Test your Newcastle GENERAL KNOWLEDGE . . .

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by growly grace

Just astonished that I did not know that the bridge swung 360%. Feeling very ignorant.

Glad to report that the bridge does swing through 360 degrees on the first Wednesday of the month at about 14.00 - 14.30. Watched it go around on Wednesday gone but no camera (again!)

[Steve Ellwood]

Have you seen this man and if so, where in particular was he - name of room and building

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood

Have you seen this man and if so, where in particular was he - name of room and building

A hint - The Georgians and Victorians posed a threat but were its saviours

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood

A hint - The Georgians and Victorians posed a threat but were its saviours

Maurice the Builder practiced his workmanship here

[growly grace]

One of these days it has to be the castle keep!

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by growly grace

One of these days it has to be the castle keep!

That day is today - yes its the Castle Keep and a room that I had never been in before and remains a bit of a mystery.

Located at the head of the main stairs into the Keep, instead on turning left to enter the main Keep you go straight ahead. Behind the usually closed door is a small room with some very pleasant features and is currently used by the Custodians tea room. There is no way into the Keep from here and it may well be a later addition, perhaps as last as the early 1800's when the Keep was castellated. If anyone does have any information I would enjoy reading it

[growly grace]

I initially rejected the Keep because I had never seen it (I once had to invigilate an exhibition there and was on site for a week I would curl up with a book in one of the windows) anyway the clues were for once easy!

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by growly grace

I initially rejected the Keep because I had never seen it (I once had to invigilate an exhibition there and was on site for a week I would curl up with a book in one of the windows) anyway the clues were for once easy!

I did think whether it was fair to use the photograph as the room isn't generally open to the public, but hey, that's all part of the fun.

[Steve Ellwood]

Any ideas on where this one is?

[DXNewcastle]

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood

Any idea's on where this one is?

No.

Perhaps the apostrophy is provided as a clue? If not, then I fail in the test of recognition.

[Deebex]

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood

Any idea's on where this one is?

I don't know either, but it does look vaguely phallic. Is the sculptor making a comment?

[Microkomputer]

DELETED

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Microkomputer

It's the sculpture of Neptune and two fishwives above the door on the south side of the old Fish Market* on the Quayside.
*It's now a music venue called 'Riverside', but has no connection to the old Riverside venue on Melbourne Street.

Well spotted on this test of recognition





Quite an interesting story attached to the erection of the Fish Market. As part of the 1823 changes made to the Guildhall, John Dobson designed a Fish Market at the eastern end of the building, where the columns stand. (also where the car that Gazza was a passenger in crashed). The Fish Market was open to the air but gave the fishwives shelter from th elements, rain and wind etc. However the other residents of Guildhall soon became tired of the noise from the fishwives, mainly I suspect from the Guild of Merchant Venturers who had their court immediately above the Fish Market.

Consequently another new Fish Market was built in the 1880's with the former one in the Guildhall being enclosed and converted into a news room (1897-98). The present Fish Market was built between 1878 and 1880 to a design by A.M. Fowler.

The sculptor for Neptune and Fishwives was George Burn and the sculpture stands 1.2m high and 2.8m wide. Neptune is seen standing on two dolphins, trident in hand with two Fishwives on either side traditionally dressed and holding fish and baskets.

George Burn was also the sculptor for the memorials to the Tyne Scullers, Harry Clasper, Bob Chambers and James Renforth, and the monument to Colonel Edward Moseley Perkins and the Head of Garabaldi.

[Steve Ellwood]

To avoid this being a test of recognition, how about the following 100 questions covering Newcastle and Gateshead. Try to answer them without reference to Google and I'll post the answers in a couple of days

