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Cookson Country
Destined for a life at sea
TO go to sea as a teenager would be a daunting prospect at any time, but in war? But then David Robinson had the grounding of South Shields Marine School behind him.
A sailor’s life - if you like it or not!
OLD photographs and paintings offer us a tantalising glimpse of what the old riverside town of Shields must have been like as a port in the 19th century.
Can you fill gap in town’s history?
OUR home towns are such familiar landscapes that we think we know them as well as we do our own faces.
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We get an answer to an exam question
IT has taken a while to return to the subject, but in doing so, I’m reminded of how small even the seafaring world of Shields is.
Here’s the old Grammar School girls
THE words ‘old’ and ‘girls,’ like ‘old’ and ‘boys,’ cancel each other out when put together.
Taking a dip into uncharted waters
IMPRESSMENT into the Royal Navy – the Press Gang – cast a long shadow over Shields and the rest of Tyneside at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Reminder of our lost marine tradition
THE face of South Shields Market Place is to change in coming months with the demolition of Wouldhave House.
Race is on to identify these runners
RUNNING, as a sport, has a long and honourable history around here.
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Take a seat for a squirrel tale
ANIMALS were an early if relatively short-lived feature of the North and South Marine Parks in Shields.
Shedding light on ‘ancient’ Groyne
IT’S one of the most iconic landmarks associated with the lower reaches of the Tyne and Shields.
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Taking a trip down memory lane
IT’S sobering to be reminded of how, walking just a few hundreds yards from the centre of Shields, you’d have once been met with quite different vistas to now.
Can you identify football stars of old?
I’M not confident enough about football matters to speculate what the modern equivalent of this picture would be.
Book heads down the wrong river
IT’S high rushing streams, and low measured estuaries help to make Britain what it is.
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Fitting tribute to HMS Ark Royal
BRITAIN has dispatched its most advanced destroyer, HMS Dauntless, to the South Atlantic as Argentinian opposition to our sovereignty of the Falkland Islands re-ignites.
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Would you Adam and Eve this tale?
AS much as we may think we know where we live, places like Shields really do become a different country when you delve into their licensing past.
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Hats the way it was back then!
THIS is a smashing photograph, albeit I find it rather a bitter-sweet one.
The pages of history
THE sense of relief was overwhelming, I remember. I had misplaced my copy of Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier’s classic novel of youthful rite of passage.
What do you know about the Villa boys?
AFTER more than 70 years, it could be the small chap in the front, if he’s still with us, who holds the key to the puzzle of this picture.
A chance to meet old school friends
IF it was possible to have a scratch ‘n’ sniff version of Cookson Country, this page would sizzle with the tang of vinegar and the hot savoury aroma of chips.
Remember the early days of clubbing?
THE club has always had its own place in the social history of the North East of England.
Tradesmen’s team had their own Demba Baa!
OH dear, this makes you think, not so much of who ate all the pies, but who was IN all the pies!
Well, well, well, look at this!
IT was probably the original source of water for the Roman fort in Shields and was still capable of giving up a clear, pure supply more than 1,500 years later.
Share your wedding-day memories
WAS it in a wartime wedding dress made from parachute silk and with a cardboard ‘cake’ over a plain sponge?
Ray’s capturing Tyne’s history on canvas
AS a young boy, one of Ray Goldsbrough’s pleasures was to cycle across from his home on Wearside to the Tyne.
Delving back into history of Harton
THE stories told by where we live are attracting a new generation of local historians, it’s lovely to learn.
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Weather for Jarrow
Thursday 23 February 2012
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Cloudy
Temperature: 7 C to 14 C
Wind Speed: 25 mph
Wind direction: West
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Sunny spells
Temperature: 4 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 26 mph
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