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First World War Stories: Bringing the Unknown Warrior home

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Posted by administrator on November 10, 2014     Permalink     Comments (2)

    The shipyard of R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn built many fine ships, perhaps none as admired as HMS Kelly. However, during the First World War the firm built a torpedo boat destroyer, which also has a… Read more

The construction of the Tyne Bridge in pictures

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Posted by administrator on November 5, 2014     Permalink     Comments (6)

Since October 1928 the Tyne Bridge has been a familiar sight to everyone entering and leaving Newcastle over the Tyne. John Clayson from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums takes a look back at the construction of our iconic bridge.… Read more

Did your ancestors own shares?

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Posted by administrator on October 30, 2014     Permalink     Comments (2)

I’m pleased to report that work is progressing well on the ‘Workshop of the World’ project to catalogue our Vickers Armstrong archives collection. I’ve recently been working on the Executive records of Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth and Company Ltd, which… Read more

Family memories – a soldier’s Great War sketchbook

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Posted by administrator on October 17, 2014     Permalink     Leave a comment

Recently, one of our visitors has shown us some interesting First World War drawings by his grandfather, Private James McGarrigle. A coal miner at Seaton Delaval before he joined up, Private McGarrigle was a soldier with 7th Northumberland Fusiliers Observation… Read more

Washington’s changing landscape

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Posted by administrator on October 10, 2014     Permalink     Comments (2)

I was recently looking through photographs from our Washington Development Corporation collection to find images for a new Flickr set.  The thing that really struck me was how dramatically the Washington landscape changed in the late 1960s and 1970s. Fifty years ago, when Washington… Read more