North Shields

  • North Shields: Pictures Seeking Captions

    North Shields: Pictures Seeking Captions

    29th September 2021

    Photographer Laszlo Torday documented the North East of England, including the North Shields fishing industry, for decades. Yet little is known of him – or about his pictures. Brian W Lavery reports… Day after day, year after year, he went…

  • A monumental effort to get a memorial to lost fishermen in North Shields

    A monumental effort to get a memorial to lost fishermen in North Shields

    9th October 2017

    Hundreds of people turned out at North Shields on Sunday, 24 September, to witness the unveiling of a lasting memorial to lost fishermen. Above: An appropriately dramatic sunrise on unveiling day. The completed sculpture, named Fiddler’s Green, was finally revealed to…

  • Ports in the past: North Shields

    Ports in the past: North Shields

    26th November 2015

    Today widely recognised as the biggest prawn landing port in England, North Shields has a long-standing history as a fishing port. Above: Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth steam drifters, including Sunbeam (under tow by a local tug) and Acorn, berthed in…

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