#northeast england

[georgefairbrother]

This is the fourth in our occasional series featuring luminaries of stage and screen with a strong personal and/or professional connection with Northeast England, inspired with thanks by @robbielewis. Previous profiles were of Jean Heywood, John Nightingale and Edward Wilson. This time, Sunderland born actor siblings Malcolm and Catherine Terris.

Malcolm Terris was born on January 11th, 1941, boarded at Barnard Castle School in County Durham, then worked as a cadet journalist at the Sunderland Echo before training as an actor.

He was active on British television from 1963, his style perfectly suited to larger than life characters, and is possibly best remembered for his role as Great War veteran and salt-of the-earth union leader, Matt Headley, in 34 episodes of the Tyneside interwar social-realism drama, When the Boat Comes In.

As Matt Headley, with James Bolam (Jack Ford) in When the Boat Comes In.

His more than 120 recorded screen credits include a variety of British television programmes, including Fall of Eagles, Doctor Who (Horns of Nimon, 1979), Reilly: Ace of Spies, three separate roles in Coronation Street, Our Friends in the North, The Bill, and a regular role in Rockliffe’s Babies. His final appearance was in Midsomer Murders in 2011.

His big screen appearances include as ship’s surgeon, with Anthony Hopkins as Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, in The Bounty (1984), with Ricky Tomlinson in Mike Bassett: England Manager, and in Dickie Attenborough’s Chaplin, which starred Robert Downey Jnr in the title role. He has also appeared on stage including in productions of Othello and in a Broadway production of Hamlet.

He passed away at the artistes residential care home, Denville Hall, on June 6th, 2020, aged 79.

Catherine Terris was born in 1948, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She has been active in British television since 1972, appearing with her brother in seven episodes of When the Boat Comes In. Her other television work includes Z Cars, two roles in Coronation Street, Anna Karenina, Inspector Morse, Dalziel and Pascoe, Heartbeat, George Gently, and a regular role (15 episodes) in William and Mary with Martin Clunes and Julie Graham. She also appeared in the hugely successful feature film, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

According to her page on the Coronation Street fan site, Corriepedia:

"...On stage she has appeared in productions of Faustus, A Rite Kwik Metal Tata, Andy Capp, Tight at the Back, Rose, Tom Jones, Billy Liar, Queuing for Everest and Into the Blue..."

Her most recent television screen credit is In the Club (BBC 2014-16) and latest big screen appearance was in the 2021 feature film, Martyrs Lane.

On stage with Sarah Gordy MBE (The A Word, Ralph and Katie) in the 2016 Arcola Theatre production of Into the Blue, written by Beverley Hancock and directed by Deborah Paige. Image from Sarah Gordy's official site.

#social history #working class history #tyne and wear #sunderland #british actors #british cinema #british television #british theatre #british culture #northeast england

[queenaeducan]

Views from the top of Cleadon Hills

#my stuff #uk photography #tyne and wear #northeast england

[thecrownnet]

Jan Mojto’s Beta Cinema has announced first pre-sales for feature film “The Offing,” which will star and is executive produced by Helena Bonham Carter. Jessica Hobbs, who won an Emmy Award for “The Crown,” directs the U.K.-set English-language project.

“The Offing,” based on a bestselling novel by Benjamin Myers, is set in North-East England, shortly after the war. (Variety)

#helena bonham carter #the crown netflix #the crown #the offing movie #the offing #benjamin myers #emmy award winning #female director #jessica hobbs #post world war ii #northeast england #the crown cast #thecrownnet #post war england #nostalgia

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

In Boston even the snowmen drink Dunkin’

#Boston #winter #dunkin donuts #Dunkin’ #snowmen #northeast #new england #massachusetts #massholes #snowman #snow

[starlet-sky]

Take a little walk with me 😺

#mine #me #youniverse #self #selfie #mountains #bucket hat #tiger #massachusetts #new england #mountain view #mountain #northeast USA #northeast #usa #energy #love #natural hair #no filter #brunette

[yeoldecryptid]

There needs to be an urban legend about The Boston Tunnel (some of you have got to know the one.)

