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About Tyne & Wear Archives

The Archives hold documents relating to Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Gateshead, North Tyneside and South Tyneside, dating from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Based within Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, the service is free for anyone to use.

Interesting personnel records uncovered by the Sunderland Shipbuilding Archives project

Local history   Maritime History   Social history   Tyne & Wear Archives
Posted by Tyne & Wear Archives on April 23, 2012     Permalink     Comments Off

During the past month I’ve been cataloguing the administrative records of Austin & Pickersgill Ltd and its two predecessor companies, S.P. Austin & Son Ltd and William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd. These include an interesting set of personnel records, which… Read more

Settle Down Cafe hosts Archives Exhibition

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Posted by Tyne & Wear Archives on March 13, 2012     Permalink     Leave a comment

We’ve installed one of our exhibitions at The Settle Down Cafe in Newcastle. It’s called, “Out of One Eye: the photography of Jimmy Forsyth” Why not pop along and have a look…? Let me know what you think. Jimmy Forsyth… Read more

Photographic collection gets its own room in the Archive Stores

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Posted by Tyne & Wear Archives on February 14, 2012     Permalink     Leave a comment

A recent move of material over to the Northern Region Film & Television Archive at Teesside University www.nrfta.org.uk meant that a small room became vacant in the archive stores at Discovery Museum. The Archivists and the Conservation Officers agreed that this… Read more

Revelations of racial discrimination at sea, discovered in the plans of the Sunderland shipbuilding firm, Bartram & Sons

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Posted by Tyne & Wear Archives on January 23, 2012     Permalink     Leave a comment

I’m pleased to report that work continues apace with the Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project. Colin and I are both currently working on the records of Bartram & Sons Ltd. The Bartrams shipyard was located at South Dock, Sunderand and was… Read more

An exciting recent donation of Sunderland shipbuilding archives

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Posted by Tyne & Wear Archives on December 2, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

One of my hopes for the ‘We Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project, when it started in June, was that it would encourage former employees of the shipyards and their families to come forward with fascinating additions to the collections we… Read more

Neptune Yard Launches

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Posted by Tyne & Wear Archives on November 15, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

A recent acquisition for the Archives is the visitors book for Swan Hunter’s Neptune Shipyard covering the years 1910-1963 (TWA ref DS.SWH/5/1/6/3). This volume had apparently been put in a rubbish skip on the closure of the yard in 1988… Read more

Recent developments on the ‘We Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project

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Posted by Tyne & Wear Archives on October 24, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

It’s been an exciting past month on the Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project. For one thing I now have a ‘glamorous’ assistant, Colin Boyd, who will be working part-time with me for the next year. Colin has worked in the shipbuilding… Read more