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News Archive 2008

July 2008

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We have recently been awarded a Heritage Lottery Find grant to further develop the web site to include sound clips and a photograph gallery.

The project will focus on the collection and cataloguing of two types of 20th century heritage that is not formally collected in North Tyneside at present.

The addition of a sound archive to the existing website so that visually impared people can hear the stories currently stored on the site.

Collection and cataloguing of previously unpublished photographs of North Tyneside people and places, taken and kept by local residents during the 20th century to add more material to the current limited supply of photographs available in the borough.

The benefit of the work will be that unique and unpublished material, currently in private hands, will be safeguarded and made available to future generations.

January 2008

Collingwood School, Spring Gardens, about 1950

Photograph of a classroom at Collingwood School, Spring Gardens, about 1950

The project recently received this photograph as part of an email, the email goes on to say "I contiue to find other photographs taken while I was living in North Shields which might be of interest. Here is one of my classroom at Collingwood School, Spring Gardens, about 1950. Recognise anybody? Perhaps someone may remember Mr Turnbull, the headmaster and others on the staff."

Do you recognise anyone on the photograph? If so please contact us, via the contact page on the website.

 


 

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100 Memory Challenge

Staff and volunteers in the RPRF project have launched a ‘one hundred memory’ challenge and we’d be delighted if any of our website visitors would like to be part of it. 

The aim is to collect 100 new memories by 31st March 2012 and display them on our website.  Memories can cover any subject that has a connection to North Tyneside in the 20th Century and they can be short or long, poetry, prose, spoken, photographic etc, etc. 

Each contributor will get a presentation set of their memory, which makes a nice gift for members of the family. 

If you’d like to find out more or send in a draft of your memory please use the ‘Contact Us’ page on the website.