Lord Mayor's Camp
There's a lovely article in the Morpeth Herald in 1947 when someone stole curtains from the concert hall in the Lord Mayor's Camp. The camp belonged to Newcastle under the auspices of the Lord Mayor's Camp Committee, Town Hall, Newcastle.
The chairman of the magistrates said "It is a very mean trick to have stolen from the Lord Mayor's Camp, where people go for health and enjoyment."
I would guess that the camp might have been established in the 1930s to get children/adults out of the poorer parts of the Toon, but I'll bow to the pre Great War probability.
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