Tag: Sunderland

The sad decline of The North

Is The sad decline of The North a nice place to live or is The sad decline of The North rough?

It angers and saddens me a great deal to read the many obituries of once proud working and mining towns like Barnsley, Rotherham, Sheffield, Middlesbrough, Sunderland etc on this site. These were all places I was familiar with as a very young man back in the late 1970s and places I loved to visit and […]

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Hedworth or ‘Badwaff’ as the Jarrow locals call it

Is Hedworth a nice place to live or is Hedworth rough?

Ahh badwaff, since the age of 1 I have lived in the neighbouring estate Fellgate, which is the ying to hedworths yang. With the Berlin wall like, River Dean separating the 2 estates, it was always a relief to see the orange glow by the riverside of the burning vauxhall astra and being thankful that […]

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