trapped shivering under the nearby Dump Bridge. In Primrose, the name of the Wild Flower Meadows flanking The River Don, used riverbanks as an informal dump: The practice of Town Edge Dumping in Jarrow before Italian and German immigrants brought private enterprise The Corporation Dust Cart pre-cursor. The River Don’s dendrite Denes drain a ridge, bound inland at Sunnyside, trapped between The Tyne and Wear‘s Ice Age Diversion to the North Sea. The Wear poetically justified flowed into The Tyne along onomatopoeic Team Valley.


Jarrow*

‘The Neon is out yet it is Three?
The bent metal spares him.*
Speeding down the Sixties.
Only tablets of flagstones,
Left of the Route master Street.

But what if the Sukhoi did land?’

In the rafters
I touch a butterfly
And it turns to dust.

11th April 2003 (Revised 21st January 2009)

A man left The Neon Social Club* in Primrose, Jarrow, a sunny Sunday in 1963. Over the Limit,Speeding down Perth Avenue, had not realised the A19 built since. From Pity Me or Esh Winning, he narrowly avoided decapitation,
then quietly disappeared, to avoid being arrested.

Knowledge of Primrose’s is underlying landscape locked away in the minds of Vince and Willa Rea. (Simonside, Brockley Winns and The Scotch Estate).

The Neon’s dereliction, The Neon’s neon sign dilapidation then absence, the yearly absence of The Neon’s Leek Show Big Top Tent, the absence of Franco Soave from 1955 established Fish Shop, The Top Shops (tbc), the colonised Perth Green, a slanted horseshoe with Colliery Bands absentees. The Bent Fence not replaced for 30 years*. (tbc)

Morley

The Dying Industry: Morley

Anyone hitch hiking to London in the 1970's from White Mare Pool, after all the Old Roundabouts on The Artery South may have noticed the River Signage.

Just in Yorkshire The River Swale is crossed, then The River Ur, then The River Nidd, then The River Wharfe, and then The River Calder.

Standing at Allinson's Mill Weir in South Yorkshire in 1963 The River was Multi-Coloured with 'The Dying Industry'.

From these Polluted River Banks Sprung Albert Pierspoint, John Christie (The Hangman and the Hanged both from the Leeds suburb of Morley) and Ted Hughes.(Mytholmroyd).

In Jarrow at about the same time in Jarrow a man was catapulted 100 foot off the ground out of The Plexiglass Factory from an explosion, landing at the foot of The Southern Tyne Tunnel Vent Shaft.



In West Berlin at about the same time the erection of The Berlin Wall commenced, modestly and briefly at first in Kreuzberg.

(Standing anywhere really, on Bismarkestrasse emerging from The Hallenbad on Krumme Strasse, the Bent Street in Charlottenburg, the vista is linear from Spandau, all the way (krumme) to Frankfurt am Oder. Oder?

The Germans, see, The Noble Berliner Schnauze Volk, were obliged to dig, and often did, these Prussian Strait Lines after the many wars they stared. Conveniently, Digging Sand out of The North German Sea Plate was relatively easy. No English City has any Empire Vistas, only Pall Mall in London.

Unlike Nottingham, Berlin has dedicated cycle lanes criss-crossing the Former DDR Haupstadt.

German Berliner Cyclist can see how the world used to be, by visiting The Post War Museum of Nottingham. Like a Museum von Menchenkunde, all the Paid Actors are Echt.)

Many Geordie Miners went to Nottingham mainly from Wallsend and Percy Main then progressively from Horsely Hill, South Shields, to Cotgrave and the Nottinghamshire Coalfield, generally. Try cycling along The Grantham Canal without meeting a Geordie Miner.

'The Nottingham Volk' made these Less Shy and More Vocal North Invaders Very Welcome.

Nottingham

In 1975 The River Trent lapped the threshold of Nottingham Railway Station. A stunted tree now flourishes there, in an Elevated Gutter above the red sandstone clock tower eaves, a reminder of Nottingham‘s Lost Heritage. The Town House, the absurd and bloated office of Nottingham City Council, made tragic mistakes for the people of Nottingham, but could not be dragged out and held to account On High Pavement In The Beast Market.

