A variety of galleries containing archive images of interest and relevance to the North East and the Beamish collections.
Note: These images have come from purchases of prints and negatives, donations by members of the public and re-scans of existing negatives from the Beamish archive.
Gateshead Tramways
- Tram terminus pre extension across the Tyne
- Tram 7 (later 52)
- Trams 18 and 67 at Central Station 09/04/50
- Painting of Tram 9 and Northern General SE4 by G.S.Cooper
- Tram 51 (later works car 45)
- Tram 51 (the second tram to carry this number)
- Tram 52 (formerly 7)
Newcastle Tramways
- Central Station
Sunderland Tramways
- Sunderland 99 – very similar to trams supplied to Blackpool and which became famous as the ‘Balloon’ class.
Seaham Harbour
- Eppleton Hall Paddle Tug August 1967
- Reliant and Conservator assist Falconer 31/08/67
- Reliant 31/08/67
- Ex Londonderry Railway and later SHDC No.1
- No.18 in the mid 1960s (63 I think).
- Another mid 1960s view of No.18.
- Paddle Tug ‘Seaham’ berthed in the South Dock.
Dunrobin
- Dunrobin and 58A at New Romney c1950
- Dunrobin before departure to Canada, taken at New Romney.
Misc Items
- Granton Gas Works Barclay No.5 11/06/1950 Note dismantled locomotive to the right.
- R&W Hawthorn crane engine working adjacent to Newcastle Central Station