#NewcastleUponTyne Villa Joe Tapestry by Paul Noble - Laing Art Gallery Newcastle upon Tyne photographed 7th January 2026 Check out the video @ youtu.be/MBTARq7XExw?...

#WhitleyBay Still undergoing the long running repairs and restoration, Whitley Bay Metro Station Footbridge, photographed 7th January 2026.

#WhitleyBay Ticket Office Bar in Whitley Bay Metro Station photographed 7th January 2026.

#NewcastleUponTyne Advert in the Journal on this day 6th January 1927 from Fenwick for their special train bringing folk from the area to their Great January Sale.

#WhitleyBay Time stood still on 6th January 2025, Grant's Clock Face with a convening of snow.

#WhitleyBay A snowy promenade in Whitley Bay on 6th January 2025.

#Wallsend Swan Hunter Wallsend Yard on this day 5th January 2007.

#NorthShields Chain Locker North Shields on this day 5th January 2003 in the days before it was redeveloped into flats.

#Cullercoats Rocket Garage on John Street, Cullercoats - Life Brigade House. Cullercoats Volunteer Life Brigade (CVLB) stored their life saving rocket apparatus. Built in 1867 it fell out of use by the CVLB in 1923. These images taken on this day 5th January 2015:

#Paris #France Pierre Frédéric Dorian grave - Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France, photographed on this day 5th January 2005. Pierre Frédéric Dorian (1814-1873) was a French master blacksmith and radical Republican leader. He also served as the French Minister of Public Works.

#NewcastleUponTyne Thomas Fordyce reporting on a great free-trade meeting held in the Corn Market, Newcastle upon Tyne on this day 5th January 1846, 5,000 present.

#NewcastleUponTyne John Sykes in his Local Records for this day in history, 5th January 1825: The Antiquarian Society of Newcastle, of which his grace the duke of Northumberland is patron, held their 12th anniversary meeting.

#NewcastleUponTyne Farmers Inn Scotswood Road Newcastle upon Tyne photographed 1966, from the Jack and Geoff Phillips Photographic Collection.

#NewcastleUponTyne The nightclub La Dolce Vita in Low Friar Street Newcastle upon Tyne. Adverts from the Evening Chronicle 13th April 1964 and Journal 3rd February 1965.

#NewcastleUponTyne A snap of the Tyne Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne, looking over the rooftops 25 years ago, on this day 31st December 2000.

#NewcastleUponTyne The Ordnance Arms, back Gallowgate and Bulmer St. Newcastle upon Tyne, photograph taken by the City Engineers to record pre demolition compulsory purchase. Piece from the Journal 6th July 1960 reporting the withdrawal of its licence and compensation paid.

#NorthShields Blyth and Tyne, Charlotte St North Shields which closed during the 1940's.

#NewcastleUponTyne One from the past, on this day 28th December 2016 - Pub sign of The Union Rooms, Wetherspoons, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne.

#NewcastleUponTyne Gathering dust on my hard drive, a few snaps of The Goose at The Gardens on Percy Street Newcastle upon Tyne, photographed on this day 27th December 2000.

#Gateshead Gateshead Metrocentre Christmas Display 2002 - photographed on this day 27th December 2002. www.flickr.com/photos/steve...

#Ford #Northumberland Grade II Listed Ford Smithy, Ford, Northumberland, photographed on this day 27th December 2017. Smithy. Built 1863 for the Marchioness of Waterford.

#LaCoruna #Spain The Civic Centre of La Coruna Spain in the Praza de María Pita, photographed 20th August 2025. Built between 1908 and 1912, and unveiled by King Alfonso XIII in 1927. More @ www.flickr.com/photos/steve...

#Prudhoe #Ovingam John Forster, a Hewer, , killed in a roof fall at Prudhoe Colliery on this day 26th December 1890, grave in St Mary's Ovingham.

#NewcastleUponTyne Rather gruesome event in Newcastle upon Tyne noted by Thomas Fordyce in his Local Records - on this day 26th December 1840

#NorthShields Good to see that Thomas Fordyce didn't have a day off for Boxing Day as he reported the following events for this day in history, 26th December 1873: 'One of the most appalling catastrophes which had occurred for many years took place on the river Tyne.

#Gateshead John Sykes gives this observation in his Local Records for this day in history, 26th December 1819. Mr. Joseph Price, of Gateshead, glass-manufacturer, presented to the inhabitants of that parish, a valuable and elegant window of stained glass.

