| From the days of the Pharaohs they had carried their bricks and their mortar in hods on their heads or on their shoulders. |
| For the last 12 years Tyne and Wear HODS has been a joint effort between the councils of Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead and North and South Tyneside. |
| Nearer were men climbing up ladders with hods on their shoulders. |
| They used their backs as hods to carry mud, clasping their hands low down behind them and letting their companions load them up. |
| Success began to look not like an aurora, but like a solid structure built of bricks that must be carried in hods. |
| This made it one of the biggest and best HODS in the country. |
