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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Valley View

England’s Lane, Belsize Park, London 1974, at the home of Conroy Maddox England’s leading Surrealist: Vince Rea and I had motored down here from Jarrow. Vince was in his forties: I was 17. Vince Rea was looking for exhibitions material for his gallery, The Bede Gallery, Jarrow.

Vincent Rea was(is) a very handsome man, like a Caravaggio model, looks distilling from both Irish and Italian male beauty. Although more heterosexual than a Bison bull, Vincent Rea could talk freely about homo eroticism and often did. Tall, with a square Roman face, his wavy hair at once pewter and brown at the same time.

Perhaps these good looks helped him infiltrate the The Cultural Scene, like, of 1950's Newcastle.

“You look like you’ve been sculptured by Michelangelo”,
A trainer says to Arnold Schwarzenegger in Pumping Iron. And after all Arnold Schwarzenegger spent a short time in North Shields.

I first met Vincent Rea in 1973, when having played tennis with my two pals John Boak and John Richardson in Jarrow’s Valley View Park I walked into The Bede Gallery, Butchers’ Bridge Road, Jarrow. Pivotal to this first encounter was that Vince Rea’s father, a rough diamond, grew up with my father, a local union man and politician: Perhaps I could help him get planning permission from Labour led Jarrow Council.

Vince Rea’s ‘tischreden’ lasted two hours which consisted of fabulous stories of his life as a merchant seaman, the Remington typewriter office on Newcastle Quayside, and illuminating insights into Adult and Artistic life. His conversation was studded with axioms and astute observations, which stamped themselves indelibly on me.

Vincent Rea belongs to an Exclusive Club of Two: Jarra Lads whose fame was hosted in Newcastle. (Under Newcastle Culture strangers and strangeness begins at the city walls). The other Jarra Lad was Patrick Woods, the Jarra Lad and team-mate of ‘Wor’ Jackie Milburn.

Vincent Rea was unusual for a Jarra Lad in knowing Sid Chaplin, Sirkka-Lisa Konttinen and the founders of Amber Films and The Side Gallery. Vincent Rea was really like an English version of Richard DiMarco or Cyril Gerber. These were often opportunistic entrepreneur artists and writers accessing Arts Council Grants.

Vincent Rea’s achievements may at last be appreciated when his Bequest is built in to Jarrow School. Vince told me once, if England was towed out into the Atlantic Ocean they’d be sending divers down to find it. Now that sort of thing he may have overheard at the University Theatre interval.

But when he himself expires, perhaps only then will his legacy be understood.

The Wasteland of Jarrow Slake*, where Vincent Rea seems un-pretentiously tortured by a spirit, was the execution place of William Jopling.

*The nearby pylon is the tallest in Northeast England.

Lynemouth

Lynemouth, Northumberland a still elemental linear town, birthplace of Sid Waddell, a great Englishman, who describes in, The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood, and in rich and evocative unreconstructed vernacular, growing up and returning to Lynemouth. The interlacing of pit villages of Ashington, Lynemouth and Ellington with the Duke of Northumberland's* Alnwick, Morpeth and Cresswell acted out at the edge of industrial towns is emblematic for All of England.

Sid Waddell notices the polarities of Manse versus Presbytery, County versus Town and Red and White versus Black and White and Land versus Sea with Cresswell in between. Newbiggin by sea he says is a rough fishing village, astute, because Sunderland FC, during the General Strike and Miners Strike 1926, offered Newbiggin by sea free season tickets to Roker Park. (Newbiggin by sea is just visible from South Shields Pier on a clear day.)

Morpeth, like Market Harborough, children are the most eloquent speakers in England, and Morpeth is The Prettiest English Town.

*Owns dredging rights of The River Tyne. Note that delineation of Northumberland is a clean line changing from rural to developed along the line of Killingworth New Town. Durham land use is more fragmented. NB Cycling from North Shields to Berwick upon tweed it is possible to penetrate into the Alcan/Coastal Power Station but not cross the outflow and this is the only obstacle on the whole of the Northumbria Cycle Path.

Morpeth

Morpeth means Murder Path where fights occurred when Scots, camped nearby entered Morpeth by stealth by night. Scotswood literally meant raiders camped in a Scot's Wood outside Newcastle City Walls: The Roman Wall was gone, being reconstructed later.

Cycling across the featureless moor through the necessary damp white mist into Roxburghshire (Dumfriesshire or Berwickshire) marked by a rampant lion carrying hammer and sickle single mace reminding you you are entering a zone of tribally pure (and therefore interbred characteristically ‘turning a blind eye’ to incest) nomadic Picts whose fickle and ferocious heritage is looting the dead bodies of English soldiers: It reminds you you are entering a Foreign Country.

These roving extended families guard the route up to Edinburgh where at Arthur’s Seat (a magnificent volcanic buttress) the defence of Scotland is surrendered to Jacobite Tim Roth on a Dapple Mere.

As I Look North The View From England of Scotland evokes two Queen Elizabeth I frigates (HMS White Bear and HMS Rainbow maybe)(tbc)140 miles off Newcastle, intercepting Mary Queen of Scot’s and the cerebral edge English women have over Scottish women. Its important the Elizabethan warship was dispatched from Newcastle.

