Newcastle - Northumbrian City

NEWCASTLE - NORTHUMBRIAN CITY Half-English, half-Scot: martial roots in the past, Newcastle - once dark from its coaly drama - A breathless place ever ready for change. Shudder at the Keep and Black Gate’s near defeat By the march of Victorian railway builders ; In narrow streets now widened, Shiver with winds from sea or moors. Tyne, father of this town Famed for guns and ships, Is o’erleaped by a platoon of steel bridges Grabbing the south bank, binding the city to England.