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July 2008

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Collection and cataloguing of previously unpublished photographs of North Tyneside people and places, taken and kept by local residents during the 20th century to add more material to the current limited supply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The benefit of the work will be that unique and unpublished material, currently in private hands, will be safeguarded and made available to future generations.

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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We are delighted to have been given access to a substantial collection of local photographs taken by photographer Ernest Storey. 

Ernest has spent many years recording places and events in the area and over the coming months we will be adding some of his images to the website. 

He remembers one event particularly, the fire that destroyed the Plaza in Tynemouth in 1996, go to the news page to see an image showing the scene as the fire was being extinguished.  Look out for more of Ernest's photos soon.