It all started, see, with the Judaic Retail sponsored destruction of Nottingham Victoria, a dark cathedral railway station in a massive cleft now a dangerous drop in Central Nottingham. A dark tunnel linked Nottingham Victoria to Nottingham Central Station. Retail magnates ripped out whole quarters of English cities using Hypnotism and Psychology, to herd the Unwitting Nottingham Masses into places which were often former Cattle Markets as in Grantham, Gloucester and Banbury. The same London Architect was there again at the end, to build Nottingham Trinity, a Quarter of a Century later.



Without asking anyone, see, The Invisible Town House continued the Vandalism of Nottingham, by chopping up the natural lay lines of Nottingham, a classical cross linking St. Mary’s Cathedral with Nottingham Castle, and West Brigdford with Sherwood. The Lace Market beyond Weekday Cross is A Deserted Village.

These inverted Snobbery Creatures still inhabit The Town House. Perhaps it is time for The Boy Scout Tory Boys of Trent Bridge to take over Nottingham. In The Next Decade, The Moral Decade, with all their faults, The Boy Scout Tory Boys of Radcliffe and Ruddington striding off the fields in worsted, like Farm Labourers, may be better educated for The New Decade.

The Butchery of Nottingham City was complete when the Limbs of Nottingham were hacked off with the building of The Inner Ring Road and Maid Marion Way.

Nottingham’s Entrepreneurs among Newcastle Square This and Duke of Newcastle That, from the Proud Aspect of Cliffs just north of Nottingham Castle, had built St. Pancras station and Hotel, a Victorian Cathedral and Highest Achievement of Victorian London, from River Trent mud, bricks Fired Here in the Heart of The Midlands: In Hoveringham.



And it continued see, when without asking for permission from The Unwitting Masses of Nottingham, Nottingham Tram was built at the expense of A High Speed Midlands Express Train One Hour Out Of London, Making Nottingham a London Suburb.

Selfish Nottingham Lawyers Shot Themselves and All of the People of Nottingham, In The Foot, see, when failing to set up A Legal Framework for The High Speed Midlands Express Train, preferring dowdily to continue To Fork Out The Full Fare On The Day to London, charging The Full Whack, to their Town House clients.

The rational for The Nottingham Tram, see, was that Sheffield had one and, well it’s European. The Creative and Unimaginative Nadir of Nottingham Town House, meant that the tram would be green. The Conservative Minded Town House Labour Council meant that the tram would link The M1 (Nottingham is prejudiced towards These Hermetic Citizens, their only Vocabulary a Honk of a Horn: Car drivers are more likely to have a job, accessing The Midlands quickly, mainly producing spreadsheets, in dour monochromatic brick hells, off motorway roundabouts} to Derelict Town This and New Suburb That, whose 'Useless Eaters' should have been long gone, socially engineered and Labour Directed, Chauchescu-like, like, away to Peterborough and The Surrounding Pea Tin Factories.

No planning has ever been undertaken in Nottingham for Cyclist Paths leaving the cyclists more like Angry Psychopaths on Cycle Paths.

The New Nottingham International Gallery, now blocks The Victoria Tunnel Forever.

Scunthorpe

Jenseits von England

If unemployed in Jarrow, Hebburn or Felling get a bicycle. Obviously, due to Karmic Instant Electric Prods, do not handle a Stolen Bicycle.

Carry a bag of seeds from Gregories in Jarrow Arndale for Slow Release. (Nutrition and Energy)

Spend time Researching in Jarrow Library. Remember, Before The Jarrow March and before Jarrow was Tarnished, Jarrow Library was a Temperance Place not a Gin Palace.

England has a fascinating industrial history: England is an Industrial Museum, actually, with animated 3D Englanders floating through it. So enjoy Jarrow whilst you still can.

