I like the TV shows Vera and Gently, both set in Newie.
They’ve got a cute little bridge, which they manage to get in shot, multiple times per episode, but if they spoke English, it would be so much easier to follow the plot. 
Call that a bridge? This is a bridge.
How man! Divvent ye be dissing the Toon.
Star down under.:
I like the TV shows Vera and Gently, both set in Newie.
They’ve got a cute little bridge, which they manage to get in shot, multiple times per episode, but if they spoke English, it would be so much easier to follow the plot.1
Call that a bridge? This is a bridge.
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You ain’t watched Taggart or Rab C Nesbit then ?
You’ll need the subtitles on for them
Star down under.:
I like the TV shows Vera and Gently, both set in Newie.
Set where? 
Newcastle, or “The Toon”, not “Newie”
Star down under.:
They’ve got a cute little bridge,
We have a plethora of bridges in close proximity to each other: Tyne, High Level, Swing, Redheugh (pronounced red-yoof) Metro and Millenium
Star down under.:
but if they spoke English, it would be so much easier to follow the plot.
We do it deliberately to keep the southern English away from our nice area 
Whey man they divvent speak proppa Geordie on Vera either.
3rd ■■■■ time I have tried this post…and lost it.
This site is starting to do my swede in. 
Here goes 4th attempt. 
My Geordie heritage is down to my old Granda…a ‘proppa geordie’ and ex Navy war hero… in both wars.
We even have a surname which originates from North East.
I love everything about Newcastle, when I’m there I always feel ‘I’m gannin yem’.
Love the football club, (to the dismay of my Mrs 
) love the city.
We thrashed Chelsea today btw,.despite 9 squad members being injured.
Btw o/p…Where tf is ‘Newy’?
Oh aye, Newcastle has always been known as ‘Newy’…by nobody EVER.
A lot of top famous musicians and sportsmen are from Newcastle.
Sting.
Brian Johnson.
Mark Knopfler.
Eric Bourdon.
Alan Price.
Alan Hull.
Ray Jackson.
Sam Fender.
Alan Shearer.
Peter Beardsley.
Gazza.
The great Bobby Robson.
Who have you got Star Down Under?
Oh Aye…Mark Viduka and Rolf ■■■■ Harris.
So you can keep yer bridges.
How did that cat get amongst the pigeons?
Moaster, I had to google divvent, finding out it is Geordie dialect. I thought Geordie was related to Yorkshire. Is Newcastle in Yorkshire?
Blue estate, I’ve seen Taggart (thought it was Scottish) but the dialect was too thick for me to understand. Never heard of Rab C Nesbit.
Zac, isn’t the High Level a traveling bridge?
Newie is about 160 km north of Sydney, they’ve got some reasonable beaches for NSW (everything’s better in tropical Queensland ).
Tyneside, enough for me to struggle.
Robroy, we’ve got Olivia Newton John, Jimmy Barnes and John Farnham (all UK born).
Rolf ■■■■ Harris is yours! He used to be referred to as as Australian star, Rolf Harris, by the press, until he got busted as a ■■■ predator, then he got called British born, Rolf Harris.
We have a habit of claiming successes and handing back the failures. 
Never heard of Mark Viduka, what does he sing?
Check out Skyhooks and Little River Band.
Fellows, keep your dialect alive, use it or lose it.
When I was young we had many words and phrases that were uniquely Australian. At the time we didn’t consider it Australian, it was just everyday language. Young people no longer seem to speak Australian, cars have hoods, the last letter of the alphabet is zee, not zed and so on. We’re losing our heritage. Viva la difference.
Star down under.:
How did that cat get amongst the pigeons?Moaster, I had to google divvent, finding out it is Geordie dialect. I thought Geordie was related to Yorkshire. Is Newcastle in Yorkshire?
Blue estate, I’ve seen Taggart (thought it was Scottish) but the dialect was too thick for me to understand. Never heard of Rab C Nesbit.
Zac, isn’t the High Level a traveling bridge?