1. Who owned the first circulating library in Newcastle and where did it stand
2. Who is supposed to have given the Town Moor to the townsmen of Newcastle
3. What was the chief business of Newcastle during the reign of Edward III
4. Who wrote "Blaydon Races" and where did he live and die
5. What was the first play performed and when at the Old Theatre Royal
6. Who was the famous wood engraver who lived in Gateshead
7. Who was the King who journeyed down Bottle Bank at Gateshead
8. Why is Bottle Bank so named
9. Where in Newcastle was Lord Eldon brought up
10. Which street in Newcastle was the first in England to be lit by gas
11. Which year was the Keelmans Hospital built
12. Where was Hells Kitchen
13. In which year was the Holy Jesus Hospital built and who occupied it
14. Where in Newcastle is there a Court and Mayors Parlour
15. Which statue was proposed for the top of the Theatre Royal
16. What was the "Fiery Clock Face"
17. Where did D.G. Rossetti stay frequently and where did he paint the portrait of Mrs Leathart
18. Where in Newcastle did John Wesley live in 1745
19. Where was the One O'clock Gun fired in Newcastle
20. Where in Newcastle could you have seen the making of clogs
21. Which famous writer once lived in Gateshead
22. Who opened the Swing Bridge and when
23. Which building in Newcastle once served as a prison and was also advertised to let as a windmill
24. Where in Newcastle can you see a large scale model of the Tyne from Scotswood to the sea
25. Which Church is built from stones taken from the Town Walls
26. Where is the bronze statue of Charles II that used to stand on the old Tyne Bridge
27. In which year did 7000 out of 20000 inhabitants die in Newcastle and from which disease
28. Who made the 5,000 tons of iron used for the High Level Bridge
29. Which Bishop was murdered in Gateshead and in which year
30. What does Newcastle's motto mean - Fortiter Defendit Triumphans
31. When was the spire of St Mary's Cathedral erected
32. Where did John Wesley preach his first sermon in Newcastle
33. Jesmond Dene was gifted to Newcastle by whom and in which year
34. Who opened the RVI and in which year
35. Which famous sailor had a hobby o planting acorns
36. Who is known as Newcastle's "Dick Whittington"
37. What used to stand on St James' Park
38. Traditionally which is the oldest Church in Newcastle
39. Which triangular building was erected in 1838
40. In 1400 who would have guarded the Town Walls
41. When was Newcastle Central Station opened - to the public and then officially
42. Where was there a County within a County
43. Who is Clayton Street named after
44. Where was the Monastery of the Austin Friars
45. Where was Cale Cross located, what was it and where is it now
46. In which village is Richard Grainger buried
47. In which year did the Romans build a bridge across the Tyne at what is now Newcastle and what was it called
48. In which year and where did Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrate his carbon filament electric lamp
49. How many privies were there in Pipewellgate during 1843
50. Who are featured in stone on the front of the 1884 Gateshead Library
51. Who was the architect of the Gateshead Old Town Hall
52. Who presented the clock outside of Gateshead s Old Town Hall and what are they well known as
53. What is the distance covered in length by the Town Walls - to the nearest mile
54. What was Percy Street formerly named
55. Which Guild were associated with the Plummer Tower
56. In which years were there 'major' outbreaks of Cholera in Gateshead
57. Where does the Lort Burn rise
58. Name a bridge in the City Centre that is hidden from view
59. In which year were the Tyne River Police formed
60. Where was Butchers Bank and which Poet lived there
61. Name 5 hidden streams that run through Newcastle
62. What was the Newcastle Cloak
63. When was the Tyne Theatre opened
64. Who founded the Monastery of the Black Friars
65. Why is Black Gate so called
66. When did Newcastle return its first MPs
67. Which street in Newcastle was the first to be lit by oil lamps in 1736
68. What was the surname of Tommy on the Bridge.
69. When was The Grainger Market completed and how long did it take to build
71. What was a Newcastle Chaldron
72. Of which Greek order are the columns outside of the Theatre Royal
73. What was unusual about the opening of the New Tyne Bridge
74. Why is Balmbra's so called and what was its previous name
75. What was the weight of the Scottish Giant, William Campbell, Landlord of the Duke of Wellington
76. The Newcastle Liberal Club occupied a building on Pilgrim Street in the 1960's - which one
77. How many bells form the carillon at Newcastle Civic Centre
78. In which year did Newcastle become a City
79. Why is Pilgrim Street so named
80. Where is Paddy's Market and what was sold there
81. What was Garth Head built as
82. Where is the Crows Nest
83. In Westgate Road which business went from horse to car auctions
84. Which cemetery in Newcastle City Centre is hidden from public view
85. Where is John Dobson buried
86. Who was held prisoner at Anderson Place
87. Where did the Newcastle Society of Antiquarians have their museum until recent years
88. What is the name of the lodge at the eastern end of Regent Terrace in Gateshead
89. What was the fate of the Jesuit Priest John Ingram
90. What was the cause of the death of 9 children who died in Gateshead's Theatre Royal
91. Which part of the Barber Surgeons Hall at Manors is still in existence
92. Who was the Architect of the Old Assembly Rooms and where is he buried
93. Which School had premises in Charlotte Square
94. Who fully paid for the construction of St Georges Church in Jesmond
95. Which Wimbledon Lady Tennis player lived for a time in Jesmond
96. Name the first Cathedral in Newcastle
97. In which Newcastle building are there 'dusky maidens'
98. Whose name is inscribed on the outer stonework of Black Gate
99. To date how many pieces of Public Art has Gateshead Council commissioned
100. Who invented 'fast-acting effervescent fruit salts, used as an antacid and reliever of bloatedness ' in the 1850's and where did he live