John Knox graced England by staying for a short while exiled in Newcastle.

Briefly, on my imaginary cycle trip to Auld Rekie I muse England's gleichschaltung under Scottish Government of England since James V became James I of England, under Scottish Born (Or Named) British Prime Ministers* and yearned for English Independence from Scotland: The motto might be 'Get Shot of A Scot'. Thinking a little deeper though on ‘Scotland The What’ and Andy Stewart and remember what Scotland is: A land of Golden Autumn run by The Gay Scottish Mafia and Doric speaking Scottish Widows.



*The Earl of Bute, George Gordon Earl of Aberdeen, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Andrew Bonar Law, Ramsey McDonald, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, Tony Blair and ‘Son of the Manse’ Gordon Brown.

Gateshead

Board a train from London or the English Regions for Lancashire alighting at Liverpool. Being furthest from the dangerous and raging Continent of Europe here England is A Virtual Paradise. On the train, to Liverpool from Manchester (on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell) knowing the Manchester Ship Canal is across an Estuarine part of The Cheshire Plain, flat and to the south far enough away for me to have to imagine it.

Journeying west across Lancashire (the feeling of separateness as Liverpool is apart from Manchester as Darlington is to Stockton) is the feeling of going to a better place.

The most powerful and telling image of Englishness is to see Orthodox
Jews of Ashkenazi originals from Salford, Hackney and Gateshead, standing willfully apart from the rest of English holiday makers in unfashionable out of season resorts like Southport (ironically on The North Lancashire Coast): On The Beach, between seasons almost, they drift along the seafront (not spending money obviously) always charmingly affronted at any one of us having the temerity to address them.

How much does this tell of humanity's love of Freedom and of Silences?

Lancashire's joy is it's remoteness from Europe. The railway network is most intense here as if Beeching's wife was from Accrington. The towns though are fragmented but there is still time to overhear the pure disilled essence of Englishness: the rarified beauty of Lancashire small town (or Manchester Suburb of This or That) in local Lancashire speech patterns and dialects.

The strongest reserve of rational speech based talking England emanates from the girl's schools of The Wirral and Crosby.

Walk out into Morcambe Bay beyond Southport Pier and see Chinese Cockle Gatherers, faint crouching figures on The Event Horizon of where the tide currently is, linking Lancashire with Guangdon and Pearl River delta.

Here the silence is complete. We are furthest away from trouble than we have ever been.

Here is a potential for empty silences: Is it any wonder Orthodox
Jews of Ashkenazi* sought and found refuge here?

* Here on The Island (Der Insel in German and Yiddish parlance) The most the largest concentrations of Orthodox Jews of Ashkenaziare are in:
• Stamford Hill in North London in the five wards of Brownswood, Cazenove, Lordship, New River and Springfield in the London Borough of Hackney, plus the ward of Seven Sisters in the London Borough
of Haringey.
• Broughton Park in North Manchester incorporating the wards of Broughton and
Kersal in Salford, and Sedgley in the Borough of Bury.
• There are also haredim in the Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, and in the
wards of Golders Green, Hendon and Edgware in the London Borough of Barnet.

South Shields and Gateshead

Charing Cross, London

Lance lived underneath the arches somewhere left of Charing Cross station almost certainly in a void below The Savoy off The Strand. A Geordie burglar Lances’s demise and funeral was patronised by prominent members of The Spiritualty, Parliament and The Business World. He carried a bag of pepper in his brown worsted overcoat to throw into the eyes of pursuing coppers. Lance occasionally walked over to Westbourne Grove to meet Barrow Boys from South Shields (a community from which he sprung), living in a squat.

Lance's route marked out an axis between Charing X and The Church Commissioner's Estate on Notting Hill, which still has a monastery on Portabello Road. As The Church Commissioner's Estate had developed these fields as squares like Powys Square, (in a ring roughly beyond Euston Road to the Grand Union Canal), they were all curiously run down in the 1970's as England languished in a pre-oil boom slumber long after The Sea Gem legs collapse disaster in the autumn of 1965: A prelude to The English Government becoming Cash Rich they having so much money and not knowing what to do with it). (The Sea Gem subsequently capsized and sank with one leg remaining above the sea.)

Dave Brock and others from Hawkwind may have been a few doors up in houses now demolished on Westbourne Grove, Paddington.

About 1974 The Cycling Fraternity was then witnessing the appearance of Mountain Bikes and it was not unusual to cycle the the wrong way down Queensway on an ordinary bicycle. Many were experimenting with using Mountain Bike in Flat Areas.

Just up over the canal bridge past 'Meanwhile Gardens', Ari Up and John Organ were working in That Tea Room. The Blond Girl in The Slits worked their too. John spent summer in Mid Wales in a Tippi and sold IT, a hippy magazine he edited, on Westbourne Park Road street corner.



Just above Westbourne Grove Bus Garage graffiti by Piers Corbyn, a then prominent Squatting Activist, on corrugated iron sheeting read 'If the Luftwaffe did'nt get you, the GLC will'. Further up on Elgin Avenue a similar sign read 'Hume Sweet Hume' ('Home Sweet Home') alluding to Sir Alec Douglas Home, pronounced 'Hume', the chattering skull then Prime Minister, both graffiti referring to the Squatting off Harrow Road and Ladbroke Grove.



