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Why a group were singing Blaydon Races on the Cloth Market today - it wasn't for the match

Newcastle is no stranger to a match-day rendition of the Blaydon Races.

But one performance on Saturday had little to do with Newcastle playing Southampton at St James' Park.

A group of students gathered on the Cloth Market for a mass singalong of the Geordie folk classic on Saturday.

The choir See inside derelict Newcastle pub Balmbra's as students urge Geordies to help rekindle glory days - the starting point for the journey to the races which the song celebrates - for a documentary about Newcastle.

A mass sing along to the Blaydon Races outside Balmbras in the Cloth Market (newcastle chronicle)

Students from the University of Westminster are producing a documentary about Newcastle, partly inspired by the Blaydon Races.

One of the group - Ben Douglass - comes from Gateshead, and has said he hopes the film reignites Geordie pride.

See inside derelict Newcastle pub Balmbra's as students urge Geordies to help rekindle glory days

Why the Blaydon Races 'typo' in the Bigg Market is actually correct

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