Four years after losing his mum suddenly when he was just 15, Ollie Maddigan started writing a play. “I always knew that I eventually wanted to process my feelings, experiences and grief by turning them into a theatre show. However, I think it was only when I was 19 that I thought enough time had …
We’ve all had one, and it has had a powerful influence on our later lives. For many, it has left a mix of good, and perhaps not so good, memories. It’s childhood, and that is the subject of the summer exhibition at Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery in Alnwick. The volunteer-run museum has delved into its …
Passionate climate change campaigner Jamie Driscoll was in his element at the North East mayoral hustings held in Alnwick last night (Wed) to explore candidates’ views on environmental and rural issues. The event was organised by Alnwick Friends of the Earth specifically to discuss green talking points and especially those affecting the North East. And …
David Almond and Julia Green have lived on their quiet Tynemouth street since November 2022 and if ever a place could be called a house of stories it’s surely theirs. Bookending the upstairs landing are studies — one each, with desk, writerly paraphernalia and personal flourishes. Julia’s has a bookcase with David’s published titles and …
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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