It would be odd to base a cycle tour of England on shopping centres, or those large futuristic silver boxes in the landscape, distribution centres. The cyclist chances upon these and their arteries, like chancing upon an alien species who have Invaded Earth. Like a trapped animal, the cyclist is shaken by the brutal, noisy intrusion blocking their lay line idyllic ramblings. Yet most English Common People find themselves in a car, somewhere often.

In Distribution Protocol, Shopping Centre and Shed location logic, is a subordinate sub-logic of Motorways, and distribution feeds directly off this. The huge task of motorway building once started became regarded as a Great National Achievement.

All roads and signs lead to EuroHub, Derbyshire but On Arrival it’s mysteriously disappeared or Is Not There.

Like The Great Wall of China the lettering on these Distribution Hubs is visible from space as in IKEA Team Valley and Junction 29 on the M1 before Ilkeston, or the JCB fabrication shed lettering near Uttoxeter. Triumph motorcycles silver shed is a beautiful elemental silver box in Hinckley.

ASDA's HQ is Leeds, also an Israeli Stützpunkt with a Prominent Cube among the Dereliction of Wakefield, South Yorkshire. Further, the logic is: Centralization in The Middle of the Country or Convenience Stores near The Port of Southampton.

If distribution, though is the main mantra for shopping, why not Edeka or Aldi invite car drivers on to a container ship sailed into the Port of Tyne Authority at Willington Quay?©®™

People often referring to Blue Water or White City , tribes unwittingly following their invading siedlung instincts as if they had just walked off The Zealand Ridges into ‘EsturRhine‘ ©®™ Kent? This is why they circle around when they get there. This is the root of Crowd Behavior Research and a key concept in herding shoppers.

'Why they all out the same time as us?' the Lady Says, under the passing shadow of Ferrybridge power station, from the back seat on the Old A1.

Such a tour, though, although obscure and frankly slightly mad, would lead the cycle tourist into Ordinary Everyday English Life.

(This, all this at the end of Summer, 2009: Like a Twilight Zone Gap between August and September, a rut easy to get stuck in.)

Dyce

Since Sea Gem, 'Jarrow Lairds'©®™ have worked North of the Border, bringing back what their women folk dismissively called 'Monopoly Money'. Dyce is the busiest Helicopter Base in the World.

Sandwood Bay, Wester Ross

Walking out from The Rabid Town to Sandwood Bay is not practicable: It’s too far, though looks only 2” inches on ‘The Map’, and would just take too long. Even if you do not charge around in ‘The’ Vanden Plaz Chariot, on Wings of Desire, and don’t end up reading The Daily Mail in the Lochinver car park with the engine still running: Or even if it is a Sky Blue Hillman Imp, one woman owner from Yorkshire. Despite flying now being ‘A Sin’ (Exchange Indulgences though if a Limited Company), you still are allowed to travel by aeroplane or train and occasionally go somewhere in ‘The Car’. Alight at Dyce, but be patient and wait for the steps to arrive.

Some destinations in the UK are not ‘do-able’ (ibid) on a bicycle, as at Sandwood Bay, south of Cape Wrath. (Highest Cliffs on the UK mainland) You may find yourself in The Last European Wilderness. This is No Place. Especially for a bicycle (sand wears the bicycle away and tyres sink). Park ‘The Car’ in the car park. Walk to Sandwood Bay, pass The Stack and visualise momentarily Zowie Brown (Hand Jamming Joe Brown’s Daughter) climbing it, Live on TV. Closely inspect the brown friable rock underfoot, and take off to a parallel universe of complementary colours: Remember to come back though: It says on my school report ‘Hangs Around With Adults and Is Easily Distracted’. A simple fact is, though, Day Becomes Night, if a blue and sand picture is reversed in Paint. (Paint.Net) So, why is the Sky Blue? Does anyone know?

