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Places around Newcastle that tell a story of World War One
Pallion Quay, Sunderland: Landing Craft Designed for Gallipoli
Constructing 200 motor landing craft for the Gallipoli campaign
New Seaham, County Durham: Bombardment
The German attack on a mining village
South Shields, Tyne and Wear: Man with a Donkey
The man who became famous for carrying wounded soldiers on the back of a donkey
Montague Street, Lemington: Canary Island
The munitions factory on an island on the Tyne which no longer exists
Kielder Forest, Northumberland: Supplying Timber
When Britain was in short supply of timber
Percy Park RFC, North Shields: Sportsman at War
One of three brothers to die in the conflict, killed in the Battle of Arras
Cullercoats Radio Station, North Tyneside: Intercepting German Messages
Cullercoats Coastal Radio Station played a vital, although secret, role in WW1
Hope Street, Crook: Anti-German Riots
Days after the sinking of Lusitania, a huge anti-German riot ensued
Blyth, Northumberland: Tragedy at Sea
Soldiers who drowned swimming off the beach – some had never seen the sea before
Beadnell, Northumberland: The End of Herring Fishing
How the herring market was drowned by war
Potland Burn, Ashington: Bomb Store
A forgotten WW1 building in the middle of an opencast mine
Armstrong College, Newcastle: Military Hospital
Requisitioned by the war office as a hospital
The Pastures, Alnwick: Trained for Conflict
Where thousands of soldiers were prepared for war
St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth: From Asylum to War Hospital
When requisitioned the staff had a few weeks to relocate patients or send them home
Usworth Grange Primary School, Washington: Strike
The protest to feed malnourished school children
Parsons Works, Newcastle: The Woman Who Ran a Factory
Rachel Parsons was the director of her father’s factory during WW1
Swan Hunter Yard, Wallsend: The Tyne’s Most Famous Ship
The Mauretania’s role as a troop and hospital ship during WW1 is much less known
North Shields, Tyne and Wear: A Lucky Catch
The airman who fell out of his plane and then landed back on it again
Blyth Docks, Northumberland: The Submarine Cover-Up
The British submarine sunk by friendly fire
Blyth, Northumberland: Setting Aircraft Precedence
The world’s first ever purpose built aircraft carrier
South Shields, Tyne and Wear: The Yeminis of South Shields
The war efforts of one of Britain’s first Muslim communities
South Shields, Tyne and Wear: The Protector
The explosion of a pilot vessel thought to have hit a German mine
Elswick Works, Newcastle: HQ of the Biggest WW1 Munitions Company
Where thousands of men and women produced munitions for World War One
Blyth, Northumberland: Zeppelin L9
The beginning of raids on Tyneside that killed hundreds of people