[WilfBurnsFan]

45: Bottom of Side, a cabbage market, grounds of Blagdon (visible from road)
54: Sidgate
65: after an owner/lessee called Black

[WilfBurnsFan]

84: the Jewish Burial Ground, behind the bonded warehouse (Newcastle Lighting Centre as was) on Thornton/Waterloo St
85: Jesmond Old Cemetery
86: Charles Stuart, the Man of Blood
87: Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle University (or, before that, the Castle Keep)

[alf stone]

The answers to some of the Gateshead questions

4. Geordie Ridley was born in Gateshead and lived just off the High Street in what is now the William IV. He also died in Gateshead.

7. That would be King Charles I

8. Bottle Bank from botl meaning a settlement

21. Daniel Defoe reputedly lived in Hillgate for a time while he was writing Robinson Crusoe

29. Bishop William Walcher, I would have to look up the date.

56. The first outbreak of cholera was 1831 the year before the opening of the Dispensary. The other was about 20 years later but I don't know the year.

[Steve Ellwood]

Originally Posted by Steve Ellwood

To avoid this being a test of recognition, how about the following 100 questions covering Newcastle and Gateshead. Try to answer them without reference to Google and I'll post the answers in a couple of days

1. Who owned the first circulating library in Newcastle and where did it stand
2. Who is supposed to have given the Town Moor to the townsmen of Newcastle
3. What was the chief business of Newcastle during the reign of Edward III
4. Who wrote "Blaydon Races" and where did he live and die
5. What was the first play performed and when at the Old Theatre Royal
6. Who was the famous wood engraver who lived in Gateshead
7. Who was the King who journeyed down Bottle Bank at Gateshead
8. Why is Bottle Bank so named
9. Where in Newcastle was Lord Eldon brought up
10. Which street in Newcastle was the first in England to be lit by gas
11. Which year was the Keelmans Hospital built
12. Where was Hells Kitchen
13. In which year was the Holy Jesus Hospital built and who occupied it
14. Where in Newcastle is there a Court and Mayors Parlour
15. Which statue was proposed for the top of the Theatre Royal
16. What was the "Fiery Clock Face"
17. Where did D.G. Rossetti stay frequently and where did he paint the portrait of Mrs Leathart
18. Where in Newcastle did John Wesley live in 1745
19. Where was the One O'clock Gun fired in Newcastle
20. Where in Newcastle could you have seen the making of clogs
21. Which famous writer once lived in Gateshead
22. Who opened the Swing Bridge and when
23. Which building in Newcastle once served as a prison and was also advertised to let as a windmill
24. Where in Newcastle can you see a large scale model of the Tyne from Scotswood to the sea
25. Which Church is built from stones taken from the Town Walls
26. Where is the bronze statue of Charles II that used to stand on the old Tyne Bridge
27. In which year did 7000 out of 20000 inhabitants die in Newcastle and from which disease
28. Who made the 5,000 tons of iron used for the High Level Bridge
29. Which Bishop was murdered in Gateshead and in which year
30. What does Newcastle's motto mean - Fortiter Defendit Triumphans
31. When was the spire of St Mary's Cathedral erected
32. Where did John Wesley preach his first sermon in Newcastle
33. Jesmond Dene was gifted to Newcastle by whom and in which year
34. Who opened the RVI and in which year
35. Which famous sailor had a hobby o planting acorns
36. Who is known as Newcastle's "Dick Whittington"
37. What used to stand on St James' Park
38. Traditionally which is the oldest Church in Newcastle
39. Which triangular building was erected in 1838
40. In 1400 who would have guarded the Town Walls
