Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Joy of Flying

Although powered flight had been possible for a couple of decades before Joy Tamblin (née Laing) was born, she still deserves a place among...

Sunshine and Sugar

On 19 June 1921,  census night,  two young boys of a similar age were living just across the railway from each other in Heaton....

Bigges Main: pit village near Heaton

Look on a modern OS map of Tyneside and you will find the name ‘Bigges Main’, identifying an area a short distance along the...

Stranded: Bert’s Arctic ordeal

At 4.00pm on 11 January 1914, Bert Williamson stood on the frozen Arctic Ocean and, peering through the darkness, saw his ship disappear into...

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