Goes back deep into history and the English Civil War, tracing the black and white colours to a famous 17th-Century Cavalier, William Cavendish (1593-1676).
As Earl, and later, Duke of Newcastle, he had strong connections with Tyneside and Northumberland, which have remained in the region to this day.
The City still has a Cavendish Place, and large areas of the region were at one time owned by the family. Streets like Welbeck Road, Devonshire Place,
Portland Terrace and Bentinck Road have Cavendish connections, while the Earl also owned Ogle and Bothal castles in Northumberland.
The Cavendish heraldic crest of three white stags on a black background - the first black'n'white connection - was to be seen all over the North East.
When Civil war raged, Cavendish was of course very much a Royalist man. He raised a volunteer army on Tyneside, known as the Newcastle Whitecoats
and their black and white attire became very distinctive. Their white shirts, dark pants and hats, along with their black leather boots, belts and pouches looked the part.
They must indeed have looked like the very first Toon Army!
The Cavendish, and Whitecoats, colours of black and white continued in the region for many years and it is entirely probable that this is where Newcastle United's famous colours originated…
Goes back deep into history and the English Civil War, tracing the black and white colours to a famous 17th-Century Cavalier, William Cavendish (1593-1676).
As Earl, and later, Duke of Newcastle, he had strong connections with Tyneside and Northumberland, which have remained in the region to this day.
The City still has a Cavendish Place, and large areas of the region were at one time owned by the family. Streets like Welbeck Road, Devonshire Place,
Portland Terrace and Bentinck Road have Cavendish connections, while the Earl also owned Ogle and Bothal castles in Northumberland.
The Cavendish heraldic crest of three white stags on a black background - the first black'n'white connection - was to be seen all over the North East.
When Civil war raged, Cavendish was of course very much a Royalist man. He raised a volunteer army on Tyneside, known as the Newcastle Whitecoats
and their black and white attire became very distinctive. Their white shirts, dark pants and hats, along with their black leather boots, belts and pouches looked the part.
They must indeed have looked like the very first Toon Army!
The Cavendish, and Whitecoats, colours of black and white continued in the region for many years and it is entirely probable that this is where Newcastle United's famous colours originatedâ¦
Actually that is a not uncommon fallacy.
This view is only taken by a small number of people who inevitably are suffering from a deficiency of colour vision. Reference..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
You might as well say that Sunderland play in white shirts with red stripes..................
It's clearly just not true.
