North-East History Tour

It is a connection from not so very long ago, but it is a link which has already become swathed in legend, myth and hearsay. Just how stron...

© Copyright DAVID ELSY and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Situated on its lofty perch atop the Cleadon Hills, thi...

     Looking much the same in 1900 (above) as it does today, Cleadon Water Tower was built during 1859-62 as part of the water pumping sta...

  © Copyright malcolm tebbit and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . When it commenced operations in 1871, Souter L...

Before 1874 there was nothing, and after 1970 there was nothing. But in between thrived the cliff-top colliery village of Marsden in the na...

  © Copyright Mick Garratt and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence .     Marsden Limekilns, facing bleakly out to sea ...

  Flora McKenzie Robson, one of the twentieth century’s greatest character actresses of stage, film and TV, was born at 11 Village Terrace...

This splendid institution turned 150 years of age in April 2010 and, though it’s a little late, let’s have a celebratory look back at its h...

[The following article originally appeared as an obituary in the now defunct North-Easterner Magazine in 1998] An Obituary of Dame Cat...

Between (the now filled in) Jarrow Slake and the western edge of South Shields sits a very distinct corner of Tyneside known as Tyne Dock. ...

Jarrow Slake, that oddly-named area of reclaimed land on the south bank of the Tyne neighbouring St.Paul’s Church, has a recorded history ...

  Well, sort of. It is certainly the oldest stained glass that is known to still form part of a window – but we’ve cheated a bit, because ...

A nondescript hole in the ground in a corner of a patch of landscaped ground in Hebburn is the spot in question. Presumably an old natural ...

The Tyne Tunnels are a series of three byways (pedestrian, cycle and vehicular) which pass under the River Tyne between Jarrow on the south...

    RMS Mauretania is, or rather was, the most famous ship ever built on the Tyne. It emerged from the Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richards...

  As part of the Europe-wide celebrations following the overthrow of Napoleon, a state visit to the UK was arranged for Alexander I, Emper...

  Residents of the North Tyneside town will be familiar with their form, but many from further afield may not even be aware of the existen...

‘Wooden Dolly’ statues have been a part of the history of North Shields for 200 years. There have been many incarnations over the years, be...

  Plasticine is one of those toys with which we all played during our childhood, surely without exception. And it was invented by one Will...

   © Copyright Ken Brown and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . This Monument was erected in 1845 by public sub...