Fear 2 (project origin)

Fear 2 (project origin)

If you played the first game then you will be familiar with the storyline, F.E.A.R 2 continues its supernatural suspense story of the supernatural being, Alma, who is set to take on and replace reality with her own. You play a Delta Force operator,...Read more
Dragon Age Origins

Dragon Age Origins

BioWare’s latest offering is a dark fantasy on an epic scale with adult themes to match. What more could a RPG player ask for? If you’re a RPG fan then, yes, you would be right to think I was talking about Dragon Age! Hot of the press...Read more
HMS Terror: The Floating Arsenal

HMS Terror: The Floating Arsenal

1860 was the year ‘Port Mulgrave’ was launched. This was to be the first vessel, off the assembly lines so to speak, launched from the Howdon yard, which had been acquired by Palmers the year before, (1859) on the north bank of the Tyne....Read more
Risen

Risen

Are you an RPG fan? if so then I would surely recommend Risen. I have just finished the game working for the Don. I was going to replay the game working for the Inquisition but the final Boss does not rock my boat. (no one seems to make my type of...Read more
Palmer Memorial Hospital

Palmer Memorial Hospital

Born on November 3rd 1822, Sir Charles Mark Palmer a successful shipyard/steel company owner not only gave Jarrow much needed employment he was also responsible for the building of a much needed hospital. He was married three times. His first wife...Read more
Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden

Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden

] I feel another weird post coming on… Have you ever open your door to answer someone knocking and found it was not that long awaited parcel. Instead you find yourself face to face with two individuals preaching the bible. Well this happened yesterday to my wife. why she let them get her into a [...]

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God, Aliens and Flying Saucers

God, Aliens and Flying Saucers

For those of you who read my last post Train Of Thought you may remember I finished with closing the cage door. While I was writing that particular post I got to thinking If there is no God or afterlife then where do we go from here. My thoughts go back in time to the [...]

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A Bizarre Happening

A Bizarre Happening

I came across the following eerie story in an old newspaper clipping (Shields Gazette 2005). The story was wrapped around Boldon Colliery Pit. Boldon Colliery used to be a mining village in the North East of England. The village, more like a small town these days, is still there, but the mine workings were closed [...]

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Railway Street Station

Railway Street Station

The scene below shows further changes to Railway Street Station. gone are the old style buildings to be replaced by poorly built shelters. With more and more businesses sending goods by road the passenger and freight trains that operated out of the station slowly became redundant, reducing the need for manned stations with ticket offices. [...]

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Ormonde Street

Ormonde Street

Many photographs taken around the 19th century exists of Ormonde Street in Jarrow Tyne and Wear. Most all of them showing the view below. This street all those years ago was classed as the main shopping area and was always busy with shoppers. The scene below existed until it was demolished in the 1960′s. The [...]

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The Ben Lomond

The Ben Lomond

The Ben Lomond as it was known back in the 1930′s, was run as a residential hotel, it remained so until the 1970′s. The exterior of the building has never changed and is as grand a structure now as it was back in the 30′s. However, this did not go for the interior, sadly it [...]

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Election Fever

Do you remember the disaster for labour at the EU / Local Elections I did not know whether to laugh, or cry. Maybe Gordon Brown is not the right figure head for this country, but at the end of the day neither is any of the other parties, at this precise moment in time… Why [...]

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Economy Digital Bill

Well, it seems once again our internet is under siege by politicians (fools) who have no idea about web policy or even what WWW. stands for. If this Economy digital Bill l, that was started by a member of parliament who was thrown out of the Labour party 3 times, then brought back in by [...]

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Five A Day Fruit and Vegetables

Well I guess if you are not an astronaut who has been locked away in outer space for some considerable time or lost deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle then I am pretty sure you will have read or heard about the health benefits of eating five portions of fruit and veg a [...]

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Who’s Been Sleeping In Your Bed

Well I reckon that header opens the door for many topics. Could your partner, the love of your life, your one and only, be unknown to you of course, your long lost half-brother, half-sister, aunt, uncle, nephew etc. I do not know how marriage pans out in other countries, but here in England it seems [...]

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