Peter Hutchinson

Retired international construction director (despite my degrees being PPE & EU law). Labour Party & NUFC for stress, grandchildren for joy. Wine & rowing help.

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@tars75 Tried to blackmail the city....failed (at the moment)....The Hammond Bears just doesn't sound right!

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And now an 1872 edition of Wilson's collection of poems "The Pitman's Pay" detailing his view of life in Newcastle and mines

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I occasionally get accused by my wife of having too many books (clearly an illogical concept) but having had to move a bookcase for the painter, I've rediscovered "The Miners' Manual" by Atherley-Jones from 1882...which I had forgotten owning. Another treasure

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@lesleyeagan Works for me!!

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@TyneSnapper I'm immensely proud of the Stephensons and their achievements, but am also amazed that William Hedley, Timothy Hackworth and Jonathan Forster all had Wylam roots. Truly the home of railways

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@lesleyeagan @JHCPAL Yep, I was always sent for "the messages", including the infamous day I was sent aged 5 to Kirkbrides fruit shop in Benton, and said to Mrs K, "A pound of tomatoes and make sure she doesn't put any bruised ones in". (She didn't dare)

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@AmIRightSir 82 years since my uncle Jim Straughan, an assistant in the local co-op before the war, landed in Normandy. His wife heard nothing until a letter arrived a month later. "Weather fine, send dancing shoes"....code? in-joke? request? too late to ask.
A lovely man

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@AmIRightSir ....and just about the 80th anniversary of the day when my dad was finally brought back after 4 years in India in the RAF to be demobbed...

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@northumbriana One of the surprisingly numerous and diverse places of worship I've been to on my road to mild atheism

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@JHCPAL My mining family started in the Lothian coalfield, moved down to South North, with offshoots then moving to Cumberland, Kent and Australian coalfields

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@BElliottAuthor I drew a very similar map for my O Level geography in 1965. It was my best O Level!

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@Trystanian @JHCPAL @KeithTalentless @Hendrover If you want a NE connection, our previous contract together was Northumberland Buildings on the corner in Trafalgar Square

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@Trystanian @JHCPAL @KeithTalentless @Hendrover When we refurbished the Liver Building in 1980, our convenor steward who was a brilliant joiner, "borrowed" so many of the mahogany and plate glass panels to build a huge greenhouse that the neighbours complained he should have got planning permission and a development licence.

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@JHCPAL @KeithTalentless @Hendrover I suspect everyone knew it was his extra pension gratuity. We spent less time looking for his cash than £3 missing from a normal balance....

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@KeithTalentless @Hendrover @JHCPAL The opposite of that was the Bank teller I worked with in Lloyds, Grey St who retired in 1968 after 40 years. His till was mysteriously wrong by £200 on two evenings in his last week.....

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@Hendrover @JHCPAL Yes, my uncle was a blacksmith in Dudley pit so we all had galvanized bleezers with a round handle.

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@tars75 The Greens seem to be trying to wipe their tabula clean so they can write a new populist screed

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@JHCPAL @Geoff___Smith My sister went back to teaching after having her family. Little local school near Cotherstone. Two teachers. She got the "class" with identical quad girls (and football coaching)....