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The naming of the trenches themselves has been left largely to local enterprise. An observant person can tell, by a study of the numerous name-boards, which of his countrymen have been occupying the line during the past six months. "Grainger Street" and "Jesmond Dene" give direct evidence of "Canny N'castle." "Sherwood Avenue" and "Notts Forest" have a Midland flavour.
His benefactions to Newcastle were princely, and his public munificence was fit to rank with that of any philanthropist of his time." Princely, indeed, were his gifts to his native town, as the list of them will show; they embraced either large contributions to, or the entire gift of, Jesmond Dene, the Armstrong Park, the Lecture Theatre of the Literary and Philosophical Society, St.
Is there news abroad, may man wit?" "Ay, we had last night an holy palmer in our abbey," responded the Abbot, with a calmer brow. "He left us this morrow on his way to Jesmond. You wist, doubtless, that my Lord of York is departed?" "No, verily my Lord of York! Is yet any successor appointed?" "Ay, so 'tis said Father Neville, as men say."
Sir William Armstrong lives at Jesmond, just outside Newcastle, and at Elswick, west of the city, are the extensive workshops where are made the Armstrong guns. The great High Level bridge across the Tyne Valley, built by Stephenson, with a railway on top of a roadway, and one thousand three hundred and thirty-seven feet long, is one of the chief engineering works at Newcastle.
Many and various are the explanations that have been offered to account for its curious name, but the true one does not seem yet to have appeared. Pilgrim Street owes its name to the fact that it was the route of the pilgrims who came in great numbers to visit the little chapel or shrine of Our Lady of Jesmond, and St. Mary's Well.
In such a battered condition was it left that the parish Registers tell us that no baptism nor "sarmon" took place within its walls for a year . But a marriage took place, the persons wedded being Scots, who, we learn from the same authority, "would pay nothing to the Church." In the church is buried Sir Adam de Athol, Lord of Jesmond, and Mary, his wife.
Newcastle is not, as most southerners imagine, a dark and gloomy town of unrelieved bricks and mortar, for, besides possessing many wide and handsome streets, it has also several pretty parks, the most noteworthy being the beautiful Jesmond Dene, one of the late Lord Armstrong's magnificent gifts to his native town.
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