Northern art: "The Busy Bar"...Painting by #NormanCornish (British,1919-2014)..The last #PitmanPainter, a miner for 33 years, born in #Spennymoor #CoDurham. Known for his depictions of mining community life..#Humanist.
The wind catching a banner being carried to the 1935 Durham Big Meeting. From an album deposited with the Durham Miners Association by Hanner Swaffer on the Durham Miners Gala of 1935: caption with picture "But a little wilder in a cap!". collections.beamish.org.uk
Photo by R. Payne
Inspiring People to Pick up a Needle Based in: Unit 14, 'Vane Tempest Hall', Maynards Row, Gilesgate, Durham, DH1 1QF
Type : Lantern Slide Description : A view of Benwell Towers Benwell Lane Benwell taken c.1900. The photograph shows the east end of the building which includes the chapel. There is a greenhouse to the right of Benwell Towers.Buildings Collection : Local Studies Source of Information : +DUPLICATE. Benwell Towers became the home of the Anglican Bishops of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1881. Ernest Wilberforce the first bishop to live at Benwell Towers built the chapel. Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 026561
“Northern art: "The Road to Work" 1964...A Mining village by #TomMcGuinness (British,1926-2006)..#PitmanArtist.. McGuinness was a coal miner and artist, conscripted to Fishburn Colliery... #BevanBoy 1944, from #Spennymoor #CoDurham..”
Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 025639
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : H.M.S. Lord Nelson launch at Jarrow 4th September 1906Ships Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 025915
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : A view of the beach in Summer.Sands Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 029065
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : A view of Church Street showing Tyler and Sons shop on the left. The steeple of St. Cuthbert's Church can be seen behind the buildings on the left. Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 026700
A retrospective of the photographer focuses on his images of miners and mill towns, as well as his international assignments for leading magazines
Type : Lantern Slide Description : A studio portrait of a Cullercoats Fishwife taken in 1898. The woman is wearing her working dress which includes a simple bedgown or jacket an ankle length skirt with a tucked hemline and an apron. She has a silk square at the neckline of her dress and is wearing a bonnet with the ribbons hanging down at the front. The Fishwife has a wicker creel (for carrying fish) on her back and is carrying a basket over her right arm.Fishing Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 027463
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : A view of a hight path in Marine Park South Shields taken in c.1890 and showing people out for a walk and sitting on the park benches.Parks Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 026635
Children outside bombed houses, possibly Brambles Farm
A diver working on the limpet dam, 18 October 1948
A frontal shot of the English Restoration residence (circa 1683 onwards) of the Hustler family, Acklam Hall, based in Acklam-in-Cleveland, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire.
A slanted frontal shot of the English Restoration residence (circa 1683 onwards) of the Hustler family, Acklam Hall, based in Acklam-in-Cleveland, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire.
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : A view of the lighthouse and it's outbuildings.Shipping Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 029283
Dancing at the 1935 Durham Miners Gala. From an album donated to Durham Miners Association by Hannen Swaffer showing the 1935 Durham Big Meeting, caption for photograph is "A little bit of pretence about "Merrie England"". collections.beamish.org.uk
A detailed view of wall and public lavatory defects, 13 May 1927
A portrait of the East Durham colliery village under police siege, at the height of the Miners’ Strike. Pattison continued the documentation and published it as No Redemption in 2010.
GOSH, can it really be 50 years? Half a century since brothers Keith and Jim Lipthorpe opened the Fiesta in Stockton – April 8, 1965 – and…
Type : Lantern Slide Description : An 1897 studio portrait of Maggie Brown a Fishwife from Cullercoats. Maggie Brown is wearing her 'best' clothes which include a printed cotton or silk blouse with matching apron. A silk square is worn to fill the neckline of her blouse.Fishing Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 027643
Scaffolding fixed for the riveting up of the west span to the quardrants, 16 October 1948
Description : Launch of the battleship Minas Geraes on 10th September 1908.Ships Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 027834
Description : A view of the dock showing rail lines and rollng stock in the foreground and warehouses and shipping in the background.Shipping Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 025643
Type : Photograph Medium : Print-black-and-white Description : Men file up the bank after leaving work on the 'Mauretania'.Industries Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 026299
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Type : Lantern Slide Description : A photograph of Betty Scott a Fishwife outside her house in Cullercoats taken in 1901. Betty Scott is wearing her working clothes which include a bedgown or jacket a shawl and an ankle-length skirt with tucked hemline. She is wearing a bonnet on her head with a linen cap beneath. She has a wicker creel (for carrying fish) on her back with a basket on top. There is a lobster pot on the ground to the left of Betty Scott.Fishing Collection : Local Studies Source of Information : + Duplicate. See also tinted postcard version acc. no. 52907 Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 027531
Description : Children lined up outside the orphanage.Charitable Institutions Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 025924
Durham Miners Gala - a father tells his daughter that she is not too old for a balloon, July 1947. DA Box 63. collections.beamish.org.uk
Wrecked carriage in Middlesbrough railway station after air raid on August 3, 1942
In the build-up to the Miners' Strike of 1984, Rae was commissioned to develop this portrait of Easington Colliery in County Durham. He worked with the writer Paul Rutishauser.
