Tyneside Poems - Poems about Tyneside

...They were strong men of steel In flat caps and hobnail boots, hunger pains all they could feel dressed in Sunday best suits, poor diet of potato and marrow no more ships, unemployment high ......Read the rest...

...These steep hills are part of me Where I learned to ride a bike And gazed over the industrial haze And ice-dammed the steep melting streets So the toy boat couldn’t Drift out of control downslope. ......Read the rest...

...TWO KIDS REMEMBERING There we were Next to the railtracks in the middle of the industrial heartland of 1950s Tyneside Martin and me Summer’s day and no money and no place to go exc......Read the rest...