This is very exciting Newcastle City Council! We can't wait to see it. Here are some illustrations from the 1800s of the old Butcher Market & the general and vegetable markets (ILL/11/204, ILL/11/205, ILL/11/206). Take a closer look on CollectionsCaptured collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/search…

Some very rare Victorian ‘czapkas’ have come up on the Saleroom. The skull and bones of the 17th Lancers - “the death or glory boys” - is probably the most well known, but the black and white plumage of the 9th Lancers would look good on the Gallowgate End the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…

The South Shetland Islands were first discovered in 1819 by William Smith from Blyth (in a ship that had been built in Blyth too).

Rome visitors/residents, don’t miss this opportunity to see the oldest English institution outside England! For the first time ever, the 700-year-old Venerable English College is opening its doors to the public for tours every Saturday in English & Italian artwonders.it/sito-culturale…

Get yourselves down to Beamish - we always understand the assignment …

The fire’s on and Nancy’s thrilled

Episode 3, Series 2 of Colin from Accounts - ‘Heavy’ - is pretty much perfect tv. Bravo Patrick Brammall 👏🏻

“It’s definitely better than sitting in the house in North Shields”. I love Richie’s travelogues.

One of the dads just said to me “did you see that big lad at the U13s match at Crawcrook last season? I swear he went off for a shave at half time.”

This is a genuinely troubling development

By eck, what would Fred Trueman have made of this?

Haaland missed out on three consecutive league hat-tricks this afternoon, but Dixie Dean did it for Everton in their title-winning campaign of 1927-8, as did Jack Balmer for Liverpool in 1946-7 - who also won the league that season.

Great start in the Victorian bathing costume strip

RIP Tito Jackson. I don’t condone your rule of Yugoslavia, but no one can argue with the tunes.

Named after a Tyne collier that brought sea coal down from Newcastle to London and would berth next to the pub. It was on those coal boats that Captain Cook literally learned the ropes as a young seaman.