The Mysteries of Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley Revealed!
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- I’ve recently been exploring Ouseburn and everything it has to offer. I love the place and it’s amazing history!
In this video I introduce the area and it’s industrial past. I have some amazing stories to share about the place and I choose 5 that I think you’ll enjoy.
This is the first of 3, or 4 that I’ll be doing about the area as there’s so much to cover!
On a separate note… it’s thirsty work keeping you all entertained, so if you’d like to contribute to my coffee fund, that would be very much appreciated!
ko-fi.com/tynesidelife
Thank you 🙏🏻 - Jak na to + styl
Hi Eddie, I am from Austria, but in the 2000s I studied in Newcastle for 3 years, and your videos bring back a lot of fond memories from this gem of a city, but also some very interesting new insights I wasn't aware of. Makes me wanna come back and visit after all this time. Cheers and keep up the great work!
Thanks Matt 🙏🏻 hopefully you’ll get back soon 👍🏻
Thank you so much. Was at ouseburn school from 1956 till 1959. Mixed infants and secondary school age girls. Mixed infants went onto mixed juniors at raby street school alongside their mixed juniors. Secondary age boys were at raby street. I was at raby street infants and juniors then at ouseburn for secondary education. It was a good place to be. We learned a good variety of skills. That whole area is so posh now in comparison. However I still think that the planners completely ruined Byker. We all of us lost all the sense of community we had grown up with. Keep it all coming.
Wow thanks for sharing that Pamela. You’ll have some amazing memories
@@TynesideLife at my age it would be hard not to have.
The Ouseburn's a great place to go on a nice summer's day for a walk and a pint or 3! Never get tired of watching your videos Eddie! Keep up the great work bonnie lad 👍
Cheers Gary 🙏🏻 can’t wait for the summer!
More like 4 or 5 😳
Hi Eddie , very interesting video, my family were wherrymen , lived on Lime Street, owned the Tyne bar, when it was The Ship Tavern, one even became a famous rower and his sliding rowing seat is displayed in the Discovery Museum.
Oh wow! Thank you for sharing that Ann
Remember it in the late 70s when it was known locally as The bottom ship , the top ship is the one under Byker bridge on Stepney bank , I drove for Ouseburn transport aka Steenburgs and we had warehouses through the little arch off the quayside
Have had such a sad week family death. But I come back to these videos and I find happiness.
That’s really kind I’m sorry to hear about your bereavement 😥
My Dad grew up in the Battlefield, next to Ouseburn in the 1920s & 30s. He went to the Royal Jubilee School on City Road, next to the Keelman's hospital, but went to the Ouseburn school for weekly woodwork classes, maybe metalwork. Before him my Grandma had gone there for weekly cookery classes.
Been on many of the guided walks in the Ouseburn area over the years (Ouseburn Trust also Newcastle City Guides) Learned a lot about how my ancestors might've lived.
Thanks for sharing that Val. You have a fascination for the history of Newcastle like me 😊
Here's a canny documentary about byker PEOPLE TO PEOPLE'BYKER
Aww, wow, I love your dogs. The hubby and me have had Border Collies since 1985. Very interesting about Ouseburn 👍🏼
Thank you Eve
Keep 'em comin' Eddy. Your vids are great. As an exiled Geordie (living in Edinburgh born in Ramshaw Street 73 years ago just off Scotswood Road in Elswick) I keep looking out for your latest instalment of the Newcastle and district history. Well done.
Cheers Terry, glad you enjoy them 👊🏻
Last time I was in Newcastle in 2017 (I'm Australian) we walked with the kids up the Ouseburn from the Tyne to Jesmond Dene. Such a great walk with the cool little Ouseburn Valley at the start and the amazing Jesmond Dene at the end.
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Course you're cool and funky Eddie, that's why we watch you 😄
Flattery young lady… 😆
This is so interesting! Ouseburn isn't an area I know very well - most recently visited for music gigs at the Cluny. There's a young painter in Weardale, which is my home now, called Matt Ellwood who has painted some fantastic studies of local places in the form of Towers. He's done a brilliant Tower of Ouseburn (amongst many others) which features the magnificent red brick school building which I didn't know about before watching the video :) I suspect that YT frowns on links but M Ellwood has a website (btw I'm not on commission but my daughter tells me she was at school with his missus)
Thank you for sharing 👊🏻👍🏻
Tanneries...sunbeds...😂 Didnt see that one coming! Genuine lol. But seriously folks... Sand from ballast was crucial to the Ouseburn glass industry, which had the national monopoly on window glass for the whole of England in the 1640s.
