A collection of old public houses around the Backworth and Whitley Bay area.

The Wheat Sheaf at New York, the Fox Hunters Inn at Hillheads, Whitley Bay and the old Northumberland Arms at West Allotment. The last was rebuilt and is now a Sambucas I think. The Northumberland Arms retained a few older structures behind it. They’re still extant and are supposedly from the Hope coal pit which stood at the site.

https://twitter.com/tynesnapper/status/1548662697805287424?s=46&t=GqBaNRD4xVqgMV_7F7o01Q

I think we've found most of the Victorian postboxes in Newcastle, and a fair few of Edward VII. Sadly there's some areas, mostly West End, with no 1890s maps available.

Historic postboxes really help us understand historic population density as well as catchment points. The historic centres of settlements are evident.

Lots of post boxes were put on roads where people would often travel between towns and villages, where a post office might not have been. This is still the case today - I found a newish one on the main road past Bowsden last yr.

A rare shot here which I don’t recall ever seeing before.

This is one of Stephenson’s earliest locomotives, probably Killingworth Billy, at West Moor pit, Killingworth before it was put on display on the High Level Bridge. This would date the photo before 1881 if it is Billy. This is the site of the pit today - a real ground zero of railway engineering. Stephensons workshop was only down the road adjoined to his cottage.

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So excited to announce this year's History Hike. Last year we raised £710 for Macmillan walking from Newcastle to Alnwick and sharing the local history on the way.

This year i'm doing 50 miles between Hexham and Hartlepool in aid of @NEAutismSociety.

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🧵 I'm walking from Hexham to Hartlepool across old Roman roads and forts, Victorian waggonways, the Durham pit towns and finally the coast. I'll be doing it all over 3 days with my camera, drone and plenty of snacks to keep me going...!

Good morning. I'd like to tell yous a bit about Theo Jones, a private in the First World War and the first to have been killed in action on British soil. Of course though, he was much more than that.

🧵 Theo was born in Darlington in September 1885 to John and Lettie Jones, Liverpool born. By the time he reached 16 he was a trainee teacher, and eventually went on to teach at St Aidan's in Hartlepool. He did this for the next 12 years or so, residing at 14 Dorset Street.

More relics on the banks of Bill Quay. See those sticky out bits of concrete? They’re old slipways for shipbuilding. A yard was first set up here back in 1820 by William Boutland, and later taken over by Robert Harrison. It still repaired ships into the 80s here.

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Those concrete posts look to be the remains of the cranes which stood here til closure too. I think that’s the same property in the background.

Good morning!

As promised, I’ve started our 3rd big mapping project - The Shipbuilding Archive. This will, eventually, record every known historic shipyard in the North East featuring photos, maps and searchable items. I’m very excited for this one! (1/) The archive will focus on shipyards, not ships. Websites like tynebuiltships.co.uk have already done an incredible job logging vessels built on the Tyne, and it’s not an area of expertise to do justice on places like the Wear, Blyth etc. I’ll more be focusing on the built…

Did a lovely quick walk down some of Newcastle’s more *under appreciated* streets to get some Easter Eggs from town so here’s a quick photographic thread of some cool interesting things! For starters, here’s Ouseburn School. Opened in 1893, it accommodated 1928 scholars. It’s mantra was to teach vocational subjects rather than academic, focusing on cooking, workshops and art.