Steve Ellwood

@tynesnapper.bsky.social

Retired, Local Historian, Snapper, Newcastle City Guide. Author of Newcastle in 50 Buildings, River Tyne, 50 Gems of Northumberland by Amberley Publishing.

#Wallsend On this day 5th August 2015 - ghost sign for the Evening World newspaper which was first published in 1929 but ceased to exist when it was amalgamated into the Newcastle Chronicle on 1932.T Dan Smith is alleged to have painted the sign, he lived just around the corner.

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#Ponteland Grade II Listed Rebellion House, High Callerton near Ponteland, Northumberland, photographed on this day 4th August 2000. C16, altered early C17. The name comes from the story that Oliver Cromwell took refuge in the cottage, then a carter's dwelling during fighting in the area.

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#NorthShields This Victorian Villa on Borough Road North Shields has in its time been residential, Customs and Excise offices and an Employment Exchange. Now serviced offices and in recent times named Amron House. Photographed on this day 4th August 2022. Aerial courtesy of Google.

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#Lanercost #Cumbria Lanercost Priory Cumbria- Memorial of Elizabeth Dacre Howard, Lady Chapel, photographed 26th October 2023. A poignant sculpture in terracotta by Sir Edgar Boehm to represent the infant who died on this day 17th July 1883 aged 4 months, daughter of George and Rosalind Howard.

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#Lanercost #Cumbria Lanercost Priory Cumbrai - Memorial of Elizabeth Dacre Howard, Lady Chapel, photographed 26th October 2023. A poignant sculpture in terracotta by Sir Edgar Boehm to represent the infant who died on this day 17th July 1883 aged 4 months, daughter of George and Rosalind Howard.

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Best kids party I ever went to was in here. Indian mate of my sons’. Family put a proper spread on for the adults. First time I ever had paneer!

Steve Ellwood@tynesnapper.bsky.social · 3w ago

#Ponteland Ponteland War Memorial, located outside of the Ponteland Memorial Hall on Darras Road.Public subscription raised £307 in funding for the memorial which was designed by William Donaldson of Newcastle.The memorial was unveiled by Colonel Riddell D.S.O. on this day 16th July 1920

#Ponteland Ponteland War Memorial, located outside of the Ponteland Memorial Hall on Darras Road.Public subscription raised £307 in funding for the memorial which was designed by William Donaldson of Newcastle.The memorial was unveiled by Colonel Riddell D.S.O. on this day 16th July 1920

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#Killingworth Jigsaw Memorial, Killingworth on this day 16th July 2015 at the White Swan Centre, Citadel East, Killingworth.10 feet in height and 10 feet in width it is composed of 16 stainless steel jigsaw pieces and was constructed by apprentice welders at Swan Hunters

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#Cullercoats On this day, 16th July 2016, Cullercoats Harbour Day. Lifeboats in attendance were the Tynemouth Lifeboat, Spirit of Northumberland 17-20, Blyth's Vic and Billie Whiffen B-776, Cullercoat's Hylton Burdon B-811 and the Tynemouth D Class D-693.

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