Complementary colours, you see, were investigated by someone on the Isle de France and is linked with Neurobiology. Its no good getting to Sandwood Bay though, with a blank mind, but reader, Sandwood Bay Wipes the Hard Drive of Your Mind, Defaulting it back to Childhood. A Secret Silver Research Aircraft from The Fifties appears: Down there on the North Sea surface The Two Princes remember left treasure, covered by a sandstorm, they won't be going back to. In That Moment My Artistic Life is Complete. Even you, though, now momentarily God-like, will have to go back to the Lockinver car park. (As the Heat Sinks in The Wilderness of Northern Lights).

Spital Tongues

Shenfield

By inference, and Chinese Dark Room Reverse Engineering I guess Journalists are more up with public and private opinions, and when to voice them. However it was in a small café in a slanted horseshoe arcade (now buried (engulfed) by Eldon Square) the Vis character The Man on the Telly, was formed in circa 1974, by Tynemouth schoolboy wags probably in duffel coats, out having a laugh in city centre Newcastle.

I first started having my doubts about The Chinese (not the Communist Party) when working in a Wesleyan Chapel architectural studio (notably NOT in Jesmond but camped provocatively on Spital Tongues) when a Chinese Part Three asked me if I would like a drink of water, qualifying this with whether I would like hot or cold water?

Outside, shuffling past The High Window, a crocodile(dragon) of elderly Chinese women were heading en masse mid afternoon, to the Bingo. Later these women disembark from a tour bus in Tynemouth, so in exile, at least they stayed together.

China had so destroyed Stoke on Trent, now a modern wasteland, as if The Imperial Chinese Air Force had bombed it directly.

The Six Shakespearean plots apparently don’t apply to Cruel Chinese Cinema, where The Innocents are held in Dark Tiny Floor Level Cages. Oriental propensity for Humiliation is their only saving grace. But it is Australia, a Fortress far enough away from China, which balances the World, literally a mass counterweight to the Myong Empire.

Winston Churchill spoke affectionately of ‘The Yellow Peril’ and English City Gents reared in The Home Counties, quiver at ‘The Easy Jet Threat’™®© the ‘Orange Peril’.™®©

Surbiton Men walk in Fear of Abbey National Book Syndrome (The Wimbledon Chinese Woman Thinking Forward For Her Children, and returning them to their Rightful Place in the Hierarchy).

Yet it is not all about the Condescension implied by Silence.
(Allegedly, Chinese don’t bother replying because they regard the English as savages): Often it is more to do with Modesty and Asian Cultural Attachments.

Feel both sorry for and admire the now wealthy once peasant Chinese student wandering around shopping in Nottingham : Knowing that they are the only people bringing in activity (A Vision of the Universities of Durham, Portsmouth and Nottingham).

Ironically, the in Dunkirk (itself foreign sounding place) Shuttleworth Jubilee Building, is a Chinese University Within A University.

One reserves the right though, to Dislike The Silent Student : Saying nought till working out Who Has Won The Day.

Center Start Place

'Circling Vulture Often I am just Going Round in Circles'

