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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

More marvellous Mayfield stories from author Cath Chegwidden

Firemen inspect a wrecked home in Sunnyside Street, Mayfield, after a jet ploughed into the back of the house in 1963. Below: Cath Chegwidden, author of 'Mighty Mayfield Then and Now, Book 2: Industry and Change'.

MOST Baby Boomers would remember the words to Joni Mitchell's tune, Big Yellow Taxi.

One of its key lyrics goes: 'Don't it always seem to go. That you don't know what you've got, till it's gone . . . They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.'

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