Tag Archives: Christmas

‘Saved by a Cat’ – a feel good story for Christmas

A few months ago I spent a morning at North Tyneside Local Studies Library, with my colleague Sarah Younas, looking through old editions of the Shields Daily News. We were searching for the stories behind some of the First World War… Read more

‘Turners saved my marriage’

Christmas is fast approaching. It’s a special time of year for many people and it’s also a very busy time for shops. Businesses are going into overdrive with publicity campaigns to get us to buy their products and all this… Read more

A Christmas Conflagration

While scouring the archives a few years ago for a suitably seasonal image to use on the office Christmas card, Tyne & Wear Archives staff discovered a short series of 35mm photographic slides in the personal papers of local historian John Rippington… Read more

Festive fun

Our Christmas tree was delivered today and the staff are festively decking our (museum) halls with boughs of holly. I don’t know where this year went, frankly… Recently my mind has turned to our Christmas event on the 10 December,… Read more