#NewcastleUponTyne John Sykes reported this event on this day in history, 26th December 1829. An excellently finished and beautiful vessel called the "George Green," launched from the dock-yard of Messrs. W. Smith and Co, of St. Peter's, North-shore, near Newcastle

#NewcastleUponTyne Tuthill Stairs - original in 2002 and then the 'new' stairs going in on this day 26th December 2004. Modern day completed stairs in 2011.

#NewcastleUponTyne On this day 26th December 2004, Breakneck Stairs, Town Walls, Close, Newcastle upon Tyne. That section these days is much overgrown. The stairs themselves have been lost apart from a very small section.

Laing (1856-1931) designed the engines of the Mauretania, seen looming forward dramatically, top right.

#Felling #Gateshead 22 killed in Brandling Main Colliery, Felling, on this day 24th December 1813, 19 months after 91 were killed. Report from John Sykes.

#NewcastleUponTyne The contents of Newcastle's Mansion House on Close were being advertised as being up for auction - Newcastle Weekly Courant on this day 24th December 1836.

#Scotswood #NewcastleUponTyne Delaval Arms Scotswood Newcastle upon Tyne in 1975 from the Jack and Geoff Philips Photographic Collection. Built in 1902 by the Northumberland Public House Trust Co under the auspices of Earl Grey. Hats disco advert Evening Chronicle 28 June 1974.

#NewcastleUponTyne Eclipse on Clayton Street West Newcastle upon Tyne, photographed 31st January 2006. Former Durham Ox and Heroes.

#NewcastleUponTyne Clarendon Hotel (now Clarendon House) at the corner of Clayton Street West and Bewick Street Newcastle upon Tyne. Opened as a temperance hotel, this advert for its facilities in the Evening Chronicle of 29th June 1916 "an electric light in each room'.

#PortofTyne Following its collision with the DFDS Ro Ro Ferry Primula Seaways in the Humber Approaches on 3rd December 2015, the patched up Car Carrier City of Rotterdam arrives in the Port of Tyne for repair at A&P Hebburn on this day 23rd December 2015. flickr.com/photos/steve...

#NewcastleUponTyne Andrew Laing Memorial Window, Newcastle Cathedral. Located in St George's Chapel in memory of the Tyneside Industrialist, Andrew Laing. Photographed on this day 23rd December 2015. flickr.com/photos/steve...

#NewcastleUponTyne BBC Radio, opened a station 5NO on this day 23rd December 1922 with premises in Eldon Square. First broadcast was due to be made from there but owing to technical difficulties this was made from the stables of the Co-op warehouse in Blandford Square.

#NewcastleUponTyne No longer with a presence in Newcastle, Barrhead Travel trading in Eldon Square Shopping Centre on this day 23rd December 2015

#Durham Grade II Listed War Memorial in St John's Churchyard, Snod's Edge, County Durham. Photographed 19th August 2001. The memorial, by W Ayton and Sons, was unveiled on 15 April 1922 by Dr Clifton Browne MP and dedicated by Dr Wild, Bishop of Newcastle.

#Durham Grade II Listed church of St John the Evangelist Snod's Edge Durham photographed 19th August 2001. Parish Church, 1836 on new site, replacing St. Andrews, Greymare Hill (q.v.); organ chamber mid-C19, chancel 1903. Wrought-iron ridge ornament and finial cross.

#NorthShields Fires in North Shields on this day in history 22nd December 1853 - report from Thomas Fordyce.

#Gosforth #NewcastleUponTyne John Sykes describes this event in his Local Records for this day in history, 22nd December 1808 A very alarming fire took place in the mansion of Charles John Brandling, esq., at Gosforth

#NewcastleUponTyne John Sykes gives this report in his Local Records for this day in history, 22nd December 1813. Grand dinner at the Assembly-rooms in Newcastle, in commemoration of the deliverance of Holland from French oppression.

#ForestHall Catholic church of St. Mary of the Rosary, Clousden Hill, Forest Hall, photographed on this day 22nd December 2015.

#WhitleyBay Whitley Bay, on this day 22nd December 2017 - sun starting to come out after a morning of grey skies.

#SeatonSluice This notice from the Newcastle Weekly Courant of 22nd December 1827. Earsdon and Chapelry of Horton Association for the Prosecution of Felons was formed as a mutual assurance society to enable local landowners and business's to share the cost of a prosecution.

#NorthShields Grade II Listed former Sailors Home on Borough Bank, North Shields on this day 22nd December 2006. Architect was Benjamin Green. Now apartments. Article from the Newcastle Weekly Courant 24th October 1856.

#NorthShields The navigation lights of North Shields all in one view on this day 22nd December 2006. All four of them.

Monnickendam (a few km further north) is famed for its gevelstenen, or façade stones. I have this beautiful book: