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Tyne & Wear Archives Service

Preserving the Past for the Future

Tyne & Wear Archives Service is the record office for the cities and metropolitan districts of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Gateshead, South Tyneside and North Tyneside. We preserve documents relating to the area from the 12th to the 21st century, and the service is free for everyone to use.

Callers Fire

Brunel Letters

Who knew that Brunel was responsible for the construction of Monkwearmouth Docks, on the north side of the River Wear?

Archives North East

NESAG Newsletter

The second newsletter from the North East Slavery & Abolition Group of volunteers who worked on the Remembering Slavery 2007 project is now available.

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Find out about our outstanding shipbuilding and maritime trade collections
Captain Peackock: Lice Hunter
Find out about our outstanding shipbuilding and maritime trade collections
Mauretania minisite
archives north east

News

Brunel Letters
February 2008
Callers Fire
December 2007
New Workshops
October 2007