Newcastle
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Newcastle upon Tyne, more commonly known as Newcastle, was a city in England. It was located in the North East region. (TV: Army of Ghosts [+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early history[[edit] | [edit source]]
While a slave in 64, Ian Chesterton tried to ingratiate himself to General Gaius Augustus Calaphilus by suggesting that the Roman "try building a great big wall from Carlisle to Newcastle" to keep the Scots out. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])
20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]
According to Imogen Quaye, the model of police boxes that were used extensively in London between the 1930s and 1960s, were first introduced in Newcastle in 1929. She identified the exterior of the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS as such. (PROSE: Artificial Intelligence [+]Loading...["Artificial Intelligence (short story)"])
Newcastle and other Tyneside regions were home to numerous shipyards, which offered regular work and good living conditions to ex-servicemen following World War II. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)"])
21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]
Connie Winter had tickets to a Kaiser Chiefs concert in 2004 but went to the wrong Newcastle. (AUDIO: A Perfect World [+]Loading...["A Perfect World (audio story)"])
In 2009, calls to the emergency services from Newcastle suggested that children were freezing. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"])
By 2011, the East Coast Line ran through Newcastle. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme [+]Loading...["Enter Wildthyme (novel)"])
Alternate timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]
In an alternate timeline, residents of Bristol with nowhere else to go were evacuated to Newcastle after the crash of the Dalek war saucer, including Bill Potts and Moira, where they lived with Angelo Rossi.
After Angelo was detained by the British government to "aid in their investigation" after the Prime Minister's assassination, Bill was sent to a military school for re-education a "long way away". Moira was taken in at the same time.
Bill later returned to Newcastle, now under the Unified Republic, with her fellow rebels, and visited her old home. She learned that Moira was one of the disappeared. (AUDIO: Emancipation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Emancipation of the Daleks (audio story)"])
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In the real world, residents of Newcastle are known as Geordies. However, this specific link with the Geordie accent and the city of Newcastle has not been made in the DWU.
The Go-Go's were a semi-professional group from Newcastle who released "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" just before Christmas in 1964.[1]
