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What’s Your Story? Discovering Family History – The Milburn Jug

Art   Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Local History   Social History
Posted by administrator on July 19, 2012     Permalink     Comments (8)

When I heard that What’s Your Story? Discovering Family History, a Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums travelling exhibition, was coming to Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens (SMWG), I was keen to get involved. As an artist working with this venue’s … Read more

‘Quentin Blake: As Large As Life’ comes to the Laing

Art   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on July 9, 2012     Permalink     Comments (3)

These are photos from the installation of the new exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery – Quentin Blake: As Large As Life. The first picture has gone up! It’s one of the circus life group. This lovely group of pictures… Read more

Sing all about it!

Art   Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Education   Local History   Shipley Art Gallery   Social History
Posted by administrator on June 11, 2012     Permalink     Leave a comment

“Gannin’ alang the Scotswood Road to see the Blaydon Races Olympic Torch” Now that the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee has passed we look next to welcoming the Olympic flame to the region as part of its tour around the country in… Read more

The real Barras Bridge and Newcastle’s beautiful lost dean

Art   Collections & Objects   Laing Art Gallery   Local History   Social History
Posted by administrator on May 4, 2012     Permalink     Comments (52)

Imagine a deep ravine slicing across the Great North Road next to the Civic Centre, replacing concrete and tarmac with a beautiful tree-lined dean. Well, it’s not fantasy – this was Pandon Dean (or Dene – spelling varied). Much of… Read more

‘Young Anglers, Barras Bridge’, painted by Thomas Miles Richardson: a picture of old Barras Mill-pond?

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Posted by administrator on April 16, 2012     Permalink     Comments (1)

Thomas Miles Richardson’s idyllic scene of ‘Young Anglers, Barras Bridge, depicts a scene in Pandon Dean. Now completely obliterated, the dean was known for its beauty in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The scene can be located at Barras Mill-pond opposite the present-day Civic Centre. The picture was painted by Newcastle’s leading artist of the time, TM Richardson, senior (1784-1848). Read more