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Book Once Upon A Tyne

Download or read book Once Upon A Tyne written by Anthony McPartlin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete with Christmassy gold cover, this is the perfect uplifting gift for Ant and Dec fans. (P.S. it's a little known fact that you can give gifts to yourself, too. Go on, treat yourself!) Told through the lens of every TV show Ant and Dec have made, this is the riotously funny journey of two ordinary lads from Newcastle who have gone on to achieve extraordinary things. From their modest beginnings in Byker Grove through to their "unique" time as pop stars and an award-laden TV career, Ant and Dec are surely the most loveable double act on our small screens. With more laugh out loud moments than you can count, ONCE UPON A TYNE includes behind-the-scenes stories about their first scriptwriter (an unknown comedian called David Walliams), Saturday night fun and games with countless Hollywood A-listers, and celebrities they torture - sorry, work with - every year in the jungle.

Book The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Download or read book The Second Life of Samuel Tyne written by Esi Edugyan and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting and atmospheric, this debut novel portrays the heartbreak, hardship and moments of surprising grace in the life of a man struggling to realize his destiny. A young man of astonishing promise when he emigrated from Ghana in 1955, Samuel Tyne was determined to accomplish great things. Fifteen long years later, he’s an insignificant government employee who hates his job when he unexpectedly inherits his uncle’s crumbling mansion in Aster, Alberta. Despite his wife’s resistance and the sullen complaints of his thirteen-year-old twin daughters, Samuel quits his job and moves his family to the town. For here, he believes, is that fabled second chance, and he is determined not to fail again. At first, Aster seems perfect — to Samuel, the formerly all-black town represents the return to a communal, idyllic way of life. But he soon discovers the town’s problems: a history of in-fighting, a strict town council and a series of mysterious fires that put all the townsfolk on edge. When his daughters cease speaking and refuse to explain their increasingly strange behaviour, Samuel turns more and more to the refuge of his electronics shop. As his ambitions intensify, the life he has struggled so hard to improve begins to disintegrate around him, and a dark current of menace in the town is turned upon the Tyne family.

Book The Story of the Tyne

Download or read book The Story of the Tyne written by Ken Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Castle of Tynemouth  A Tale  Second Edition

Download or read book The Castle of Tynemouth A Tale Second Edition written by Jane Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Chill Wind Off the Tyne

Download or read book A Chill Wind Off the Tyne written by John Orton and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chill Wind off the Tynefirst takes you back to the early 1900s in the Tyneside town of South Shields (Sooth Sheels to the locals). Amin and Ali, Yemeni seamen, arrive on the quayside and feel the bite of the north-east wind. The influx of the Arabs has begun. Their story is one of many that takes you from bare foot street urchins, fish and vegetable hawkers, young lads working in the shipyards and pits, to the years of the great depression after the Great War: the pit lockouts of 1921 and 1926; the race riots of 1919 and 1930 when Arab and white sailors fought in the streets. Seen through the eyes of characters who some readers may have met in the Five Stone Steps (the memoirs of Station Sergeant Thomas 'Jock' Gordon), the tales of life and love, of boozas, and pitch and toss schools, of bare knuckle fights in the back lanes, of tripe, brawn and cow heel pie ('well, when you were hungry you'd eat owt'), recreate the lives of ordinary working folk, when people survived hardship by sticking together. Old photos are used as illustrations so that you can see 'auld Sooth Sheels' for yourselves.

Book The Making of the Tyne

Download or read book The Making of the Tyne written by Robert William Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fog on the Tyne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard O'Mahoney
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-05-05
  • ISBN : 1845968050
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Fog on the Tyne written by Bernard O'Mahoney and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifty years, two ruthless gangs have dominated the Tyneside underworld. Initially, the Conroy and the Sayers families lived side by side in relative harmony in the West End of Newcastle, but the birth of the drug-fuelled rave culture in the late 1980s changed everything. Drunk on power and with an intense desire to take complete control of the north-east, the families went to war with one another and with anyone else who stood in their way. What followed was an orgy of mindless violence. In Fog on the Tyne, bestselling true-crime author Bernard O'Mahoney explores the origins of this gangland war and reveals for the first time how and why it spiralled out of control, leaving many injured and others dead.

