Newcastle United last won the League in April 1927. It was quite a month on Tyneside:
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Newcastle Brown Ale launched 🍺
Tyne Bridge begins to span river 🏗️
A quick thread 🧵
Newcastle United won the Football League for the fourth time in 1927.
Captain and centre-forward Hughie Gallacher—a brilliant but ultimately tragic wee Scot—scored 39 goals in 41 games.
Newcastle secured the League title with a draw at West Ham on 23 April.
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In the same month, April 1927, Newcastle Breweries launched a new beverage.
Sitting alongside the existing Newcastle Pale Ale and Mild Ale, it was called Newcastle Brown Ale.
"Entirely new," proclaimed ads. "You have tasted nothing quite the same as this before."
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Also in April 1927, after many months of foundation and approach work, the Tyne Bridge finally began to span the river.
Huge crowds watched the growing structure seemingly defy gravity as it reached out from each riverbank over the Tyne.
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Although the Tyne Bridge was a long way from being finished in April 1927, the North Mail published this sketch of what it would look like when it was completed.
The Tyne Bridge workers could toast their hard work - and Newcastle's League win - with a schooner of Brown Ale.
There's lots more about the Tyne Bridge (and NUFC and Brown Ale!) in my new book, available now from all good bookshops:
tynebridgebook.com
I'll be talking about the bridge at Books on Tyne:
booksontyne.co.uk/event/paul-brown/
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Paul Brown
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