Bill Quay Community Farm
Bill Quay Community Farm in eastern Gateshead is well worth a visit. It has chickens, pigs, goats, sheep and bees. It overlooks the Tyne and sits on a bit of green land between the urban centres of Gateshead and South Tyneside. I filmed this in August 2010 when I was at the Farm on a beekeepers' course
Checking the bee hives at Bill Quay Farm
We went on a beekeeping course at Bill Quay Farm, Gateshead, UK in preparation for getting a couple of hives. Our aim is to produce as much of our food as possible. During the course we checked out the hives. For more information on our attemtps to become self-sufficient visit self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com.
Welcome to Bill Quay Farm
Bill Quay CCFC 2010 Presentation Evening Video
Bill Quay CCFC 2010 Presentation Evening Video
Team Mates
Starring Paul 'Beno' Bentham & Adam Richardson
Bill Quay 1990 - Byker Grove
Scrapyard scene showing Swan Hunter's Cranes, Brack Terrace and Ken's (Bernard's shop).
I was surprised the old Chapel/Library is not present, does anyone know when it was demolished?
Dealing with a swarm of bees, August 2010
We went on a beekeepers' course at Bill Quay Community Farm in Gateshead in August 2010. In what was perfect timing, a swarm of bees gathered on the farm which need to be captured.
Lamb being born
A sheep giving birth at Bill Quay Farm, a local community farm.
Abandoned Clasper Village Estate, Gateshead, UK | Urbex
This is a first person POV walk around the Clasper Village estate in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. Built in the 1960s, Clasper Village was a model of modern living and design on the banks of the Tyne, sadly however this didn't seem to work out as planned.
Although 12,000 people remained on the council’s housing waiting list, leaders from Gateshead Council agreed to not carry out work on homes in Clasper Village and refused to fill properties as they became vacant.
The community and buildings in Clasper Village slowly started to decline and the Council pushed forward with their plans to regenerate the prime riverside location which is also minutes away from the A1 and Newcastle City Centre.
Gateshead Council said it would cost £3m to renovate the existing properties, but instead opted to rebuild the whole area at a cost of £2.9m, a saving £100k.
More info here:
STEM Redheugh Village (proposed new name for Clasper Village) - Design Brief :
Clasper Village Gateshead Council Cabinet Report:
Draft Clasper Village and The Teams Masterplan:
Families forced out in Clasper Village revamp -
Clasper Village demolition project approved:
Green light for housing plans on troubled Gateshead estate: About MrCoganTube
Hedley Hall Guest Accommodation, Gateshead
Hedley Hall Guest Accommodation, Hedley Lane, Nr Sunniside, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE16 5EH, England
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The Great Gildersleeve: Leila Returns / The Waterworks Breaks Down / Halloween Party
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.