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What's the point in all this public art?
The North East is peppered with art. Short term cycles of government investment and regeneration programmes can leave them stranded,...

Maud Webster
1 day ago9 min read


Power to all people? The 1960s fight for Byker
Byker is a monument of community-driven design - still influencing and still standing as a listed landmark. Sally Watson & Silvie Fisch...
Sally Watson & Silvie Fisch
Apr 248 min read


Matthew Rogerson and Potshare Bowling
As a follow up to his excellent Draughts piece, Peter explores another forgotten working class sport. One where pitmen hurled whinstone...

Peter Welsh
Apr 1114 min read


R. Blackett Charlton - An Engineering Enterprise
Blackett Charlton's were a Geordie firm through and through, which you might expect given two surnames laden with Northumbrian heritage....

Charlie MacCallam
Nov 14, 202416 min read
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