The Newcastle Eccentrics were a group of unrelated people who lived in and around the centre of Newcastle and its Quayside between the end of the 18th...
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Northumberland. The Newcastle Eccentrics of the 19th century were a group of unrelated people who lived in and around the centre of Newcastle and its Quayside...
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Hell's Kitchen (painting) (category History of Newcastle upon Tyne)
one of the names of a famous painting showing many of the eccentrics living in the Newcastle area in the early 19th century. Around the end of the 18th...
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Geordie songwriter aliases (category People from Newcastle upon Tyne (district))
original local songs The Newcastle Eccentrics of the 19th century Songster, Tyne (1840). "Fordyce's Tyne Songster". Archived from the original on 2 April...
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Hell's Kitchen (painting), a 19th-century oil painting of Newcastle upon Tyne eccentrics Hell's Kitchen (restaurant), a chain of restaurants from Gordon Ramsay...
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businessman and eccentric, known for gaining his wealth through lucky investments like sending coals to Newcastle at the time of a miners' strike. The book includes...
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Internet Archive English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, Vol 1, download text and images (various formats) English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, Vol 2...
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Thomas Marshall (songwriter) (category People from Newcastle upon Tyne (district))
by Wm Fordyce, Dean Street, Newcastle 1829" In the early 19th century, Newcastle had quite a collection of local eccentrics (also referred to as "worthies"...
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Cushie Butterfield (category Songs related to Newcastle upon Tyne)
lives of the authors, illustrated with views of the town and portraits of the poets and eccentrics of Newcastle". It appears on pages 220 & 221. This version...
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sci-fi's monster appeal". The Newcastle Herald. Archived from the original on July 22, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022. Book of Lists, p. 208. Sauter, p...
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Penshaw Monument (redirect from The Earl of Durham's Monument)
War, the hill served as an encampment for an army of Scottish Covenanters who fled there after a failed attack on Newcastle before the Battle of Boldon...
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Nicholas Wood (category 19th-century English people)
Gear, were based on the use of eccentrics, however, not on the simple slip eccentrics of Wood. He also carried out in 1818 a series of experiments on rolling...
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made the scenic beauty of the area widely known to readers in Britain and beyond. In the late 19th century and into the 20th, Keswick was the focus of several...
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The Newcassel Worthies is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by William "Willie" Armstrong, in a style deriving from music hall. Air-...
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Hypatia (novel) (category Novels set in the 4th century)
up in the political and religious battles of the day. Intended as Christian apologia, it reflects typical 19th-century religious sentiments of the day....
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Carlisle and Newcastle upon Tyne. Allendale refers to the "dale" or valley of the River Allen. Evidence of prehistoric settlement has been found on the surrounding...
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John Martin (painter) (category 19th-century English painters)
Northumberland, the fourth son of Fenwick Martin, a one-time fencing master. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to...
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Beau Brummell (1954 film) (category Films set in the 19th century)
Stewart Granger films in France at Box Office Story John Timbs, English Eccentrics and Eccentricities (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), 22. Carter, Philip...
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Marsden Rock (category Water towers in the United Kingdom)
eccentric tavern-owner and builder who carved a home out of the rocks in Marsden Bay. In 1828, he moved in with his wife and family. By the late 19th...
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and T. H. Aston, eds. The history of the University of Oxford (Clarendon, 1984). Annan, Noel, The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses HarperCollins...
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John Bell (folk music) (category People from Newcastle upon Tyne (district))
His many sources ranged from the rich and famous down to the characters of the Newcastle Quayside. His book “Rhymes of Northern Bards” was published...
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Hylton Castle (category Tourist attractions in the City of Sunderland)
and the threat of demolition, the castle and chapel were taken into the care of the Ministry of Works. Due to the advanced decay of the 19th-century alterations...
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after the 19th century national insurgencies in 1831 and 1863 which had arisen, especially in the Russian sector, in the wake of the Partitions of the Lithuanian...
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Glass sea creatures (category Natural history museums in the Republic of Ireland)
exciting the museum's visitors. Invertebrates, however, by their very nature, posed a problem. In the 19th century the only practiced method of showcasing...
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William Martin (philosopher) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
and pamphleteer in Newcastle upon Tyne, the eccentric inventor documented at the end of the 19th century by Richard Welford. The "Martinean Society"...
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Craigdarroch Castle (category History of Victoria, British Columbia)
of Craigdarroch Castle commenced in the late 19th century, with the vision of serving as a luxurious abode for the esteemed coal tycoon Robert Dunsmuir and...
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John Brodie Gilroy (category 19th-century English musicians)
assumed in the Newcastle upon Tyne area of England. Very little is known of his life except what can be gleaned from Allen’s 1891 book of Tyneside songs...
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Fashion (redirect from Public relations of the fashion industry)
in mid- 19th-century Paris with the designs of an Englishman named Charles Frederick Worth, haute couture represents an archaic tradition of creating...
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Horse racing in Great Britain (redirect from Horse racing in the United Kingdom)
the great racing families of the 19th century, the Days and the Cannons.[citation needed] In the modern day, Frankie Dettori is the jockey with the widest...
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Jesse Watts-Russell (category 19th-century British landowners)
Sr. (1743–1820) from Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, who had made his fortune as a soap manufacturer in the East End of London, and Elizabeth...
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