Historic North East landmarks connected with lifesaving at sea are being highlighted to celebrate this year’s 200th anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). They appear on a new interactive map in a project by Historic England and the RNLI. The organisations are asking people in the North East to add their own contributions to …
Today instant communication online and by mobile is taken for granted. But in the early years of the last century, people used postcards as a quick way of keeping in contact, sending short messages, arranging meetings and sharing greetings. Images on the cards portrayed local scenes, events and characters and were collected in albums. They …
One of Britain’s most famous locomotives is to spend four weeks in the North East as part of a railway festival. Summer at Locomotion will take place from July 20 to September 1, with Flying Scotsman in residence at the Shildon visitor attraction until August 18. Flying Scotsman steam rides are now available to book, …
Charlie Whinney, the lead artist at Creative Communities UK CIC, has been chosen to head a project which will mark the anniversary of the loss of the tree at Sycamore Gap. The artist commission is in two phases and is led by the national park in partnership with the National Trust — who gifted a …
A Tyneside professor of international standing coupled his work with a passion for railways and locomotives. Dr Frederick William Hampson, known as ‘Bill’, lived in Heaton in Newcastle and worked for a number of the North East’s leading firms during his professional life. But he also spent much of his leisure time as a volunteer …
Melting of glaciers in a major Alaskan icefield has quickened and may reach an irreversible tipping point earlier than previously thought, a Tyneside-led study fears. The research, led by scientists at Newcastle University, found that glacier loss on the Juneau Icefield, which straddles the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia, Canada, has increased dramatically since …
Village halls — all 150 of them — are at the heart of Northumberland rural life and have been for many years. Now the Northumberland Village Halls Heritage project has celebrated their history and continuing value to the county’s communities. The project has produced a website and a new book and is the culmination of …
The last words of the great painter JMW Turner were — apparently — ‘the Sun is God’, which was also the title of a major exhibition of his works last year. Northumberland photographer Roger Clegg, and many of the throng who gather at Stonehenge for the summer solstice, would agree. Roger has been rising well …
The challenge facing a new kittiwake nesting tower on the banks of the Tyne was how to tempt the birds to take up residence. Now artificial nests, made by environmental and community charity Groundwork NE & Cumbria, with help from pupils at Percy Hedley School in Forest Hall, North Tyneside, and Newburn Manor Primary School …
For 50 years Sunderland fan Bob Thompson has pondered on the puzzle of the FA Cup final ticket which has lain in a drawer at his home. In the weeks leading up to Sunderland’s 1973 Wembley clash with Leeds, Bob had tried all ways to secure a ticket. Then on the morning of the game, …
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