“Gannin’ alang the Scotswood Road to see the Blaydon Races,” doesn’t mean much to most folks in Dorchester. But for an 89-year-old dementia patient who lives there, the folk song provoked a flash of ...

The Blaydon Races is an iconic Geordie anthem most of us will have sung at some point in our lives. Written by Gateshead-born music hall performer George Ridley, the tune immortalised a fictitious ...

I went to Blaydon Races, ‘twas on the ninth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, on a summer’s afternoon... All of which refers to fabled events which took place on this day 155 years ago. If ...