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	Blaydon Races - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaydon itself is a small town on Tyneside.
		The Blaydon Race is also a 5.7 mile athletics race from Newcastle to Blaydon that is steeped in local tradition.
		The actual race was the inspiration for Dr James Dewar of Blaydon harriers [1], who organised the first 24 starting in 1981.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blaydon_Races (702 words)

	The Blaydon Races by Geordie Ridley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The race meetings were held on an island in the middle of the Tyne.
		The last Blaydon race meeting was held on 2 September 1916, a riot broke out when a winning horse was disqualified, and the races were never held again.
		The last verse of the Blaydon Races refers to a heavy storm which occurred in 1862 that caused the Blaydon Races to be called off because the racecourse (on an island in the middle of the Tyne) became waterlogged.
	www.mg002b3988.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /blaydon.htm (686 words)

	Blaydon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blaydon (postally Blaydon on Tyne) is a town in the North East of England in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
		Its House of Commons constituency of Blaydon is held by MP David Anderson, elected in the general election of May 2005 after the retirement of John McWilliam.
		The Blaydon area is the origin of the well-known traditional song "Blaydon Races" and hosts a road running race every year on June 9.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blaydon (194 words)

	Newcastle University Library - Special Collections - Exhibitions - Dr Gibb, the Newcastle Infirmary and the Medical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Blaydon Races, which had been one of many annual race meetings held across the region, was immortalised by the song which was written and first performed five days before the races by a local entertainer, George Ridley in 1862.
		The races began as impromptu horse race meetings at Blaydon in the early 19th century.
		The Blaydon Race was resurrected in 1981 as a running race between Balmbra’s on the Bigg Market and Blaydon, a route of approx.
	www.ncl.ac.uk /library/specialcollections/exhibition_gibb_races.php (376 words)

	BBC - Tyne Features - Blaydon Races
		In 1862, an annual horse race meeting held in meadows alongside the River Tyne was commemorated in song by George Ridley.
		The race is started by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, using the handbell mentioned in the song, which is usually on display in the Laing art gallery.
		And the Bonny Blaydon Belle is selected to wear the Belle Sash during the race.
	www.bbc.co.uk /tyne/features/2003/06/blaydon_races.shtml (327 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Blaydon Races art saved for region
		A historic painting of the Blaydon Races has been saved for the North East after being put on sale at Sotheby's in London on Wednesday.
		The painting's popularity stems from the music hall song The Blaydon Races - still sung by crowds at Newcastle United home games - which describes a colourful bus journey from the city to the former racecourse on the outskirts of Gateshead in 1862.
		The song was written by entertainer Geordie Ridley and won iconic status for its rousing chorus and the drunken, eccentric characters it portrays from Victorian Tyneside.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2410135.stm (512 words)

	The Geordie Anthem
		After discovering recently that I shared my birthday with George Ridley, the music-hall artiste who wrote the Blaydon Races, I decided to delve into the history of the song, which is known everywhere as the Geordies' anthem.
		His lyrics were likely to have been based on stories from the previous year's race meeting, although the final verse "the rain it poured down all day an' made the grounds quite muddy" is a later addition describing conditions in 1862.
		In fact the storms were so bad that racing had to be delayed until the horses could be safely transported to the start.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/folk_music/102344/1 (594 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For example the race takes place on 9th June in accordance with the first line of the song "Aa went to Blaydon Races, Twas on the ninth of June".
		The race began with runners assembled at the public house 'Balmbras' in central Newcastle (just as the travellers did for the Blaydon Horse Races in 1862) giving a rousing rendition of ‘The Blaydon Races’.
		Finally, after all of the singing the race was started by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle using the actual hand bell mentioned in the song, and "away they gan alang Collingwood Street" on their way to “Scotswood Road and Scotswood Bridge“ to finish in Blaydon itself.
	www.entecuk.com /news06_24_f.html (294 words)

	Blaydon Race Info: Blaydon Race
		The Blaydon Races by Geordie Ridley - The Blaydon Races, first sung by Geordie Ridley back in 1862 at Balmbra's Music Hall, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne The Blaydon Races.
		The Blaydon Races, probably the best known of all the Geordie songs and sung at The last Blaydon race meeting was held on 2 September 1916, a...
		Blaydon Race : 9th June 2002 - Blaydon Race : 9th June 2002 115, 133, 189, 321] 758 pts 10: Blaydon Harriers.
	www.pages4u.co.uk /res_Blaydon+Race_10.php (304 words)