Vince Rea’s Dog

Vince Rea’s Dog (not lovely Sulivan, now buried in Jarrow Cemetery but the one in Vince Rea's Jarrow Metro) has no connection with the decline of Britain whose nadir went un-noticed in the run down Regency villas, mews & side streets of Gloucester of the 1970’s. However for anyone who can visualise a realistic dog shape being formed with a welding torch & a faded group picture including Ellen Wilkinson minutes before setting off on the Jarrow March 1933, Vince Rea’s Dog* is not only emblematic of just how bad building was in the 1960s, but what was good & bad in public sculpture in the 1970’s. Before TV only readers of JB Priestley’s An English Journey or Fredric Engels’s The Condition of the English Working Classes or even Charles Dickens passing through Seven Dials, could visualise how bad things were in England. Early TV interviews in Coventry for example show a shy downtrodden people trying to talk posh like the managers in Kenilworth & feared of saying anything which might force the attentions of policeman & detectives. When the country did not want Churchill anymore in about 1955, ordinary people, often almost without learning, culture, travel, education, breeding, cultivation & deportment supplanted pipe smoking worsted jacketed toffs from architecture, who like the Victorians & in the 1920s & 1930s had done very well & without anyone’s permission thank you very much in inventing, say a vernacular cottage type These, along with the yet to be invented planners ruined the country. Let loose on something they could never understand England became bricked over. Is it any wonder that whenever one is searching the Internet whether by accident or design there is no information available on large chunks of history? ** The appropriate part of George Orwell’s 1984 must have been dead right. Beware of journalists though. It was them guarding their Monday morning prerogative of coming up with some newsworthy news that suffocated & strangled worthy & perhaps revolutionary information from college pamphlets. Why did we have to wait 50 years to find out from TV broadcasts from the Open University that Cromer was all about light, that the period was the Flanders one & the huge brown hills beyond are indeed one big glacial dump? Unequivocally, ‘Coast’ the TV series was a milestone in honouring the BBC brief of living up to the original charter of ‘Entertaining, Informing & Educating’ & after all what’s wrong with hearing people pronouncing things properly in a variety of standard accents? The OU did this by inventing the geographer journalist flourishing behind the colour camera & able to afford £1000 an hour helicopter flights. Would you want to go to Cromer now though where the out of season resort pier once was un-peopled, now crowded with Peckham Rye types dropping their ‘aches’ into the flooding sea?

Alphaville The English city of the future. A pamphlet. Coventry has an inner ring road very near the centre, an original shopping centre by Sir Basil (Urwin) Spence & one of the finest new transport museums at the level of Berlin, Muenchen & Beaulieu. The canal leaves the very centre of the city and joins the network with reminders that families lived from the canal. Nottingham’s inner ring road is a lozenge dictated by the railway line & Gloucester has a network of carriageways which overwhelm the city. In the White Heat of Technology & in drawings by Le Corbusier. The car was not meant to be a noisy polluting nightmare child killer. Now the need to get into the mind of the drivers & turn the car round. In the North East of England they were all supposed to have jet packs & helicopters by 1990 which was once the future. Why was the pedestrian & cyclist so brutally & universally ignored? Commonly in the early 1960s local boys guarded their streets with violence & chasing from strange boys. A council estate boy could not be expected to carry around a Maynard Keynes type macro-economic view. He had the mindset of the scavenging itinerant tribal hunter gatherer whereas Lancing college had intercepted this, these were less ornamented, less well mannered than Oetztal man & would be less welcome at an Edwardian dinner party off the Holloway Road. These mindsets & physcograms, are deterministic & steer the success or otherwise of ideas about Urbanus. Loosening their tribal shackles & instincts & set against each other by the influences of the spiritualty, stratified into workmen & fore men the seeds of their own destruction were sewn into communities & doomed them. A watered down involuntary Protestantism, with a hint or whiff of chapel, aspiring families, protected by ‘blobs’, ‘residual income’, driven away by vermin & pleurisy would now be heading down past Houghton-le-Spring to Weston-Super-Mare in the Vander Plas. Factory owners spent the profits in Wallingford, Banstead & Norbury Junction not Jarrow, Hebburn & Felling. The creepy aspirations of the Bartram’s would mean they would unashamedly ‘join the masons’ rendering them unable speak to their catholic labouring neighbours, the die cast way of life was formed on Roman lines & every generation, as they say, has it’s slaves. Not co-operating with this scheme of things meant not having holidays, & sometimes real poverty. The Bartrams could not have existed in the Bronze Age. In times of war the fit would have grab a spear from the fence, leaving obviously a gap in the fence. Their son, an electrical engineer could not have pleaded having working for another tribe down south & that actually as Reyrolles was taken over by the General Electrical Company they were off to Alderney in a coral on a fishing trip. (Kayaks, boats & ships were the Ka of the Bronze Age). How far south would their snooty daughter have got if she had fallen out with the tribal warriors? Tarmac was way over the horizon & roman roads overgrown. Social Betterment The seriousness of this allegation against the Bartrams now may be ameliorated by the strong possibility that it may not have been their fault although this would be easily refuted by religious fanatics. Society had been forced to stratify not only but also by poor prospects, poor food, poor hygiene, damp, cockroaches, rats, disease & chronically poor housing (holding an umbrella over the baby). The Vanden Plas was a petrol driven four wheeled chariot on wings of desire out the hell of English industrial towns. Sickly as it may sound, as from Coventry to Kenilworth it was an escape to the idyllic rural setting for decent people who wanted to have a proper life & better themselves. But whist one or two went off to seek spirituality in the hills, more often it was reading the Daily Mail in the car park not getting out at all & leaving the engine on when it was cold. So why has this transformed into the petty game of being better off than the people next door?

