If you’d dropped me, blindfolded into the basement bar at Newcastle City Hall on Saturday night and asked me to guess the evening’s on stage attraction, I reckon I would have got it within 30 seconds. Standing in the ridiculous queue, weighing up the longevity benefits of a two-pinter versus the inevitable — and even …
I can’t remember my dad not having a beard. But I know he didn’t have one for the first eight-or-so years of my life And I can also tell you the day he decided to grow one (well, not the actual date, but the happenings thereof). It was in 1983-ish and in his role as …
Ashington, Northumberland. Famed for being the home of superstar footballers Bobby and Jack Charlton, not to mention Jackie Milburn, and once the largest mining town in Europe, known as Coaltown. The pit stood proudly at the centre of the community, with super pit Ellington — the Big E — just a few miles down the …
One of my favourite paragraphs in last week’s QT was in the interview I did with Alison Gwynn. North East Screen’s chief exec was remembering her teenage years at The Tube. A 15-year-old Alison was a regular down at Studio Five on Friday teatimes in the early 80s when Tyne Tees Television on Newcastle’s City …
In October 2022, me and my Dad were sitting in a hospital waiting room at the Freeman in Newcastle. We’d spent a lot of time in those places during the few months before and were becoming pretty adept at passing the time rather than wasting it. He’d want me to say he got canny good …
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