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 ...

THE Geordie anthem Blaydon Races has been sung in the North-East for 150 years, and now the song’s title will be thundering up and down the country on a train renamed in its honour. Former England and ...

“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 ...

A male runner has been taken to hospital after collapsing at the Blaydon race this Saturday. The name and age of the runner has not been revealed, but he was said to have been resuscitated after ...

The Blaydon Race 2025 is here as Monday, 9 June dawns, with thousands of runners gearing up to tackle the famous run through Newcastle and along the Scotswood Road. A series of Newcastle city centre ...

About 4,000 runners will be under starter's orders for one of Tyneside's oldest road races on Friday. The Blaydon Race is traditionally held on the same date every year and the famous anthem of the ...

George Ridley's "Blaydon Races" is as Geordie as Newcastle United; the Bigg Market; and T-shirts in winter. But the BBC programme 'Look North' want new words for the song to make it more "modern".

Regular north east winners Calum Johnson and Carl Avery came out on top of the men’s race over nearly six-miles while Sonia Samuels was a women’s section winner over junior Charlotte Dillon. It was ...

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