Charing Cross Road in the 1970s was decorated with an elegant curved Georgian or Victorian terrace just up from the National Portrait Gallery but now demolished.

On the night Heaven was created underneath the arches on a Thursday, Barry Noble, Richard Branson and A N Other from Brighton stumbled on the name when Barry asked what in heaven should they call it.



Heaven was, as was The Embassy Club served by Les Daly in Red Satin Shorts and his Scotsman friend The Manager who also managed The Embassy Club.

Straight Nite Thursdays at Heaven was once or twice graced by a performance by New Order.



Barry Noble, dressed like a Gateshead Gypsy in a pony trap had just bought The Pavilion Pier, Brighton for £50 million. His black Rolls Royce parked out The Gay Hussar (ibid) he was nearly thrown out for being inappropriately dressed.

The Strand refers to a beach which was in view and lapped by the raw river before The Embankment was built.

N.B. You could only get into The Blitz if Steve Strange, the doorman, liked how you dressed.

Low Jarrow

‘We’re not computers we’re physical’.

Roy Batty says this to J F Sebastian in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Filmed in 1982 starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sian Young.

JF Sebastian, a strandee, not of the economic variety, but a genetic scientist stuck on earth in a Gothic skyscraper and stuck in his body, is forbidden to emigrate off-world because he has Methuselah Syndrome. Otherwise he is quite happy.

'Oft have I heard of the Drawbacks of Unemployment but Advantages of Unemployment, 'N'er till now'.

First if you are not a cyclist already, procure one. Best is a quality cycle which you owned. Prevent this being stolen. If in Portsmouth tie it to a ships anchor.

Find someone who repairs bicycles for a small fee and buy the parts he will fit. Find cheap spares. Oil your bicycle sparingly with olive oil (which you use for cooking) from a pripet. Be one the outlook for cheap spares.

Shop at ASIA, the store formerly known as ASDA , formerly known as Associated Dairies now owned by Wall Mart an Israeli World Shop with a USA HQ and good connections to India.

ASIA working as usual in retail on margins of 2% mark-up are the Inventors of Distribution and wipe the floor with Morrison’s, Tesco and Sainsbury’s.

In ASIA look around for bargains. Carry shopping home on your bicycle in two waterproof Ortlieb pannier sacks. ASIA can be 1/3rd cheaper than lesser supermarkets.

ASIA sell inner tubes for less than half the price of their competitors. Remember Small Independent Cycle Shops make profit not on Imported Taiwan Bicycles but on accessories with Built in Obsolescence and Low Mean Time Between Failure.

Try and get everything for free, like food, and air (for your tyres).

Do volunteer work which gives you access to food like gardening and helping the elderly who will swap care for sharing revolting Meals on Wheels.

Existentially you will subliminally have more ‘time’.

Use your time to read. Focus on learning which will help you through to the afterlife. This ‘afterlife’ may be A Future Working. Borrow books don’t buy them. Read books which will help you adapt to and sustain your temporary or permanent lifestyle. An example of a book to read might be ‘SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea - John 'Lofty' Wiseman’.

If you can watch films watch films which will help you deal with the life you are now in like Ghost Dog, (based on the diary of Yamamoto Tsunetomo a 17th century Samurai).

The English Economy is Not Human but a Robot. The advanced complicated robot is Controlled from Afar by Lateral Appendages. Experts are studying how to animate and motivate the robot.

Entrepreneurs, Survivalists and The Cash Rich back from A World Cruise are busy formulating a plan for a telescope to view Spacemen Garden Colonies growing on Mars.

Hebburn

In England meanwhile a storm is gathering about how poor operating instructions are of Japanese and Chinese technology products and how hopeless the diagrams are. Even satellites were being delivered with below par honourable instructions. In the cycle of production operating instructions are a mere afterthought.

Reverse Engineered Product Instructions from Japan and China in to English.*

The following paragraph is translated from England via Germany to Japan:-

'Hampstead Garden Suburb, the north part of, the Spanish Garden City, is a huge success of 'made itself' Jews in London. Letchworth, is home of The First Rotary Intelligentsia. On such ground Basildon, such other new towns are illegal dumping in Essex on the wrong side of the swamp. It is easier on synagogues stages to accept the money. 20th in world trade after the Second World War, is England. Essex is the matrix of paths in inland rural areas, outside the scenery of Northern London. Hampstead Heath, reflects the progress of the special route Disraeli took over Hampstead Heath Viaduct. (Where the headquarters of the Admiralty Signal is.) Regenerate Hampstead Heath before the Prime Minister of Queen Victoria, with a commissioned artist's sculpture for the military and civilian signals. British Rail. Churchill and the Jews, despite the BBC really have been loved in Britain. Power will be borne by the Jewish people. The BBC is wrong to wear a cap, and the Bank of England is looking for a companion broadcast usher Darling to join the Jews. Jewish people are kind, considerate of people around the world. The Jews refer to themselves as the Ruling Class of England. Remember, the Jews were in the sadistic Spanish Inquisition and most of them seemed upset. They have the Conservatives, the Landed Aristocracy and the Traditional English, to help them. Jews lived in England in charge of food, clothing, shelter and their own means. The English Runners are currently in good like cheery Arabs riding bright horses. The mosques are competing for Marks and Spencer, for cash cream customers.

