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NE dialect & place names.Coal.Turnips.Kyo's. Jumps down historical & geographical rabbit holes - some very niche indeed. 😉 Very dry sense of humour. From NE, lives SE. Art of the northern, grim & industrial type usually.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2h

Found it & reposted. It was quite a while ago.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · Mar 31

Have you ever wondered what the Jarrow Slake looked like before it was filled in ?

Well ....I own an oil of it, painted from Simonside in 1878. Tyne Dock was on the east of the Slake. The painting is of the west side looking towards Hayhole & Howdon. Zooming is advised.to see the details. 🧵

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 4h

Guinevere's Guide to pronouncing place names in the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria like a local. Jarrow is Jarra. Means "the settlement amongst the Gywre, the fen people". The fen being the disappeared Slake. I have a painting of it from 1878,before it was filled in.Not sure I've posted it here.🤔

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 4h

Row. A terrace. That's a double raa technically.🤣. As heard in the classic folk song " Wor Geordie's lost his penka".

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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 14h

Winter Cauldron
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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 4h

Good chance it's a Monday. 😉. Claes on the line, a claes prop, a raa, chimmleys.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13h

Backstreet, Jarrow, 1937, photo by Bill Brandt.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 4h

I could make quite a few comments about that. None of them polite.

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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 7h

In case you missed it, new #ontheblog 'The Aerial Photographs of Professor Norman McCord'.

Why not have a read blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/202...

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 14h

Ross. It's not a person. It's a very old word indeed. Primitive Welsh in fact. It means promontory or moor. It has a magnificent beach, as shown ⬇️.

Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · Mar 11

After the excitement of the early morning fog in Northumberland on Sunday it cleared later but it remained hazy all day. So I tried Ross Sands and having the huge expanse of beach to myself was worth the walk out there.

#photography #landscapephotography #photographers #nikon

A hazy view along a huge empty beach with sand banks and water forming curves in the foreground.

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Peter Hutchinson @catus14.bsky.social · 1d

One of my wife's favourite words, "You're making me all scumfished"

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

Outchester. Where ? Bamburgh way. Nothing to do with being outside. It's owls. The owl chester. Recorded as Ulecestr 1242. I'm twinning it with Ulgham. That's owls too as regular readers know.😉

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 1d

Guinevere's Dialect. Scumfish. OED. Scottish & Nthn. To suffocate, stifle, choke with heat, smoke, bad smell. Also to injure. 1700's form of the 1400's word scomfish which in turn is short for discomfish. Picked up in the 1970's theses I read last week !

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PK pics @pkpics.bsky.social · 3d

Bridges over the Tyne at dusk. Newcastle 21/11/2020 #photography 📷

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PK pics @pkpics.bsky.social · 3d

St Mary’s Lighthouse, Whitley Bay 23/2/2022 #photography 📷

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PK pics @pkpics.bsky.social · 3d

Tyne Bridge, Newcastle 4/11/2022 #photography

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PK pics @pkpics.bsky.social · 2d

Whitley Bay, 21/12/2021 #photography 📷

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PK pics @pkpics.bsky.social · 2d

Swan House, Newcastle Upon Tyne 5/12/2024 #photography 📷

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St Mary’s Lighthouse, Whitley Bay 3/1/2022 #photography 📷

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Jo Scott Heritage @joscottheritage.bsky.social · 2d

BBC News - Northumberland Reiver Trails a 'new way to explore' countryside - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Northumberland Reiver Trails a 'new way to explore' countryside

The Reiver Trails are a series of routes linking Hadrian's Wall with other areas in Northumberland.

www.bbc.co.uk

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

That's why I started doing "Guinevere". I did one everyday for nearly a year. I still do them but it's when I come across one/ someone suggests it. I rarely venture into Co Durham unless someone tells me as the pronunciations are very different. I live in the SE too so that doesn't help !

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

There's another "hallow" place hiding in plain sight....

Hallington. No halls or holls. It's hal. It shouldn't be an 'ington' either. Means "the holy valley" & recorded as Halidene 1247, Hallendon 1608 & then became Hallington in 1663! Holy? Oswald & Heavenfield.

guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

1218 recorded as Halewell. 1250 Haliwell

Place name book goes on to say "Holywell" is pronounced Halliwell locally.

You can see why ....it all links back to hallow for holy.

It's said 'holly' now so the link is hidden - unless you know the spelling & the word hallow.

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

Hallow as a noun means a holy person a Saint. OED says obsolete,except in use in All Hallows.

From OE halga.

Hallow as a verb means to make holy, to sanctify,purify.

Holywell means a holy well..or a hallowed one.

(Hallowed - sanctified, blessed, consecrated, dedicated.)

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guinevereofmason.bsky.social @guinevereofmason.bsky.social · 2d

Guinevere goes off on a tangent.

Today is All Saints Day, aka All Hallows Day.

Yesterday was Halloween (All Hallows Eve.)

Earlier I posted Holywell. An old spelling is Hallowell.

'Where is she going with this' you mutter , rolling your eyes.

Well..🧵

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