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Don’t tell the university or police !!No being pedantic, but:
Just to correct you there is no such place as Northumbria. You went to South Tyneside, North Tyneside & Northumberland. Always annoys us people up here when they call it 'Northumbria' as it is just laziness.
It's never bothered me - native of 5½ decades now living in the northernmost part of the historic kingdom of Northumbria...Always annoys us people up here when they call it 'Northumbria' as it is just laziness.
Or Cragside House police, though I suspect this was a smelling auto correctDon’t tell the university or police !!
I was once told that Tyne Tees television was going to be called Tyne Wear And TeesThey had to call it Northumbria police, because when they amalgamated the old local forces in the 1974 changes, they swallowed up the old Northumberland Constabulary, along with Newcastle City Police, Gateshead Borough Police, some of Durham Constabulary and a couple of other areas.
Northumbria University will always be Newcastle Poly to me.
The Joke going around at the time of its inception was that the wanted to merge it with Newcastle University and call it - Combined University's of Newcastle upon Tyne, C.U.N.T., until someone realised what the acronym would be.
It did play an ident called "Three Rivers" (I think it's on YouTube).I was once told that Tyne Tees television was going to be called Tyne Wear And Tees
untill the some one realised what the Acronym would be.