Sailing ship Mount Stewart, photographed by Sam Hood.
A cavalcade of Newcastle shipping
Newcastle has long been a busy shipping centre, and the list of ships to have visited the city would be enormous - if it was even possible to compile. The interwar years were very busy, and our collection of negatives from that period is especially fascinating, particularly given the often-tragic fates that awaited some of the vessels during World War 2. Here are a few examples of some of the ship photos that appear in our most recent book, Travelling Through Time. The lovely photo at the head of this post shows the Glasgow-built steel ship…