The North East is peppered with art. Short term cycles of government investment and regeneration programmes can leave them stranded, forgotten and neglected. How can we make the most of them? Maud Webster reflects on these ubiquitous and dynamic features of the urban realm, and how they can evolve to foster community and hope for the future. Each morning, heading to work, I pass Newcastle Civic Centre’s River God (1968). This bronze behemoth clings to the side of the Civic by

Byker is a monument of community-driven design - still influencing and still standing as a listed landmark. Sally Watson & Silvie Fisch...

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

Blackett Charlton's were a Geordie firm through and through, which you might expect given two surnames laden with Northumbrian heritage. Charlie MacCallam comprehensively tells the story of this once dominant engineers from its beginning, on the side streets of Newcastle, through its peaks to its recent twilight years. R. Blackett Charlton & Co were a Newcastle company founded by a young engineer, Robert Blackett Charlton in 1860. This engineering enterprise started at the he