{"product_id":"newcastle-by-heart","title":"Howay Home: Newcastle By Heart, Local Secrets, Quiet Corners \u0026 Honest Stories from a Geordie Who Came Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Tyne Bridge is going green again.\u003c\/strong\u003e Half the scaffold came off the Newcastle tower this week and I stood outside the Guildhall like I had never seen it before. Two and a half years wrapped up. More than two thousand repairs they never budgeted for, nearly four thousand rivets swapped, and somewhere in the middle of all that, a scaffold hotel built on the Gateshead tower so the kittiwakes still had a ledge to come home to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was born in Heaton. I left for London in 2009 because that is where the job was, and I came back in 2023 because my mam's knees went and my dad is not a man who rings you and says the word help. For the first six months I felt like a tourist in my own accent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is what I did about that. Three years of walking the city back into myself, written down properly. It is for anyone who was born here, left here, came back here, or is standing on the Quayside right now wondering why this place gets under your skin the way it does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rootsand-routes.com\/cart\/57980162310526:1\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#1f3d2b;color:#ffffff;padding:16px 40px;border-radius:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;font-size:19px;\"\u003eGet the book  ·  £12.99\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003csmall\u003eInstant download. On your phone within a minute of paying.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat is actually in it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe birds nobody believes in.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ten miles from the sea and the furthest inland kittiwake colony in the world nests on the Tyne Bridge and the Baltic. When they leave, when they come back, and where to stand in March when they do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLook up on Amen Corner.\u003c\/strong\u003e The vampire rabbit behind the cathedral. Fangs, ears on backwards, nobody has ever properly explained it. Plus eleven more things you have walked under a hundred times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo miles under your feet.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Victoria Tunnel, an 1842 coal wagonway that became a shelter in the war, and how to get down there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wet Tuesday and no money.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Lit and Phil, the Crown Posada, the Free Trade Inn garden and the best seat for the bridges in the city. None of them will let you down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTommy's spot on the Swing Bridge.\u003c\/strong\u003e One particular place on the deck, the story of the blind beggar who worked it for forty years because neither town could move him on, and the exact time of morning to go and stand there. It is the last chapter and the one I am proudest of. It is not on the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/ncl-desc-spread.jpg?v=1788695855\" alt=\"A two page spread from the chapter about the man on the Swing Bridge\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:8px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Grainger Market after the nine million pound facelift.\u003c\/strong\u003e The stottie I will not buy anywhere else, the traders worth knowing, and what they did to the air raid shelters underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Great North Run from the pavement.\u003c\/strong\u003e Which side of the river to stand on, where the noise is, and where the runners actually need you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiving here now, honestly.\u003c\/strong\u003e Heaton, Jesmond, Gosforth, Byker, Sandyford, Ouseburn and out to the coast, written by someone who rented in London for fourteen years and knows exactly what an estate agent leaves out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCheat sheets.\u003c\/strong\u003e Every bridge in order with feeling, a Geordie glossary for the missus from Watford, the coast by Metro, and the walk I do when I need the city to feel like mine again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTwenty two chapters, sixty eight pages\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/ncl-desc-contents.jpg?v=1788695854\" alt=\"The full contents list, 68 pages and 22 chapters\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:8px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rootsand-routes.com\/cart\/57980162310526:1\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#1f3d2b;color:#ffffff;padding:16px 40px;border-radius:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;font-size:19px;\"\u003eHoway then  ·  £12.99\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWas £19.99.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWho it is for\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn and bred and think you know it all. Left for work twenty years ago and still get a lump in your throat at the Angel. Just moved here and cannot work out why everybody is so pleased to see you. Running the Run and want to understand what you are running over. It is written like a letter, not a listicle, and there is not a single line in it that reads like a tourist board wrote it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBuy it once\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/ncl-desc-updates.jpg?v=1788695854\" alt=\"Free updates for life, instant download, 68 page PDF\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:8px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePDF, instant download after checkout, reads on any phone, tablet or laptop, and prints if you would rather hold it. 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