North East Museums

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North East Museums is a major regional museum, art gallery and archives service. We manage nine museums and galleries across Tyneside and the Archives for Tyne and Wear. Here, you can see just some of the photographs which are in our collections.

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Middle Docks and Engineering Company, South Shields, 1976

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  • Miocene said:
    Looks like one of the Leander frigates in dry dock.
  • jbryce1437 said:
    Pretty sure that is the Leander Class Frigate HMS Euryalus in dry dock. She did a short refit on the Tyne and was also the adopted ship of South Shields.
  • Wookie350 said:
    jbryce1437 No, she's definitely a Rothesay class but I can't make out the deck code to work out which one
  • fear uk said:
    Its HMS Yarmouth
  • fear uk said:
    she came in for repairs after collision off Iceland during "cod war".
    The other ships were BP Fern -no4 drydock, MV Penelope Everard, Shell hamble, and the drill ship Dalkieth.

Catherine Cain King

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  • last page said:
    Poor Catherine. She lived in deep Poverty. Look at her torn and worn out clothes.
  • USNchic2 said:
    You can see her top is pinned together to make up for the missing buttons.
  • Sean Coughlin said:
    Probably engaged in pickpocketing too!

John Fatherley, arrested for stealing from a ship chandler's store

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  • optimal chicken said:
    That's a fascinating write-up. Always a big worry to a major employer though, staff all in on stealing from them.
    Personally I'd have thought that they'd get far harsher sentences for it - the value was high. I also question the stock taking methods of the shop owner but then again, if those taking from you do the stocktaking too then you have little chance of finding out..

    One day I'll see a distant relative in these photos. I'll go a little red!
  • North East Museums said:
    Sadly it looks like John Fatherley was killed on 25 September 1916 www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/37009/. "Soldiers Died in the Great War" confirms this man was born in North Shields.
  • Beverley O'connell Richardson said:
    I love this ❤️ John fatherley was my great granduncle from my granddad side my great grandmother was he's sister.

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