Guess who i picked up today?
Guess who i picked up today?
He comes from Newcastle.
I took him to Hoxton square..Hes recording a tribute song for sir Bobby Robson
with a few others.
I took him to Hoxton square..Hes recording a tribute song for sir Bobby Robson
with a few others.
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Re: Guess who i picked up today?
Paul Gascoignemrgnu1958 wrote:He comes from Newcastle.
I took him to Hoxton square..Hes recording a tribute song for sir Bobby Robson
with a few others.
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Billie -ninja
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Nick Bell - Entrepreneur
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George Bond - Eminent interior designer
Chaz Brenchley - Writer
Constance Briscoe - Judge and best-selling author
Sid Chaplin - Writer
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Carol Clewlow - Novelist. Her Woman's Guide to Adultery is set in Newcastle.
Catherine Cookson - once the worlds best selling author.
Joseph Conrad - Writer, served on Tyne colliers in 1878
Ian Cottage - Film director
Lucio Costa - Brazilian Architect, designed masterplan of Brasilia, grew up in Newcastle.
Joseph Cowen - Radical MP and newspaper owner
John Cunningham - Pastoral poet, dramatist, and stage actor
Richard Dawes - Classical scholar
Flavio de Carvalho - Brazilian Artist and Architect
Roger de Grey - Artist
Spencer de Grey - Architect, Head of design at Foster & Partners
John Dobson - Architect
Jonathan Edwards - Olympic champion
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John Meade Falkner - Head of Armstrongs and novelist (Moonfleet)
Terry Farrell - Eminent modern architect
João Cândido Felisberto - Brazilian sailor, leader of the 1910 Chibata Revolt
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James Louis Garvin - Influential newspaper editor
Paul Gascoigne - Footballer
Mrs Gaskell - Novelist
Giuseppe Garibaldi - revolutionary
Ingeborg Refling Hagen - Norwegian writer
Tony Harrison - Poet
Oliver Heaviside - Engineer, mathematician and physicist
Ralph Hedley - Realist painter
Arthur Henderson - Politician, founder of the modern Labour Party
Eva Ibbotson - Children's writer (Which Witch?)
Harold Jeffreys - Geologist, mathematician and astronomer
W. E. Johns - Adventure writer (Biggles)
Brian Johnson - Lead singer of (AC/DC)
Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits guitarist
John Knox - Scottish religious reformer
John Lilburne - Agitator, born in County Durham, grew up in Newcastle
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John Martin - Painter
Harriet Martineau - Writer and journalist
Mary Midgley - Philosopher
Charles Mitchell - Shipbuilder
Elizabeth Montagu - Coal owner and bluestocking
Alexei Mordashov - Russian Billionaire
Robert Morrison - First Protestant missionary in China.
Mo Mowlam - Politician
Sir Andrew Noble - Arms manufacturer and scientist
Paul Noble - Artist
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Charles Parsons - Engineer and inventor.
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William Thomas Stead - Journalist & Writer
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