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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

Potshare Bowling – An almost forgotten sport of North East England

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Posted by administrator on August 16, 2013     Permalink     Comments (10)

We are just coming to the end of ‘Home and Away’, a Heritage Lottery funded exhibition and project looking at the history of North East Sport and the modern Olympics. One of the aims of Home and Away was to… Read more

Preparations for a new permanent gallery at Discovery Museum

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Posted by administrator on October 30, 2012     Permalink     Comments (1)

Discovery Museum was recently awarded a grant from the government and The Wolfson Foundation charity to refurbish one of our permanent galleries. It was the second highest award given out across the country! Find out more here   Preparing for… Read more