Southampton in the Life of a Nation. And so to there: Southampton. The unfashionable city rarely or never gets a mention. The accent has classy Hampshire flavours from Twyford & Eastleigh & the country daftness associated with the west country. Yet Benny Hill* was from here, & due to the twin tides protected by the country within a country the Isle of Wight, King Canute almost certainly commanded the sea to retreat back just to the east on the Saxon Shore. The boats & ships could be floated in twice to the dry docks. The balding middle aged man from Coventry sitting next to J B Priestly in the back of a Scammel bus was speculatively heading for ‘opportunities’ in Southampton in the very front few pages of the book. Hill’s birthplace was described in full by J B Priestly when the uniqueness of English towns & cities was there to be seen. Only Mansfield, Hove & Lincoln and maybe Oxford and Cambridge today could be vaguely described as different. ( Maybe Ely but reader, how different is your town? Is there a big shark diving through your roof?) Retail devastated the English town & Zaha Hadid was not involved and nor was, in praise of a higher being, Wayne Hemmingway. Huge profits are made obviously remotely and the big buildings of the day are not Zeppelin Halls but Adidas distribution centres in places like Salford. The Arndale centre cannot be got rid of because of weak structure plans & deceased attachments. Gloucester, a city of a cross lost a whole quarter in the 1960’s surrendering the cattle market and real links & views out to the surrounding hills. No one could have given a f**k in 1947 if it flooded or not. The immovable of Hereford & Gloucester were the greatest prize of the 15th century due to their protected position in the impenetrable south west heartland of England. Tewksbury is at the confluence of the Seven & Avon. The spiralling spread of indeterminable language left me dazed & confused. Lewis Mumford made up much of his book The City in History but it was thrilling. * Benny Hill was far from a hero in terms of life in cities, featuring in the vaudavillisation of TV.

'Circling Vulture Often I am just Going Round in Circles'. I am not alone in this though. It is rather frightening to see yourself in a mirror behind you a reflection of a copy of you shaving and wondering which was the left hand. The Image was different enough to make me think it wasn’t me. Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band,informed me it wasn’t! As a child in the North East of England the first school was a corrugated set of huts. A black man, the only one in the entire region befriended me, had a broad ‘step & fetchit’ smile and was not after me. He just liked me more than he did the other children. When the school moved to the new St. Mary’s he stood there doing the finishing touches to the circular flower bed and when I was addressed ran away embarrassed my friends would think I knew a black man. But it was my first circular building. Geordie children & German professors refer to the Sorkel & somewhere there there must be a common root. As the tourists sorkel round the Mecca bingo in Newark which looks deliberately like a Mosque because of exotic innuendo. They circle round the real Mecca and round St. Paul’s which is a tremendous amount of Portland stone now missing from Portland Bill. This pattern is similar to Indian braves circling overturned wagons and the tourists often are happy at what they saw. You never see tourists walking away en mess moaning. In the 1950s it was good enough for a young lass to push the bairn around in a pram. In West Bridgford now they ram through the window of Iceland in 4B2s, grab a packet of king prawns & tell the decrepit & sad cashier to "f*ck off" on the way out.

* Jarrow Metro Station sculpture ** Informationsheft GB, Alphaville, Westworld, Gerard Depiadier early avante garde films, property ownership in Gloucester & generally te 1970’s, before the internet *** Center Start Place Nouvelle, Furnighausplantechnisdormring or SaucerCupPlateginandtechtonictheorumgefunk

Howden

Jarrow people may not realise but The Second Tyne Tunnel is being built not by Arabs but Arups. Arups build the Channel Tunnel Rail Link from London to Paris.

