New Book
Wallsend Through Time
Reviewed by Virginia Armstrong
This wonderfully evocative archive shows photographs of past and present beside each other which is particularly valuable where some of the old buildings still stand, as at Willington Mill, or where the lie of the land is the same, as at Church Bank: or even just to ponder on the changes in our lifetimes, let alone nearly two thousand years. I remember with awe the towering height of the ships under construction in the 1970’s and how shipbuilding dominated the area in every sense, so am pleased to see a photo which demonstrates this. The excavation at Segedunum saw the demolition of many of the former shipyard workers houses off Buddle Street and the huge Wallsend slipway crane has made way for the Willington Gut Marina. It is excellent to have such a good collection of pictures.
City and County
February 2010
