Durham Town

[kraggash]

I met rodger in 1976 and he sang this for me.

[kencokey]

great video and Durham is a beautiful city, lots of greenery and historic buildings.

[tommy3lions]

Town, we've never been a town, we're a city , we have a cathedral to prove it. Our postal address is Durham city not Durham Town, C'mon Rodg, lets have another song written for Durham and please try and include Gilesgate in there mate :-)

[facemac91]

Beautiful song and slide show.

[04d0461]

fuck durham

[RPLAsquith]

Beautiful song!

[IrinaPanovf]

Nice song and beautiful images!

[mandscat]

Durham is a city - not a town ha ha

[ThePeacemaker08]

@mandscat well, back then it was maybe a town ^^

[HonestMan395]

@ThePeacemaker08 Durham has always been a city since the time of the Normans

[Revan767]

i used to like in durham now i live australia

[HonestMan395]

@Revan767 I lived in Australia, now I live back in Durham

[Lise2802]

@HonestMan395 was it really cold when you got back? I'm in Queensland now, and its SO HOT!!! not sure how i'm gonna feel when i return home to durham!

[RodCow]

Never been a fan ofthe song but I love these pics of me hometown.

[moodindigo22]

try Vennels cafe....on way to cathedral. ..on right ..up a narrow entrance....

[HonestMan395]

@moodindigo22 The Vennels cafe is good, but the cheese scones in the Gala theatre are to die for. :)

[missdamefine]

My mum likes this song, i grow up with this, lucky shes still here to play it. ;Love you mum xxx

[MrB24174]

Cool, having a father born in Durham, Hartlepool. Very proud he was too.......

[Thumbobby]

Just one small point; DURHAM IS A CITY!!

[Lise2802]

@Thumbobby actually... durhams a County... 

[HonestMan395]

@Lise2802 Actually Both the City and County are called Durham.

[Lise2802]

@HonestMan395 yeah i know ;)

[FREEARAB4EVER]

I had the greatest memories ever in this Town, everyone there knew me...the best place ever on Earth. quite, serene, friendly.....love you Durham...:( I'm gonna leave o'Durham Town...:~(n Lve you Zu'bi Al-Zu'bi...:(

[MsMelina1]

I did my Msc there... It's a magic, small, picturesque, historic town. Lovely memories...

[MrB24174]

My father used to love this song, having grown up in Durham prior to the war. RIP Dad x

[05271963]

Click on my link & hear FRENZY & All4one...Thnx

[kelpatrick1]

Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne? In Durham it's the river wear, to sit on the banks of the Tyne you'd have to drive for half an hour to Newcastle or gateshead....nice tune though if badly researched!

[whirlpoolzend]

@kelpatrick1 Yes you’re quite right the River Wear runs through Durham, but had you considered that the song writer may have also ventured to Newcastle or Gateshead (or indeed Sunderland) to watch the 'ships going down the line'?

I guess this had more to do with Tyne rhyming with time and line! ;)

[thegreatgumburto]

@whirlpoolzend Sunderland? The Tyne? You losey Di Plotti?

[whirlpoolzend]

@thegreatgumburto Ha, thanks for your concern... na, my simple implication was that the song writer may have been in possession of a mode of transport which could take him to different rhyming rivers in the district.

Where would the world be without us pedants? :)

[david128122]

@thegreatgumburto Yes sunderland is in County Durham and so is the Tyne

[HonestMan395]

@david128122 I was born in Sunderland. When I was young, Sunderland was in Co.Durham, but for a long time now, it has been in the county of Tyne & Wear.

I'm now lucky enough to live in the City of Durham.

Contrary to what the song implies, Durham is not on the river Tyne. It is firmly on the River Wear about 15 miles away from the Tyne.

Lovely song though.

[nylonTS]

@whirlpoolzend I would just like to explaine why he sings about the river Tyne Before the Late 1960 the County Border between Durham and Northumbland was the River Tyne

Its now called Tyne Wear an awfull name but that progress

[whirlpoolzend]

@nylonTS "Tyne Wear"... now that must've been decided by committee?

