Steve Ellwood

River Tyne, Author: Steve Ellwood. River Tyne - Amberley Publishing (amberley-books.com) Published 2015. A trip down the North and South Tyne and onwards to the North Sea.

Pineapple pub, Elswick: ready for a trip to Wooler 1914. Months before WWI, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history.

NG 993 Esso Terminal The £2.2M Esso Tynemouth Terminal was opened by Dame Irene Ward MP for Tynemouth on 10th October 1963. It had been operational since 1960. The site covered 47 acres and included storage tanks, pumping equipment, administrative buildings and warehouses.

Tryphena Viola Moseley Palmer, b 1859 @ Sutton Coldfield, Warks, d of James Palmer & Elizabeth Moseley.

A Newburn view of the Percy Pit Heap

Well, that's a name. Tryphena.

Or in agricultural parlance, a mart. A borrowing from Dutch. First recorded 1450 as "a regular gathering for the purpose of buying & selling". OED says archaic & regional. Not in farming circles it isn't, it is alive & kicking!

Sun trying to get out, as I hope it did for all the folk on these buses in the days when the seaside at South Shields was a popular day trip destination from the towns and villages of the Durham coalfield 🌦️

#York All Saints Pavement York Raine Window by Kempe. Saints Aidan of Lindisfarne, Paulinus (first Bishop of York) and Cuthbert (holding St Oswald's head). Reverend James Raine, Chancellor and Canon of York and Rector of the Parish for 28 years. Also a well known archaeologist.

Given to John Foster Spence I believe.

#Ponteland Photographed 17th October 2016 Reverend Frederick William Langton and his wife Tryphena Viola Moseley Tablet St Mary's Ponteland.

Discover connections across communities Penn Sardin Brittany & Herring Girls North Shields. Free event Tues 29th 1pm. #NorthShields800 #WomeninFishing ⁦@LuvNorthShields⁩ ⁦@TWhitleyBay1⁩ @TynemouthGossip⁩ @WomensHistNet⁩ ⁦@litandphil⁩ ⁦@NE_Museums⁩

Enjoying the Sooth Sheelz local history info - got a couple of pics from Westoe rd I took when the church was demolished in 2007 & car sales operated there 2012.

#Wallsend Willington Waggonway photographed on this day 27th July 2013. Discovered in the former Neptune Shipyard, Wallsend during 2013, a 25m section of the Willington Waggonway dating from the 1780's. More @ flickr.com/photos/steve-e…

#Edinburgh Statue to Earl Haig, Edinburgh Castle - on this day 27th July 2017.

#WhitleyBay There was always a grand floral display at Spanish City Gardens, Whitley Bay. These photographs on this day 27th July 2016. The gardens have disappeared under the renovated area.

#NewcastleUponTyne John Sykes gives this report on the first cattle market to be held of The Forth Newcastle upon Tyne from his Local Records for this day in history, 27th July 1830

#NewcastleUponTyne #Gateshead On this day 27th July 2008 the Tyne said goodbye to the Tuxedo Princess. bound for Turkey where she was scrapped. More @ flickr.com/photos/steve-e…

This wrecking ball can seriously damage your city. Newcastle in the 1970's. #Newcastle #Northumberland

'Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.' - Luke 11:9 Join us at York Minster for our worship today, as we seek to understand the mysteries of God's love and generosity. 🧵

Ashingtonian .... My Granda was from Bedlington and lived in Widdrington Station. My great aunts lived in Morpeth. I heard ⬇️ when I was a child so understand it and can "hear it" though don't pretend to speak it!