Pre-80's inhabitants of Houghton and especially Washington had more allegiance with Newcastle and would consider being labelled a Mackam as derogatory.
Pre-80's inhabitants of Houghton and especially Washington had more allegiance with Newcastle and would consider being labelled a Mackam as derogatory.
Did they bollocks !
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Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Without looking, I am sure you can log in and edit a page, anyones page ? One of the kids I worked with, edited her schools page and called the head teacher worse than shite
I'm not too concerned about editing the text, just wanted to highlight that at least that section of text is disputed.
AFAIK the term was used more regularly to distinguish us from the Geordie Nation. I don't want to go into a massive debate but IMHO the wiki page is a heap of shoite.