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The Berengaria visits the River Tyne

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Posted by administrator on April 17, 2014     Permalink     Comments (2)

Over the past couple of months, work has been progressing steadily on the ‘Workshop of the World’ project. I’ve been working through the large quantity of unlisted material in the Vickers Armstrong collection and there have been lots of interesting… Read more

Exploring the ‘Workshop of The World’

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Posted by administrator on February 6, 2014     Permalink     Leave a comment

This month I’ve started work on a major project to catalogue our collection of the historic records of Vickers Armstrong and its predecessor companies. This will make all the documents fully available to the public for the very first time.… Read more

Launching the careers of two ‘Northern Stars’

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Posted by administrator on November 18, 2013     Permalink     Comments (9)

  The North East has produced many fine musicians. One of its most celebrated, Sting, has written his first musical The Last Ship, which is due to open on Broadway next year. Songs from the show were recently released in… Read more