Book Tyne and Wear Folk Tales for Children

Download or read book Tyne and Wear Folk Tales for Children written by Adam Bushnell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise witches, flying donkeys and Half Hanged Macdonald: Tyne and Wear has a rich and diverse history of folklore, magic, evil fairies, saints and even the Devil himself. Storytellers Adam Bushnell and Dave Silk bring to life the rolling hills, winding rivers and Jurassic coastline in this illustrated collection of lively tales for children.

Book A Song for Ella Grey

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Almond
  • Publisher : Ember
  • Release : 2016-11
  • ISBN : 0553533622
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book A Song for Ella Grey written by David Almond and published by Ember. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the handsome and strange Orpheus strolls onto the beach and sings, good friends Claire and Ella each find a new understanding of themselves.

Book Secret North Shields   Tynemouth

Download or read book Secret North Shields Tynemouth written by David Scholey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the lesser-known and hidden heritage of North Shields and Tynemouth, focusing on the people, places and events of this area.

Book Real English

Download or read book Real English written by James Milroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.

Book The Castle of Tynemouth

Download or read book The Castle of Tynemouth written by Jane Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tyne Bridge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul
  • Publisher : Hurst Publishers
  • Release : 2022-11-15
  • ISBN : 1787389863
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Tyne Bridge written by Paul and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tyne Bridge, opened in 1928 by King George V, is one of Britain’s most iconic structures, a Grade II* listed building. Linking Newcastle and Gateshead, this symbol of Tyneside and the region is also a monument to the Tyne’s industrial past. Paul Brown’s popular history explores what the bridge means to the people of North-East England, and its deep connection with their heritage. Brown recounts the story of the bridge’s predecessors, from the Roman Pons Aelius–the first crossing over the Tyne–to the Victorian era. He then brings to life the individuals who built the modern bridge: Ralph Freeman, the structural engineer who also designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge; Dorothy Buchanan, the first female member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, who produced drawings and calculations; John Carr, the boatman who bravely rescued workers from the Tyne on dozens of occasions; and the scaffolder Nathaniel Collins, the only man not to survive construction of the arch, who fell from the bridge just weeks before its completion. This richly illustrated book charts the Tyne Bridge’s story right to the present, exploring how it remains a North-Eastern cultural emblem, in a region that has changed almost unrecognisably since its heyday in the late 1920s.

Book Newcastle Upon Tyne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Barke
  • Publisher : Birlinn
  • Release : 2022-01-04
  • ISBN : 9781780277264
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Newcastle Upon Tyne written by Michael Barke and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes an innovative approach to telling the history of Newcastle upon Tyne by focusing on the historic maps and plans that record its growth and development over many centuries.

Book History of Newcastle and Gateshead      Sixteenth century  1885

Download or read book History of Newcastle and Gateshead Sixteenth century 1885 written by Richard Welford and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Northumbrians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Jackson
  • Publisher : Hurst & Company
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 1787381943
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Northumbrians written by Dan Jackson and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wideranging new history of the people of North East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of Northumbrian culture--hard work and heavy drinking, sociability and sentimentality, militarism and masculinity--in centuries of border warfare and dangerous and demanding work in industry, at sea and underground. He explains how the landscape and architecture of the North East explains so much about the people who have lived there, and how a 'Northumbrian Enlightenment' emerged from this most literate part of England, leading to a catalogue of inventions that changed the world, from the locomotive to the lightbulb. Jackson's Northumbrian journey reaches right to the present day, as this remarkable region finds itself caught between an indifferent south and a newly assertive Scotland. Covering everything from the Venerable Bede and the prince-bishops of Durham to Viz and Geordie Shore, this vital new history makes sense of a part of England facing an uncertain future, but whose people remain as distinctive as ever.