Howling Winds
I was reminiscing to meinself(no other vecks apart from thou, oh my brothers would be interested in the slovos I govoreet) about how windy Kenton Bar Estate was, particularly when you were returning in the dead of the notchy after peeting away on ex in the Quarry or Duke or Peacock or Trap or Jubilee as we used to back in those glorious days and were staggering back homewards...this meant(from all of those pubs)... westwards...(there were no pubs to the west so that you could have returned due east with the howling wind on your back; only Leeches pond, the ruins and fields...so the wind was always on the litso and front part of the vonning plott) anyway, no sooner had you reached the border of Carsdale Road/Bromford Road and set foot on HartburnWalk/Studdon Walk then the westerly howling wind would always hit... AGGGGHHHHWOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!....blowing one's vonning plott off the sabogs near...this was due to 2 reasons:
a) Kenton Bar Estate apparently is the highest point in Newcastle...
b)The bungalows offered no protection to the horrible howling westerly winds as they were bungalows...AGGGGHHHHWOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!
the wind would come down over the top of the bungalows which ran west-east in the middle green normal zone...and indeed they channelled the wind into the like wind tunnel pedestrian walkways...
AGGGGHHHHWOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!
How we suffered...but stopping off to viddy through the fence the house that was a pub after battling through the elements made it all worthwhile...
What utter bollox - how about Cowgate or the west road - both UPHILL from Kenton Bar you oaf.
ReplyDeleteFor example - the junction of the A186 West Road and Weidner Road has an elevation above mean sea level of 120.624 meters whereas the Kenton Bar Pub (I refuse to call if the Crofter's Fucking Lodge) is only at approx 119.568 meters above mean sea level. I am sure there are more example......
ReplyDeletehttp://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-google-maps-find-altitude.htm
What if you were standing on the roof of a T1 up at the top?...
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ReplyDeleteI remember one particular place where the winds used to whip up the snow into a fine dust - Next to the bungalows where Phil Mackey used to live near the primary school - maybe the winds were channeled there for some reason but they were always the worst at that place.
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