Some cool photo archive images:
Children's Room - Mauretania
Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
The children's dining-saloon and nursery on the shelter deck of the Mauretania, was decorated with paintings illustrating nursery ryhmes by the artist J. E. Mitchell of Newcastle.
The rocking horse would have been in high demand by the young passengers on board.
The Mauretania was built by the shipbuilders Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, at the Wallsend shipyard and was one of the most famous ships ever built on Tyneside.
Reference: TWAS:DS.SWH/4/PH/7/6/19
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Brooches at Hoppings
Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Two woman selling brooches at the Hoppings for 6d. (2 ½p in today's money). 1940's
The Hoppings is a popular fair in the North East of England, held in the last full week of June every year on Newcastle's Town Moor, spanning around 40 acres of land.
The Hoppings started out as a Temperance Festival in 1882, when Newcastle Temperance organisations decided to revive the annual gatherings that they had previously held, but included different festivities to coincide, to counter-attract the 'Summer Race Meeting' at Gosforth Park, which was seen as a source of drunkenness.
It proved to be a great success and the fair is still being enjoyed to this very day.
Ref: TWAS:944/2439
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St Mary's Island 1972
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St Mary’s Island looking inland over St Mary’s Bay. The lighthouse was opened in 1898 and cost £8000 to build. Note the breakwater and promenade south of the causeway has not yet been built.
Reference: TWAS: DT.TUR.7.48
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