What’s On

‘That’s Women’s Work’, an exhibition about the important role of women in fishing and maritime industries over time is now open at the Old Low Light Heritage Centre, North Shields Fish Quay.

£4.00

The Linskill family of North Shields play an important part in the community at the mouth of the Tyne.

£4.00 or Free for members.

Mindfulness Drop-In Class lead by Michael Atkinson of the School of Mindfulness

Donation (Suggest £3-£5).

Explore the history of Clifford’s Fort between 1536 and 2021, the Tyne Lifeboats, RNLI Lifeboats, Shipwrecks and Tyne Harbour

£4.00

We are Rosie Morris and Harriet Sutcliffe, two artists working with English Heritage on an exciting new art project responding to Tynemouth Priory and Castle. 

Free

This illustrated talk by David Hirst looks at the development of the Fish Quay as shown in the paintings of artists from the 1800s to the present day.

£4.00 / Free for members.

This illustrated talk by David Hirst looks at the development of the Fish Quay as shown in the paintings of artists from the 1800s to the present day.

£4.00 / Free for members.

Explore the history of Clifford’s Fort between 1536 and 2021, the Tyne Lifeboats, RNLI Lifeboats, Shipwrecks and Tyne Harbour

£4.00

Explore the history of Clifford’s Fort between 1536 and 2021, the Tyne Lifeboats, RNLI Lifeboats, Shipwrecks and Tyne Harbour

£4.00

Old Low Light Heritage Centre volunteer and retired architect, Stuart Barlow, talks about four of the churches designed by famous North East architect, John Dobson (1787-1865).

£4.00

Explore the history of Clifford’s Fort between 1536 and 2021, the Tyne Lifeboats, RNLI Lifeboats, Shipwrecks and Tyne Harbour

£4.00

Old Low Light Heritage Centre volunteer Mike Coates shares his research into the life and times of abolitionist John Foster Spence (1818-1901). Spence's extraordinary six decades of unstinting public service to the community of Tynemouth/North Shields earned him the nickname of 'The Grand Old Man of Shields'.

£4.00