In Operation Sealion, documents disappeared from Gower Street.'

Stanley Unwin how was your Japanese Holiday?

'Once in a long far awow, in the Germanic land, there was a great city with Grubbelsberg or something like that, with an Obermeister-Bergelmasty who was in charge. Now there they had a surfeit or rat-suffery, where all they used to creep and out and gnaw sniff and gribble into the early mord (and the late evage) there, biting the bits of the table, also the tea-clothers; and when people were asleep in their beds, so these rats would gnaw into the sheebs and also the whiskers of those who was dangly hoaver.'

Chicago via Aberdeen and Roman Road, Jarrow

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb were two Wealthy Jews who murdered Bobbo Franks, a 14 year old boy in Chicago in 1924, to commit The Perfect Crime and demonstrate The Uebermensch Principle. Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope where real or cinematic homo eroticism is displayed overtly between the the two leading characters is overt.

Chicago, Homosexuality, Judaism, Nazism and Murder are linked albeit very tenuously with England and Unemployment when James Stewart as Rupert Cadell says 'murder could conquer unemployment and poverty'. (tbc)

Baden Powell's Scouting for Boys the innuendo laden title of the Boy Scouts Manual the Edwardian style of prose of the publication glibly refers to Killing the Unemployed. Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden says they might be a 'Model community, for they respect their Queen, and kill their unemployed'



In Jarrow c1975 there were no known enclaves of homosexuality only vague rumour links to 'liberal' and 'politician'.

Obviously, all sexual persuasions under the law are almost nearly now equal.

In Aberdeen in c1980 Grampian TV Continuity Announcer from Leeds's catch phrase was 'Ginger Peachy', the main unusual phrase in the film Rope not voiced by John Dall the main character whose fascinating portrayal of an upper class gay man easy to admire and empathise with, but by the young female debutant Joan Chandler playing Janet Walker.

The point is, its as well to remember the polar social origins of English politics even though it may be boring to Vote Labour in Jarrow, and people may not appear what they seem, it would be foolhardy to Vote for the Tories or BNP in Jarrow.

Wandsworth to Jarrow via Manchester

As seen from Bede Trading Estate, Brockley Whins, is a low hilly rise on the horizon and means hill cliff of badgers.

Streets in the western half of Brockley Whins estate have Scottish place names and those in the eastern half have Australian ones. Which avenue runs down the middle?

Brockley Whinns station is believed to be haunted by a stable boy supposedly murdered there in the early 17th century.

Nearby Boldon Colliery became 'The Pyrotechnic World Centre' when a whole street wqas set in flames by its own (youth) residents. One was heard saying, 'Am daft me, a divvint kna nowt'.

In 1984 a student living in Boldon Colliery, was found to have built up a Bomb Factory.

Arndale Centres are in Manchester, Wandsworth and Jarrow, jaded symbols of 1960's prosperity. Now Morrison's dominates Jarrow's Arndale Centre. Whilst Jarrow has disapeared as just another fragmented town, untold volumes of Jarrow History remain in the memories of Our Ancestors who lived in Jarrow when it was called 'The Town That Died'.

Many of the Older Generation in Jarrow love Morrison's because it's a One Stop Shop and they can meet their friends in Morrison's Cafe in Jarrow. The Fishmongers, Butchers and Bakers Street within Morrison's is so realistic many shoppers think they are back in 1933.

'Jarrow is Tops' for: Reactionary Irish Catholics, Car Parks, Shopping, Big Skys, A Beautiful Deadly Quiet, Wonderful Council Estates (built circa 1953), South Tynside Council (Best in UK), Probably the Best People in the World, The Best Accent (South Shields, Tyne Dock and Jarrow), Teenage Unemployment, Teenage Pregnancy, Teenage Alcoholism, saying 'A Divint Na', Haunted Brockly Whins Metro, Awful Metro Station Design and Extended Familes On The Dole.

Remedies for the above are:-
1. Direct Labour
2. Build A Workhouse
3. Drive On Container Ships Full of Food
4. De-Ghettoise Poor Areas
5. Promote blackberry picking, fishing and allotment cultivation on derelict parks and open spaces
6. Build A Bicycle Factory employing Young Engineers and Local Young Lads.
7. Create a Lido
8. Public Works
9. Build a Workhouse for Directed Old Labour
10. Promote cycling and organic nutrition, build a high speed train to London

It’s a Numbers Game though, (too many Post-Industrial Poor) and Central Government wants to stop The Regions shinning outside London.

York Avenue

Jarrow, until York Avenue was built celebrating the lauch of HMS York in 1936, ended at Bede Burn Road. After dereliction in the 1980's Valley View Park is as idylic nearly as it was when tennis was played over from the Bede Gallery, across Butcher's Bridge Road. The old lake is still shown on land use maps. The burn rises in the foothills towards White Mare Pool. Valley View was most sublime in 1964 and 1974.

