AT the end of the 1940s to early 1950s Tynemouth Sailing Club arranged a programme of winter racing at Ryton using the boathouse as a base. At high tide during these races there was sufficient depth of water to be able to sail ...
MY brother and I recently completed a walk to Darden Lough and then continued a short distance to Little Lough, where we bounced on the floating sphagnum moss growing on the water’s edge. From there we did some heather bashing to ...
ON September 3, 1939 — the first day of war with Germany — the 13,500-ton liner Athenia was lost in the North Atlantic. Outward bound from Liverpool to Montreal and carrying 1,100 passengers, she was torpedoed and sunk some 250 ...
I READ the article by Anthony Toole — ‘Over Edlingham Hills to the Black Lough’ (Issue 110) — with great interest. It is indeed a lovely area, and Caller Crags especially is a most evocative place, with faint marks in the ...
SOME time ago a reader was asking for information about the prisoner-of-war camp at Featherstone. In 1939, before I became an architect, I was a tea boy working for Cackett, Burns, Dick & Mackellar in Newcastle. I went with one of ...