Photography students have been capturing behind-the-scenes shots at historic venues as part of their studies. The University of Sunderland students have worked alongside partners from around the region to produce commissioned work to give an insight into the workplace. Four of the students have worked with the National Trust, and now their work has gone …
Tyneside record-breaking yachtsman David Scott Cowper is to tackle another testing voyage at the age of 82 to help promote and expand a cancer charity. He was the first man to sail solo round the world in both directions and was also the first to successfully sail around the globe via the Northwest Passage single-handed. Now he …
A gift to the people of Newcastle by one of the region’s greatest inventors has been included in the Victorian Society’s annual top 10 list of “most endangered” buildings. The society fears for the future of the listed Banqueting Hall on the edge of Jesmond Dene in Newcastle, which was originally near Sir William — …
A line up of five artists has been recruited to explore the industrial heritage which has shaped the North Pennines landscape and its people. The North Pennines National Landscape team has awarded four community arts bursaries and appointed an artist-in-residence as part of its new Land of Lead and Silver project. It will run until …
Next year will see the 200th anniversary of an event in the North East which was to help change the world. Thousands of onlookers and hundreds of passengers turned out on September 27, 1825, as the steam engine Locomotion No.1 set off to officially open the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It was the first to …
Prolific painter Linda Kay is never short of inspiration for her next artwork. Linda stores up ideas from her regular walks and cycle trips from memory, sketching or photographing what catches her attention. On her doorstep in Tynemouth, her garden also provides subjects for her painting. Now Linda will stage an exhibition of around 100 …
Author Glenda Young has turned to a town’s famous toffee factory as the setting for her new trilogy of novels which follow the lives of three women workers. Glenda has written eight books, all with central female characters, based on the County Durham mining village of Ryhope, now part of Sunderland, where she grew up. …
Painter Katherine Renton looked to the Northumbrian coast for an exhibition based on the relationship between artists and the environment. But instead of portraying the castles and beaches, Katherine took an early morning trip to sketch empty car parks at Beadnell, Craster, Alnmouth, Bamburgh and Seahouses. The exhibition, titled Rooted, features the work of 18 …
A project set up to gather and maintain a vast collection of archive images of Newcastle’s West End is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The Newcastle Photo Archive, previously West Newcastle Picture History Collection, now numbers around 50,000 images. The volunteer-run organisation is based at the West End Customer Service Centre and Library on Condercum Road …
As a production line for professional footballers, Wallsend Boys Club has a widely acclaimed record. But a 1914-15 photograph which has surfaced has helped reveal how another Tyneside town has its own enviable record as a ‘football factory’. The picture of Hebburn Argyle is being sold by Graham Budd Auctions, with people able to place …
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