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Byker
from: Photography
The seminal documentation of a threatened and eventually demolished working class, terraced house community in Newcastle upon Tyne’s East End by a founder member of Amber, who lived there when the collective first moved to the North East of England in 1969. Book available. See also Amber's film, Byker.
T Dan Smith (1987)
from: Amber Films
A powerful, experimental feature film juxtaposing political drama and challenging interviews with T Dan Smith and other key figures associated with his controversial reign as Leader of Newcastle City Council in the 1960s.
Among the most interesting and socially relevant of contemporary films. New Statesman
Byker (1983)
from: Amber Films
Richly evocative of British working class community, a partly dramatised documentary built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs of the Newcastle terraced community in which she lived before it was demolished to make way for the Byker Wall.
Book available also
Quayside (1979)
from: Amber Films
A black & white documentary film that formed part of Amber's campaign to preserve the architectural heritage of Newcastle's Quayside, then threatened by the city's plans for redevelopment.
Quayside
from: Photography
A documentation from 1979 of the area of Newcastle where the collective is based, then under threat of redevelopment. The exhibition and publication (full text included here) featured photographs by Sirkka and, fellow Amber member at the time, Graham Smith. The work is linked to Amber's film Quayside.
Urban Landscapes
from: Photography
Landscapes of Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and industrial Northumberland by a photographer who was part of the Side Gallery operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Building the Tyne Bridge
from: Photography
Photographs from the collection of Dorman Long, the builders, of the construction of Newcastle upon Tyne’s George V or Tyne Bridge in the 1920s. They used their existing design for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but the Tyne Bridge was completed first.
Gibson Collection.
from: Photography
Landscapes from the C19th Northumberland landscape photographer John Pattison Gibson, an exhibition developed by Isabella Jedrzejczyk in the early 1980s.
Lee Collection
from: Photography
Street, river and beach photographs from the late C19th and early C20th by the Tyneside photographer who had a portrait studio in the old Eldon Square in Newcastle.
Mauretania
from: Photography
The building of the Mauretania, launched in 1906, by various, mostly unknown, photographers, but including James Cleet of South Shields, an exhibition initially shown by Side Gallery at Swan Hunter's shipyard in Wallsend.
Wheatley Hill
from: Photography
The County Durham mining village of Wheatley Hill documented from the 1920s onwards by a member of the community.