Billiards, draughts and other pub games formed the cornerstone of leisure time in the 19th century, and still persists today though pale...

We talk a lot about shipbuilding, and for the past 4 months I've specifically been diving into Wearside and its global influence over the...

Morning everyone. Here's a fantastic piece by Miriam Bibby on the subject of dialect - an area which continues to fascinate and engage....

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