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Neptune Yard Launches

Collections & Objects   Maritime History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on November 15, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

A recent acquisition for the Archives is the visitors book for Swan Hunter’s Neptune Shipyard covering the years 1910-1963 (TWA ref DS.SWH/5/1/6/3). This volume had apparently been put in a rubbish skip on the closure of the yard in 1988… Read more

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

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Social History   The Archives
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

David Horsefield

Arbeia South Shields' Roman Fort   Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Exhibitions   Great North Museum: Hancock   Hatton Gallery   Laing Art Gallery   Segedunum Roman Fort   Shipley Art Gallery   Social History   South Shields Museum & Art Gallery   Stephenson Steam Railway   The Archives   Volunteering
Posted by administrator on October 3, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

We’re fast approaching our annual volunteer awards in November of this year. David won an award for his Outstanding Contribution to Customer Care last year after volunteering with us for over 8 years across all of our venues. I asked David, a… 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

Question : How much does it cost to burn a witch? Answer : £15 19s 2d

Books   Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Local History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on August 26, 2011     Permalink     Comments (3)

We know this because in the Archives are stored the Newcastle Chamberlains’ accounts for the years 1508 until 1835.   The entry we looked at read…”bill of charges for the wiches for 2 weekes ending the 23th (sic) of August 1650 and other… Read more