Water, energy and food. Food, clothes and shelter. Workhouse, Soup Kitchen and Bicycle Factory. The constant of Sea Level around The UK over 6000 years. Existing and surviving within a very very small diurnal and anual temperature range. This thought sparked in my mind the first day of spring 1995 running down Frankfurter Allee, East Berlin eastwards.

On a more earthly note the British Government Chief Scientist has realised We Are Doomed and England will have to Grow Its Own Food like in World War Two.

Collective Allotments are the best where selfishness is purged and already in Bovey Tracey, Devon a English Heritage/National Trust derelict garden is being revived.

This time because of Ruth in The Archers being from Northumberland Geordies can work in the Posh Gardens too. What a rural idyl this Dartmoor Garden. It will have derelict walls with pointless romantic gates and stuccoed capped walls with ivy.

The main tasks are rescue the orchard with a cythe. Pick and store the apples and blackberries.

The thorn bushes grow in the absence of cultivation, encroaching on the small enclosure within a year. The barbs are surprisingly pernicious, lets say, for such a mild country. Their design is to rip in both directions and one needs a machete. A helicopter would be handy, what with all these people and you could land on a lawn in the Mendips.

The bindweeds grow so fast you can see them crossing the allotments like Trifids.

North Sunderland

Sunderland 'separate land' is known as an Israeli stronghold up north but most Sunderland Isrealis went and go to school in Jesmond. During the 2008 floods a Morpeth lad on TV was so incredibly articulate about the Morpeth 2008 floods he must have frequented a Isreal Gosforth school and he would have known North Sunderland is not Roker rather near Lindisfarne towards The Scottish Border.

Natives of Sunderland not having Isrealli education lavished on them say from South Hylton and de-educated by New Labour Aspiring Upper Working Class Neo Tories would not realise Sunderland North was near Seahouses. Nor would they find anything unusual in smashing up Heworth Metro.

Just over the English border in Dunbar young Scot John Muir, north of the opencast mine of that Coastal East Lothian town, fifteen odd miles past Berwick upon Tweed which may or may not have been part of England, founded the first national park thus changing the concept of land ownership forever. Until then land in Northumberland belonged to a Robson or a Surtees or the Duke of Northumberland Harry Percy. In Aberdeen shire Scotland land belonged to the ferocious Black Douglases. Dangerously blurring the edges of a person's occupation and only affordable in cash rich USA. He was a "Wilderness Prophet," and "Citizen of the Universe." Once described as, a "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist etc. etc." The Indigenous Indians if they could speak English would say 'you can't buy a piece of the sky' when shown a mining or land 'claim'.
Confusion about which country Berwick upon Tweed is in starts (it is in England now) because Berwick upon Tweed stands watch on the North Bank of the River Tweed.
This young Scot 'overpaid possibly and over there' found and delimited Yosemite and Yellowstone Parks.
The National Geographic spin-off prose was so poor pictures were needed. This poverty found it's naddir in post millenium England in Cycling magazines which are below the thoughts of anyone on a bicycle.
The other legacy of John Muir's simple axiom was that once an organisation is formed then they and only they have hegomony in that area and everyone goes along with it.
The current villains in Inglind are:-
1. Any cycling fraternity
2. Any charitable deeds 'outfit'
3. SUSTRANS
4. Railtrack
5. Trading Standards. No fly pitching allowed
6. Railway stations (there are no private stops)
7. Criminal Records Bureau (no one can be charitable in England if they have ignored a red light on a bicycle)
8. Any organisation with ECO in the title
9. Students forbidden to tidy up their own flats
10.YHA Youth Hostel Association
These organisations are staffed exclusively by the Lower Middle Classes. Foreigners never join a Cycling Fraternity unless you want to hear about the Romantic Life of Middle Aged Bald or Bearded Men Cyclists and How this relates Cycle Spare Parts. In any group of cyclist there is always one shouting and leading and this is usually the Biggest Bore. Some of these continue chatting in online cycling forums presumably on an exercise bike or in the gym. Shame because The Famous Loneliness of the Short/Long Distance Cyclist is Fabled.
It would be nice to meet an "Interesting" cyclist and carry on the journey with them even if it means Turning Back.

Usworth

'With him is Stan Mallam well known all around. And gents such as these so seldom are found.' Extract from The Appleby Fair Poem. http://www.appleacregypsy.com/index.php/appleby-faire/48-the-appleby-faire-poem.html

Stan Mallam of Primrose Calf Close Lane Jarrow was sold a 'Dapple Mere' and the spots washed off.




Reading maps upside down shows a level of map reading skill. Orientate the map to landmarks and look along eastings and northings and virtual map farms appear as real outbuildings with ducks, horses and memories. Its good to start North being top of the sheet and visuallising the map and turning around the landscape virtually without turning physically as though say.

If you are arbeitslos (unemployed) in Jarrow and gay this is unlikely and you may think that cycling along Gay Street West Sussex England may be an untouchable dream. You can go on holiday even in 3D in Newcastle Central Library or in Jarrow Primrose Library, Primrose, Jarrow, The World, Milky Way etc but do not rustle chocolate bars or talk loudly as if it were not a church-like hush of deadly silence place with strong light and big skys. There is a Gay Cafe in Gray Street or Dean Street.