Newie is about 160 km north of Sydney, they’ve got some reasonable beaches for NSW (everything’s better in tropical Queensland
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How do you get Toon from Newcastle?Tyneside, enough for me to struggle.
Robroy, we’ve got Olivia Newton John, Jimmy Barnes and John Farnham (all UK born).
Rolf [zb] Harris is yours! He used to be referred to as as Australian star, Rolf Harris, by the press, until he got busted as a ■■■ predator, then he got called British born, Rolf Harris.
We have a habit of claiming successes and handing back the failures.
Never heard of Mark Viduka, what does he sing?
Check out Skyhooks and Little River Band.Fellows, keep your dialect alive, use it or lose it.
When I was young we had many words and phrases that were uniquely Australian. At the time we didn’t consider it Australian, it was just everyday language. Young people no longer seem to speak Australian, cars have hoods, the last letter of the alphabet is zee, not zed and so on. We’re losing our heritage. Viva la difference.
This is it
youtu.be/xW83Qqf93bU?si=_urAqeNwp5Xq2jqB
Thanks for the link BE, but I couldn’t make ten minutes.They may as well have been speaking Greek.
voyagerhobart.com/?wpsc-pro … ott-dobson
Here’s an educational publication for you SDU. Price is even in Australian Dollars.
Tyneside
We also have Hadrian’s Wall running through the middle of Newcastle.
Historians say it was built to keep the Scots and Picts out of England, it was really there to keep the Geordies out of Scotland.
Tyneside
This actually gives me ■■■■ goosebumps.
‘Local hero’’ by Dire Straits…(which is very apt as we have just come out of there after 20 bloody years. )
Want this played at my funeral.
youtu.be/WOTBR-AU82s?si=VJYJL_lydZQac7ak
Star down under.:
Moaster, I had to google divvent, finding out it is Geordie dialect. I thought Geordie was related to Yorkshire. Is Newcastle in Yorkshire?
Kill the heretic! You’ve just insulted both Geordies and Yorkshire people simultaneoulsy! May as well call a “Geordie” a “Maccum” and start a proper fight Maccum = someone from Sunderland, bitter rivals in the world of football and other things
Zac, isn’t the High Level a traveling bridge?
I don’t know what you mean by a “travelling bridge”, but the high level carries vehicles in the lower section and trains on the top section
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How do you get Toon from Newcastle?
Newcastle is the “the town”, in local dialect we replace “ow” with “oo”, so “round” is pronounced “roond” and “pound” is “poond”, and “town” becomes “Toon” etc.
The dialect (and it is a distinct dialect not just an accent) is, unlike most of southern England, derived from a mix of the Angles (ie what would be come the southern part of the Danish peninsular), then in later centuries from the Danish “vikings”; whereas southern England gets their speech mostly from the Saxons, Franks and later the Normans.
The Danish influence is clearly visible from the place names: Many northern conurbations end in “Y”, Selby, Wetherby, Normanby etc, “Y” is a common place name ending in the norse tongues.
If a Geordie says to a present day Dane, “Ahm gannin’ yem” ie I’m going home, it is perfectly understandable to a Dane, whose word for home is yam
Fellows, keep your dialect alive, use it or lose it.
When I was young we had many words and phrases that were uniquely Australian. At the time we didn’t consider it Australian, it was just everyday language. Young people no longer seem to speak Australian, cars have hoods, the last letter of the alphabet is zee, not zed and so on. We’re losing our heritage. Viva la difference.
Indeed! Geordie is no longer what it used to be, hardly anyone knows what is meant by words “netty”, equivalent to your “dunny”. or “liggy” ie a marble. Cockney is in decline too, most Londoners speak a kind of black-yoof speak “Bruv, Fam, innit”.
The comedian Paul Whitehouse is one of the few southerners I’ve heard manage a credible Geordie accent,
youtube.com/watch?v=IKQ85inQfww
But in truth, what defeats most non-Geordies is the unparalled, blistering speed of the spoken language.
Here’s some Geordie translations, courtesy of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, if you can access the advert filled website outside of the UK
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/no … es-6466922
robroy:
This actually gives me [zb] goosebumps.
