Quotes About Tyne

When Tyne dropped into an armchair opposite us his bony knees V'ed out, providing an all-to-clear view of Mr. Happy and the Bong Bongs.

I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a council estate that overlooked the Tyne and I went to the same junior school as Paul Gascoigne, of whom I have a vague memory.

What idea have the south-country people of the Tyne? The truth is any object nearly 300 miles distant is not only entirely out of range of metropolitan sympathy, but pretty nearly out of the confines of metropolitan knowledge. To thousands and thousands the tune is barley a sound; it conveys no ideas.

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then.