Posts by venue: Discovery Museum

The Fatal Beam…

This has just landed on my desk:- It’s a small, irregularly shaped lump of iron fixed to a wooden base.  They say every object tells a story, but this one has come to me straight from the Mouth of Hell.… Read more

An interesting example of collaboration between Tyne and Wear

It’s been another rewarding month on the Sunderland Shipbuilding Archives Project. I’ve been working on the records of William Doxford & Sons Ltd and have now largely completed the cataloguing of the firm’s operational and publicity records. These include some… Read more

Exciting new additions to our Sunderland shipbuilding collections

I’m happy to report that work is continuing well on the ‘We Mak’em’ Shipbuilding Archives project. The records of the firm Bartram & Sons Ltd are now fully catalogued (TWAM ref. DS.BM) and can be searched using our online catalogue.… Read more

Sing all about it!

“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

Interesting Image No. 1

Would anyone like to guess what these carefully stored museum objects are?