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You're a natural presenter Eddie. Once again very interesting and I learned something else about my home town.
I wouldn’t go that far but cheers 😅
James is right Eddie. Set up a series "Hidden secrets in and around Newcastle"
@@kevinbelshaw8694 thanks Kevin 🙏🏻
I suppose I’m sort of doing that now but just muddling forward and seeing where it takes me
In the early 80s, I was a member of an adventure group. And we went into the Ouseburn tunnel. Inside is a hidden tunnel that you need a ladder to access. This hidden tunnel was used as a hospital in the 2nd WW. I remember seeing old bed frames but not much else. Still well worth a visit if it's still possible.
Jim
I’d love to go inside
I just caught your excellent video Eddy. Everyone from my Gran onwards went to Ouseburn School. My Gran's (born 1896) uncle was the first caretaker. I did see one error though. I went to Ouseburn infants from Easter 1960 to 1962 after which we progressed to Raby St Juniors so it did'nt close in 1960.
Thank you for sharing 🙏👊🏻
Me dad's cousin was headmistress of the Ouseburn school- what a building!. Miss Emily Thompson. Anybody remember her? Her dad had a butcher's shop in the Grainger Market
My Nanna went to that school, it’s such a beautiful building. At 82 she still likes to brag that one of her teachers said she was good enough to work in the post office!
Haha! that’s brilliant! I’d love to hear more
@nigel cuthbertson not too sure, I’ll have to ask her. She didn’t end up going for the job unfortunately but never fails to tell us!
My dad went to that school along with his brother ernest Smith who's story is told in the Victoria tunnel when he gave his life as a boy scout rescuing a young girl from a bomb crater.
Ahh! Thanks for sharing Gary 🤛🏻
Lived in NE1 for the whole of covid near this. Moved to Australia and now I learn more about the city than ever. Top content!
Thanks Martin and glad you like the channel 👊🏻
Really interesting!! Thank you 👍🏻
My kids used to play down there in 80’s/90’s, underground in the cully, as they called it…..
My gran went to that school ,she was born in 1896 s0 it must have been quite new when she went there
What fascinated me was how the ouse would travel through the Jesmond dene Valley and then suddenly go underground and appear again at the Ouseburn. Apparently, that is where the town dump was for many years with all sorts of toxic nastiness going in there. But would love to know more. Its a wonderful area to walk and cycle.
Hi Patrick, I’ve covered this in my other Ouseburn video. It’s the Ouseburn culvert 👍🏻
I’ve lived in Newcastle all my life and I can honestly say I’ve never been down there. I will now though after seeing this. Cheers
Wow! Get yersel doon Raymond! You’re missing out
Outstanding video mate...Its done my nut in for years why the path is made up of gravestones! Mystery over. Great content mate, keep em coming!
Glad I’ve solved it for you then 😅
You are 100% cool and funky Eddie 🐐
Smoothie 😃
I'm 60 and lived in the North East all my life. I'm gutted I've never been but I'm definitely going to go, looks amazing. Thanks, a great video.
Cheers Jeff. You should definitely check it out 👍🏻
As a wannabe Geordie, these are great vids - love watching them!
Haha! You want to be a Geordie? Where you from?
Quality video once again eddy! Just wondering if you’d ever do a video about grainger market? To me personally it’s one of the most interesting places in the whole city the amount of stuff inside and the fact every time you go inside the whole place feels like it’s in a different layout!
Definitely mate. It’s on my list 👍🏻
Great tour Eddy! Fascinating! Lol; tanneries! Aye! Gonna do the tour!
Thanks Sandi 🙏🏻 time for Part 2 now 😃
Thanks!
Went about 4 years ago to the cluny for a gig, loved the community gardens, had a walk to the Tyne pub and a pub that catered for vegetarians, enjoyed the area
Fascinating, love your content, thank you.
