By Thomas Bainbridge Few events stir the imagination so intensely as the terror and exhilaration of battle. The noblest may fall, the most obscure may rise.… Read More »Jack Crawford: From Press Gang to Hero of Camperdown
New North and South Tyneside Crime and Data Map: Tyneseyed.org 👁️ 21st July 2026 This new service for the region features a crime-focussed bulletin with charts,… Read More »New North and South Tyneside Crime and Data Map: Tyneseyed.org
By Crasterfarian When most people think of Craster they picture kippers, the harbour and Dunstanburgh Castle. Few realise that for many years it was also a… Read More »Craster Harbour Loading Bins — A Forgotten Feat of Engineering
By Thomas Bainbridge It is 250 years since the birth of the American nation, consecrated by the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But… Read More »George Washington’s Noble North East Lineage
By Thomas Bainbridge The sheltered, meandering course of the River Wear was naturally an ideal setting in which to fashion vessels for use on the open… Read More »The History of Shipbuilding in Sunderland and its Wartime Zenith
By Crasterfarian “Oh, I’d love to see something like that.” That’s what you hear when you post a stunning relic of any description from around the… Read More »The Ghosts of Rome Among Us
By Thomas Bainbridge The Australian story, paid for so dearly amidst the burning sand and scrub of the Gallipoli peninsula, was written by a small band… Read More »Kirkpatrick and His Donkey: A South Shields Hero Who Saved Hundreds of ANZAC Lives at Gallipoli
By Crasterfarian Have you ever been to Bowness on Solway? It’s a lonely bleak road west from Carlisle to the end of Hadrian’s Wall and its… Read More »The Lost Frontier of Burgh Marsh
By Thomas Bainbridge Through the study of history, the fog of the past sometimes clears so we may catch a glimmer of distant events, but never… Read More »The Fight for the Old North and the Seeds of Northumbria
By Thomas Bainbridge What might induce someone to leave their native homeland and travel thousands of miles across ocean and desert to a lawless and inhospitable… Read More »The Geordie Outlaw: Butch Cassidy’s Tyneside Roots
