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Big altar, baby altar

Arbeia South Shields' Roman Fort   Archaeology
Posted by administrator on November 8, 2013     Permalink     Leave a comment

The best artefact from the excavations at Arbeia this season is a small altar about 25cm tall. This is only the fourth small altar recovered from the site – there are two others without inscriptions, and one dedicated to Vitiris –… Read more

South Shields Foreshore – preserving the memories

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on October 28, 2013     Permalink     Comments (4)

Tyne & Wear Archives is delighted to present a new flickr set of images relating to South Shields. This set has been created to celebrate the opening of South Tyneside Council’s new leisure centre, Haven Point, on 28 October. Haven Point is… Read more

Tudor apprenticeship register deposited with Tyne & Wear Archives

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on October 1, 2013     Permalink     Leave a comment

The vast majority of the documents held by Tyne & Wear Archives date from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. We add to our collections all the time and it’s always fascinating when something unusual turns up. I was therefore delighted… Read more

Toon Times

Discovery Museum   Local History
Posted by administrator on September 2, 2013     Permalink     Leave a comment

Over the past four weeks the Toon Times project has been working with an Age UK group in West Denton. The group was made up of 12 women and 1 man, all aged between 70 and 90. The Toon Times… Read more

HMS Kelly: Commemorating the men who built her and served on her

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Military History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on August 30, 2013     Permalink     Comments (100)

My last two blogs looked at the First World War experiences of George Cuthbertson, a marine engineer from South Shields and Annie Hamilton, a nurse. This blog looks at the Second World War and in particular the story of a… Read more