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 …
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 …
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 …
Huge business decisions invariably come drenched in a bucket load of ‘have we done the right thing?’ But it was the sight of a roe deer munching contentedly on fresh spring leaves before summoning her two fawns that husband-and-wife brewers Sam and Red Kellie decided they had chosen the right location for their First & …
I missed a family birthday lately, but there were no bruised feelings — or embarrassment for me — for the simple reason the person concerned was no longer around. In fact, he died all of 29 years ago at the age of 102, which given the many challenges thrown at him throughout his long life …
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