North-East History Tour

Catcleugh Reservoir sits in the upper reaches of Redesdale a few miles short of the Scottish Border. It is now dwarfed by its much larger ...

When you hear the name Charles Thorp muttered in and around the parish of Ryton these days, it is almost always in connection with the ...

When we think of the water supply provided to the region, the mighty Kielder Water springs instantly to mind. However, a number of other r...

Source: WellcomeLibrary blog (WI no. L0016013) A couple of miles north-west of the Northumberland village of Stannington, pretty mu...

Just in case you don’t recognise it, this is the flag of Tyne & Wear – the much maligned new ‘county’ formed as a result of the con...

One from the archives: the Tyne Bridge (& other bridges!)  from the Milk Market, as photographed by the  author in 1984. ...

The building in central Gateshead now known as the Old Town Hall was designed and built by way of a torturous procedure during 18...

© Copyright  philld  and licensed for  reuse  under this  Creative Commons Licence . Gateshead’s Trinity Square Car Park (to give it...

(taken from the iSeeGateshead website – copyright expired.  Click on image to enlarge) In the early days of 1746, everyone south ...

© Copyright   AndrewCurtis   and licensed for   reuse   under this   CreativeCommons Licence . The riverside monster that is Dunston...

(image from the iSeeGateshead website ) Private Edward Hutchinson was one of the many who dutifully joined up (with the Durham Light...

Mary Elizabeth Wilson, a resident of Windy Nook, Gateshead , for more than 40 years, had the dubious distinction of being the last woma...

Anyone coming north though the suburbs of Gateshead towards the bridgehead with the River Tyne will usually take the A167 – a route which ...

Such was the state of both the region’s economy and its industry in the 1930s that Stanley Baldwin’s Tory-led National Government (1935-37...

Many people don’t realise it, but the width of railway tracks around the world vary. The distance between the inside edges of the rails of...

© Copyright  Keith Evans  and licensed for  reuse   under this  Creative Commons Licence . Date completed: 1998 Commissioned by...

The Lumley name looms large in the history of County Durham , and the rise of the family in the region begins with an Anglo-Saxon noble ...

The inventor of the incandescent electric light bulb was born at Pallion Hall*, Sunderland, on 31st October 1828. Leaving school at twelve...