Northumberland, farming, husbandry, history, humour, dialect, Daft Laddies, 1950s By Dr Clive Dalton One of the big disadvantages of being a Daft Laddie on an inbye farm up the Tyne or Rede valley in the 1950s was that inevitably your antics and sartainly your predicaments would be on public view from the road and especially … Read more
Photographer: W.P. Collier By Dr Clive Dalton Walter Percy Collier was born in Newcastle in 1875, and moved to Liverpool after his father’s death in 1891 where he lived with the younger of his two sisters. He then went back to Newcastle to work for the industrial photographer, Harry Ord Thompson. After his wife died … Read more
Contributors: Clive Dalton. Don Clegg & Sylvia Clegg (nee Armstrong), Les Armstrong, Geoff Dagg, Bill Charlton, Nancy McLauchlan (nee Brown), Ken Prebble, Philip Easton. Paul Salisman, Noel Wanless. When you think back, there were an enormous number of hard working business people up the North Tyne and Rede providing dedicated service to their local customers … Read more