41. When was Newcastle Central Station opened - to the public and then officially
42. Where was there a County within a County
43. Who is Clayton Street named after
44. Where was the Monastery of the Austin Friars
45. Where was Cale Cross located, what was it and where is it now
46. In which village is Richard Grainger buried
47. In which year did the Romans build a bridge across the Tyne at what is now Newcastle and what was it called
48. In which year and where did Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrate his carbon filament electric lamp
49. How many privies were there in Pipewellgate during 1843
50. Who are featured in stone on the front of the 1884 Gateshead Library
51. Who was the architect of the Gateshead Old Town Hall
52. Who presented the clock outside of Gateshead s Old Town Hall and what are they well known as
53. What is the distance covered in length by the Town Walls - to the nearest mile
54. What was Percy Street formerly named
55. Which Guild were associated with the Plummer Tower
56. In which years were there 'major' outbreaks of Cholera in Gateshead
57. Where does the Lort Burn rise
58. Name a bridge in the City Centre that is hidden from view
59. In which year were the Tyne River Police formed
60. Where was Butchers Bank and which Poet lived there
61. Name 5 hidden streams that run through Newcastle
62. What was the Newcastle Cloak
63. When was the Tyne Theatre opened
64. Who founded the Monastery of the Black Friars
65. Why is Black Gate so called
66. When did Newcastle return its first MPs
67. Which street in Newcastle was the first to be lit by oil lamps in 1736
68. What was the surname of Tommy on the Bridge.
69. When was The Grainger Market completed and how long did it take to build
71. What was a Newcastle Chaldron
72. Of which Greek order are the columns outside of the Theatre Royal
73. What was unusual about the opening of the New Tyne Bridge
74. Why is Balmbra's so called and what was its previous name
75. What was the weight of the Scottish Giant, William Campbell, Landlord of the Duke of Wellington
76. The Newcastle Liberal Club occupied a building on Pilgrim Street in the 1960's - which one
77. How many bells form the carillon at Newcastle Civic Centre
78. In which year did Newcastle become a City
79. Why is Pilgrim Street so named
80. Where is Paddy's Market and what was sold there
81. What was Garth Head built as
82. Where is the Crows Nest
83. In Westgate Road which business went from horse to car auctions
84. Which cemetery in Newcastle City Centre is hidden from public view
85. Where is John Dobson buried
86. Who was held prisoner at Anderson Place
87. Where did the Newcastle Society of Antiquarians have their museum until recent years
88. What is the name of the lodge at the eastern end of Regent Terrace in Gateshead
89. What was the fate of the Jesuit Priest John Ingram
90. What was the cause of the death of 9 children who died in Gateshead's Theatre Royal
91. Which part of the Barber Surgeons Hall at Manors is still in existence
92. Who was the Architect of the Old Assembly Rooms and where is he buried
93. Which School had premises in Charlotte Square
94. Who fully paid for the construction of St Georges Church in Jesmond
95. Which Wimbledon Lady Tennis player lived for a time in Jesmond
96. Name the first Cathedral in Newcastle
97. In which Newcastle building are there 'dusky maidens'
98. Whose name is inscribed on the outer stonework of Black Gate
99. To date how many pieces of Public Art has Gateshead Council commissioned
100. Who invented 'fast-acting effervescent fruit salts, used as an antacid and reliever of bloatedness ' in the 1850's and where did he live

Here are the answers:

Answers:

