Just a reminder for every one we have moved back to the Whitburn Lodge and meet on a Thursday from 8.00pm onwards. The Whitburn Lodge is situated about half way between South Shields and Sunderland.

Our Rock & Roll night is fast approaching. To be held at the WHITBURN LODGE on Saturday 9th October 2010 7.30pm onwards. Rock & Roll outfits optional. The Whitburn Lodge is situated on the Coast road half way between South Shields and Sunderland. FREE ENTRY.

A GREAT big THANKYOU to all who attended our event. It when,t off very well except for friday,s monsoon like deluges. Which threatened Friday nights entertainment.  But the gods smiled on us and the sun came out at tea time and remained with us the rest of the weekend.  I hope every one had a good time and look forward to seeing you all next  year. Pictures to follow !

Well its been and gone a great night was had by the majority of people. Cashback,s rendition of one or two songs was a bit iffy but generaly was pretty good. We live and learn. To the odd moaners I say at least we are trying to do some thing different. Instead of the usual A typical rockband and we are going to continue to carve our own path. So there!

We held a very successful event on saturday 28th of november.  A good turnout of Sellers and Buyers ensured this.  Bargains were to be had for early arrivals. Every one appeared to go home happy, if not a little FROZEN.

What a weekend. If you did,nt go you missed out.

 A North Men CV!! by Swiftly.

Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who speak one of the North Germanic languages as their native language. ("Norse", in particular, refers to the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic,Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.)

The meaning of Norseman was "people from the North" and was applied primarily to Nordic people originating from southern and central Scandinavia. They established states and settlements in areas which today are part of the Faroe Islands, England, Scotland, Wales, Iceland, Finland, Ireland, Russia, Italy, Canada, Greenland, France, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Germany.

Norse and Norsemen, are applied to the Scandinavian population of the period from the late 8th century to the 11th century. The term "Normans" was later primarily associated with the people of Norse origin in Normandie, France, assimilated into French culture and language. The term Norse-Gaels (Gall Goidel, Lit: foreign Gaelic) was used concerning the people of Norse descent in Ireland and Scotland who assimilated into the Gaelic culture.

Vikings has been a common term for Norsemen in the early medieval period, especially in connection with raids and monastic plundering made by Norsemen in Great Britain and Ireland. NORTHMEN was famously used in the prayer. A furore normannorum libera nos domine ("From the fury of the NORTHMEN deliver us, O Lord"), doubtfully attributed to monks of the English monasteries plundered by Viking Raids in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The NORTHMEN were also known as ASCOMANNI "ashmen", by the Germans, LOCHLANACH by the Irish and DENE (Danes) by the Anglo-Saxons. The Slavs, Arabs and the Byzantines knew them as the RUS` or RHOS, probably derived from various uses of rops-, ie "related to rowing", or derived from the area of Roslagen in east-central Sweden, where most of the Norsemen who visited the Slavic lands came from. Archaeologists and historians of today believe that these Scandinavian settlements in the slavic lands formed the names of the countries RUSSIA and BELARUS.

The Slavs and the Byzantines also called them VARANGIANS (voeringjar, meaning "sworn men"),and the Scandinavians bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors were known as the Varangian Guard.

From Swiftly
Article orginally from Wikipedia

Hi everyone,

We will be holding our first Camping weekend on the 28th to 30th August 2009.

Please see the attached word document in bike related info section below for further details.

We hope to see you all there

Happy New Year .

Hi,

   My name is Chris Pearce and I have  been tasked with attempting to set up a website for our newly formed bike club. I am new to this website malarkey so don,t expect miracles.

Just a little bit about the club. We are called The North Men , we are from the North East of England and were formed from the remains of a previous club split. We meet at the Whitburn Lodge in Whitburn at 8pm on Thursday nights. It is early days for us at the moment so watch this space!!!