Cheers Graham 👊🏻
hey Eddy love the videos of newcastle! lived in byker as a child rough times ! moved to nyc in the 60s no and people would ask ARENT YOU SCARED? i would say HAVE YOU HEARD OF BYKER
Great research and presentation
Thanks 👍
Thanks Ian 🙏🏻
Brilliant video Eddie well done mate !
Thanks Bill 🙏🏻
💖💖💖 Another great video! Thank you! 💖💖💖
I get the feeling you loved the video 😃
Great stuff Eddy 👏
Thanks Richard 🙏🏻
Love your videos keep them coming
Cheers David 🙏🏻
In late 80's/early 90's I worked at Anglo Swedish along from Spillers Mill, our owners owned City Road Garage and the old Smith and Barnes building opposite the school. People used to say it was haunted but I didn't know anything about the graves or head stones until now. Thank you, seen a few of your videos and now subscribed. 😃👍
Thank you very much 🙏🏻 and glad you’re enjoying them bud 👊🏻
Very interesting video matey. Top content!!
Cheers Kevin 🙏🏻
Excellent video Eddy, there's certainly some great places in and around Tyneside that all have great history.
Cheers Lee! Completely agree! 👊🏻
Another amazingly insightful video about the history of our region. Thanks for making these, Eddie!
Pleasure mate, cheers 👊🏻
Another interesting video and stuff I didn't know .. great video mate keep it up
Cheers 👊🏻
Fantastic video Eddy. I love Ouseburn especially in the summer. Keep up the good work matey.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Another interesting video Eddy 😊😊x
Thanks Brenda 🙏🏻
Brilliant video mate, can't wait to see more about this great place! We go to Ouseburn all the time and never knew this stuff!! 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it 👊🏻
Haven't been for years . Thanks 🙏👍
Glad you enjoyed it Ben 👊🏻
Great informative vid. Get one done for North Shields!
It’s on the list 👍🏻
Finally getting around to binge watching these like a said a would mate! Really enjoyed this vid! 👌
Haha! Good lad 👊🏻
Very interesting Eddy.
Thanks Peter 👍🏻
Great video.
Cheers Mark 👊🏻
Great Video, used to go a lot around that area to take photos
Cheers Dave 👍🏻
Another cracking vid 👌
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Excellent video Eddie my childhood was spent playing down there my Gran lived in south view west facing the railway we used to climb the railway bridge and my Granda had a boat on the Ouseburn the place looked nothing like it does now when you mentioned the abbatoir I have memories of watching through the open doors the slaughtermen dispatching the cattle everyday seemed like an adventure back then.
Wow you’ve got some great memories Norman 👍🏻
You're right, they were 5 things I didn't know :) class vid
Thanks again bud 👊🏻
Another very interesting and informative video. Always wanted to go here. Definately will now
You should 👍🏻
Definately will it sounds amazing ❤
Aye great Eddie 👍
Cheers Mick 👊🏻
Lived in the area all my life, played in Grannies park, still frequently walk around the quay side but oh I absolutely hate the graffiti!
Bet you have loads of stories
Really enjoy your videos - fascinating. Have you considered doing one about Jack Common and Heaton?
Cheers Andy. No I haven’t. Don’t know anything about it to be honest
@@TynesideLife Look him up - he was a working class lad born in Heaton who wrote a couple of semi-autobiographical novels which describe life in Newcastle in the early 1900s. He has a blue plaque in Third Avenue.
Was in brinkburn st brewery Friday,top beer top place great friendly staff.cheers
I love that place!
Looking forward to hearing your views on the pubs in Ouseburn! 🍺
Spoiler - I love them 😃
Nice one, very interesting and have previously wondered who designed Ouseburn School as it always stood out with its eastern influenced spires. Born & bred a few miles away in St.Anthony's!
Cheers Patrick 👍🏻 yeah the place is full of interesting stuff
Everytime i see your vids I run to my grandparents to try and see if I can tell them something new, but they always know all the facts and more hahaha. Amazing video.
