Tyne & Wear Archives Service

29/11/2024

For Friday's Explore Your Archive it's all about animals. Here we have delighted children taking a ride on a mechanical elephant on South Shields Promenade with a curious and amused audience, in August 1950.



South Shields Museum & Art Gallery South Tyneside Council Shields Gazette

28/11/2024

Thursday's Explore Your Archive theme is Family. Here's an picture of the Spence family ice skating in North Shields at Christmas in the 1880s - a mere 140 years ago!

North Tyneside Council

27/11/2024

Wednesday's Explore Your Archive theme is Disco!

We know it's not exactly 'disco' dancing but we love this image of a room of many couples dancing at the Majestic Ballroom, Pier Parade, South Shields, in February 1952.

South Tyneside Council South Shields Museum & Art Gallery Shields Gazette

26/11/2024

For Tuesday's Explore Your Archive for the theme of Mythology we have this photo from August 1950 taken at South Shields beach - but worthy of any 'picture book' Greek Hero!

South Shields Museum & Art Gallery South Tyneside Council Shields Gazette

25/11/2024

We're joining Explore Your Archive this week. Monday, we share a photo of a Vogue fashion display in the window of Bainbridge & Co in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1948 for . Many of you will remember in Newcastle is now John Lewis & Partners .

07/11/2024

'Listening Between the Lines: The Emotional Gap' is the second in a series of blog posts by Richard Bliss, the Artist in Residence at Tyne & Wear Archives. Richard has been delving into the sound archives; here, he reflects on the personal stories of men from Byker and South Shields, graphic wartime memories and the emotion in their voices, the power of their own stories.

This is the second in a series of posts by Richard Bliss, Artist in Residence at Tyne & Wear Archives, October 2024.

15/10/2024

You can now read part 1 of our our artist-in-residence Richard Bliss' blogs as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project.

Here, Richard reflects on the story of Harry Dawson, ‘thrust’ into an orphanage age 8.

British Library

This is the first in a series of posts by Richard Bliss, Artist in Residence at Tyne & Wear Archives, October 2024.