brown plaque · England

Brown plaque № 7850

Blaydon Races Official racing started in 1861 on Blaydon Island which lay North of here. The song was written in 1862. From 1887 to 1914 the race course was on Stella Haugh, the site of the former power station.

Inscription drawn from imported open data, awaiting original TributeLegacy editorial.

Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

Nearby locations in England

W. Graham Robertson
Left of the entrance arch at the west end of Blaydon Shopping Centre
1 km away
Ryton Pinfold
stone encloure at the junction of Barmoor Lane and River Lane, Ryton Village
2.7 km away
William Shield
At the junction of Hood Street and Market Lane, Swalwell
3.1 km away
Emma Pit
south-east side of the B6317 road at Barmoor Ryton in the corner of a field next to the Ryton, Crawcrook and District Youth Centre
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Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

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