Haha! Of course I know more too but I have to keep the video to about 10 minutes 😉
Glad you’re enjoying them Luke 👍🏻
Looks a great place to chill & slide a few cold one's you cool & funky dude Eddie....sound vlog 🤙
Well, I didn’t like to say… 😃
@@TynesideLife 🤣
Love your videos Eddie, I live spitting distance from the old Ouseburn school and have for 15 years never knew about the grave yard so interesting cheers
Wow I bet that was a shock for you then 😅
@@TynesideLife too right it was, I will be paying a visit on Saturday cheers again, keep the videos coming great to see some one with so much love for our area making interesting videos on everything newcastle.
@@markflynn7810 thanks Mark. We just live in an amazing city 👊🏻
Hi Eddie, great video, if you do another about ouesburn? Mention about the TUNNELS and tour ran by the same guy’s from the trust? There excellent, and it starts around by the toffee factory, and that chimney there was in the opening scenes of the likely lads where terry is wondering off to the bus stop? Of what is called bolham way.
Don’t spoil my surprises 😅 I’m covering both in the next video and I’m actually doing the tunnel tour on Saturday. Can’t wait! 😆
Very interesting. My memory of there was going over it on the train in the early 70s and seeing the water the most bizarre colours. Bright green one day, orange the next. This area is of course the home of the Ouseburn Delta Blues. Made famous by that Byker blues proponent George Welsh.
I didn’t know that 👍🏻
Another great video although I did spit my coffee out when you mentioned sunbed shops in relation to tanneries!😂 Keep up the good work!
Glad you liked it 😃
Ouseburn Farm is open now, btw. And watch yourself walking on those headstones in the damp, they're canny slippy!
Very interesting video enjoyed it , mind that beer looks a bit cloudy..🙄🙄
Cheers Bob 👍🏻 beer 🍺 was great 👍🏻
I love your dogs
Me too ❤️
I have a couple of properties there, beautiful little area of Newcastle.
Lucky lad 👍🏻
Just subbed, Great video, Didnt know this place existed, We live sheltered lives in Gateshead lol, Will make a point of coming over for a look. Cheers mate. Sam.
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Class vid, always thought the old school used to be some kind of Japanese embassy from the style of the roofs from the old shipping days
It looks like that doesn’t it
I love this channel, not so much the nufc stuff since i gave up my season ticket but i used to love going down to the river, couldn't enjoy the pubs at the time cos I was a young'un and now I live elsewhere this stirs me so much, particularly the pride displayed in Tyneside. Would love to hear about similar channels in other parts of the country
Thanks Steve 🙏🏻 glad you’re enjoying the channel
search for martin zero. great channel about manchester past
@@georgeedwardscott7159 Great call, just watched my first video, thanks kidda
@@steverobinson9763 this guy is good also czcams.com/video/qLGL4UT_UbU/video.html
@@georgeedwardscott7159 Ha Ha, you are a legend. Loved it. Lost count of the times I saw SLF etc etc. This was a joy. Met mensi years ago at an adverts gig, didn't like him. Saw the fall supporting Genesis can you believe? The professionals stuff, and the Rutts man. PIL, thank you so much.
Great video Eddie put it on the tele and watched it eating my lunch! Surprised you didn’t mention the Victoria Tunnels! But a video idea for you, the Victoria Tunnels do tours in the Ouseburn every weekend 👏
Hey Rob, I’m one step ahead 😆 I’m doing the tunnel tour tomorrow and the Part II video is out on Sunday!
Glad you enjoyed it 👊🏻
@@TynesideLife ah ha I did wonder! That’s great look forward to watching
Do you know anything about Patreon pages Rob?
@@TynesideLife unfortunately no, I’ve got a join button on my page but have never looked into that
That's where my dad as a kid used to knock aboot when he was a kid! 👍
Me grandad used to own a coal yard down that kneck of the woods!
Loads of fascinating history! 👍🏻
Had a recording studio down there and DJed at many of the illegal raves and the legal ones that the council gave us permission to do. Plus my favourite pub in….well anywhere will always be the Tanners. I don’t drink like I used to so don’t get down there these days but the whole Ouseburn area holds a special place in my heart
I’ve never been in before. I’ll be going in soon though 👍🏻
@@TynesideLife it’s still ran by the same people that ran it back in the mid to late 90s. When I used to dj there.
