For youngsters growing up in the cramped and often squalid conditions of a Palestinian refugee camp, it was the experience of a lifetime. It was also a lifetime which in all probability will be spent in the crowded Shatila camp in Beirut. Groups of youngsters were given a window on a new world when they …
The Arctic convoys which carried supplies to Russia endured some of the most gruelling ordeals of the Second World War. In addition to relentless attacks by German aircraft and U-boats, the ice-encased ships in the convoys had to battle though extreme cold, gales and pack ice. The loss rate of vessels was greater than another …
Happily, the latest date in the commercial rip-off calendar is now behind us for another year. Valentine’s Day, which sees men clearing petrol stations of tired bunches of tulips, is at least the saviour of the floristry and chocolate industries, in the same way that Christmas accounts for the total annual sales of ceramic models …
Walks along the beach galvanised Jackie Sewell into making it her business to launch a war on waste. Jackie, who had run her own interior design business for 30 years, found herself picking up rubbish — especially plastics — while walking the dog on beaches near her home in Tynemouth. She says:” It showed me …
Two new Tyneside hotels are now open for business – but it will be several weeks before they expect to welcome their first guests. The ‘hotels’ have been erected on top of the towers at the Gateshead side of the Tyne Bridge. It is hoped they will provide nesting ledges for kittiwakes when they return …
The untold stories of Newcastle’s drag scene is one of six North East projects awarded grants under a scheme which seeks to celebrate the region’s diverse local heritage. The ventures chosen by Historic England as part of its Everyday Heritage programme to explore working class history have collectively been awarded more than £80,000 to dig …
The French Connection has delivered news of a Northumberland osprey in its wintering grounds in Senegal in Africa more than 3,000 miles from the Kielder Forest nest where the bird hatched. French ornithologist Jean-Marie Dupart was surveying ospreys in the Saloum Delta national park, which has many miles of unspoilt waterways. He came across and …
The shipyards of the North East were a vital front line in the First World War as they battled to replace the heavy losses caused by U-boats of vessels carrying crucial supplies. But with so many shipyard workers fighting in the armed forces, women stepped forward to fill the gaps and tackle the many jobs …
For artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard, it was a year spent in ‘wonderland’. Ingrid, appointed as English Heritage’s first visual art fellow, was presented with the opportunity of a year-long fellowship at Belsay Hall in Northumberland. Spread out before her was a medieval castle and an impressive 20 acres of gardens, including the location’s atmospheric …
In 1907 amid great celebrations the Mauretania left the Tyne where she had been built to begin a stellar career in which she would dominate the world of the great ocean liners. There to take one of his finest pictures was Whitley Bay photographer Gladstone Adams. It was not his first brush with history. He …
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