#boston massachusetts #massachusetts #cryptid aesthetic #cryptid hunting #cryptidcore #urban life #urban legends #new england gothic #northeastern gothic #northeast gothic

[fallauween]

Sugar Hill, New Hampshire — by julesdenby

#sugar hill #new hampshire #new england #northeast #cabin #cabincore #Photography #Autumn #Autumn Aesthetic #Autumncore #Fall Aesthetic #Autumn Cozy #Fall Blog #Autumn Blog

[tennantloki]

dreaming of attending an old money new england liberal arts college, fantasizing/raving about elif batuman’s brutally accurate depiction of collegiate girlhood, looking up how to make the perfect rory gilmore-coded iced latte while listening to ultraviolence on repeat 📖

west coast & the other woman are my favs <3

#girlblogging #it girl #girblogger #tumblr girls #this is what makes us girls #2014 tumblr #coquette #dollette #just girly things #lana del rey #ultraviolence #the other woman #west coast #the idiot #elif batuman #lizzy grant #elizabeth woolridge grant #old money #new england #northeast #book quotations #annotations #books and reading #bookblr #coffee #rory gilmore #gilmore girls #chilton rory #latte #iced latte

[almost-correct-quotes]

nightmare blunt rotation

#wttt #welcome to the table #ben brainard #wttt northeast #wttt new england #wttsh #welcome to the statehouse

[lxvenderghost]

#i have a lot of photos but here are these for now #mine #my photos #nature #trees #new england #massachusetts #northeast #rural #rural gothic #new england gothic #americana #goth #gothic #cape cod

[chiropteracupola]

I only just saw the message, so I hope it's not too late for OC questions! I want to learn everything about your butch ghost highwaywoman. What's her (his? their?) favorite song?

WELL it does seem that the people wish to know about James and Kate!! and I do realize that I have quite the habit of not ever properly introducing What Goes On In The Exciting World Inside My Head -- perhaps it's time to get a little more specific about these two and what they get up to.

in this particular story, it's the force of external expectation that creates ghosts. places that you believe are haunted are haunted, people that you think should haunt do haunt. this is not necessarily a good thing.

so when an innkeeper drags the body of his highwayman lover down from the gallows and brings her home, a ghost is already beginning to be spun up, and with that step into the web of necromancy, that haunting just can't stop once it's got James's belief to power it. you think your ghost needs to be bound to their body? now you've got a mummified hand and a soupy corpse to take care of. and you think this ghost can act on her own terms and her own power, and that that stealing hand of hers still has got skill that now is certainly more than mortal? well, now you've got a situation where your best girl is incorporeal, visible only to you, and developing a tendency to crawl around on the ceiling just for the fun of it!

...in short, this is not something that really encourages business at the Sign of the Cross-Roads.

and in much the theme of the rest of their tale, Kate is something of a murder ballad enthusiast! here's her rendition of 'Willie's Fatal Visit,' a tune that might be a little more apt for their situation than either she or James yet know...

[haunted by your hand also has a playlist if you want to hear more jamesnkate tunes!]

#answers from the cupola #em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #haunted by your hand #the gambler: james webster #the highwayman: kate heriot #and a pronoun clarification in accordance with the first ask here - he/she for james and she for kate! #innkeeper+ghost is a type of duo of all time hehe yayyyyyy #and hey well if you're ever traveling in northeast england in the 1750s-60s and come across a small and ominous tavern...

[georgefairbrother]

This is the third in our occasional series featuring luminaries of stage and screen with a strong personal or professional connection with Northeast England, inspired by @robbielewis. Previous profiles were of John Nightingale and Edward Wilson. This time, Jean Heywood.

She was born Jean Murray, in Blyth, Northumberland, to a coalmining family, in 1921. She worked initially as a librarian, married mechanical engineer Roland Heywood in 1945 (they remained married until his death in 1996), and became involved in amateur theatre, finally turning professional only after her children had grown up.

Following work in repertory theatre, she made her television debut in 1968, but her breakout role was as family matriarch Bella Seaton in 39 episodes of the Tyneside Depression-era drama, When the Boat Comes In (1976-77).

In 1978, she had a leading role in the acclaimed BBC Play for Today, Our Day Out, written by Willy Russell and directed by Pedr James, in which she played a dedicated teacher at a tough, inner city Liverpool Comprehensive school, determined that her struggling students, resigned to the fate of becoming 'factory fodder' according to The Guardian, should at least have a nice time on a coach excursion to Wales. Our Day Out became one of the BBC’s most successful European exports, leading to a memorable headline in The Liverpool Echo.

