Being a Geordie I hold our own National Anthem very dear and am proud to be one of the few of our breed who actually know all the words. I do have a blind spot as regards to the 4th verse and looked the song up on the site to remind myself. Imagine my horror when I not only found that the order of the 5th and 4th verses had been reversed but it read....

"We flew across the Tyne Bridge and into Blaydon toon" a geographical impossibility even given the new western by-pass which wasn't there in 1862.

Paradise is on Scotswood Road about a mile before the place the old "Chiney Bridge" or Chain Bridge used to stand until the 1960's.

There used to be in excess of 200 pubs in a three mile stretch of Scotswood Road including The Cushy Butterfield, The Forge Hammer, The Crooked Billet, The Gun, The Moulders' Arms, The Hydraulic Crane, The Truss (Deleval Arms) and the Robin Adair. These are the ones I actually drank in in the 70's and none of which are left now.