‘Local hero’’ by Dire Straits…(which is very apt as we have just come out of there after 20 bloody years.Want this played at my funeral.
youtu.be/WOTBR-AU82s?si=VJYJL_lydZQac7ak
Odd choice Robroy, no real link to Tyneside with that one
For the benefit of non-locals, Mark Knopfler isn’t actually a Geordie, he’s Glaswegian by birth, but lived in near to Newcastle in the 60s (the port town of Blyth, in Northumberland) and the movie Local Hero was set in Scotland.
Hank Marvin was more Geordie than Mark Knopfler, so maybe there should be a stadium version of this
youtu.be/5PtsRNcw26k?t=13
Zac_A:
robroy:
This actually gives me [zb] goosebumps.
‘Local hero’’ by Dire Straits…(which is very apt as we have just come out of there after 20 bloody years.Want this played at my funeral.
youtu.be/WOTBR-AU82s?si=VJYJL_lydZQac7akOdd choice Robroy, no real link to Tyneside with that one
For the benefit of non-locals, Mark Knopfler isn’t actually a Geordie, he’s Glaswegian by birth, but lived in near to Newcastle in the 60s (the port town of Blyth, in Northumberland) and the movie Local Hero was set in Scotland.Hank Marvin was more Geordie than Mark Knopfler, so maybe there should be a stadium version of this
youtu.be/5PtsRNcw26k?t=13
He’s a bit like me, previous generation connection and origin.
His mother was from the North East.
As for the track (I’m sure you are aware) it’s what Newcastle Utd come out to at home games.
Here’s another track from Mark, marking his Geordie connection and heritage and a reference to 'Auf weidersein pet…
youtu.be/KrwSDX95wCs?si=cXw1dAOkKCz4920S
Star down under.:
Call that a bridge? This is a bridge.
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Yep designed and built by a firm, just down the road from toon land, based in… Middlesbrough.
Cheers Zac, every day’s a school day. No offense was intended, but I’m not adverse to a light hearted dig.
It also explains why I got an odd look from a Yorkshireman, I used to work with, when I called him a Geordie. It must have been the look of distain.
Somewhere in the north, maybe Glasgow, there is/was a bridge with a traveling platform, crossing a river. It may have been like a ski-lift cabin.
Most people seem to speak quickly, in comparison to Australians. Geordie sounds like machine gun fire, bursts of rapid fire, punctuated by brief silences.
Until this thread, I thought Hadrian’s wall marked the border between Scotland and England.
I didn’t realise you lot were such bad neighbours, Tyneside. 
Is Tynside and Wear (see, I have been learning from Google) on the border with Scotland?
Residents of Middlesbrough are known as " smoggies."
The bridge which crosses the river Tees in Middlesbrough is known as the Transporter Bridge.There is a platform on which vehicles are parked,suspended by cables from a trolley which travels along rails at the top of the bridge to get from the Middlesbrough side to Port Clarence on the County Durham side.
When I was a lad I used to climb the stairs up one leg and walk across the top to the other side.Not possible to do that now due to the number of suicides.
The bridge has been on “Vera” too.
Gidders:
Residents of Middlesbrough are known as " smoggies."
The bridge which crosses the river Tees in Middlesbrough is known as the Transporter Bridge.There is a platform on which vehicles are parked,suspended by cables from a trolley which travels along rails at the top of the bridge to get from the Middlesbrough side to Port Clarence on the County Durham side.
When I was a lad I used to climb the stairs up one leg and walk across the top to the other side.Not possible to do that now due to the number of suicides.
The bridge has been on “Vera” too.
Thanks Gidders, pleased to know I’m not going totally mad.
Well S.D.U. here’s your Christmas entertainment sorted out, so you had better start watching episode one straight away.
As everybody knows, Newcastle is more famous for their bricklayers than their football team and I think that you will enjoy following this bunch of Geordie lads, around the world through the decades.
youtube.com/watch?v=mZ1STYArSiU
youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4xGXX … i7dddpozKC
This was probably the bridge that you were thinking about.
