Posts by venue: Collections & Objects

Memories of the Hancock Museum (part 1)

Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Great North Museum: Hancock   Local History
Posted by administrator on March 31, 2015     Permalink     Comments (5)

Like many people who grew up on Tyneside, my first memories of the Great North Museum: Hancock (then the Hancock Museum) came as a child.  For me, however, the most enduring memory is that of standing outside the museum.  From… Read more

Crime and punishment in North Shields

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on March 12, 2015     Permalink     Comments (8)

Back in November 2010 Tyne & Wear Archives was given a photograph album  of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 (TWAM ref. DX1388/1). The album contains over a thousand mugshots of prisoners and several… Read more

Conservation on Display

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum
Posted by administrator on March 11, 2015     Permalink     Comments (2)

The conservation department have got together to show a sample of some of the work that we do in the studios across the venues several objects were conserved or part conserved for an exhibition which is on display on the… Read more

The Neptune Shell Shop bracelet and the response to the shell crisis of 1915 – Part 2

Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Local History   Maritime History   Segedunum Roman Fort   Social History   The Archives   World War 1
Posted by administrator on January 29, 2015     Permalink     Comments (4)

On December 5th 2014 I posted about a gold bracelet we had recently acquired, and its connection with the manufacture of 6” shells in the Neptune Engine Works of Tyne shipbuilders, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson. The post was illustrated… Read more

Were your ancestors apprentices at the Elswick Works?

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on January 28, 2015     Permalink     Comments (13)

I’m pleased to report that work is progressing well on the ‘Workshop of the World’ project to catalogue our Vickers Armstrong archives collection. I’ve recently been working on the firm’s administrative records, which include a large quantity of agreements. Many… Read more