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Simpson, D: Aal Aboot Newcastle

Autor David Simpson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2012
Newcastle is not your average northern city. Visitors and locals are often surprised by what they find, whether it be the elegance of Grey Street, the timber-framed merchants' houses of the 1650s Sandhill, the cathedral church of St Nicholas or the magnificent Tyne bridges. This book explores the evolution, growth and development of Newcastle.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781901888751
ISBN-10: 1901888754
Pagini: 64
Ilustrații: line drawings & photographs throughout (black & white)
Dimensiuni: 123 x 160 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: New Writing North

Notă biografică

David Simpson is a former journalist and the author of over 30 books on British history, topography and culture. He has published titles on London and Scotland as well as publications featuring British nostalgia, history and popular tastes from the 1940s to the 1990s. His special interest is the North East of England where he has entertained and lectured widely on the subject of dialect and place-names. David has appeared in over a hundred television and radio broadcasts both locally and nationally speaking on the history and culture of the North East.

Cuprins

Introduction; Roman and Saxon Newcastle; Pandon; Newcastle Street names Akenside Hill to Westgate Road; Fenham and Benwell; The New Castle and The Blackgate; The Old Tyne Bridge; Two Cathedrals; Town Walls; Defoe and Wesley; Friars and Nuns; Churches; The Lost Lort Burn; Shieldfield Heaton and Benton; Holy Jesus Hospital; Byker and Walker; The Quayside; Chares and Stairs; Sandhill and Bessie Surtees House; Guilds and the Guildhall; The Close and the Cooperage; Seven Tyne Bridges; Newcastle Knowledge; Spital Tongues and Cowgate; Gosforth and Coxlodge; The Great Fire of Newcastle; Museums and Galleries; The Newcastle Witch Trial; Coals from Newcastle; Newcastle and its Rivals; Keelmens Hospital; Sandgate and the Keelmen; William Armstrong; Newburn Lemington and Denton; Scotswood and Elswick; Jesmond and Ouseburn; Joseph Swan; Pilgrim Street; Newgate Street; Northumberland Street and Percy Street; Anderson Place; Grainger Town; Grey Street; Collingwood Hero of Trafalgar; Men of Steam.