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 …
A Tyneside expert has led the design of a major new exhibition on PoW captivity and Great Escapes during the Second World War. Peter Dixon, an Assistant Professor in architecture at Northumbria University, worked in collaboration with creative design studio, Field Design, to create the exhibition, at The National Archives in London. Great Escapes: Remarkable …
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 …
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 …
The shimmering centrepiece of a major museum is back in daily action for the first time in four years. The 250-year-old automaton Silver Swan at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, returned to its daily performance duties on Tuesday, March 19, after a lengthy conservation overhaul. And the swan project has been shortlisted …
The guildhall on Newcastle Quayside was full to capacity on the morning of March 5, 1829, for the trial of a woman charged with murdering her mother. Jane Jamieson was accused of killing her mother with a poker in the town’s Keelman’s Hospital. On Sunday March 24 history will repeat itself with two performances at …
In 1900 a Tyneside youngster was ‘taught a lesson’ for stealing from his employer by being birched. Now the fate of George Sayers, aged around 12, has provided a lesson in turn to pupils at a school near to where he lived in North Shields. George’s story is the latest project by the North Shields …
Memorabilia from a late North East music manager, who played a key part in a band which has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, drew interest from fans across the globe. Phillip Hepple, who was tour manager and sound engineer for prog rockers Yes in the 1970s, amassed a unique personal collection. And the …
For youngsters growing up in the cramped and often squalid conditions of a Palestinian refugee camp, it was the experience of a lifetime. It was also a lifetime which in all probability will be spent in the crowded Shatila camp in Beirut. Groups of youngsters were given a window on a new world when they …
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