1. Joseph Barber, the book seller in Amen Corner - also the owner of Summerhill House.
2. Sir Adam de Athol Lord of Jesmond and Sheriff of Northumberland under King Richard II
3. The exporting of coal
4. Geordie Ridley - Gateshead
5. "The Way to Keep Him" - 21 January 1788
6. Thomas Bewick
7. Charles I in 1633 on his way to Scotland
8. Saxon for 'settlement'
9. Love Lane - John Scott who married Bessie Surtees
10. Moseley Street
11. 1701
12. Flying Horse - 39 Groat Market
13. 1701 and built to offer alms houses to Freemen and Freemen's widows.
14. Guildhall
15, Mrs Sarah Siddons
16. The clock on the tower at St Nicholas Cathedral Church - lit by gas on 5 December 1829
17. Number 4 St Thomas Crescent at the residence of Sir William Bell Scott
18. Orphan House Chapel in Northumberland Street
19. Top of Newcastle Keep and ceased 1879
20. Castle Stairs
21. William Defoe - 1710
22. There was no official opening but the first ship to pass was The Europa an Italian Ship 17 July 1876
23. Castle Keep
24. The Discovery Museum
25. St Ann's Church - City Road (Battlefield) in 1768
26. On the Guildhall Stairs
27. 1636 - Plaque
28. Hawk and Crawshay of Gateshead and Walker Works
29. Bishop Walcher - 1080
30. Triumphing by a brave defence
31. 1872
32. Milk Market
33. Lord Armstrong - 1883
34. King Edward VII - 1906
35. Admiral Lord Collingwood who hoped future oak trees would assist in the building of ships
36. Roger Thornton - came to Newcastle as a poor man and went on to become a wealthy merchant, Mayor and MP
37. St James' Chapel and Hospital
38. St Andrews, Newgate Street
39. Central Exchange Building
40. Each part of the Town inside of the Walls was divided into 24 wards and each had to provide citizens for guard duties
41. 1847 to the public and then officially by Queen Victoria in 1850
42. Castle Garth remained a part of Northumberland when Newcastle became a County by the Charter of King Henry IV in 1400
43. John Clayton Newcastle Town Clerk for 45 years
44. Manors
45. Bottom of Side, it was a water pant and is now at Blagdon Hall
46. Benwell
47. 120 A.D. - Pons Aelius
48. 1880 - Literary and Philosophical Society (Lit and Phil)
49. 3 shared by 2,000 inhabitants
50. Thomas Bewick and Archimedes
51. John Johnson
52. Walter Wilson - Grocers
53. 2 miles 239 yards - say 3 miles
54. Sidgate
55. Masons
56. 1831, 1849 and 1853
57. Leazes
58. High Bridge - Upper Dene Bridge
59. 1848
60. Renamed as Akienside Hill, bottom of Pilgrim Street and named after Mark Akenside
61. Lort Burn, Lam Burn, Skinner Burn, Erick Burn, Pandon Burn
62. A punishment that involved a barrel being worn by a male offender which he had to walk around the Town in as a penance
63. 25 September 1867
64. Peter Scott, Merchant and Mayor, invited the order in 1251
65. Patrick Black leased the building
66. Two members were elected in 1295
67. Pilgrim Street
68. Ferens
69. 22 October 1835 - 6 months
70. A measurement of coal - 53 cwt
71. Corinthian
73. It was not completed on the Gateshead side.
74. Named after the Manager John Balmbra and was The Wheatsheaf Inn
75. 53 stones - 336 kg
76. Alderman Fenwicks House
77. 25
78. 1882
79. Pilgrims passed through Newcastle on their way to visit a relic in Jesmond
80. Close to the Milk Market on Newcastle Quayside - second hand clothes were sold here
81. For working men from outside of the area - Industrial Dwellings
82. Haymarket - former Hotel
83. James Coopers - Coopers Motor Auctions
84. Jewish Cemetery in Waterloo Street
85. Jesmond Old Cemetery
86. King Charles I - 1646-1647
87. Black Gate
88. Lambton Lodge
89. Hung in Gateshead and then drawn and quartered
90. A child dropped a penny and looked for it by striking a match and causing a fire. Only one exit and that opened inwards
91. Gardeners House.
92. William Newton (1730-1798) - St Andrews Church
93. Royal Grammar School
94. Charles Mitchell
95. Muriel Robb
96. St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral
97. In Trinity House, Broad Chare - Mermaids are called by this name.
98. John Pickell 1636 who owned a pub in the Gate
99. 80
100. James Crossley Eno - Collingwood Street

[WilfBurnsFan]

79: according to a recent article in Archaeologia Aeliana*, the first records of the name of Pilgrim Street (Vicus Peregrinorum) dates from the mid-thirteenth century, and peregrinorum translates as 'travellers' or 'foreigners' rather than pilgrims; there is no record of pilgrimages to St Mary's Chapel at that period. The name probably means 'street or district of the foreigners'.

* Frank McCombie, 'The Possible Site of a Pilgrim's Inn, Newcastle upon Tyne', Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series vol 34 (2005)

[growly grace]

I was enjoying that quiz! I was taking my time, thinking about things.
First thing I want to know is the answer to 91 the gardener's house at the Barber Surgeons Hall : is there a photo?