It took the place of the Barley mow as the pub go where somebody always knows your name. Like in the lyrics for cheers.
@@T3RRAFORM thanks for sharing that bud 👍🏻
Interesting video. Thought you might have mentioned the seven stories boat. Also the big mural under the arch (I have forgotten the artists name). Both were in your video footage. p.s. I was the one who asked about Queen Victoria closing the blinds when her train passed through Newcastle, I done some checking and it would seem to be that it is an urban myth.
Hello again. 👍🏻 I mention at the end that I’m doing follow up videos as there’s just so much to cover. 😅
I remember you saying about QV and glad you got to the bottom of it 👍🏻
Well she left her knickers to the RVI Hospital who still have them I believe.
Favourite part of Newcastle
Mine too! 👊🏻
@@TynesideLife see you in the tyne bar sometime for a pint. Ale drinkers paradise down the ouseburn and love the live music on a Sunday
@@jonnybarber462 definitely! I might be there this Sunday
Very entertaining only been to this area years ago to Byker farm .where do you come from .
I live in Gateshead Shirley 👍🏻
would be nice if you did a video about the victorian tunnels & the history
That’s in Part II coming very soon! 👍🏻
@@TynesideLife ❤
Yeah , Ouseburn is cool and funky, Hadrian went and got his Larn Yersel Geordie book ,before building the wall,classic Eddy.Another great history lesson .By the way, we were so wrong about Leeds game ,lol.
Haha! Glad you liked it 😆
I don’t think anyone seen that victory coming! 😮
We’re still deep in trouble and Roy Hodgson is a relegation genius but I gave slightly more hope than a week ago 👊🏻
i played down there as a child. my dad helped in building byker farm, as it was known then.
Thanks for sharing that Graham 👍🏻 I’ll be covering the farm (the old lead works) in the next video
@@TynesideLife what about the culvert?
Grayham?
@@georgeedwardscott7159 apologies for that George 😬😅
There’s more to come in the other videos I mention at the end 👍🏻
Always very interesting history lessons Eddy about the area. Some people of a certain age will say ah the good old days and what you have just said about death from all sorts of diseases I don't think so and it was a tough life for so many people. Yes indeed the wall to keep out the jocks its a pity it wasn't still there to keep the Rangers fans out when they've played friendlies in the past and take over the town. The real reason was the wall was built to mark the roman empire in Britain ends here because there was a shortage of men and many were needed in other parts of the empire mainly on the eastern borders.
Haha! Indeed Nic.
I’ve done three videos about the wall and walked the first three sections.
From the research I did, the wall was built as a statement, a fortification to mark the northern boundary of the Empire, but also to keep thousands of soldiers from getting bored and becoming mutinous.
It was never a serious intent to keep the Picts out. They were prone to occasional hit and run raids on passing patrols, they were never a threat to the Roman army.
It’s all fascinating stuff snd of course I can only cover do much in a 10 minute video.
I’m filming part 2 was we speak! 👍🏻
Dee a video about the tunnel that goes from there under the toon centre
It’s in the second video 👍🏻
It was people like myself(riff raff) and my ancestors were kept out of england by hadrians wall for good reason lol great video eddie very interesting
Haha! I Hank you 👊🏻
Of course it wasn’t England and Scotland back in those days. Our island was just a hodge podge of pict tribes.
The Romans occupied the highlands but found it too logistically complicated and labour intensive to hold and we’re prone to hit and run attacks.
Consequently they pulled back and marked the northern Roman territory with Hadrians Wall.
It was never there to keep an invading army out, there wasn’t one. It was also used as a means to keep thousands of bored soldiers occupied
@@TynesideLife yeah ive been to hadriams wall and its very fascinating especially at the english side of the wall. The romans were very fear ful of us scots because in that time there was alot of clans not cities as we do now. Apparently the romans had sent an army north but never came back and with the glens in those days such as glencoe would have been treacherous because of the climate and the constant fear ofbeing attacked. Also i think the romans didnt believe that anything could be grown in scotlanf either aparent it was not suitable to grow anything just something i heard about. I love the idea on how much history that england and scotland actually have in comon.
@@johnking6475 forgive me, you’re getting mixed up with the English/Scottish battles from the 12th century onwards.
