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.
#Gibside #Gateshead Funeral hatchment of Hatchment in Gibside Chapel of John, 10th Earl of Strathmore, born 14th April 1769 died 3rd July 1820.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#Gibside #Gateshead Funeral hatchment of Hatchment in Gibside Chapel of John, 10th Earl of Strathmore, born 14th April 1769 died 3rd July 1820.
#Tyneside Interesting piece from the Sunday Sun of this day 22nd November 1953 concerning a 2nd Tyne Tunnel at North/South Shields. 59 years later we did get a second tunnel but parallel to the first.
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#Tyneside Interesting piece from the Sunday Sun of this day 22nd November 1953 concerning a 2nd Tyne Tunnel at North/South Shields. 59 years later we did get a second tunnel but parallel to the first.
#Killingworth West House, Killingworth - photographed on this day 21st November 2015 prior to its demolition and replacement with 11 residential buildings.
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#Killingworth West House, Killingworth - photographed on this day 21st November 2015 prior to its demolition and replacement with 11 residential buildings.
#LaCoruna #Spain Plaque marked 1662 on the outside entrance to the Convent de Domingo La Coruna Spain is thought to originate from the Royal Mint which once stood on the site.
Coat of arms of Philip II of Spain (El Prudente). Crown and necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Coat of arms of Philip II of Spain (El Prudente). Crown and necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#NewcastleUponTyne This event mentioned by John Sykes in his Local Records for this day in history, 20th November 1813: An alarming fire broke out in a building adjoining the Rev. Mr. Pringle's new chapel, in Clavering-place, in Newcastle.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#NewcastleUponTyne This event mentioned by John Sykes in his Local Records for this day in history, 20th November 1813: An alarming fire broke out in a building adjoining the Rev. Mr. Pringle's new chapel, in Clavering-place, in Newcastle.
#NewHartley Sunday Sun on this day 20th November 1955 regarding the New Hartley Technical & Scientific Shifters Association 'Annual Shifters Supper'. Shifters were men who repair the horse-ways and other passages in the mine, and keep them free from obstructions.
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#NewHartley Sunday Sun on this day 20th November 1955 regarding the New Hartley Technical & Scientific Shifters Association 'Annual Shifters Supper'. Shifters were men who repair the horse-ways and other passages in the mine, and keep them free from obstructions.
#Byker #NewcastleUponTyne A snippet from the Sunday Sun on this day 20th November 1955 detailing the change of the cinema at the top of Shields Road, Byker from Regal Cinema to Odeon. Image of Odeon courtesy of Geoff Allan on Flickr flickr.com/photos/14778...
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#Byker #NewcastleUponTyne A snippet from the Sunday Sun on this day 20th November 1955 detailing the change of the cinema at the top of Shields Road, Byker from Regal Cinema to Odeon. Image of Odeon courtesy of Geoff Allan on Flickr flickr.com/photos/14778...
#StPeterPort #Guernsey North Plantation Water Fountain St Peter Port Guernsey photographed 25th August 2025.
Unveiled 1861 and sculptured by H Bisson.
Aimed at use by both humans and dogs.
Unveiled 1861 and sculptured by H Bisson.
Aimed at use by both humans and dogs.
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#StPeterPort #Guernsey North Plantation Water Fountain St Peter Port Guernsey photographed 25th August 2025.
Unveiled 1861 and sculptured by H Bisson.
Aimed at use by both humans and dogs.
Unveiled 1861 and sculptured by H Bisson.
Aimed at use by both humans and dogs.
#Walker #NewcastleUponTyne Winged Victory Memorial Scrogg Road Walker Newcastle upon Tyne - report of its unveiling in the Evening Chronicle on 19th November 1928.
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#Walker #NewcastleUponTyne Winged Victory Memorial Scrogg Road Walker Newcastle upon Tyne - report of its unveiling in the Evening Chronicle on 19th November 1928.
Reposted by Steve Ellwood
Never knowingly undersoil.
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Never knowingly undersoil.
#Northumberland Report in the Evening Chronicle on this day 19th November 1928 of the sudden death of Viscountess Grey of Falloden Northumberland. Interesting that Lord Grey had a private railway station on his estate.
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
#Northumberland Report in the Evening Chronicle on this day 19th November 1928 of the sudden death of Viscountess Grey of Falloden Northumberland. Interesting that Lord Grey had a private railway station on his estate.
#WindowsOnWednesday Galleries of La Coruña Spain - City of Glass.
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#WindowsOnWednesday Galleries of La Coruña Spain - City of Glass.
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#Wallsend Smulders Project UK - Offshore production photographed on this day 19th November 2017.
More @ flic.kr/s/aHskVLMsGs
More @ flic.kr/s/aHskVLMsGs
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
#Wallsend Smulders Project UK - Offshore production photographed on this day 19th November 2017.
More @ flic.kr/s/aHskVLMsGs
More @ flic.kr/s/aHskVLMsGs
#NewcastleUponTyne Advert for Bainbridge & Co, Market St, Newcastle upon Tyne from the Newcastle Weekly Courant edition on this day 19th November 1852. Big business in those days with all things funeral
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#NewcastleUponTyne Advert for Bainbridge & Co, Market St, Newcastle upon Tyne from the Newcastle Weekly Courant edition on this day 19th November 1852. Big business in those days with all things funeral
#NewcastleUponTyne #Gateshead As far back as 1930 the fate of the Tyne Bridge lift was in question - this piece from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle on this day 19th November 1930
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#NewcastleUponTyne #Gateshead As far back as 1930 the fate of the Tyne Bridge lift was in question - this piece from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle on this day 19th November 1930
#Northumberland #Stannington Grade II Listed St Mary the Virgin, Stannington, on this day 18th November 2018. Erected in 1871 to a Decorated Gothic design by Newcastle Architect, R.J. Johnson.Replacing a Norman church built in 1190 on the site of an earlier Saxon church.
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#Northumberland #Stannington Grade II Listed St Mary the Virgin, Stannington, on this day 18th November 2018. Erected in 1871 to a Decorated Gothic design by Newcastle Architect, R.J. Johnson.Replacing a Norman church built in 1190 on the site of an earlier Saxon church.
#Stannington #Northumberland Not often that you come across a Grade II Listed bus shelter, but Stannington, Northumberland have two, both identical, one of which I photographed on this day 18th November 2018. Dating from 1932 and presented to the village by Lord Ridley
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#Stannington #Northumberland Not often that you come across a Grade II Listed bus shelter, but Stannington, Northumberland have two, both identical, one of which I photographed on this day 18th November 2018. Dating from 1932 and presented to the village by Lord Ridley
#NewcastleUponTyne Canny door handle - Newcastle Civic Centre, on this day 18th November 2022.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#NewcastleUponTyne Canny door handle - Newcastle Civic Centre, on this day 18th November 2022.
#Cherbourg #France St Mary Chapel in the Basilica of the Holy Trinity Cherbourg France, photographed 18th August 2025.
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#Cherbourg #France St Mary Chapel in the Basilica of the Holy Trinity Cherbourg France, photographed 18th August 2025.
