Newcastle
About Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle, is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is England's northernmost city, located on the River Tyne's northern bank opposite Gateshead to the south. It is the most populous settlement in the Tyneside conurbation and North East England. The metropolitan borough had an estimated population of 320,605 in 2024.
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Do you know what the prize was in the first modern dog show, which was in 1859 in Newcastle? The prizes were all guns.
from 103: No Such Thing As A Boa Constructor, 2016-03-04 at 00:28:30 · read transcript
Other times Newcastle came up
To be fair, there were two separate editions. If you do search the newspaper archive for Carol singer shot, there were twice that that did happen in history, 30 years apart. One was in 1916 in Newcastle. There was a guy called John Nixon who shot someone who was Carol singing outside his house. Apparently they were kind of friends and they might have been, I think he might have owned a pub or he'd owned somewhere near a pub and they'd been drinking earlier that day and then they decided to Carol sing and then he decided to shoot them.
353: No Such Thing As Hans Gruber's Silent Night, 2020-12-24 · listen
Okay. It is worth digging holes on some beaches. Yeah. Specifically Folkestone Beach. Quite a long way for you guys to go in Newcastle, but if you are in Kent, there are still gold bars buried there. I've been to Folkestone Beach as a child. There are gold bars under the surface. Well, you and Iddy, you could have come away a millionaire. Not a millionaire, technically, but in 2014, so actually after you were a child, in 2014, an artist called Michael Seilstorfer buried £10,000 worth of gold bars there as an art installation.
552: No Such Thing As I Love I Love Lucy, 2024-10-10 · listen
Everything you've said I will have bid on it and to remember we were in Newcastle a few weeks ago and we were chatting to the night porter after after hours we were having a few drinks and he said that the boxer Chris Eubank Jr had been there the day before and he was outside and taking.
412: No Such Thing As A John Lennon Statue in Svalbard, 2022-02-04 · listen
He thought, let's make Sondland famous for always declaring first the vote. For international listeners, they always take about an hour and a half to count all the votes. It's very exciting because they win. Anyway, we mentioned that Newcastle then won in 2017 and 2019. That was because Bill Crawford had changed councils. He went to Newcastle and he masterminded their victory. That's amazing.
No Such Thing As A Sausage Cat, 2024-07-04 · listen
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103: No Such Thing As A Boa Constructor put 2 places on the map.
- Persia · Iran
Coordinates: 54.9783, -1.6178