The Storytellers

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The Storytellers

My life through a lens: Owen Humphries

Owen Humphries’ journey into press photography started while he was still at school and got a job as Saturday tea-boy at the Derby Evening Telegraph. “I soon moved into the dark room, back in the days of film,” he recalls. “I would help the staff photographers print their pictures as they arrived back from assignments. …

Alastair Gilmour

Foraging for the perfect pint

Rescue of a Titanic survivor changed the course of maritime lifesaving

Jane Hall

The handwritten entry in the Edwardian date reminder book simply states for November 1: “1914, saved 50 lives hospital ship Rohilla.” It is, says Dorothy Brownlee, one of the few discernible signs of the pride her grandfather felt in having played a pivotal role in one of the early 20th Century’s most heroic, headline-grabbing sea …

TONY HENDERSON

Mandy Falls in love with Northumberland

THE STORYTELLERS

My life through a… sketchbook: Sheila Graber

Heritage

Cup winner’s precious haul for sale

Michael Chaplin

Gardener, chauffeur, soldier, pitman, family man, journeyman

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Sam Wonfor

Cultivating an award winning career

Beth Neil

Packing a punch in Paris

Peter Barron

When the going gets tough

Heritage

Remembering the modern ice age

Gateshead College has four state of the art campuses with an estate totalling 31,000 square metres – that’s double the size of Holy Island in Northumberland.

Tony Henderson

Playing the childhood generation game

We’ve all had one, and it has had a powerful influence on our later lives. For many, it has left a mix of good, and perhaps not so good, memories. It’s childhood, and that is the subject of the summer exhibition at Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery in Alnwick. The volunteer-run museum has delved into its …

PETER BARRON