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 …
Growing up in Madrid, Maria Maza admits to being a bit of an “annoying” child when it came to photography. “My dad was a keen amateur photographer, nothing fancy, point and shoot stuff, 35mm colour film and slides, but he had a good eye and taught me a few basics of composition. “I must have …
One Monday morning long ago, a young man called Charlie Rogers limped down Bensham Road in Gateshead, wincing as he went. Two days before, this ‘ageing left back’ (his description) was playing in a Cup-tie for Kibblesworth Colliery Welfare when he got ‘a hefty whack on an already dodgy left knee’. The doctor studied it, …
Leah Kennedy knows it’s good to talk. In fact, had it not been for one chance conversation then her life — and career — could have taken a very different turn. “A girl I used to coach reached out to me a few months ago,” explains Leah, a former England netball international. “I hadn’t talked …
It wasn’t just the Germans who knew Britain and her Allies were preparing to invade France in 1944 in a bid to end the deadliest conflict the world had ever seen. The British public was also aware that plans were being finalised to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation and destroy Hitler’s despotic regime. What …
Under a pervasive atmosphere of violence, homeless hostel residents live side by side but in isolation. Derek, seldom leaving his room and haunted by the spectre of the family he lost, lives without the safety nets most of us take for granted. Significant life choices — involving financial difficulties, mental and physical health — are …
Approaching Tyneside while driving north at night from the south, a fiery flare would appear in the distant darkness. Looking like a giant Olympic torch, it was a sign that home was within reach after a long journey. This was the flaming stack of Monkton Coke Works, on the edge of Hebburn in South Tyneside, …
While Helen Rowlands’ family may have guessed photography would come calling one day (“I’d always be the one holding up my family taking photos on holiday with my phone”) it was a message from an Instagram follower during lockdown that kicked her hobby on to the next level. “During the pandemic I was posting old …
It turned out to be a lucky break when Mandy Fall entered a competition run by a holiday cottage company. Entrants had to submit a picture of their dog, and in Mandy’s case that was Suzi, her white Highland terrier. The image won Mandy a week’s holiday at Seahouses in Northumberland — the first time …
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 …
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