manorpark

Not bamboozled (great word !!) just disappointed at what your choices of words and phrases tells me about your thought processes and categorisations of people. That's all - nipper !

"Rumours" seemed a very inappropriate word to use. Also "not many people are alive" is another strange phrase to use! Yes, obviously new people are born every day and there have been a lot of 'days' since 1969, but your choice of words betrays your odd thinking. While it is obvious that very quickly the number of new-born can become a larger percentage of the whole population than those born a while ago, It still is not correct to say that the smaller percentage are now to be described as "not many people are alive". That is just weird!

Not sure how winning the Fairs Cup could be a "rumour". We don't set up threads to discuss rumours over on Skyscraper City . . . https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/fairs-cup-newcastle-united-the-1969-fairs-cup-win-and-the-50th-anniversary-in-2019-etc.2177948/post-159296132

Why is it that 'people of a certain age' always think they are in some kind of automatic majority? The most obvious way of saying it (in fact the only real way) is simply to say "for some of us".

WRONG . . . SEE - https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/fairs-cup-newcastle-united-the-1969-fairs-cup-win-and-the-50th-anniversary-in-2019-etc.2177948/post-159296132

I agree, it is pretty shite. Why do the Yanks even call it "Football"??? Football is the main spectator sport in most of the major countries around the civilised world, yet the Yanks adopt a Rugby Game, and choose to call it "Football". Their Rugby game is . . . (1) Played to Rugby-style rules (scoring 'tries/touchdowns' etc) (2) Played with a Rugby shaped Ball. (3) Played with Rugby style 'goals' on a Rugby style pitch. (4) Played 95% with their HANDS ! Yet, they call it "FOOT"BALL !!!!!!!!

Yes indeed, which is in North Tyneside. BPV / The Ministry - on the other hand - is in Newcastle. Two separate places.

The railway line is the actual border between Newcastle (High Heaton) to the South, and North Tyneside (Longbenton Estate) to the North. The Ministry is located to the South of the Rail Line!

Yes, as I said above. In fact the railway station was actually built in that location because of the opening of the huge office complex we came to know as "The Ministry".

British Rail, actually !

Almost everyone calls it that, always have, always been wrong. It originally started because 'Longbenton' was the name of the rail station (now a Metro Station) that you got off at to go to the Ministry, and it eventually ended up that some people started calling the place itself 'Longbenton' too ! I don't think that will ever change, but it will not matter as everyone who works for HMRC there is moving into the City Centre soon, into 'Pilgrim Quarter', see attached . . .

Definitely, immediately, instantly . . . go directly to . . . S U N D E R L A N D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 'Ministry Site' where HMRC currently have their "Newcastle Regional Centre" at BPV (Benton Park View) is not in Longbenton - though it is very often "called" Longbenton. BPV is in the High Heaton area of Newcastle, whereas Longbenton is a housing estate in nearby North Tyneside.

We were, we were, there were 'a few others' (Whitley Mag was one) but we were in a much ridiculed minority back then. However, the future is ours !!!!

Not wishful thinking, just reality and common sense.