Shields Gazette - Cookson Country Feed

Roman treasure returns to Tyneside

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:10 GMT

THE Roman era can feel impossibly beyond our reach at times.

Brave sacrifice of ‘surplus’ seamen

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:11:48 GMT

WALKING to work, I pass the statue of the Man With The Donkey in Ocean Road, where the wreaths recently laid there on ANZAC Day increasingly fade and become windblown.

The day that Johnny Cash came to South Shields

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:14 GMT

SOUTH Tyneside is set for a cracking summer, with the promise of headline music acts including Joe McElderry, McFly and Blue on stage on the seafront.

Time to remember veterans of Korea

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:26:28 GMT

NORTH Korea has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently but, come this summer, the name, for a time, will evoke only bravery and sacrifice.

Best bib and tucker for a stroll along the front

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:21:32 GMT

I LOVE this photograph. I love it for all the things in it that you’re not allowed to do any more, like just pulling your car up on to the grass when you fancy having a picnic, or eating fish and chips out of newspaper, which I like to think is what the chap over on the left is doing. Did he buy them from Frankie’s at the Pier Head?

Park was the place for cake

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:18:22 GMT

WELL, the location was under our noses all the time!

Search is on for the Hull family

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:44:22 GMT

JUST the other day, I was talking about the place of churches in the family and social history of a community.

Where did the David Marley end her days?

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:38:58 GMT

THE number of ships now frequenting the Tyne, as shown in pictures elsewhere in the paper this week, can only warm the hearts of river watchers.

Did brains behind Dambusters raid visit Shields?

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:36:06 GMT

SEVENTY years ago tonight, a specially formed RAF squadron took off to undertake the bombing of the German Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams.

Remember heroes of the night Shields burned

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:39:40 GMT

IT was the night South Shields experienced hell on earth.

New pool will be seafront’s third

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:21:52 GMT

THE construction of the new swimming pool at the Pier Head in Shields continues apace – though perhaps not pacey enough for those like me who can’t wait to baptise it.

When Churchill was on the Tyne

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:15:35 GMT

THE interest in the old mail boats that have operated from the Tyne over the years remains unflagging.

Project will recognise war buildings

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:03:25 GMT

THERE is a certain irony in having written about the old Victoria Sea Water baths in Shields elsewhere on the page today.

Mourning the great churches

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:45:58 GMT

ONE aspect of the decline of religious observance, and the break-up of the communities that supported them, is that we have lost some beautiful old churches in this area over the years.

Do you recognise this park picture?

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:44:54 GMT

WELL that was a lovely taste of summer that we had – though, at the time of writing, it’s back to square one with wind and rain.

Jimmy captured communities we’ve lost

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:46 GMT

AS coincidences go, it’s a smashing one.

When parks were places you could still go at night

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:57:57 GMT

PARKS are places you stay out of after dark these days.

More than one pool at the seafront

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:31:39 GMT

WELL the mistake was in thinking that there was only ever one swimming pool on the foreshore.

Atlantic crossing claimed so many

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:40:43 GMT

HER story is moving, the more so for being nowhere near unique.

HMS Ark Royal’s end not so illustrious

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:39:55 GMT

THE fortunes of two of the finest Tyne-built ships could not contrast more widely at present.