Oct. 11 - A meeting of the inhabitants of Newcastle and neighbourhood, to deliberate on the outrage at Manchester, was held on the Town Moor, near Newcastle, and was most numerously attended. In the early part of the forenoon, the reform societies of Benwell and Fawdon arrived in town, and proceeded to join the Newcastle society assembling in the Castle Garth. At half past eleven, the reform societies of Winlaton, Gateshead, North and South Shields, Sunderland, and the Eastern part of Newcastle district, passed through the town. When this immensely long line arrived at the head of Northumberland street, it halted, until the party which had assembled in the Castle Garth, and which did not leave its station till 12 o'clock, passed by it, and took its place at the head of the procession, which then moved to the Moor....

From: T Fordyce, J. Sykes. Local records; or, Historical register of remarkable events which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed..., published 1867

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