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Reasons to visit South Shields
1. It’s home of one of the best punk bands ever, the Angelic Upstarts. 2. It has beautiful beaches. 3. You can visit the remains of a Roman fort (Arbeia) there, if you like that sort of thing. 4....
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James Kirkup
While I was in South Shields (in the North-East of England) in August, I was lucky enough to attend a memorial reading of James Kirkup’s poetry at the local museum. James Kirkup was a prominent...
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Tuesday poem video link
My big excitement last Saturday was the letterbox arrival of the Iron Book of New Humorous Verse (edited by Eileen Jones and published by Iron Press) which has one of my poems in it. The poem is...
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What I did in my holidays
Peter and I have just returned from a lovely holiday in the UK. We were mostly based in South Shields (where I was born) but made several trips to nearby areas such as Newcastle and Ebchester, and...
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Happy Easter!
So, this is me (in push chair) with my late mother, her cousin Linda (holding handle) and Linda’s mum, Aunty Pat at the Easter Parade in South Shields, about 1964.
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