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)