Between West Boldon and White Mare Pool on the Sunderland Newcastle Roads is a lane called West Pastures (first left after leaving the A19 and heading for A1(M)) which is a gay pickup kink in the lane causing me to be nervous whilst out jogging there once.

Remember Gay means Happy in English and Schwule means Close Clingy Weather in German. The Love Parade looks Gay but is'nt Gay.
Schwulstrasse is Hot Street in English and Gay Street means Tollgasse in German.



The Minus Zenith of Unglush Kulture occured in the gegenwart von gestern when Joe Gormley project Trafalgar World Square was mentioned on Radio 4 The Archers Foreign Office and Home Office Subliminal Message broadcast from Portland Place but written and produced in BBC Birmingham. The horrific line alluded to Andy Pandy Warhol taking 15 minutes by train from Paddington Bear Station, linking Paddington Bear, Ditchling Beacon, Sans Serif, TGWU Transport and General Workers Union, Ginger Peachy, T Dan Smith (deceased), Crosby Beach, Gill Sans, Thamesmead, Eric Gill, Grampian Hospital Radio in Aberdeen, Lewes, Portland Bill, Oscar Wilde, Birtley and Kibblesworth, Gatwick Airport and Felling Baths. Joe Gormley's Fourth Plinth Stars stay for 1 hour 4 times longer than Andy Pandy Bill and Ben Little Weed Trumpton Cocklewood Oliver Postgate Olympic Reggata Weymouth Bay Nogin the Nog Cricklewood Hampstead West Warhol's fifteen minutes.



Redemption surfaced via Matt Holness from Whitstable in Kent. Holness read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and has a way with words.

The Portland Stone building opposite Langham's Hotel Portland Street is now the symbol BBC Radio. If you are Unemployed, Karl Gustav Jung, Isreali and hail from Gay Street, West Sussex walk in to the BBC Bookshop and ask for a job.

Not far is The Talking Bookshop. Always say 'Good Morning' when cycling past. A mouth (letterbox) opens in the Talking Bookshop and says 'Hi Gabriel' or whatever your name happens to be.

Obviously one would not automatically link being a pansy from being from Jarrow but some obviously Hard Lad cultures do sound over friendly (Scots and Cockney and occasionally Welsh and Naval Ports).

The Second Tyne Tunnel

The Second Tyne Tunnel should have been between North and South Shields. Roman soldiers could wade across at the Black Middens. Even when its built there will be cues on the A19 back to The Roman Road. How only Arabs are allowed to work on the project is rediculous but there is a mosque in Laygate.

People who leave Jarrow tend to try to forget the people they once were there. Lists of Jarrow names seem to predate The World Wide Web.

The last time Arabs were let loose on a major tunnelling project they did so well everyman (staff/collegues etc) were mentioned in despatches.

The following past and present staff members from Arab offices worldwide are among those who made a significant contribution to the many projects within the Channel Tunnel Rail Link:-

