A century ago tomorrow (April 26), Newcastle United goalkeeper Bill Bradley found himself living the football dream as he stepped out at the new Wembley stadium. Bradley, born in Wardley in Gateshead, was drafted at the last minute into United’s FA Cup final team against Aston Villa on April 26, 1924. He had been second …
Ice hockey trophies thought to be long lost will be the star attraction at a new exhibition spotlighting the story of Durham Ice Rink. A collection of shining symbols of the successes once enjoyed by the teams which called the arena home have spent the past 15 years or so in someone’s garage. But a …
No TV, no radio, and for the most part, no cinema. So what did folk do for a night out in 19th century Newcastle? A team of 35 volunteers has come up with thousands of answers as they researched what was on offer at the now Grade I-listed Tyne Theatre & Opera House on Westgate …
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 …
At four miles long and a 15-minute journey time, it was hardly full steam ahead on what was one of Northumberland’s smallest railway lines. The link from Seahouses to North Sunderland and then Chathill on the main line of the North Eastern Railway between Morpeth and Berwick, was always cash-strapped. The privately-financed track opened in …
The looming General Election will be a relatively sedate affair compared to some of the contests of the past, a Tyneside-based project suggests. While today people will cast their secret vote in the local polling station or by post, in the 18th and early 19th centuries it could be an altogether livelier event. A study …
A rare natural history collection is back “in the family” after being believed lost for decades. The internationally important 18th century shell collection has been returned to English Heritage’s Chesters site in Northumberland after once being saved from a skip. Containing more than 200 specimens, including an extinct species and several believed to have been …
A double boost is on the way for the North East’s mining heritage. A sculpture of George Stephenson’s miner’s safety lamp is to be unveiled near Dial Cottage, his former home in North Tyneside. Meanwhile work is due to start on improving Albany Park, as part of wider £4.6m regeneration plans for Washington’s F-Pit Museum …
A special archive collecting and documenting the pioneering work of BBC journalist and author Kate Adie is being created in her native North East. Back in 2005 the Wearside-born veteran broadcaster, who spent decades on the front line of international journalism, donated her back catalogue of notebooks, tapes, letters, photographs, video footage and fan mail …
A century ago an organisation was founded which was charged with the task of sending a powerful message to Britain’s women. Embrace the new electrical age and its gadgets — from cookers to vacuum cleaners — and free yourselves from domestic drudgery, was the call. At a time when families were often large and the …
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