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Lasalle

6th June 2011 By: Graeme Rigby

We've just got beack from showing Byker (1983) and Today I'm With You (2010) at Lasalle documentary film festival in the Cevennes - great organisers, great audiences, great films and a great place....more »

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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.

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.