Amber News

Captured in Amber, Tyne Tees TV, Fri 1 Aug, 8pm

30th July 2008 By: Graeme Rigby

Amber defies Gravity in surviving 40 years, says Lord Puttnam. Other people say all sorts of other things about us... We say other things about us... This Friday, Tyne Tees TV broadcasts [Captured...more »

Side Cinema Searching for a Trainee

23rd April 2008 By: Graeme Rigby

12 months @ two and a half days per week, fee: £6,000

Amber is looking for an energetic, imaginative and self-motivated individual who will take full advantage of this traineeship in cinema...more »

Step by Step back online

21st February 2008 By: Graeme Rigby

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's great exhibition Step by Step is back on the website. We took this 1980s documentation of a North Shields dance school offline, when we found that ...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.