Letters


Those old bones keep on clicking

A FRIEND of mine recently introduced me to your excellent magazine, as he knew I would be most interested in the article (Issue 113) on bones playing. I am now 75 years of age and have been playing the same knackers since I was a 12 ...


Tuppence profit on a banana skin

I ENJOYED reading John Grundy’s article on the Grand Tour of Newcastle. One thing I would like to correct is the reference to the banana ripening warehouse on Stowell Street. This was in fact the CWS green fruit warehouse, where ...


Reminders of a fateful voyage

I WAS most interested to read the letter from Dr L. Constable (Issue 113) ‘Memento of a Doomed Liner’ as an aunt of mine, Mrs Annie Butterley, was on board the liner Athenia on that fateful voyage and was, thankfully, saved. I ...


Bridge of sighs

THE article ‘Paying the Price for Early Travel’ (Issue 112) contained inaccurate information concerning bridges across the Tweed. Smeaton’s bridge spans the river at Coldstream and has always been referred to as Coldstream ...


A load of bull?

I LIVED at Howden Dene, Corbridge as a child during the 1940s and early 1950s and was always being told horrendous stories about an extremely ferocious animal called the Pepe Bull which reputedly could lift field gates off their ...


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