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
Bryan Cannon Nic Carissimo Robert Carmichael Desirée Carolus Mike Carr John Carroll Neil Carstairs Robert Dagnall Christelle D’Arco Matthew D'Arcy-Smith Lucy Darkin Mark Darlow Philip Dauncey Alan Witton Dauris Ian Fellingham Ian Feltham Steven Fink Mark Fisher Craig Fitzgerald Scott Fitzgerald Paul Foo Bruno Guillaume Adrian Gurney Tony Hack Mustafa Hadi Nigel Hailey Mick Hall Simon Ham David Hurton Naeem Hussain Rebecca Hutt Ginny Hyde Roger Hyde Pete Ingram Esve Jacobsz Dominic Carter Matt Carter Andrew Cason Antoine David Andy Davidson Rebecca Davies Andrzej Formaniak Paul Foskett Richard Foster John Hamilton James Hargreaves Andrew Harland Christopher James Piers James Chris Jarman Roger Caswell Gianluca CavalIini Ian Davis Robin Davis Nick Foundoukos Michael Francescon David Harris Simon Harris Deepak Jayaram Alan Jefcoat Heather Ceney Fillipo Cerfis Alan Chadwick Lee Davison Gabby De Mamiel Fred Deacon Ben Francis Pietro Franconiero Suzanne Freed Phil Harrison Mike Hart Rob Hartshorne Gordon Jehu Neil Jenkins Steve Jenkins Neil Chadwick Ebrima Cham David Charters Fai Chen Geraldine Cheung Adam Chodorowski Daniel Chu Bob Clapham Paul Claridge Toby Clark Ed Clarke Helen Debio Marco Del Fedele Brian Dennis Leslie Dep Tara Dias Mike Dickens Jennifer Dimambro Edward Dixon Les Dobinson Leszek Dobrovolsky Graham Dodd Christopher Fulford Asim Gaba Mark Gaby Clive Gaitt Bob Gallop Andrew Gardiner Ian Gardner Richard Gargaro Ken Garmson Steve Garry Martin Gates-Sumner Neil Harwood Mike Hastings Mike Havelock Andi Hawes Patrick Hayes Stephen Haynes John Hayns Ian Hazard Richard Hazell Louise Hearn John Henderson Stuart Jenkins Dominic Jennings Les Jephson Stella Job Paul Johnson Richard Johnston Francis Joseph Vojkan Jovicic David Joy Mark Judge Derek Julier Steve Clarke John Clayton Daniel Clifford Mike Clifton Paul Coates Justin Coe Christelle CoetseeD'Arco Jon Colclough Ken Cole David Collier Hugh Collis Louise Conroy Grant Cook Steven Cook Richard Cooke Lee Copley Steve Corrin John Couch Alan Couling Andrew Coultate Mark Cowieson Brian Coyle David Cross Corinna Crosskill Gavin Cruddas Harry Crummy Ernie Cruz Andrew Cunningham Gill Curtis Verner Cutter Stephen Dadswell Martin Doherty David Dollman Jim Donoghue Joseph Donohue Lisa Doughty Chris Downs Crispin Downs Karen Driscoll Stephen Duck, Paul Duckworth Brian Dunlop William Dunn Tara Durnin John Dyer Tamsin Dyer Steve Dyson Marcial Echenique David Edwards David Ellis Richard Ellis Sue Epps, Val Erdos, Mike Evans Peter Evans Ian Everson Rob Evison Mo Ezzat Katrine Falbe-Hansen Stephen Fallace George Faller Joan Faria Bita Fatemi-Ardakani Maggie Gatland Gianluca Gatti Lindsay Gauntlett Ali Ghotbi Derek Gibbs Alistair Giffen John Gilbert Louise Giles Craig Gill Fiona Gillan Fraser Gillespie Anne Gilpin Steven Gilpin Tughela Gino Amrita Glazebrook Mike Glover Samantha Godden Paul Godsell Bob Goldsbrough David Gordon Adrian Gould Michael Grant David Gration Carlos Gravil Alan Gray James Gray Martin Greenacre Susannah Greenwood Richard Greer Len Griffin Andrew Grigsby Kathy Gubbins Richard Henderson Des Hendrick Dan Henning John Henry Michael Herbert Graeme Herd François Heyns Kubilay Hicyilmaz Patrick Higgins Lois Higginson Richard Hill Stephen Hill Terry Hill David Hiller Rob Hills Kelvin Hindson John Hirst Lucy Hirst Nicola Hoad Tim Hocombe Stuart Hodgson Trevor Hodgson Richard Hogg Martin Holt Ian Hooper Martin Hooton Bill Horn Andy Horton Ronald Howell Gareth Hughes Kathy Hurley Jon Hurt Crowe Kachikwu Avtar Kandola Peter Karabin Gearoid Kavanagh Phineas Keane Vince Keating Andjelka Kelly Dan Kelly David Kelly Michael Kemp Tom Kennedy Sarah Kerby-Eaton Angela Khalil Thanomkeat Kharnpej Nick Khosla Laura Kidd Maria Kikira Richard Killer Claire Kimber Caroline King Phil King Martin Kirk Steve Kite Olaf Kluge Tim Knee-Robinson Peter Knight Sophia Kral John Kurzawski John Lacey Julie Lacombe Kok-Soon Lai Venessa Lam
Andrew Lambert David Lancaster Mike Lang Alastair Lansley Jim Larkin Mike Larvin Benjamin Lau Toria Laurence Conor Lavery Martin Lawlor Cheryl Lawrence Damen Layton Deborah Lazarus Bob Lea David Leal G Lee Sam Levine David Lewin Michael Lewis Julia Li Benjamin Lim Ivan Lim Wee Meng Lim Robert Linthorst Rob Livesey Niall Lloyd Tanya Locks Mike Long Keith Longley David Loosemore Andrew Lord Angus Low David Lowes Iain Lydon Ross Lyons Jon Mabbett Paul Malpas Michel Mangione Chris Manning Jason Manning Alan Mansfield Fotis Maravellas Massimo Marcelli Geoff Marchant Brian Marriott Andrew Marsay Maureen Marsden Ron Marsh Roger Marshall Tony Marshall Andrew Martin Chris Martin Julia Martin Andrew Maskell Allan Mason Nick Mather Hannah Maw Damian McAuliffe
