by Peter Bolger | Aug 12, 2014 | Featured, News, Slideshow
Our thanks to correspondent Bill Atkinson for the following, originally posted on our Facebook site. Bill’s father was Wilson Atkinson the eldest son of William Briggs Atkinson who started the Atkinson business (range of fruiterers shops) in North Shields. My...
by Peter Bolger | Jul 24, 2014 | Featured, News, Slideshow
The site has been updated to include photos of the headstones located at Preston Cemetery, North Shields. Where known, the image of the headstone is now featured on each individual victim page. Big thanks to Brian Chandler who had images for the many I had not...
by Peter Bolger | Jul 2, 2014 | Breweriana, Featured, News, Slideshow
Local bottle expert Jim Sutherst writes…. Wilkinson bottles are still being dug up these days but very rarely now. The most easily one found in stoneware is Joseph Wilkinson from Gateshead. Here are some pics of the incised stoneware Wilkinson bottles....
by Peter Bolger | Jul 1, 2014 | Featured, News, Slideshow
Site visitor Brian Chandler recently emailed the following: Excellent site and resource! Last year I carried out research that involved photographing every known casualty of WWI and WWII buried in Northumberland including Newcastle – over 3000 headstones...
by Peter Bolger | May 3, 2014 | Featured, News, Slideshow
Just a short post, as is traditional at this time, to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Wilkinson bombing. We remember those lost in the basement shelter that night, the injured and those involved in the rescue attempts. Lest we forget…
