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Those or you who live in/are from the North East

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mosschops30 · 17/08/2006 12:26

Do you feel some sort of bond with where you are from? Could you ever move? and if you have do you miss home?

Just wondering because I was bought up in Newcastle, left 14 years ago but am now increasingly feeling the pull to go home, dh cant understand it. I tend to go back more regularly now to torture myself with home.

I miss it so much and want to move back but dh doesnt. Just wanted to know if anyone else felt or feels like this

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Northerner · 18/08/2006 16:36

Oooh aelita I got married in Saltburn. I'm from REdcar. My parents are still there.

sorkycake · 18/08/2006 16:50

I've got a Nanna (well had two , and a granda). I'm a Mammy too. There is an element of commoness around the word mam I think but if you're a Georgie poshness has nivva really been a concern now has it girls?
I actually cry every time I hear Jimmy Nails' song Big River, how sad is that?
6 years ago my mam n dad got sick of urban life and moved out near Barnard Castle to live the good life (it's in the gene's I think) and to get there you can take the road you're on about Riab.
The flashin' blade eh, that's a blast from the past, didn't he advertise double glazing at the same time as well. Them's the days before cd's, when you taped the charts off the radio n hoped they didn't cut the song short ( not that I ever infringed such copyrights of course)

domestickler · 18/08/2006 17:00

Ok, whats the crack with this like?

I have tears runnning down my cheeks at this thread!

I was born in Newcastle and have lived here all of my life and cant imagine moving to be honest.

I am SO proud of it and get the spine tingle going over the tyne bridge even if I have just been to the metro centre for a few hours!

I call my Mam Mam. DD calls me Mam but tries out Mum every now and then. To DS I am Mammy.

our Alan

domestickler · 18/08/2006 17:00

Surkey, I married a washingtonian and brought him over to the "right" side of the Tyne to live ;)

sorkycake · 18/08/2006 17:06

Eeh well I honestly never thought the sight of Alan Robson would make me both laugh and cry all at once, thanks for that.
I was born on the right side of the Tyne, I'm proud to report, but my mam married a mackem and after 2 years of arguing, with Washington in it's very infancy (new town) they agreed to live in the middle.
My mam's family are from the west end of Newcastle, suffer no fools (of course) and are rough as a badgers' chuff. My dad's family belong the east end on Sunderland and are all of 'em absolute numpties! Needless to say it's a match made in Relate lol .
In our house we're 110% toon.

domestickler · 18/08/2006 17:22

DH is red and white (bless 'im) as is his side of the family the kids and anyone else with a brain supports the Toon.

tortoiseshell · 18/08/2006 17:40

Oh, flashing blade, I'd forgotten he was called that! I've got a signed autobiography - I was SO proud! Also, remember the Bank HOliday Superquizzes and Crazy nights - he used to give people 'echo' to make them sound a bit less awful. Does anyone remember when Paul Gascoigne rang in to sing Fog on the Tyne live on the show on a Crazy night when he was pissed?

Northerner · 18/08/2006 18:07

Boro fan here I'm afraid. Have to say though that I love Newcastle and think it is the most fantastic city. We had a weekend there for our wedding anniversary last year, dh had never been before and was not too keen on going tbh, but he LOVED it. It's a beautiful city and the quayside is fab. But can I as what on earth the Baltic centre is all about?

tortoiseshell · 18/08/2006 18:36

toon fan here - loved the glory days of keegan in charge! Andy Cole etc

mcmum · 18/08/2006 19:32

me too walking in a keegan wonderland !!!!!!!! how sad am i ? theres only one kevin keegan !!

popsycal · 18/08/2006 19:50

alan robson - another one who listened to it in my teenage years on my walkman

mosschops - welsh sounds a bit liek georde (apparently) so dont' worry

aelita · 18/08/2006 21:59

I'm officially from Boro though Northerner,like you

aelita · 18/08/2006 22:03

oops, you said Redcar just then. Thought you'd said you were from Middlesbrough earlier in the thread!

themoon66 · 18/08/2006 22:04

PatsyJ. Poor you stuck in Lincoln if you hate it. I hated it too until I got a job working with lovely people at the county hospital. I don't actually live in the city, which helps I think. I live in a village to the north.

And I call my mum 'me mammy' coz am from Ilkley and me mam hates being called 'mum'.

Yorkiegirl · 18/08/2006 22:07

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mosschops30 · 18/08/2006 22:20

can relate to all those who want to weep when that train turns the corner and you can see all the bridges on the tyne. Because i drive up mostly now its the angel I see first (even though she was never there when I was young). So glad its not just me, think Geordie must run in the blood and can only be understood by those with it (make sense??).

I have metro in my favourites so I still listen to Alan Robson, it was a national institution as a teenager

Please keep sharing this thread is keeping me going! Old stuff like the Mayfair (especially the raves ...god I'm old), drinking down the Bigg Market when it was the place to be instead of the Quayside, days when Donna Air still worked in a pizza joint on Bridge Street (I think), Fenwicks window at Xmas, pease puddin and ham stotties mmmmmmmm (why cant you buy pease puddin anywhere else

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themoon66 · 18/08/2006 22:43

PatsyJ - Me and a couple of mates are off out next Thursday - Lloyds bar on the waterside - 7pm. Let me know if you wanna come?? Not a late night... DH is picking me up at 10.

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mosschops30 · 18/08/2006 22:43

oh go on rub it in

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themoon66 · 18/08/2006 22:45

I wanna cheer PatsyJ up. I don't want her to be miserable in Lincoln.

cye · 18/08/2006 22:54

i know i'm late to this but i'd love to move home but dh won't budge. you've all made me v homesick. durham cathedral. best cathedral in europe. when you see it from the train/car you know you're home...
are they getting rid of the steps in darlington?! whatever for?

while some of you might still be here, can anyone else remember when there were dinosaur bones in the crypt at durham cathedral? where the treasury is now, opposite the bookshop/cafe...? or have i made that up? it was a loooong time ago when i was very small!

angelcake99 · 19/08/2006 03:15

You lot have had me in tears with all of this!

I am from Tynemouth and moved to Derbyshire about 16 years ago!!! And I still miss the place like mad. Used to love going to Newcastle with my mam on a saturday shopping. I have been back for holidays and I cry everytime i see the angel and the bridge.
I love living here though too but my roots are 'up north' definately!
Its a special place

Northerner · 19/08/2006 09:24

Aelita am from Redcar, nrmally tell people I come from Middlesbrough as not many pepole have heard of Redcar so said Middlesbrough as force of habbit really. But of course this is a Northern thread and you've all heard of Redcar!!!

My Dad's a local councillor in the area, I went to WEstredcar school (formally WEstfields) and got married at Rushpool Hall which is beautiful.

aelita · 19/08/2006 09:51

Northerner, you've got me reminiscing now! I used to walk through Saltburn woods and play in Rushpool Hall when it was derelict. It was pretty magical to a small child!
Used to spend loads of time in Redcar....Mum used to teach at Saltscar.

Northerner · 19/08/2006 09:53

Did you ever go to Philmores? The nightclub on Saltburn bank that got closed down. I had some fab nights in there!!

And isn't Pacitto's ice cream just the best. MMMmmm lemon tops....

aelita · 19/08/2006 09:58

Philmores...yes, I did! Not very often though - I think my sister went a lot more than me. Will have to get her to join the thread...

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