It would be interesting to know more about how he fared as xenophobia and jingoism swept the country? Swallow ‘Common and breeds’. Redwing ‘Arrives in large numbers in the autumn.’ Nowadays: Still seen in winter. Too true. Going to the air raid shelter where we sang  songs:  ‘Ten Green Bottles Hanging On The Wall’ and many more. It was reported in ‘The Journal’ that the statue of Robert Burns  had been ‘stolen from its home of five years in Heaton Park , and smashed to pieces by vandals’. See more ideas about gateshead, newcastle, newcastle upon tyne. The drinking fountain was cast in Glasgow by Walter Macfarlane’s Saracen Foundry, the most important manufacturer of ornamental ironwork in Scotland. Keogh immediately fell in love and it is said ‘took her home that evening’. Installation of free public drinking fountains, the first of which appeared in Liverpool in 1854, was often linked to the Temperance Movement, who wanted to give people a safe and easily available alternative to alcohol, although the irony of this in relation to Robert Burns was not lost at the unveiling. If matters then became difficult, I suppose I could have sent my anonymous friend to my house in Simonside Terrace to get some back-up firepower. So I didn’t think it, and didn’t do it. Apr 5, 2017 - Explore Julia Ismay's board "Newcastle, Heaton , Byker and Gateshead" on Pinterest. Waxwings: These beautiful winter visitors tend to be seen in larger numbers in Britain, especially the east side, when harsh winter weather affects their native Scandinavia. Thank you, Jean, for taking the trouble to write down some of your Heaton memories. The five Robson brothers could be trusted to hold their own Fifth for a bit. Common, of course, was also describing a Heaton without cars. No, not in Vietnam – back to standing on Jesmond Vale Lane, just by the ‘palace’, sometime in the mid-sixties. Where did it stand? What became of the original fountain? I would like to think that even in the darker days we are going through at the present, this type of racist behaviour would not be expected in the Heaton of 2020. Nowadays: A rare winter visitor but Anthea James reports seeing one in her North Heaton garden  and Gavin Dudley has seen one on Shields Road! Another barber, George Gunn, succeeded Harry but the property seems to have been mainly empty after the war and eventually most of the block was demolished. While Andrew was a student, Newcastle’s first public library opened at the end of his street. Andrew Keogh: his contribution to Yale / James T Babb; The Yale University Gazette Vol 29 No 2, October 1954, Classification in British Public Libraries: a historical perspective / J H Bowman; Library History Vol 21, November 2005, Heaton: from farms to foundries / Alan Morgan; Tyne Bridge Publishing, 2012, Transactions and Proceedings of the Second International Library Conference held in London July 13-16 1897, plus Ancestry, British Newpaper Archive and other online sources. There is clearly much we can learn about Heaton in the years immediately after the turn of the 20th century from an examination of ‘Kiddar’s Luck’. This freehold terraced house is located at 117 Heaton Park Road, Heaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE6 5NR and has an estimated current value of £178,000. In 1786, Burns faced financial ruin as his father’s death combined with the poor soil on the farm he worked with his brother had reduced both of them to near starvation. To our ears this made a very authentic ‘motorcycle’ sound as the wheel turned so we would then take the machines to rough ground nearby to play speedway. It was recognised as not fair to keep on engaging an enemy who had half the fight knocked out of him by having to listen to his mother’s shouts….’ Perhaps the Heaton warriors weren’t quite as hard as they liked to think they were! Over the last 3 years, 2 properties have sold in NE6 5HY at an average price of £142,128. In May 1927, in apparent defiance of the federation, the club reported that over £2,500 had already been raised and ‘with another £100 they could go ahead with the scheme and procure the site.’. However, luckily for us there was much more detail in Joseph Cowen’s more radical ‘Newcastle Daily Chronicle’ and other local papers in Northumberland, Durham and Scotland. But on the other hand, Noble and his friends and relatives had the advantage of actually living in the Dene itself. I was my baby sister now who was the pride and anxious delight of the girls.……According to the incidence of boy-population, about half the corners had their own gangs. Previously from a young age,  he’d  served with the Royal  Scots Fusiliers, giving it upon  marriage. Apologies to ornithologists as it’s certainly not a scientific classification and many of the birds listed will often be seen in other habitats too but most build their nests, and are often seen, in and around trees. It’s clear that the statue is mounted on a pedestal but there is no fountain. The shop then became a hosiery briefly, run by Mrs Sarah Scott, and then in the late 1920s a men’s hairdresser’s, with the first proprietor A R Humphrey, before Yvonne’s grandad took over around 1930. This article was researched and written by Yvonne and Doreen Shannon, Harry’s granddaughter and daughter and Chris Jackson, Heaton History Group. So the air about Seventh was knit up with rankling injustice, heavy with frustrated vengeance and melancholy, because of the mirage of smokes they might have had if they hadn’t been so uselessly honest. The other occasion was in January 1895.’ Nowadays:  More recently, Gavin Dudley has seen a pair in the Dene. Since then Heaton locals have kept the tradition alive by throwing their own shoes up into the tree, whenever there’s a special occasion. Woodcock ‘There are generally one or two seen every year on autumn migration. How many lads in those days didn’t own a cowboy-type cap-gun revolver? In 1940 my sister Dorothy was born, our maternal grandmother, Frances Stephenson  having died a week before. No further breakdown was considered necessary in Victorian public libraries, although by 1908, the absence of a detailed classification system was described as a weakness by the Library Association. A shield attached to the capital between the fountain and the statue bore the inscription ‘Presented to the District Council by the Burns Cub, Walker on Tyne 1901’. The electric trains were silent in the cutting, the sudden blue rainbow they made ceased to flicker on the houses above; there were no puffs of steam or harsh mechanical panting behind the junction wall, no shunting noises like the slow collapse of huge iron playing cards against the buffers.’ It must have made a real difference to the life of Heaton for a young boy to notice it in the way that Common describes. Common Tern: A single sighting over Paddy Freeman’s lake by Mike Cook in July 2007. What would you do if you did see children going in somebody else’s yards? Cormorant: Gareth Kane’s report in January 2020 was the latest of a number of sightings of this coastal bird. Heaton in the years immediately prior to the First World War, could be a dangerous place for a young lad like Jack Common to be growing up in. We can argue all day about the numbers but what is clear is that Jesmond Dene and the other parks of Heaton are a precious historic and environmental resource, which we should both enjoy and do our very best to conserve for future generations. External features included a turret on the roof, the dome of which was covered in copper. The photograph of 60 Heaton Park Road depicts a snapshot in time not just in the photographic sense but in the way individuals were and are swept up in much bigger events taking place around them and over which they have no control i.e. Number 60 would have been immediately next to the shop on the extreme right and just off the photograph. Chiffchaff ‘Have not heard or seen it for some years but I heard its note constantly in the sixties.’ Nowadays: It appears that chiffchaff is a success story over recent years as the distinctive onomatopoeic call of this summer visitor is regularly heard in all of Heaton’s parks from March onwards.