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The Willington Waggonway Research Programme
You may remember the remains of a section of a wooden waggonway were discovered underneath the former Neptune Shipyard not far from Segedunum Roman Fort in the summer of 2013. Before being redeveloped,...
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Danger and adventure for Tyne and Wear ships’ crews in the Spanish Civil War
This photograph of the devastation of the Basque port of Bilbao in April 1937 was taken by Captain Still of the Newcastle ship Hamsterley, on a mission to take food to the beleaguered city and rescue...
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Improving access to our shipbuilding collections
The shipbuilding collections at Tyne & Wear Archives are widely recognised to be of outstanding historical significance. They have attracted international research interest and back in 2013 were...
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A Waggonway Adventure
Early one morning in July, my colleague Kev and I set off to collect the majority of the waggonway timbers from York Archaeological Trust where they have been undergoing preservation treatment for the...
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Kathleen Drew-Baker: Mother of the Sea
As part of this summer’s Great Exhibition of the North, the Great North Museum is hosting a museum-wide takeover featuring 250 loans from across the UK. The temporary exhibition, called Which Way...
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A Whale of a Newcastle Tale – by Jo Anderson, Assistant Keeper of Archaeology
Our ethnographic collection has originated from many different sources. Explorers, missionaries, other museums – we’ve been accepting interesting objects from around the world for centuries. During...
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Images of the North – A Guest Post by Leah Newbigging
Hello, my name is Leah Newbigging and I have been undertaking research using the collections in the amazing library of the Natural History Society of Northumbria. This is located in the Great North...
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LCT 7074 – Hebburn’s Remarkable D-Day Survivor
Written by Geoff Woodward, Museum Manager, North & South Tyneside The tidal waters of the River Tyne were a swirling grey and the gusting wind stung a chilled greeting as a newly-completed vessel...
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A Floating Hospital
Assistant Keeper of History Adam Bell at South Shields Museum and Art Gallery shares how a floating hospital stemmed the influx of infectious diseases into South Tyneside in the late 19th century. A...
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Meet Neville – Customer Service Assistant at Discovery Museum
Long-standing front of house staff member of Discovery Museum, Neville, shares what life is like inspiring the public with tales of local history, and his favourite object in the museum. What I do “I...
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