A few nice photo archive images I found:
ss. Urania
Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Freeezing - in the Kattegat
January 1895
Reference: TWAS: ds.swh/4/ph/6/2
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Castle Garth
Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Castle Garth, looking towards St Nicholas Cathedral from the corner of Dog Leap Stairs 1881.
Reference: TWAS: dx872/7
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Wonders of the East - Hoppings
Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
'Wonders of the East' performers entertain the public at the Hoppings. 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:944/2444
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