Tyne and Wear HER(13291): Heaton, Kimberley Gardens, home of Sid Chaplin - Details
13291
Newcastle
Heaton, Kimberley Gardens, home of Sid Chaplin
Heaton
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Domestic
Dwelling
House
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Sid Chaplin 1916 - 1986. Home of the author Sid Chaplin. Formerly a pitman his acclaimed works about the North-East include 'The Thin Seam' and 'The Day of the Sardine'.
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Ben Smith, 2010, Newcastle Commemorative Plaques (unpublished Word document); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Chaplin; Jeremy Hawthorn (ed), 1984, "The Making of a Working-Class Writer - An Interview with Sid Chaplin", in The British Working-Class Novel in the Twentieth Century