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The Tyne
Copyright Irv Graham

Just mention the name of the river, and it will bring a tear to the eye of any wandering Geordie, but not many people knaas how it got its name. Well shut ye mooth and aah’ll tell ye.
Lang agan long before Parliament and such it was up to the king to make all the rules. So he would get the toon crier to let the people know when a gathering was going to take place so they could hear the newly enacted laws. Now there was a proper place for this assembly field, and it waas aal ways next to a river so the Toon army could hoy in any workytickets what might want cooled off.
Anything to do with Kings is aal ways accompanied with pomp and ceremony. Instead of just calling it the assembly field it had an official name. The Tynewould. When they built the moot hall the Tynewould became redundant. But part of the name stuck because of a young lass named Bessie Surtees
Young Bessie was after marrying a chap who hor parents disagreed with so she sneaked out the window to elope with him. One of the servants saw her and shouted ‘Hey what’s gannin aan’
Young Bessie replied ‘Gan aan hoy yer sel in the Tyn.’ The servant was reet shocked so he telt everyone who would listen. Soon the howl toon was awash with gossip, and that’s how the name The Tyne came into popular use Honest to hokey.