Northumberland
About Northumberland
Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, on the border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumbria to the west, and the Scottish Borders council area to the north. The town of Blyth is the largest settlement. Northumberland is the northernmost county in England.
On the show — 13 mentions total
There's a game in 1280 at Allgham in Northumberland where a player was killed as a result of running against an opposing player's dagger. Not my fault, he ran into my dagger.
from 17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 at 00:20:39 · read transcript
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He was so popular. There is a cove in Chile, which is called Catella Donkin, because the crew had loved their Donkin tinned meat so much. We're talking about Donkin statues now and maybe there are some in Northumberland, but I've never, like he should be a national hero. He's completely forgotten. There was an amazing BBC article, it was really, really a long one, about his life and canned food, but Duncan is a huge part of it.
529: No Such Thing As A Badger Love Note, 2024-05-02 · listen
It's sort of because of that. Because it seems that it's the brainchild of one single man who did this. It's a guy called Bill Crawford. and he was head of elections at Sunderland Council in 1992. He thought let's make Sunderland famous for always declaring first the vote. For internationalist, they always take about an hour and a half to count all the votes and it's very exciting because they win.
538: No Such Thing As A Sausage Cat, 2024-07-04 · listen
Surely after this event there was remember remember the 5th of November the gunpowder plot and a couple of days after Thomas Percy was a fugitive he was involved in the conspiracy everyone was looking for him so he had connections in Northumberland, Cumberland and Yorkshire in the north of England and people thought that he might be sort of hiding out there so our hero John Lepton was sent to see if they could find him.
220: No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 · listen
There is a cove in Chile, which is called Kattela Duncan. Really? Because the crew had loved their donkin tinned meat so much. Where are our donking statues now? Maybe there are some in Northumberland, but I've never, like, he should be a national hero. He's completely forgotten. There was an amazing BBC article. It was really, really a long one about his life and canned food. Donkin is a huge part of it.
No Such Thing As A Badger Love Note, 2024-05-02 · listen
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