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 …
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 …
“Bella Reay, born in Cowpen, centre forward for Blyth Spartans Ladies (1917-1919) and England… scored 133 goals in one season and was part of the team which went on to win the Munitionettes’ Cup in May 1918.” With that phenomenal tally, you do wonder whether defence existed as a footballing concept a century ago. But …
Funding has been awarded for emergency works to arson-damaged North East listed buildings which have a special place in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England. Last July the Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Gardens site near Durham was the target of an arson attack, with significant damage to the east wing of the Grade …
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 …
For more than 150 years, lead mining dominated the North Pennines, shaping its landscape and communities. Now a new project to unearth the hidden stories of lead mining in an area which includes swathes of Northumberland, County Durham and Cumbria has been awarded more than £2m by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England. …
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 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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