Born in Sunderland and raised in Easington during the 1980s, Paul vividly remembers walking past the picket lines every day on his way to school. The same picket line was captured in the iconic photographs by Keith Pattison who documented the Miners’ Strike. Seeing Keith’s photographs years later inspired Paul to become a documentary photographer. …
With a land area of 2,936 sq kms and 4,400 kms of waterways, Dr Ceri Gibson’s patch is sizeable to say the least. The Tyne Rivers Trust environmental charity, of which she is chief executive, oversees the North and South Tyne, and their tributaries the rivers Rede, Allen, Nent, and the Tarset Burn. Then there …
Reverend Chris Howson is an extremely busy man. He wears four hats – he is co-chair of the Sunderland Interfaith Forum, Chair of Sunderland City of Sanctuary, Minister at Sunderland Minster and first and foremost, University of Sunderland Chaplain. As I walk up his garden path I am greeted by a friendly, fluffy feline. “That’s …
In an ideal world, Sean Soulsby would make himself redundant. “In charity, you should be trying to do yourself out of the job,” he says, as he explains his role as chief executive of The Children’s Foundation, meaning you’re always looking to fix problems. Sean has been with the charity since 2019, but looks forward …
Long ago, getting on for a century, a young man visited Newcastle for the first time. The place made quite an impression, as he recorded later: “Thirty or was it 300 years ago, I stood on the Gateshead side of the Tyne Bridge and looked down into the mighty trough. On one side was the …
You’ll notice there’s a distinct and tuneful theme to this week’s feature. Adam Kennedy is an internationally-published music photographer and writer from Houghton-le-Spring. Now living in Newcastle – where he is currently one of the in-house photographers at the 02 City Hall – if you’ve been at a North East gig over the past decade …
It was the ‘where were you’ moment of the decade. While privileged spectators lined the shores, the public was glued to TV sets around the world to watch grainy black and white images of a futuristic jet-powered hydroplane skim across Coniston Water at speeds of around 300mph. On the second run, the nose of Bluebird …
Hands up everybody who watched the film Zulu for the umpteenth time on TV over Easter. If it’s Easter, it must be Zulu, and the same goes for Christmas as the 1964 movie, which made a young Michael Caine’s name is aired again. Caine took the part of Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead, second in command to …
It was an Eternal concert at Newcastle City Hall in 1994 which first got Victoria Wai into photography, but it wasn’t until 2019 that she made it her job. “After years of having a day job to pay the bills where I was getting more discontent I finally bit the bullet,” says the South Shields-born …
Vacant shop units and closure of banks have hit High Streets throughout the North East. But one village is fighting back against the blight. The Chopwell Regeneration Group had its origins in a public meeting called to discuss ways of improving life in the Gateshead village. Its first major project was to take over the …
@2024 The QT All Rights Reserved. Built by Nebula Labs
