The Old Novocastrian

North Shields Station (photos by Peter Mackenzie)  from the now sadly defunct Northumbrian Railways site.

Lindsay Kemp born South Shields 3 May 1938 
"I'd dance on the kitchen table to entertain the neighbours. I mean, it was a ...

Tynemouth Station showing 'through' lines and (extreme right) south bay platform Why was Tynemouth Station so big? Ty...

RIP Wilf Proudfoot founder of Radio 270. More at  . . .  Radio 270  . . .

An interesting article about local booksellers.

The Keel Row Bookshop in North Shields is selling several contraptions reflecting the history of the Gateshead Psychical Society . . .  ...

Anatole Marquardt Theakstone (1899 - 1980) took up his post in the Modern Languages Department of the RGS in 1925.  His brother Louis Marq...

Vashti Bunyan, singer, born Newcastle 1945. I remember buying Just Another Diamond Day at Windows in 1970

In those days we went regularly to the cinema, or "pictures' as we would have said: to the Rex, the Albion, the Carlton, but mos...

RASH reflects on his time as a master at the RGS and as History HMI in this  interview RASH   a ra...

The end of steam on British Railways did not put a stop to Transport Circle Saturday engine shed visits.  The colliery railways of the...

The Newcastle music scene in the 1980s.

Click on the picture for a short film about the wonderful Keel Row Bookshop .

A Shields Weekly News article [unfortunately not dated] spoke of "distinct ethnic areas": (quoting "an old Shields residen...

Tyne Bridge Publishing are collecting memories from the 1950s for a new book: 'That'll be the Day! 1950s Newcastle' which they ...

Bill Feaver talks about the Pitmen Painters on Michael Portillo's Great Railway Journeys.

The Society of Friends or 'Quaker' burial ground at the north end of John Street in Cullercoats was in use from 1661 to 1818 and...

Tynemouth trams carried the magnet and wheel emblem of their parent British Electric Traction company. I still have a magnet and wheel...

A familiar crest - this time from a Newcastle tram at Beamish