Well that’s not surprising as loads of Welsh in Hebburn due to the Chemical works just like Scots due to Leslie’s yard.

My Great Grandparents were from Swansea and Port Talbot area and they both spoke Welsh until they had to speak English for work and then as the 7 children grew up more so.

Geordie is a mixture of at least 4 language's and varied according to where you lived or your family had lived.

I’ve found when away in France meeting English folk they know that I’m from the NE but where about they ask.

There was so many variations in the way people talked when I was young. Mums sister moved to Grangetown and then back after some years her dialect had changed.

In about 1963 I went to Wales with the Senior Scouts.

They mixed us all up and in the patrol that I was in there was me a Geordie, a Cockney, 2 from Oxford and 2 German lads.

At the end of 2 weeks we talked a mixed version of English that all understood. It was remarked on when I got home and it took some months to revert back to something like before.

Geordie dialect will have changed over the years as people moved around. It always varied going from the West of Newcastle down to the Tyne entrance.

Probably the biggest changes were due to the Armstrong works in Scotswood and Elswick areas.

We have lived in the Harrogate area for 50 years and lost a lot of our accent but it’s still there and when we spend a few weeks with family from Hebburn a lot comes back.

Not thought about it before but the family that we spend a lot of time with talk a slightly different accent to us as they are from a different part of Hebburn.

Allan C.