Street Prize - EX1 3HE - Exeter - 22 April 2017
Seven Exeter residents are celebrating after their postcode, EX1 3HE, won the first of this weekend's Street Prizes. Six of the Birchy Barton Hill neighbours landed £30,000 each, while the seventh plays with three tickets so trebled their prize to £90,000.
Find out more about the lucky Exeter winners at
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Michael Walsh - HARD
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at Aylesbury vale studio by Taylor Chambers of Chambers Sounds
Sedgefield / Fishburn / Trimdon snow. Bad roads. Http://www.jamessimpson.co.uk
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Two Little Boys - Rolf Harris
Two Little Boys. The song Two Little Boys sung by Rolf Harris.
From Wikipedia,
Two Little Boys is a popular song written by Theodore Morse and Edward Madden. It was written in 1902 and it became a popular music hall song hit of the time made popular by Harry Lauder.
Rolf Harris
In 1969 it was revived in popularity when during a tour of Arnhem Land in Australia, Australian entertainer Rolf Harris briefly stayed with folk musician Ted Egan. Egan sung him the song, which Harris recorded on tape. When he got back to England he persuaded his television producer into using the song on his BBC variety show. Harris discovered he had lost the tape and rang Egan, twelve thousand miles away in Canberra, and got him to sing the song over the phone. Alan Braden arranged the song for the TV show, and the audience reaction was such that it was recorded by Harris and released as a single. The song reached #1 on the singles chart in December 1969 for six weeks and became the UK's best selling single of 1969. On popular BBC radio show Desert Island Discs, Margaret Thatcher picked it as her favourite song.
In October 2008, Harris announced he would be re-recording the song, backed by North Wales' Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir, in order to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I.[1]
Other versions
Kenny Rogers sang a version of the song while he was lead singer of the country-rock band The First Edition, which was released on their 1971 album Transition. The song was later revived in 1980 by Splodgenessabounds and reached #27 on the UK singles chart. Another version by a group of Hartlepool United fans was released as a double A-side with Never Say Die on the single Poolie Pride, reaching #24 on the UK Singles Chart in 2006.
The song is also commonly played by Irish band The Frames during live performance of their song Star Star**, as well as by the Canadian band The Irish Rovers on the album Children Of The Unicorn.
In popular culture
A version with the names changed is sung by the character Spud in the film Trainspotting after Tommy's funeral.
Omsi good scenery (054) Good Turning Volvo B10BLE 12M Renown @ NewCastle Great Park SAGE & Ride
Newcastle Great Park is an area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, situated to the north of the city centre. Much of Newcastle Great Park is still under development and has grown out of the north-west sides of Gosforth, Fawdon and Kingston Park. Newcastle Great Park is the largest housing development in the North East of England.[
Development of this area, Newcastle City Council's 'Northern Development Area' had been in planning since at least 1991.[2] In the 1990s the plans consisted of 2,500 houses and a 200 acre business and industrial development which could provide up to 10,000 jobs.[3] Current indicitave phasing shows plans for 3,300+ homes by 2030 and 4,100+ beyond 2030
The Newcastle Great Park development is 15 years into a 30+ year building project.[1] Estates within the Great Park include:
Brunton Grange
Brunton Village
East Moor Village
Elmwood Park Court
Elmwood Park View
Greenside
Melbury
Warkworth Woods
Housing is currently under development by Charles Church, Persimmon Homes and Taylor Wimpey. Great Park town centre is proposed to be situated near Brunton Lane to the west of the A1.[4] According to Newcastle City Council the town centre will include a supermarket, high street style shops, cafes, restaurants, a hotel, nursing home, private hospital and leisure facilities. A Londis shop, which opened on Featherstone Grove in March 2011, was the first store in the Melbury estate - this is now a Premier Express shop known as 'The Great Park Store'.
