South Shields Sanddancers Forum

Thanks to Jimmy, Bluey, Baldy & Co. for asking me to stay (I found me inbox and replied). I have things I must do for now, but I WILL BE BACK!

Till then,

Take care all,

J.D.

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So in that case - the history and the heritage of the people of South Shields only goes back to the 1920's/30's then? Well as she was born long before then, are you saying ... me Ganny didn't exist then?!! In your line of thinking then your ancestry doesn't go beyond Geordies. We are of course talk...

jane the Jacobites story is just getting back to king georges men story again, what i am saying is post a link on this site to a page from any website on the whole of the world wide web which contains billions of pages of historical info, just show me a copy of one original page that uses the term ...

Some'll be sayin "Thank the **** fo that!" :D So av already said me "Ta ras" on the 'Doon Toon' MB (cos this debate has spread across the two of them) so, in case av missed anybody oot who has only posted on here and not on there, "Ta ra to yis aal" Oops - just gorra po...

Blue Dave why do you think its called NORTHUMBERLAND. Its LAND NORTH of the HUMBER. Northumbria is just a fancy name invented by Sloane Rangers. :lol: A think that's what it is with the name sand dancers - it's people who fancy thasels as bein a bit diffrunt and want a swanky term for the place the...

baldy.smith wrote:Northumbria was a kingdom in years gone by. Northumberland is a county formed many years later.

If Northumberland is the land north of the Humber does that mean Scotland is or was in Northumberland?

It had it's boundaries.

Ta ra Baldy (no offence - just using your name).

Sorry memor but that was northumbria as opposed to northumberland which covers a far lesser area. That being said Jane Does explanations far outlast anyones actual interest in the subject I'd wager. :wink: "The name appears also in the titles of today's Northumbria Police (which covers Northum...

Thanks Jane Doe, you have obviously carried out a good deal of research into the subject. However a Rose, by any other name will still be a Rose, and a Sanddancer will remain a sanddancer :D What were Shields people before the 1920's then? And as Neil T pointed out on the other MB (the General MB):...

[quote="Jane Doe Also, I think that since the pit (my man was a pitman), shipyards and coal staithes closed down the younger people in Shields have lost touch with their Geordie heritage. (By younger I don't just mean teenagers & early 20's - I mean up to their 40's approx.) People from sh...

NeilT its not a pub i get in a lot as last time i was in there i found it a bit dear for a drink, as for the geordies v sanddancers thing, there is nothing to stop people saying that they are from the north east of england and therefore are from geordie land, but at the same time they can use the e...

"and of drinking in pubs and clubs with every layer of Shields society - I have only on 3 occasions in over 25 years heard the word "sanddancer" used" you must not get out a lot then neil as we do have a pub called THE SANDDANCER in the town and that has been there for a good fe...

Ouch - nice one Jimmy - you made me squirm after my very first post. Been there from around 1990 I would guess. Don't like the place myself though -sells food and too many bairns running around. However I don't really think it detracts from the point I was making - that is, how Shields people ident...

Hello - I browse this site (very) occasionally, but never thought I'd contribute until I came across this thread. Jane, I'm with you ... In 43 years of living (born and bred) in Shields - of working, and of drinking in pubs and clubs with every layer of Shields society - I have only on 3 occasions ...

Jane is right on this one, I use to work in Sunderland quite a while back now and when they found out you were from Shields you were labeled a sanddancer and I've got to say I did find it a derogatory insult. The fact is they were refering to the arab population in Shields, and that is how the term...

Each time it has been by a fundamentalist sunderland supporter who being too ashamed to embrace the wear and its culture Neither myself nor any mackems I know has any shame over embracing our wearside culture. If you want to talk about offensive remarks you should consider that one. As I pointed ou...

Jane Doe. It really does not matter what you're opinion on being called a sanddancer is. This is the undisputeable fact. You are one. P.S. To everyone else. Doesn't she go on? :wink: It is not an undisputeable fact - what were Shields people 'pre-open-air dances' on the beach? Geordies! I was born ...

I'm just setting the record straight. Setting precisely what record straight, Jane? Setting the record straight that it was me that started the debate over 'Doon Toon' v 'Doon Street' (over on the Doon Toon MB) as being a South Shields term for going into the town centre - not the person who was 't...

Although I have titled this post F.A.O. Baldy Smith, it is an open question really to anyone from South Shields who considers themselves to be Sanddancers instead of Geordies. If you are away on holiday somewhere, and someone asks what your accent is, would you reply "Sanddancer"? In other...

I personally have no problems being called a Sanddancer. It is a specific identity and these days everyone knows where you are from in you're a Sanddancer. Who is to say that the being called a Geordie didn't come about in similar circumstances, no one can really say; as there is much more controve...