Paper Sticks: A Childhood in Byker in the 1960s
In his own words, Brian Thompson relives his experience growing up in the midst of a changing Byker - a time when Tyneside flats and the...
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Tom Kelly
- Oct 3, 2022
- 4 min
Broken Glasses by Tom Kelly
As part of the 'North East People's Archive' project, we've asked folk of the North East to submit stories and mementos from some of...
Jack Turner
- Mar 14, 2021
- 5 min
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Byker
Jack Turner explores the beautiful and evocative photographs of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, and how her vision of Byker and its melting pot...
Heather Welford
- Feb 6, 2021
- 4 min
The Shocking Tragedy of Choppington
Heather Welford writes about the tragic tale of Charles, a young child from South East Northumberland who was killed in a saddening turn...
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