News
Photo Appeal
We need photos and reminiscences of the area from the 60s and 70s. Where were you? What were you doing? What was happening? In particular, we only have a few images from the 60s. Go get that box of photos and see if you can help us out!
Use the Comments link below to contact us.
Web Wanderers Meetings
Web Wanderers Oral History and IT Group meetings take place on the second Tuesday of each month at:
7.0pm at Marley Hill Community Centre
New members always welcome....See you there!
Site Statistics - Busy Bunnies....!
Just a note with our site statistics from March 2007 to June 2007....
Hits: 2,103,276
Pages accessed: 170,445
Visits: 64,127
And thank you for your comments on the website. Keep them coming....we do try to answer each and every one.
Weblog Training - Web Wanderers
Gateshead CLC welcomes Whickham U3A Web Wanderers to a hands-on weblog workshop this Tuesday at 12.00 noon. The ins and outs of web publishing and the wider development of Web 2.0 will be discussed too - informally and with loads of opportunties for questions....
Launch Event - Thank You!
A big thank you to everyone who attended the website Launch Event at Gateshead City Learning Centre. I'm sure you'll agree that it was a wonderful and very interesting evening. Our thanks to: The Mayor of Gateshead. Councillor Maureen Goldsworthy, Ian Hunter, Noel Adamson, Colonel Alex Johnson MBE and the young people from Arena North. A special thank you to the staff at Gateshead CLC who ensured the event ran smoothly.
The Mayor of Gateshead - Councillor Maureen Goldsworthy
Margaret Minns and Michael Makepeace
Col. Alex Johnson MBE and friend
U3A colleagues surfing the site
Video and audio to follow soon!
The Mayor of Gateshead to Launch Web Wanderers Website
The Mayor of Gateshead, Councillor Maureen Goldsworthy
Whickham Web Wanderers are pleased to announce that our website will be officially launched by The Worshipful The Mayor of Gateshead. Councillor Maureen Goldsworthy at:
Gateshead City Learning Centre
Monday March 19th at 6.30pm
Those attending will be able to surf the website, browse displays and contribute new content to the website. Our friends from Arena North and Sight and Sound will also be in attendance to conduct audio/video interviews for willing participants who have interesting stories to tell.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Telephone: Peter Bolger 0191 460 2900 for further information.
Web Wanderers Photo Galleries
We're continually adding new photos to our Photo Gallery section - there's now over 1200 photographs, categorised and annotated for your enjoyment.
Check them out and if you've got memories related to any of photos use the Comments link below to get in touch with us. We'd love to hear from you!
iSee Gateshead - Local Studies Image Collection
Gateshead Local Studies has over 10,000 photographs of Gateshead dating from 1860 to the present day.
Beech House, Whickham, 1944
For the past 18 months project staff and volunteers at Gateshead Central Library have been digitising and conserving the photographs thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Over 4000 photographs have been digitised and are now accessible on the iSee Gateshead website at http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk.
You can Search or Browse the images by place, subject or date or you can find out more about Gateshead's history by visiting one of the online Exhibitions.