Stuart McClymont Andrew McCulloch Tristan McDonnell Pat McDonough Kate McDougall Rory McEwan William McGuiness Jonathan Mckiernan Paul McMahon Michael McNamara Andrew McNulty Ian McRobbie Sherazad Mehta Colin Mendelowitz Silole Menezes Neil Messenger Keith Metcalfe Robert Meyer Juliet Mian Ian Miller Paul Miller Charles Milloy Frank Mimnagh Vahndi Minah Strachan Mitchell Liam Monks Hector Montalbo Chris Moore Eric Morgan Robbie Morgan Phil Morley Simon Morley Michael Moroney Clem Morris Jenny Morrison Luke Morton Neil Moss John Mould Edith Mueller Astrid Muenzinger Adam Mulji Patrick Mulligan Paul Mulligan Neal Mumford Masao Muraji Jason Murfitt Tim Murnane Brian Murphy Graham Murray Martin Murray Timothy Murungi Brooke Muston Nevine Nasser Claudio Nebbia Ed Newman-Sanders Meng Ng John Nicholas James Nicholls
Duncan Nicholson Neil Nicholson Jørgen Nissen Christopher Nobbs Joanna Nobbs Paul Noble Mike Nolan Peter Nono-Bwomono Fiona Norman Malcolm Noyce Joe Nunan Stuart Nutton Adam Nyeholt Zedi Nyirenda Rachel Oates Allan Oatley John O'Connell Andy Officer Maya Oh Mike Oldham Peter Oldroyd Ai-Joon Ong Riccardo Oprandi Nick O'Riordan Peter O'Riordan David Osborne David Owen Aneirin Owens Michael Page Sanjeev Pali Irina Palmer John Parham Robert Paris Richard Parker Andy Passingham Anil Patel Raj Patel Ian Paterson Allen Paul Colin Pearce Colin Peart Abigail Peck Navin Peiris Adam Pellew Dan Penson Daniel Perez Alan Phear Aled Phillips Richard Phillips Adam Pickles Anton Pillai Graham Pitman Jonathan Plant Gary Podd Lizzie Pomeroy Esad Porovic Barrie Porter Vicky Potts
Mansoor Pour Colin Powell Jim Powell Simon Power Ashu Prabhu Mark Praciak Adrian Pragas Steven Pragnell Karl Pratt Martin Preene Keith Prentice Ben Price Alan Pridmore Howard Proctor Nick Rabin Terry Raggett Raman Rai Simon Rainsbury John Ralph Paul Ravenscroft Terry Rawnsley Kulvinder Rayat John Redding Graham Redman James Reed Toby Reid Guy Revill Craig Rew Dave Reynolds Rachel Reynolds Simon Reynolds Peter Richardson Oliver Riches Henrietta Ridgeon Steve Riglar Sean Ring Jon Roberts Paul Robinson Nathan Rollason Thomas Ronholt Davina Rooney Jonathan Rose Sharon Rose Andrew Ross Rupert Rowland Stuart Rudd Simon Rule Corey Russell Frederick Russell Glen Rust John Rutherfoord Diane Sadleir Frank Sahota Matt Salisbury John Salter Stephanos Samaras Sunil Sangakkara Nick Sartain
Julian Saunders Rob Saunders Julian Saunders Yaya Sawoy Dermot Scanlon David Scarr Wal Scarr Rudi Scheuermann Antony Schofield George Scott Paul Scott John Seaman Phil Seaward Karl Seiringer Amlan Sengupta Steve Seymour-Jones Robyn Sharwood John Shaw Michael Shears Neil Shepherd Philip Sherley Sheldon Sherman Hilary Shields Paul Shinkwin Adrian Shrubsall Peter Shuttleworth Keith Sibilia John Sibley Yvonne Siddle Nick Sidhu Mark Siezen Tamsin Silvester John Sim Tristan Simmonds Maurice Simms Yasemin Simsek-Kirkpatrick Heidi Sinclair Eike Sindlinger Lorna Small Austin Smith Mark Smith Rob Smith Steve Smith Stuart Smith David Snowball Emily So Eddie Spence Ewa Spohn Gopal Srinivasan Guy Stabler Robert Stack Anthony Stafford Leigh Stark Grant Starling Mark Stedford Angus Stephen Paul Stephenson
Richard Stephenson Ulrike Steven Lexy Stevens Sam Stevens Callum Stewart Colin Stewart Brenden Stockdale Simon Stocks Chad Strickland Ryan Sukhram Joe Sumners Damon Sunderland Corinne Swain Andrew Swann Roman Szablowski Richard Szymczak Kostas Talaiporou Andrew Talbot Jamie Talbot Sam Tan Serena Tanoh Ian Taylor Luke Taylor Graham Thomas Kim Thomas Andy Thompson Peter Thompson Tim Thompson Lucinda Thornton Simon Timms Will Tipper Graham Tivey Adam Tomas Simon Tomes Roger Tomlinson Les Tonge Paul Tonkin Laura Townsend Richard Tregaskes Bridget Tregonning Jason Trenchfield Ed Tufton Sally Turnbull David Twine Michael Tyrrell Hugh Unsworth Eugene Uys Christopher Uzzell David Van Bruggen Meena Vaidya Naren Vaidya Clarissa van der Pullen Mohsen Vaziri Nigel Vokes Braden von Bibra Stephan Von Roon Louise Waddingham Guy Waddington
Susan Wade David Wainwright Andy Walker Gary Walker Jonathan Walker Julian Wallace Kelvin Ward, Emma Wares Ben Watkins Rob Watkins Ian Watson Maree Watson Paul Watson Richard Watson Gary Webb Owen Webber Stephen West Antonia Whatmore Mel Wheeler Duncan White Paul White Dean Whitwell Eric Wilde Duncan Wilkinson Robin Wilkinson Michael Willford Gavin Williams Liz Williams Ray Williams Kevin Williamson Ray Willis Colin Wilson Ian Wilson Jeremy Winsper Alan Winter Adam Wintle Eliot Wishlade Jonathan Wong Michelle Wong Roger Wong Teng Wong Liz Wood-Griffiths Andy Woodhams Eddie Woods Gabriel Woods Stuart Woods Dominic Woolnough Stephen Wren Stephen Wright Simon Wynn Stuart Yalden Lawrence Yam Mehdi Yazdchi Hoe Chian Yeow Phil York Ying Zhou

The Second Tyne Tunnel will land grab areas of Jarrow. Drivers are mainly passing through.