	Under Starter's Orders - Sotheby's To Hold First Sale At Their Olympia Saleroom Devoted To Horse Racing & Country ...
		Painted in 1903 by William C Irving (1866-1943), this spectacular oil painting was inspired by the song Blaydon Races - now considered as the Tyneside national anthem and is estimated to fetch £40,000-60,000.
		The fame of Blaydon Races, which was held on a circular course on Kings' Meadow island in the middle of the River Tyne, rests chiefly on the song written by Geordie Ridley - a Tyneside music hall singer.
		The race was an old fixture, but not recorded in the racing calendar, until 1864.
	www.equiworld.net /uk/ezine/1002/sothebys.htm (917 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Blaydon Races arrives at new home
		A painting of the Blaydon Races was bought by Tyneside museum bosses for more than £124,000 earlier this month.
		The 1903 William Irving painting was hung in its new base at the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead on Wednesday.
		The painting is based on the music hall song The Blaydon Races, which describes a colourful 1862 bus journey from Newcastle to the former racecourse in Gateshead.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2494915.stm (203 words)

	Local Heritage Initiative - Blaydon Races Heritage Trail
		The song 'Blaydon Races' was written in 1862 by Geordie Ridley of Gateshead.
		An exhibition in Blaydon of material produced for the trail.
		A week of activities in June 2004, celebrating the formation of the trail, as well as replicating the mixture of musical and sporting events that occurred during the races.
	www.lhi.org.uk /projects_directory/projects_by_region/north_east/newcastle_upon_tyne/blaydon_races_heritage_trail (209 words)

	The Life and Times of Coffee Johnny
		When Geordie Ridley recorded his presence at the 1862 race meeting at Blaydon he was already obviously a character well known to his audience.
		It was argued by John W Bilcliff (Note 5) that the cuddy reference could also have referred to the mysterious disappearance of a horse on its way to be shod where Coffee was suspected of being the culprit.
		In 1891 when I was eighteen I began to drive the landau and used to take the race stewards from Blaydon to the race course at Stella.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/DUR/Winlaton/Coffee.html (3399 words)

	sailpower.com
		Any one of four National 12 could have won the Blaydon Races Trophy but in the end Mark and Emma Simpson finished first in their newly acquired Aardvark boat.
		Tynemouth SC held its Blaydon Races at Newburn on Tyne on a blustery first Sunday in April (4).
		After a first lap covering more or less the normal course, the fleet raced up to Wylam and back, then completing a further round of the normal course before finishing after some two hours of energetic racing.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20040308113253Sailpower.html (275 words)

	Sailing news as it happens - Yachts and Yachting Online
		The strength of this current prevented Tynemouth SC from setting a full course from Newburn to Wylam for the 44th annual 'Blaydon Races' trophies for National Twelves, Enterprises and Lasers on Sunday 26th March.
		Tynemouth SC sailed the Blaydon Races upstream to Wylam in an evanescent Northerly zephyr and a fading flood tide, on Sunday February 6th.
		Tynemouth SC held its Blaydon Races at Newburn on Tyne on a blustery first Sunday in April (4th).
	www.yachtsandyachting.com /news/?article=20827 (678 words)

	South Shields
		Blaydon Races Aa went to Blaydon Races, 'twas on the ninth o' June,
		Away we went alaang Collingwood Street, that's on the road to Blaydon.
		Aa got two fl eyes an' a broken nose in ga'in to Blaydon Races.
	home.iprimus.com.au /shaka/southshields.html (1544 words)

	Blaydon Races 2005
		Opposite is a photograph of just some of the many Elswick Harriers who took part in this year's Blaydon Races.
		In the background amidst the gathering runners is Balmbras pub, the Cloth Market, the traditional starting point for the famous race.
		Below is a rundown of how all thirty-seven Elswick Harriers who took part in this years Blaydon Race fared.
	www.newnet.org.uk /elswickharriers/blayd_05.htm (85 words)

	HORSE RACING AND MUSIC by Phil Scowcroft MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The oldest English classic race in the St Leger, run at Doncaster since 1776; the September St Leger meeting was in former times an opportunity for musical celebration, notably a choral festival in 1787.
		Furthermore, that meeting was usually the signal for the town's Theatre to open its doors for an annual four to six week season, the programmes at which had a substantial musical content.
		The Derby was, and is, a great spectacle something the composer Alfred Reynolds and his librettist A P Herbert tried to exploit in their operetta Derby Day, produced at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith early in 1932.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Sept01/Horse_racing.htm (459 words)

