RARE PHOTOS: The river tyne | Rare Historical Photos

Freedom for Christmas: the extraordinary journey of an enslaved woman to Britain

A newly unveiled statue in North Shields is casting fresh light on the extraordinary life of Mary Ann Macham – a woman whose courage carried her from the brutality of slavery in the US state of Virginia to freedom on the banks of the River Tyne on Christmas Day, 1831.

The Conversation · Dec 23, 2025

‘Proof of celebrity status of gladiators in UK’ coming to Hadrian’s Wall

The knife handle figure, discovered in the River Tyne near Corbridge in Northumberland, is thought to have been bought as a souvenir.

Evening Standard · Nov 15, 2024

Tragedy as second boy dies after getting into trouble in River Tyne

Aras Rudzianskas, 13, lost his fight for life in hospital on Tuesday

Evening Standard · May 22, 2024

End of an era as Tyne-built luxury liner leaves the river 50 years ago

Photographed leaving the Tyne in April 1973, the luxury liner Vistafjord was the last vessel of its kind ever to be built on the river

Chronicle Live · Apr 11, 2023

Bridges over the Tyne in 1957 - watch archive aerial film footage of the river

We see very different scenes from today's in our aerial film footage of the River Tyne and it surroundings from around 65 years ago in our latest offering from the North East Film Archive

Chronicle Live · Apr 4, 2023

A launch on the River Tyne in 1968 - and the lost world of Tyneside shipbuilding

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

Chronicle Live · Mar 28, 2023