Many of the Workers on these large projects are Of Irish Extraction (As are many Jarrow families) and from The North East. The Irish are the most inventive and constructive people in the world, a heritage of which Jarrow can be proud.

Irish inventions include The Submarine, The Harpoon Gun, The Atom Bomb, The Hypodermic Syringe, Shorthand Writing, The Armoured Tank, The Aircraft Ejector Seat,
Soda Water, The Monorail, Colour Photography and more recently Oracle.

Ove Arup was a Danish Engineer (there is a bronze statue of him in The National Portrait Gallery in London). Ove Arup stayed in Heaton, Newcastle, so he is really a Heatin' Engineer. Most of Fitzrovia, London, a very large oblong tract of land bounded by Portand Street, Euston Road, Tottenham Court Road and Oxfored Street is colonised with hundreds of Arup offices. Anglo Irish families, whose heritage is in The Small Towns of Ireland, instead of becoming priests, teachers and nurses, became engineers. Some would be Labourers and that is a difficult social niche to escape.

The Channel Tunnel Rail Link from London to Paris was delivered on time and within budget. The thousands of people on this list can be proud of their achievement.
Although the majority of the names are from The Home Countries England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, The Rest of The World is represented by English People with Foreign sounding names, Europeans and Foreigners.

The Anglo French Joint Venture's kopfbahnhof St.Pancras was based on the New Stations of Berlin like Berlin Alexanderplatz, translated by a Young German Architect named Olaf Kluge.

After all the macho building (young men dressed as builders etc) a St. Pancras is graced by a statue of a man who loved women and Loved the Railways: Sir John Betchemann.

What ALL of the people on this project shared was a Desire to Serve: England First, then Europe, then The Rest of The World.

Robert Abernethy Davar Abi-Zadeh Kevin Acosta George Addo Dele Afuape Povl Ahm John Aitchison Thomas Aldridge William Algaard Rachel Allan Bruce Allen Carrie Allen Joanna Allen Andy Althorp Rod Allwright Gail Altmann Chris Ambrose Barbara Ancliff David Anderson Neil Anderson Sara Anderson Gert Andreson Lorna Andrews Samuel Appafram Andrew Archer Richard Archer Mark Arkinstall Tom Armour Chris Armstrong Michael Armstrong Steve Armstrong Gareth Ashley David Ashurst Clive Aubrey David Awosika Richard Aylesbury Shelia Aziz Hannah Babor Annelise Baillie Lloyd Bair Ian Baker Paul Baldwin John Ball Jomar Baquiran Mike Barbato Chris Barker John Barkman Paul Barlow Jill Baron Don Barron Berna Basatemur Andy Bascombe Ranjit Basu Jon Beech Claire Beedle Jon Bell Kirsten Bell Jonathan Ben-Ami
Ray Bennett Colin Bennie Daniel Bernasconi Steven Berry David Bertenshaw Tony Bevan Katrin Beyer Jay Bharadava Steven Bickler Paul Birch Jaswant Birdi Simon Birkbeck Andrea Blackie Christine Blanch Ken Blanch Sue Blanch Carol Bloxome Jason Boddy Joanne Bole Nancy Bono Kemper Booher John Border Jean-Marie Bordier Dave Bosher Mark Bostock Ahmed Bouariche Keith Bowers Natalie Bowkett Danny Boxell Darren Bradford Ellie Bradley Anita Bramfitt Gill Brazier Colin Breen Tara Breen Oliver Bridge James Briggs Simon Brimble Antony Britteon Peter Brooke Bernie Brooks Ian Brooks Elaine Brown Rebekah Brown Alan Browne Kevin Brunton Robin Bryant Christopher Buck Eric Budzisz Matthew Bumpass Dick Burge Martin Burgess Lyudmila Burke Jenny Burridge John Burrows Ingrid Byng Glen Calow Mark Campodonic
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