Posts by venue: Maritime History

The Tyne Regatta of August 1843

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Posted by administrator on November 4, 2011     Permalink     Comments (9)

  A few months back TWAM acquired an interesting group of items relating to one of the early Tyne Regattas, held in August 1843.     For a modest sum we purchased a silver cup that was awarded to the… Read more

Recent developments on the ‘We Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project

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Posted by administrator on October 24, 2011     Permalink     Comments (6)

It’s been an exciting past month on the Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project. For one thing I now have a ‘glamorous’ assistant, Colin Boyd, who will be working part-time with me for the next year. Colin has worked in the shipbuilding… Read more

A fascinating set of correspondence is uncovered at Tyne and Wear Archives

Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Military History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on September 12, 2011     Permalink     Comments (3)

One of the reasons I was so excited to work on the ‘We Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project was the opportunity it gives me to catalogue and make accessible large quantities of unlisted documents that have never been available to… Read more

Bob Renaut Blog No. 4 – Guest blog by South Shields Museum & Art Gallery Volunteers Jean and Wendy

Collections & Objects   Local History   Maritime History   Social History   South Shields Museum & Art Gallery   Volunteering
Posted by administrator on August 31, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

Hi, Jean and Wendy here again with some more of Bob’s photographs. We hope you’ve enjoyed the ones that have featured so far, and that some of you may have even recognised yourselves. Apart from photos taken in and around… Read more

Family History in Tyne and Wear

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Posted by administrator on August 22, 2011     Permalink     Comments (17)

What’s Your Story? Discovering family histories in Tyne and Wear; sharing ordinary peoples’ family histories Watching the new series of the BBC’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ has taken on added significance in the history team office at Discovery… Read more