Your Heritage: the Tyne is a Tyne Tees film from 1962 with a wonderful voiceover full of flowery language, and skilful accents and acting by Mike Neville. It’s full of nostalgia for me, as I remember much of this from my time in Newcastle a decade later. I thought it a fabulous place with a fabulous river…
Sad to tell you that Mike died 6 days ago aged 80 he was a part of life for many in the North East. and every one thought they new him. I was 18 years old in 1962 and life could be as grey as it was in the film, but I think it was a great time to be young!
What a performer! And a heck of a writer too. When I lived up there I was too busy with my course, rapper sword dancing and music to turn the telly on, but clearly I missed out on a few things…
Were you at Kings, Gavin? I was there from 1957 to 1961.
Yes, in a way. By 1974 they had changed the name!