Ray Standen’s Newcastle earthquake video
Back around Christmas 1989, Islington man Ray Standen, 64, was making a video in Hamilton. It was a jolly yuletide film about the suburb - and particularly the shopping strip…
Our Town Revisited: Newcastle in colour with a focus on the 1970s
This is the Newcastle that I remember from my own younger days. And this is the most personal of our books to date, peppered with fragmentary anecdotes of my memories…
A coffin being carried to Newcastle Railway Station from a tram hearse, circa 1934.
When the dead travelled by tram
In years gone by, the dead were frequent patrons of Newcastle's public transport system. As a matter of fact, the city's tramways offered a unique service, taking deceased folk from…