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
The Wreck of the Iron Crown and a Letter Left Behind Where better to start this story of a most difficult but entirely successful rescue, than… Read More »The Wreck of the Iron Crown and a Letter Left Behind
The Wreck of the Fame, 20th Oct 1894 A Tempest On this same date as today, 129 years ago, during a similarly brutal storm, the Tynemouth Volunteer… Read More »Barquentine “FAME”
Boats on the Tyne By Dalton Linkleter (b. 1928) Memories of life on the river in the late 1940s and early 50s. When the river… Read More »Boats on the Tyne
