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Well a wide variety of celebrities and famous people from pop singers to politicians to writers and actors etc that come from Whitley Bay, South Shields, Durham, Gateshead, Washington, Hartlepool etc etc etc all ‘come from Newcastle’ according to their telly introductions or Wiki pages so if a whole load of locations can be in or part of somewhere then it makes sense that a load of locations that are part of or in a city can be determined to be outside it too.

I know it irritates NE people but you can bet your bottom dollar that it irks people form Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Hull and Dipton as well, when similar happens to them.
 

BiG said:
Well a wide variety of celebrities and famous people from pop singers to politicians to writers and actors etc that come from Whitley Bay, South Shields, Durham, Gateshead, Washington, Hartlepool etc etc etc all ‘come from Newcastle’ according to their telly introductions or Wiki pages so if a whole load of locations can be in or part of somewhere then it makes sense that a load of locations that are part of or in a city can be determined to be outside it too.

I know it irritates NE people but you can bet your bottom dollar that it irks people form Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Hull and Dipton as well, when similar happens to them.
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I doubt it happens on the same scale as here. There seems this agenda to portray Newcastle as some massive metropolis when in fact its a fairly average size city with the approximate population as Sunderland.

On the other hand an agenda to make Sunderland seem smaller than it actually is
 
1more said:
I doubt it happens on the same scale as here. There seems this agenda to portray Newcastle as some massive metropolis when in fact its a fairly average size city with the approximate population as Sunderland.

On the other hand an agenda to make Sunderland seem smaller than it actually is
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Always been the same. On the local news they usually say the suburb name followed by “in the East/West End of Newcastle”, as though it is like London, while as you say, suburbs of Sunderland are described as “near Sunderland”, or they don’t even mention that it is in Sunderland at all.
 
I've mentioned this before but it's worth repeating. My sister in laws husband down here in Portsmouth said his father was from newcastle, when I asked where exactly he said Chester-le-street. I told him that was near enough Sunderland not newcastle and when we were kids we'd get the bus from Sunderland to Chester-le-street and usually have to walk back to Sunderland following the river as we'd spend all our bus fares on sweets. He wouldn't believe me and said he'd check on a map when he got home.
 
Tuono said:
I've mentioned this before but it's worth repeating. My sister in laws husband down here in Portsmouth said his father was from newcastle, when I asked where exactly he said Chester-le-street. I told him that was near enough Sunderland not newcastle and when we were kids we'd get the bus from Sunderland to Chester-le-street and usually have to walk back to Sunderland following the river as we'd spend all our bus fares on sweets. He wouldn't believe me and said he'd check on a map when he got home.
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He just has to look on the river it's on FFS, how the f**k did his dad let him think that.
 
Tuono said:
I've mentioned this before but it's worth repeating. My sister in laws husband down here in Portsmouth said his father was from newcastle, when I asked where exactly he said Chester-le-street. I told him that was near enough Sunderland not newcastle and when we were kids we'd get the bus from Sunderland to Chester-le-street and usually have to walk back to Sunderland following the river as we'd spend all our bus fares on sweets. He wouldn't believe me and said he'd check on a map when he got home.
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Will e said:
He just has to look on the river it's on FFS, how the f**k did his dad let him think that.
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I really can't believe anywhere else in the country wouldn't be proud of where they come from a say they come from a different place. Just say Chester-le-street Co.Durham
 
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Will e said:
He just has to look on the river it's on FFS, how the f**k did his dad let him think that.
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He swore blind Chester-le-street was closer to newcastle than Sunderland which is why I told him we used to walk it from my home in Sunderland. He hasn't mentioned it since even though I sometimes wear a Crocodillo Nightclub Chester-le-street T-shirt just to get him to react.
 
1more said:
I doubt it happens on the same scale as here. There seems this agenda to portray Newcastle as some massive metropolis when in fact its a fairly average size city with the approximate population as Sunderland.

On the other hand an agenda to make Sunderland seem smaller than it actually is
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Southern based media ,historic laziness
" keep it simple for people who think Watford is North " .
Also with property they'll lump it in the highest value area .
House in hawthorne for sale " Near to Seaton " where the the Old mega bucks kips are .
 
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I get it a lot down here. I'll get asked where I'm from, I'll tell them Sunderland and it'll be, oh my father/grandfather etc comes from newcastle. I always ask which part and it'll be somewhere like Gateshead, South Shields, Hexham etc. I had one about 6 months ago who's father was from newcastle, when I asked where he said Cowpen! Now I happened to know where Cowpen is because some of my ancestors came from there a few generations ago, it's up between Blyth and Bedlington.
 
Lord Potts said:
It wasn't part of Sunderland until just after WWI. It had it's own town council and the old youth project building on Southwick Road (also formally a NHS clinic) used to be Southwick Town Hall.

As I kid I remember that at the junction of Church Bank and Southwick Road there used to be a and old fashioned road sign pointing towards "Sunderland". I also remember Castletown being and isolated pit village at the bottom of a steep bank - I am sure that it was then the only road in and out .

Of course they have both been inner city for many years now. Certainly since Hylton Castle and Red House estates were built in the 1950's and then Town End Farm in the early 60's. You would have to be over 100 to still think of Southwick being on the outskirts
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Parts of Castletown still has an isolated pit village feel about it 😀
 
Tuono said:
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He swore blind Chester-le-street was closer to newcastle than Sunderland which is why I told him we used to walk it from my home in Sunderland. He hasn't mentioned it since even though I sometimes wear a Crocodillo Nightclub Chester-le-street T-shirt just to get him to react.
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It is closer. It's 10miles to Newcastle and 12 to Sunderland.
 
SydneyFan said:
It is closer. It's 10miles to Newcastle and 12 to Sunderland.
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That might be true if you're going by the centre of the city centres on Google maps.

To get from CLS to somewhere like Rhyope must be about 7 miles. Some areas of Sunderland probably even closer.
 
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