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

Whitley Bay, England
Joined December 2010
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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.
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Replying to @TyneSnapper
It was invigorating down there today 😁
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Replying to @TyneSnapper
So would I as I haven't actually looked at it in about 10 years ! I'll have to find it.....
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New followers may be surprised to see posts about the Percy family. I post not out of a genetic deference to the local aristocracy, more so to show (& investigate) their national importance for over 900+ years. There is A LOT more than "just" Alnwick !
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More green grocery controversies. Scallion. 1st recorded in 1393. French. Spring Onion is 1758. We didn't have them growing up, it was just chives out of the garden. For those unaware, I grew up on a farm. Most of the fruit/veg came out of the garden - it's a v big garden...
Replying to @JHCPAL
I’m just going to throw “scallions”in there , to shake it up a bit 🤣
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The North Sea belting Tynemouth pier this afternoon -it was relentless.
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Replying to @TyneSnapper
I have an (expired) lease to part of the Moor. I haven't looked at it for a very long time, but it's from 1820's from memory.
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#Berlin Soviet Union War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin on this day 12th November 2004.
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#NewcastleUponTyneRailway Arch 4 - Westgate Road Application Reference Number: 2026/1486/01/DET Application Type: Detailed Application Proposal: Change of use of commercial unit (Class E) to cocktail bar (Sui Generis). Applicant: Mr Jason Gillam (Liquid Swords) Agent: Mr Paul Watson Location: Liquid Sword, LIQUID SWORD Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1SA Officer: Helen Spoors Decision Level: Delegated decision Application Status: Pending Consideration Received Date: 07-09-2026 Valid Date: 12-11-2026 Expiry Date: 07-01-2027 "The proposal will bring a vacant, previously refurbished commercial railway-arch unit back into active use as Liquid Swords, a small cocktail bar. It retains the existing external form and shopfront, introduces no signage, plant, flue, kitchen extraction or structural extension, and confines the fit-out principally to lightweight internal partitions, finishes, bar furniture and seating. The heritage significance of the site lies primarily in its nineteenth-century railway character, masonry arch form, legibility as part of a repeated group and association with Newcastle's railway growth and Central Station. The proposed use is compatible with the established commercial adaptation of the arches and secures an occupied, maintained and publicly experienced future for a vacant unit." This was the unit in 2017.
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#NewcastleUponTyne Offerings at the flicks as advertised in the Sunday Sun on this day 12th November 1949.
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#NewcastleUponTyne Section of concrete pathway and this definitely goes nowhere, it was never completed - streets in the sky. Photographed on this day 12th November 2013, its at Cale Cross (Newcastle Quayside).
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#NewcastleUponTyne Fly tipping problems on the Town Moor - this notice in The Journal on this day 12th November 1836.
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#NorthShields Photographed 12th November 2026 the Grade II Listed 105 Howard Street North Shields. Built on the site of the former Commercial Hotel and was designed by 1882 by F.R.N. Haswell for the bank of Hodgkin, Barnett, Pease, Spence and Co. Piece in the Journal of 23rd October 1882.
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#NorthShields Snap of the ongoing work to rejuvenate The Magnesia Bank in North Shields this morning, 12th November 2026. Comparison shot from 2017.
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#NewcastleUponTyne Photographed 22nd October 2026 in St Andrew's Church Gallowgate Newcastle upon Tyne the numbered pews.
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#NewcastleUponTyne Photographed 22nd October 2026 in St Andrew's Church Gallowgate Newcastle upon Tyne the Jane Ellison Memorial Tablet. Born 1777 and died 1835 daughter of the Vicar of St Andrew's Nathaniel Ellison. At the time of her death she was living on Saville Row Newcastle upon Tyne.
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A postcard of Percy Street, Newcastle from the early 1900s.
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The 2nd ship built at Palmers
🤖 Made with AI
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Charnel House or Mortuary Chapel About 20 Metres South of Church of St Mary - a Grade II Listed Building in Nonington, Kent dlvr.​it/TWJBwg
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Steve Ellwood retweeted
The team excavating the Hadrian’s Wall fort at Drumburgh have uncovered the foundations of #HadriansWall and the north wall of the fort Granary thanks to #GrampusHeritage #Archaeology #Cumbria
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