In a 2015 interview with television historian and author, Oliver Crocker, Jean Heywood talked about the similarities between Bella Seaton and Mrs Alton, her character in the final season of the original All Creatures Great and Small (1990);

"...It’s sort of the character of the women in my early life… I never had any money when I was young and had to make do and mend and manage…So I didn’t have to search how to play that kind of character. People loved my character in (When the Boat Comes In), a working class, good woman, quiet but very strong and I think Mrs Alton was a similar character…"

"…Rehearsing is like playing a ball game, you throw a ball off the idea of your character that you’ve formed in your head, you keep throwing it in the air and nobody has received it back, until you go into the rehearsal studio where you throw the idea from inside your head to the other person, it comes back differently from how you’d imagined, so the character develops and works much more excitingly than what you had in your head..."

With James Bolam as Jack Ford, in When the Boat Comes In

Her television career spanned over 40 years and included appearances in War and Peace, Emmerdale Farm, Coronation Street, Family Affairs, Kavanagh QC, Boys from the Blackstuff, The Bill, Our Friends in the North, Heartbeat, Casualty and on the big screen in Billy Elliot.

Her final screen credit was in 2010, and she passed away in 2019, aged 98.

Sources include The Guardian, IMDb, and All Memories Great and Small by Oliver Crocker (Published by Devonfire Books)

#social history #working class history #northeast england #british culture #british actors #british television #bbc drama #jean heywood #when the boat comes in #play for today

[kyleheslop]

n i g h t f o g #night #fog #photography #photographysouls #abstract #photographyart #cinematographer #dop #streetlight #orangeandteal #fujifilm #x100f #fujifilmx100v #poeticrealism #newnaturalism #industrial #estate #newcastle #northeast #england #darkart #atmospheric https://www.instagram.com/p/CoewqozqVNT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#night #fog #photography #photographysouls #abstract #photographyart #cinematographer #dop #streetlight #orangeandteal #fujifilm #x100f #fujifilmx100v #poeticrealism #newnaturalism #industrial #estate #newcastle #northeast #england #darkart #atmospheric

[rumble-in-the-concrete-jungle]

Elmore, Vermont, May 2022

#photography #original photography #original photographers #vermont #film photography #new england #northeast #vt #elmore #state park #green #trees #nature #rural #country #summer #may #2022 #mountain #mountains #hiking #lake #swimming

[misery-has-no-company-now]

Heeelloo guyss I'm baaackkkk, pretend I wasn't gone all this time and take this headcannon from me now it's OG13 (and a few of the other older ones) angst -

BTW I suppose some of the topics in this - like references to abuse and eating disorders or food issues - could be triggering for some people so I'll just mention that over here itself just to let you leave if you don't want to continue reading [also let me know if there's anything else you want me to add to this list]

Okay, now that you're here, it's picture time!

(Pic is about the largest states by size from over here : https://www.worldatlas.com/geography/us-states-by-size.html)

In the top 10 smallest states, 7 of them were from the original 13 colonies. (And amongst these 10 was West Virginia). And if we take the 17 smallest, it's mostly either one of the og13, or one of the states that came from them - like Maine or Kentucky or even WV.

So I already have a hc that their heights are a representative of their land area, and based on this, what if the reason [most] the original 13 states are so short is because those who took care of them when they were younger (like England or the Netherlands when they were still colonies) either neglected feeding them while they were still growing or starved them on purpose as a punishment?

Take for example, Rhode Island (the shortest) and Massachusetts. Both were very rebellious back in the day, right? And they're also amongst the smallest ones in size.

England knew that while personifications might not need to eat as much as humans, and would not suffer death by starvation like their fellow mortals might; they still did need food, especially while they were younger - and it was easier to make them obedient to him if they were too weak to be otherwise. So what was the best way for him to make them unable to fight him back, as well as to teach them a lesson? By withdrawing their food. He wouldn't allow them to eat, and he'd just keep them locked up in a room with a strong, unbreakable door and no windows for long periods of time - till he decided he needed them for something. They would always be exhausted and too tired to challenge him for quite a while after that, so he was fully aware his plan worked.

This went on for ages until they managed to escape his hold and he could no longer stop them from rebelling; but by then the damage had been done to them (another hc - they can grow until they achieve statehood) and since they'd been malnourished for frequent bouts of time for so long, they hadn't been able to grow to the heights they should have actually been able to reach [like for example they could have ideally gained at least a few more centimetres based on how big their land was but thanks to England stunting their growth on purpose, they couldn't], hence now they're just shorter than all the other states that came after them.