During the Roman occupation, there was no Scotland, or clans, or England. They didn’t come into existence for another 8/900 years.
The Romans were confronted by pict tribes all over the island. Most were absorbed by the army, the lands further north of the wall, especially the highlands were just too difficult to hold as the tribes then could launch small militia raids on passing patrols .
Thanks for reaching out John. Glad you enjoy the videos 👊🏻
Have you been to Di Meos Eddy? Best ice cream in the region by far. Tynemouth one is great too especially the Paninis
Ooh no I haven’t. I’ll check it out soon 😋
@@TynesideLife was directly behind your camera in the first shot. Can't miss it
top job, good informative video, I can remember when everything except the Tyne pub was derelict, the Cluny warehouse had an acid house party in it about 1980 and after that everything started to happen, the council realised they had a gem worth keeping, the buildings were literally falling into the Ouseburn, it was the chemical centre of the UK at one time and a lot of Italian immigrants lived there, much of it was owned by lord Armstrong-Mr Newcastle,
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the byker viaduct metro bridge, a know everything about it, from casting the concrete units, in the casting yard, next to kfc, the stainless steel bearings on top of the columns, stressed macaloy bars, and steel cables, a worked on it from start to finish, grannies park was a good place to knock about in the 60s, rope swing, and skemies hoults yard, me friends dad use to be manage cumberland arms and his mum used to be manageress at the ship tavern under ouseburn bridge, back in the days, the best swing was railway bridge, 2 fractured wrists and a week in the rvi, we used to walk through the ouseburn cluny tunnel to jesmond dene with old paint tins set alight and used as torches. kids haven't got a clue nowadays
Brilliant memories Trevor, thanks for sharing 👍🏻🤛🏻
theres film of the construction of the byker viaduct on you tube
I came across the old graveyard last year by accident last year taking my durg out and was abit taken aback at what i was walking on but the old gravestones 😁
It’s a fascinating place isn’t it! 👍🏻
Hi Eddie, do you have any videos talking about the history of the turnbull building?
Hi Mathew, no I don’t sorry
my mam went to that school she lived in brock street in byker me and my mates youse to play there in the 60es and play on the graves very scary school at night
Oi oi.here this was canny, bonnie lad.a proppa enjoyed it n av just hit like n subscribe..🐜
Ps am from prudhoe me dad's from walker mam's from seghill n a used to live on st Lawrence square...back Wen it was abit of a clip .the Tyne bar Doon the bottom there was and is my favourite drinking den .anyway inabit wor kid.🐜
Cheers Anthony 👊🏻
Certainly need to take a walk to the pubs
They’re great!
Sad to see your last upload was removed while I was watching it, do you have an alternative place to view the full version?
I removed it mate. Exposing fraudsters was unfortunately having a detrimental affect on my channel
@@TynesideLife That's shite fella, I'm happy to chip in to a "Patreon" subscription to see the great work you do. ;)
@@DaveSlaz Thank you very much although I’m not sure how they work… I do have a KO-Fi account (link on my About page) if anyone wants to contribute to a coffee 🙏🏻
When the Ouse burn was covered up, what was the in fill? What was put over it? Refuse?
Yes mate, rubble, refuse, and other household waste
I heard there is an underground shopping center down in the Ouseburn, closed off in the 60’s have you heard of anything like that there?
Sorry mate but there’s no such thing there
I found about my great great great grandad was buried there 2 days ago, didnt know what it was till seen it here and recognised the name of the place. Also, I heard rumours when I was little about that school that it was sinking into the ground and that the headteacher hanged theirself from the spire. (I think the latter was deffinetly made up but never stopped me looking up when we drove past to see the ghost)
That’s amazing Sarah! You’ll have to do some digging (no pun intended) and find out more about your relative
Wow. Your great great great grandad must have enjoyed a long life if he was only buried two days ago 😂
@@colinbreeze2814 hey, I’ll do the Dad jokes 🤣
@@TynesideLife sorry. Couldn’t resist 😂 Thanks for all your excellent, humorous and informative videos👍
@@TynesideLife They were found dead on the toliet in 1840s in newcastle city center in a public toliet on christmas eve.
larn yersel Geordie wey man crackin
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