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10 years since Newcastle United's last European away day: 10 photos of fans in Lisbon, Portugal
Newcastle United FC
More than 3,200 Newcastle United fans made the 1,600-mile trip to watch their team face Benfica in Portugal in the Europa League quarter-final on April 4, 2013
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The lost Gateshead cinema that attracted moviegoers for half a century
Gateshead
From the Capitol, to the Classic, to the Cannon - the cinema in Low Fell, Gateshead, pulled in the punters for more than 50 years
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Tyneside in 1978 - 10 photographs from around our region 45 years ago
Newcastle upon Tyne
Our 10 photographs from the ChronicleLive archive recall some of what was going on around our region in 1978
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Newcastle's Bigg Market and Quayside - 1985-2000: 10 photos of nights on the Toon
Newcastle upon Tyne
Our 10 photographs of ladies and gentlemen enjoying fun nights out in Newcastle city centre are from the Facebook page, The Bigg Market/Quayside 1985-2000
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The Vikings on Tyneside - and the legacy of the seaborne invaders from the North
Newcastle upon Tyne
The first Viking longships appeared off the North East coast in 793 when the monks of Lindisfarne felt the full force of the fearsome new warrior invaders from Scandinavia
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A vanished rural North East railway station - and its rebirth in a new location
County Durham
Like so many rural railway stations, the early decades of the 20th century saw a fall in passenger numbers at Rowley, County Durham. After 1939 the station was only open to goods trains, and closed completely in 1966
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A launch on the River Tyne in 1968 - and the lost world of Tyneside shipbuilding
Wallsend
The oil tanker Nacella, launched at Swan Hunter's Wallsend yard 55 years ago, was just one of the hundreds of vessels built during the heyday of the River Tyne's shipyards
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How millions visited Newcastle Exhibition Park to take in a momentous event
Newcastle upon Tyne
The 1929 North East Coast Exhibition held on what is today Newcastle’s Exhibition Park was intended to showcase the industrial talent of the region at a time of deepening economic hardship
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100 years of LNER: A new service that connected Newcastle and London in just four hours
Newcastle upon Tyne
As LNER celebrates its centenary year, we recall the Silver Jubilee train of 1935 whose introduction meant people could travel faster between Newcastle and London than ever before
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How the Flying Scotsman was derailed at Cramlington during the 1926 General Strike
Cramlington
A public meeting will recall the events of May 10, 1926, when striking miners sabotaged the London to Edinburgh mainline at Cramlington, leading to the derailment of the Flying Scotsman
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Tyneside in 1968: 10 photographs from around our region 55 years ago
Newcastle upon Tyne
Our 10 striking photographs from the ChronicleLive archive recall some of what was going on around our region in 1968
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A night out in Newcastle in 2006: 10 photos of lads and lasses in the Toon
Newcastle upon Tyne
Our 10 photographs from the Chronicle's former Bigg Night Out section recall ladies and gentlemen and lasses having fun in Newcastle city centre 17 years ago
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A forgotten deadly train crash at Felling on the outskirts of Gateshead
Gateshead
On March 26, 1907, the Leeds to Newcastle express was hurtling along the line at Felling on the outskirts of Gateshead when a major derailment took place with tragic consequences
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The execution of notorious mass killer, 'Dark Angel' Mary Ann Cotton 150 years ago
County Durham
On March 24, 1873, Mary Ann Cotton was hanged at Durham jail for the murder of her stepson and the deaths by poisoning of 11 of her children, three husbands, one lover, and her mother
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Arbeia Roman fort at South Shields to re-open to the public for the summer season
South Shields
A new installation will examine the local community's responses to the past and how the tombstone of Regina at Arbeia represents diversity and internationalism
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Tynemouth Plaza - a vanished seaside attraction that stood for nearly 120 years
Tynemouth
The imposing venue traded under a variety of names across nearly 120 years - Tynemouth Aquarium and Winter Garden, Tynemouth Palace, and finally Tynemouth Plaza
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Get Carter: Five more then-and-now Tyneside location scenes from the classic film
Newcastle upon Tyne
Our selection of Get Carter then-and-now shots include well-known scenes in Newcastle, Gateshead and Hebburn, while the movie was also filmed further afield in Northumberland and County Durham
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Bridging the gap at Byker in Newcastle's East End for nearly one and a half centuries
Newcastle upon Tyne
Byker Bridge, spanning the former industrial Ouseburn Valley, with its factories, workshops and chimneys, opened to pedestrians in 1878, and to carriages and carts a year later
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Hold the front page! 400,000 historical newspaper pages made free to public online
Heritage
The newspapers - courtesy of the British Newspaper Archive - cover a period between 1847 and 1920 across 67 national, regional and local titles
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Tyneside 60 years ago: 10 photographs from around our region in 1963
Newcastle upon Tyne
Our 10 striking photographs from the ChronicleLive archive recall some of what was going on around Tyneside 60 years ago
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A night out in Newcastle in 2004 - 10 photographs of lads and lasses having fun
Newcastle upon Tyne
These ladies and gentlemen were all out on the town in Newcastle 19 years ago - and photographed for the Chronicle's weekly Bigg Night Out feature
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A ticket to ride on the very first day of Tyneside's newest electric trains
Newcastle upon Tyne
85 years ago, the first electric train on the Newcastle to South Shields line was pulling into South Shields station right on time at 11.56am
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How Newcastle's last public execution took place in front of a huge, bloodthirsty crowd
Newcastle upon Tyne
160 years ago, large crowds gathered in Newcastle to watch the execution of 19-year-old George Vass who had raped and murdered a woman before dumping her body
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TV comes North: Event will highlight the story of television in our region
Northumberland
Watch a clip from TV Comes North to Hexham, an event presented by the North East Film Archive, looking back at television programming in the North of England
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