States like Maine and Kentucky are only smaller since they came from the OG 13, meaning that for them, it's naturally based on the size of their area anyway. But they did manage to achieve their potential heights (like the maximum they could obtain) and weren't a bit shorter than what they should be. Moreover, Maine is taller than Mass for this very reason.

That's sort of why food isn't a priority for them...since they didn’t always get it even if it was there. I'd discussed this headcannon with @imkindanerdy as well so based on what she added about these states being very careful about food now; I feel like they would often just have something hidden in their rooms like packaged food, stuff that's easy to open or won't be missed, stuff that doesn't have a very obvious smell, things which don't expire easily, etc. - even if they don't always eat it. Many a times they will forget that they kept food deep inside their wardrobe or under their bed (since food is rarely ever on their minds), and it'll go bad; which makes them feel terrible but this is a habit they can't stop since not having something to hold on to should there ever be a time when they don't have food makes them highly anxious, and the thing is that they keep saving it for 'in case of an emergency, yet those emergencies never come. It's hard for them to relax if they don't know that there's always something to eat nearby, despite hardly ever actually eating it. It was ages before some of them stopped taking food from the dinner table and hiding it in their sleeves for later.

Some states that know what they went through, like VT, ME, or KY, often purposefully buy a ton of small pieces of packaged food so that these states can sometimes take a few and 'sneak' it to their rooms because that's better than them not eating anything at all on the days they're too scared and stuck thinking about the past to come down for a meal. Furthermore, this is how the eating disorders faced by some of the western states really affected them all a lot, which is also why they helped the west to a great extent during those times too.

Also, the fact that this wasn't at all in their hands, and the reason they're so small is because of England definitely isn't helped by the fact that the other states tease them a lot for their heights; but in typical NE fashion, the northeastern states just curse them out and do their best to ignore them, while the states in the South usually resort to replying with any and all of the southern insults they have accumulated over the years.

They all do their best to shrug it off, but that doesn't stop them from being hurt by this though, particularly on the days when the jokes hit them one after the other with all the force of the unaware states. Heck in fact, I'm willing to bet that after the Rhode Island Joins the Table meeting was one of the few rare times that Rhode Island was actually unable to even pretend to not cry - as is common of the Northeast states - since a bunch of such comments at once affected him so badly he just couldn't keep it in anymore and broke down once he was in his own room. Because it's not his fault he's so short he needs a booster seat. Because had England allowed him to eat just a bit more, he wouldn't need a step-stool to see over the kitchen counter. Despite this though, he just tends to use the fact that the other states remark on his height as an excuse to fight them, because that's the RI spirit in him.

Also, he freely uses his size to exploit the kids under 12 eat free option since they all always fake their ages whenever they need to make a new identity card [this is a hc that I'll talk about another day]. But only him. No one else gets to do this for him. One of the more miser states tried that once, and all he got was the living daylights beaten out of him plus a bigger check than what he would have had to pay if Rhodey just ate as an adult.

Anyway that's all I can think of right now, this came to me long back, I just finally got the inspiration to write it; since the fact that I already had this down in a bunch of messages made it easier to do. I can't promise I'll be active frequently again, but wttt hcs fill my brain whenever it's not busy being against me so er...yeah. Anyway, add on if you have anything more.

#tw abuse #tw eating issues #cw eating issues #eating disorder trigger warning #cw abuse #food issues #welcome to the table #wttt #wttt og13 #wttt northeast #wttt south #wttt massachusetts #wttt rhode island #wttt england #who's again a bitch #wttt kentucky #wttt maine #wttt west virginia #other states are considered as a part of this hc all together (as in the og13) but aren't actually mentioned here #wttt connecticut #wttt delaware #wttt georgia #wttt maryland #wttt new jersey #wttt new hampshire #wttt new york #wttt north carolina #wttt pennsylvania #wttt south carolina #wttt virginia

[unmarkedhelicopter]

Camp Hero base and radar, Montauk, NY

#I’m working on getting a bunch of old film developed #35mm #35 mm photography #35mm film #disposable film #camp hero #montauk #northeast gothic #new england gothic #autumn #cottagecore #abandoned buildings #liminal spaces #my photos