Toast the Admiral! Trafalgar Day 2024
Toast the Admiral! Trafalgar Day 2024 21st Oct 2024 by Luan Hanratty There was an excellent turnout for Trafalgar Day at the TVLB Watch House.… Read More »Toast the Admiral! Trafalgar Day 2024
Toast the Admiral! Trafalgar Day 2024 21st Oct 2024 by Luan Hanratty There was an excellent turnout for Trafalgar Day at the TVLB Watch House.… Read More »Toast the Admiral! Trafalgar Day 2024
A Watchful Eye God wealder,Val our dei,Osiris of our Nile,Knew of these waters,Bringing bread and wine,From Serapis via emperor,To our geard,To our Tyne and mouth,Os-god… Read More »A Watchful Eye
Checking Out NEMT’s New Boat-Building Project By Luan Hanratty I caught up with the lads at the North East Maritime Trust at their boat yard… Read More »Checking Out NEMT’s New Boat-Building Project
No one knows where the port for Arbeia was, where so many tons of goods, people and coinage passed through so many centuries ago. But… Read More »The Mystery of Arbeia’s Dock
The Tyne Improvement Commission were formed in 1850 and brought together the 4 boroughs of Tyneside to serve the river and maintain it. Their motto… Read More »The River Tyne God
The Pride of the Tyne Cranes loom the skylineOver the riverIn sunsets of orange and flameGhosts walk the cobbles Cold in the morningsOf merchant ships… Read More »The Pride of the Tyne
The following transcript is from a court case at the Star Chamber in 1510, just one year after Henry VIII came to the throne. I… Read More »How the Prior of Tynemouth Brought Newcastle to the Brink of Ruin in 1510
By Gary Holland When I was 16 years old I started my first job — working at John Lilley & Gillie Ltd on North Shields Quay. As well as… Read More »A Close Look at an Early Chart of the Tyne
The old Riverside Branch Line, which preceded the Tyne & Wear Metro, included the station ‘Point Pleasant’ between Wallsend and Willington Quay, which is now… Read More »Point Pleasant, the Site of a Roman Dock?
Mouth of the Tyne by Jerome Hanratty (1930-2013) A hard grey day, haloed with fret;Soiled towers poke from broken walls and bitter grass,Merge with the… Read More »Mouth of the Tyne