	Blaydon Race 2005 Info: Blaydon Race 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bob Houston Organiser of the Jim Dewar Memorial Blaydon Race has informed us that the race is now...
		Blaydon Race Info Gallery Blaydon Race - Blaydon Race : 9th June 2005 - The 25th Nike Jim Dewar Blaydon Race : 9th June 2005.
		Race Results 2004 Race Results 2005 June 9th 2005.
	www.pages4u.co.uk /res_Blaydon+Race+2005_10.php (284 words)

	Literature Northeast
		The Blaydon Races Festival will this year be presenting Joseph Cowen - A Life and Times, a new play with Tyneside songs by Tom Kelly at St Joseph's Community Centre, Blaydon.
		This is the first play on the life of Joseph Cowen of Blaydon.
		Cowen is the seemingly forgotten man of nineteenth century politics and yet was described on his death by the New York Times as "one of the most extraordinary men in Europe".
	www.literaturenortheast.co.uk /news/NewsDetail-176 (153 words)

	NEWCASTLE Blaydon Races Ringtone, NEWCASTLE Blaydon Races Ringtones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	go-ringtones.co.uk /football/ringtones_nokia/newcastle_blaydon_races (91 words)

	Blaydon - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Blaydon" at HighBeam.
		Blaydon Race organiser dies at age of 69.(Sport)
		More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-blaydon.html (189 words)

	Newcastle Characters and performers
		of England and Scotland with a portable theatre and was found at fairs and races.
		Scatter was the first to record the Blaydon Races.
		The 1909 Jumbo recording of Blaydon Races made by Scatter is extant but
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/Vines/5863/eccentrics.html (2308 words)

	Blaydon Winlaton Chopwell and Highfield Pictures. The land of the geordies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Explore Blaydon and Winlaton and the surrounding area in the northeast of England
		Blaydon and Winlaton in the 1960s...New 19/03.2002 Winlaton.
		35 second Video of Blaydon town centre in the 1960s.
	www.blaydon.frankgillings.com (126 words)

	ARIZONA IRISH MUSIC SOCIETY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I went to Portadown Races, 'twas on the tenth of July,
		We wor Gawn alang the Garvaghy Road To see the Portadown Races.
		An' aw got two fl eyes an' a broken nose in gan te Portadown Races.
	www.azirishmusic.com /songs/p05.htm (305 words)

	The Session: Tunes - Blaydon Flats (reel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I play this as the 2nd tune in a set, starting with a slow air, then Blaydon Flats followed by John McNeils - a superb Western Highland reel.
		Whoever the originalsourcewas,it is most certainly a Tyneside tune.
		Blaydon Flats are alluviial meadows where the famous Blaydon Races used to be held.Now they are an industrial estate.
	www.thesession.org /tunes/display.php/2741 (492 words)

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		Download newcastle united the blaydon races polyphonic ringtone...
		To download Newcastle United The Blaydon Races polyphonic ringtone to your mobile.
		Uch as "Shearer, Shearer" and Toon related songs such as The Blaydon Races, Local Hero, Home Newcastle and Fog on the Tyne.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /ringtonnokia/newcastle-united-ringtones.html (675 words)

	Commemorative Plaques in Gateshead Borough
		On west side of the north pier of the Swing Brdge - at Quayside level.
		On south-easrt side of the B6317 road at Barmoor Ryton in the corner of a field next to the Ryton, Crawcrook and District Youth Centre.
		Previously situated on the now demolished Blaydon Races Hotel (Stella Staiths Hotel) which was just west of Caroline Terrace.
	www.bpears.org.uk /Misc/Gateshead_Plaques (1021 words)

	June 15 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Finaly the race began with the ringing of the Blaydon
		So it was a case of head down and off to Blaydon.
		See you all at next years 25th anniversary race.
	www.btinternet.com /~purvis/captain.june15_2004.htm (912 words)

	European Capital of Culture 2008, Shipping, Football and Music (E-Zine 92)
		The Blaydon Races will be celebrated this evening when a record 4,000 lads and lasses will be gannin alang the Scotswood Road in this year's Nike Blaydon Race.
		Entertainment before tonight's 23rd Blaydon race will include bands and can-can dancers.
		I'll begin this e-zine with the news that the Newcastle-Gateshead bid to be the 2008 European Capital of Culture came to an abrupt end last Wednesday morning when Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell declared Liverpool the "cultural beacon of the world".
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Cartimandua4/ezine92.htm (5351 words)

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