Places around Newcastle that tell a story of World War One
Constructing 200 motor landing craft for the Gallipoli campaign
The German attack on a mining village
The man who became famous for carrying wounded soldiers on the back of a donkey
The munitions factory on an island on the Tyne which no longer exists
When Britain was in short supply of timber
One of three brothers to die in the conflict, killed in the Battle of Arras
Cullercoats Coastal Radio Station played a vital, although secret, role in WW1
Days after the sinking of Lusitania, a huge anti-German riot ensued
Soldiers who drowned swimming off the beach – some had never seen the sea before
How the herring market was drowned by war
A forgotten WW1 building in the middle of an opencast mine
Requisitioned by the war office as a hospital
Where thousands of soldiers were prepared for war
When requisitioned the staff had a few weeks to relocate patients or send them home
The protest to feed malnourished school children
Rachel Parsons was the director of her father’s factory during WW1
The Mauretania’s role as a troop and hospital ship during WW1 is much less known
The airman who fell out of his plane and then landed back on it again
The British submarine sunk by friendly fire
The world’s first ever purpose built aircraft carrier
The war efforts of one of Britain’s first Muslim communities
The explosion of a pilot vessel thought to have hit a German mine
Where thousands of men and women produced munitions for World War One
The beginning of raids on Tyneside that killed hundreds of people
