Tag Archives: River Tyne

A Roman Mobile Device, a 21st Century Chariot, some Snazzy Shoes and two Iconic Lumps

I’ve been exploring TWAM’s collections and have found some interesting and surprising things. This is one of the highlights of our Archaeology collection and is on display at Segedunum in Wallsend:- It’s a portable Roman shrine about the same size… Read more

Model Visitors

I met a lovely couple the other week.  They’d phoned to make an appointment and then travelled up from Down South especially to see one of our ship models, the ss Newton Ash.  We have over 600 ship models in our collection… Read more

Neptune Yard Launches

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

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

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

Tyne map

The Archives has just acquired an intriguing new addition that has required some detective work to uncover the truth of. On the surface it is an L-shaped map of the River Tyne from Heddon on the Wall to the sea,… Read more