Housing numbers[edit]
House building in Great Park started in 2001 on the Warkworth Woods development shortly followed by Melbury in 2002. The table below shows current and planned housing numbers, in date order, up to 2030
Warkworth Woods Cell H 2001–2005 175
Melbury Cell I 2002–2010 500
Greenside Cell G 2007–2015 326
Town Centre (Flats) Cell F 2009–2010 82
East Moor Village Cell F 2009–2012 82
Brunton Village / Grange (phase 1) Cell F 2010–2015 282
Brunton Grange (phase 2) Cell F 2013–2019 332
Elmwood Park Court / View / Gardens Cell C 2013–2020 432
TBC Cell E 2015–2019 200
TBC Cell D 2016–2029 800
TBC Cell A 2019–2030 880
Education[edit]
Newcastle Great Park contains one first school, Brunton First School, and as Newcastle operates a three tier education system older students feed into Gosforth Junior High Academy and on to Gosforth Academy. Brunton First School opened in September 2009.[6]
In 2015 the academy unveiled a bid to build an additional 1,200-place secondary school in Newcastle Great Park as potential plan to meet the demand for school places from the expanding residential community in the area.[7]
Business[edit]
The software company Sage Group has their world headquarters in Newcastle Great Park.[8] Sage Group's building, named North Park, was one of the first occupants of Newcastle Great Park. Esh Plaza is a development currently consisting of two buildings - previous occupants included the Credit Services Association and the NHS.[9][10]
Community[edit]
The Great Park Community Centre, based on Roseden Way, opened in March 2014 and provides a range of services and facilities to the local community including:
A main hall that can seat up to 100 people
The main hall can be split into 3 smaller spaces
Meeting room for up to 14 people
Kitchen facilities
2 x Sports England standard football pitches
Floodlit courts including:
2 x floodlit tennis courts
Netball court
Basketball court
2 x 5-a-side pitches
A wide range of activities run from the centre including Pilates, Children's Dance, Drama Sessions, Martial Arts, Girl Guides, Summer Camps, Free Play and more.[11]
Transport[edit]
Newcastle Great Park is situated on the A1 road in North Newcastle. The closest Tyne and Wear Metro stations are within Kingston Park and Gosforth. Newcastle Great Park has a park and ride car park and bus services with regular services through Gosforth to the City Centre.
泰恩河畔新堡（英語：Newcastle upon Tyne RP： 收聽i英語發音：/njuːˈkɑːsəl/；本地： 收聽i英語發音：/niːˈkæsl/ 或 英語發音：/njuːˈkæsl/），簡稱新堡，英國英格蘭東北區域泰恩-威爾郡的都市自治市、城市。新堡曾屬諾森伯蘭郡[1]，毗鄰桑德蘭和北泰恩賽德。新堡在泰恩河的北岸，建城於羅馬帝國時代，當時的名字叫做Pons Aelius，是由羅馬帝國哈德里安皇帝修建的。至今仍能在新堡部分地區看到這些舊時的城牆，尤其是沿西路（West Road）一帶。
著名的新堡大學坐落在市中心，該市也是泰恩河畔擁有衛星城市的集合城市中最大的一個。新堡是英格蘭核心城市（English Core Cities Group）之一。新堡和其周邊地區的人通常被叫做「高地人」（Geordies）。紐卡斯爾在工業革命時期是英國重要工業都市，造船業和鋼鐵產業尤其發達。現在主要產業則已轉換為服務業。
Motocross north east
Shaun Wigham
March 2013
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Durham Miners' Gala 2012
Durham Miners' Gala 2012 Pipe band enters marketplace
2016 Durham Miners' Gala - Horden Lodge Banner
Blaydon Station 2/4/18
Join me as I explore the stations around Newcastle to catch the pacer units before they are gone for good, the weather really was awful but nevertheless we managed to complete what we set out to do, enjoy!
Deaf Hill
Deaf Hill is a village in County Durham, England. It is 7lksituated a short distance to the east of Trimdon Colliery. The origin of the name is not known. The alternative name for the village is Trimdon Station. Locally Deaf Hill is thought to have been called Death Hill. People believed if children were passed through the fork of a sycamore tree they would be cured of diphtheria, inevitably they died and the spot was called Death Hill. The name was changed as more people settled there. This was something told to me as a child, I'm not sure how factual it is.No one seems to know how this pit got its name of Deaf Hill, but the nearest guess is that in days of long ago, if land was very poor, the old farmers would say it was ‘deed’ or ‘dead’ land, which perhaps has grown into the word deaf. The rising land behind the pit is called Sleepy Hill, which does not sound very productive.