Generations of Tynesiders have used the phrase 'Paddy's Market' to describe a place or situation that is untidy or chaotic.
Back on September 7, 1915, one British soldier wrote to the Evening Chronicle describing the state of the World War I front line in those very terms. In less harrowing circumstances, how many parents over the years have chastised their children for having a bedroom resembling the infamous market?
Paddy's Market did exist in Newcastle - while Glasgow had a well-known market of the same name. Local newspapers from the turn of the last century also reveal there were Paddy's Markets in Ashington, Chester-le-Street, Stanley and elsewhere around the North East.
