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Hadrians Wall
Copyright Irv Graham

Ivvory body’s hord aboot Hadrians waal, but the truth of it has been twisted by time. Some say it was built to keep out the Picts but who in their right mind would go to all that expense just to keep a few bandits at bay. Well here’s the tale of it.
When Hadrian reached the Tyne valley he was so over come by its beauty his very words were ’I came, I saw, and I marvelled.’ Straightaway he schemed about ways to make money out of this little bit of heaven, and came up with the idea of building a waal reet around it, and charge folks te get in. The very first national park you might say. He was going to put two gates in the wall. The main gate or head gate. Which later became known, as Gateshead was to let the English through. The other gate, which later became known as Gallows gate, was to let the Scots through.
All was going to plan until the Jocks heard he was going to charge them to get in, they wor having non-of that, so trouble started.
After hanging a few Scots the Geordies went on strike. After all them and the Scots were mates.
What with the fighting, and the strikes the cost of the plan escalated, and the price of materials went out the window, so Hadrian abandoned his dream and went hyem. Honest.