[broadoak2006]

great photos and song

[venom462]

born and bred durhamer

[dfcvda]

my ancestors came from there even though we are long since Sussex people

[loukanika]

County Durham is a ceremonial county and (smaller) unitary district in North East England. The county town is Durham

The ceremonial county borders Tyne and Wear, North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland and forms part of the North East England region, proud to say I was born there , wonderful place.

[zeebo296]

Where is it? Scotland?

[ftmb73]

@zeebo296 dick head

[TheDurhamranger]

daviebabe123 hope this was posted tongue-in-cheek, if not you really are some kind of idiot. The rivers have not changed their name in at least a thousand years

[steelbanktrucker]

Aye - Wins the prize for the most drug induced comment I've ever read on You Tube.

Mind you, old Roger was a bit geographically challenged anyway - Not only is it situated on the River Wear, Durham's never been a town - Its a Cathedral city.

Beautiful song nevertheless

[noushitaisa]

@steelbanktrucker

Beautiful song nevertheless. So true,

the daftness about the River Tyne -- so what?

[steelbanktrucker]

@noushitaisa

Mine was merely a reply to daviebabe123's nonsense about the river Wear changing its name from the Tyne in 1982.

[daviebabe123]

actualy ben get ur facts right back in the time he wrote and sung this the river was actualy called river tyne it only changed its name in 1982

[bigbustyboop]

lolol sponge

[detain88888]

i just love the melody makes you want to play it again and again.

[shellybear12]

Makes me homesick for Durham... Loved it there, Thanks for posting

[BedBugAcres]

Love and sorrow, a potent mix, very powerful in this song.

[spongebobfanantic]

I live in Durham!!! Go me!!!

[Passionbandit]

Ben? Who cares, its just a song, a beautiful one at that.

[ben51ovi]

The only thing is the line "When I was a boy I spent my time

Sitting on the banks of the River Tyne.

This is factually incorrect, as it's the River Wear in Durham.

The Tyne runs through Newcastle - about 20 miles away.

Both lovely cities though.

[photobr3t]

no i think he means when his dad left for the ww2 he sat on the banks of the tyne to whach his dad go to war

[BeatlesChick1972]

I live just by Durham and Roger Whittaker once came to our Youth Club many years back and sang this. Great memories of us all singing along with him.

Beautiful town, magnificent Cathedral too.

[jadethehappymonkey]

this song reminds mw of when i was little with my papa ( im 12) makes em cry!

[iusedtobethere]

Grew up listening to this when I was in intermediate school (11 years old) in New Zealand...such wonderful memories. Nice to see pictures of Durham. Where is that? Is it in England, Ireland, Scotland?

[deanyorks]

It's in the north-east of England mate. Not far from me. Lovely place. Lovely people.

[Lise2802]

@iusedtobethere its in the north east of england. I used to live here and now live in New Zealand!

[david128122]

@Lise2802 To correct you it is not Nortrh east it is seperate I lived in Brandon 4 Miles or 3 from the DLI i was born neer it at the Hospital in 1999 but North east is only like Northumberland where i live in Blyth but North east is more geordie not Civilized

[Lise2802]

@david128122 Dude, I grew up there. I think I know exactly where It is. I haven't been out of there long tbh. yes i know where Brandon is and you are 11?! My youngest brother is older than you mate. When you do geography at big school you'll learn alot!

[shirls2]

Yes my mum and dad loved this song they played it all the time i love it there both together now in heaven ,R.I.P. mum and dad love Shirlsxx

[tom19560000000000000]

My dear old dad loved this guy and I guess it just passed on to me. This song has such happy memories, Bless you dad.

[tomw362]

Nice pics. Nice town.

[chrisas121]

sad but nice song

[scubawrestler]

Such a mellow and yet melancholy sweet song. I've loved it for as long as I can remember.

[Delticola]

The flute in the beginning of this song is incredible. I'd like some footage, I guess Roger Whittaker played the flute as well? Or was it someone else?

[zorbaengland]

best of the best:)

[shirls2]

A Brilliant song And a Brilliant Singer A nd Great Pictures love Shirlsxx

[deanyorks]

I love Durham! Lovely place