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Our last event of the year is coming up and should prove a popular one. Regular speaker Dr Tony Barrow will present on one of his personal favourite local characters in Bover and his Gang at the Newcastle upon Tyne…

Thursday 7th November 2019:  7.30pm:  the Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House: Collingwood Society 2019 Annual General Meeting, followed by Quiz.   Our AGM meeting is around again.  Business will be expedited as quickly as possible, but is actually both legally…

Gateshead. St Mary’s Churchyard. Sunday 20th October 2019 15.00 At the grave of JW Trotter.  Assemble in the Church (visitor’s centre) from 14.30 onwards. Refreshments available afterwards. Newcastle upon Tyne. St Nicholas’ Cathedral. Monday 21st October 2019 10.00 Assemble in…

Good Day Fellow Society members and Friends of the Admiral, Well, it’s that time of year again…  Pickle Night approaches. Following a successful inaugural event last year, there were calls to repeat it this year, such was the fun had…

Another Society debutant, Terry Walton, is to deliver our next talk – ‘the Funeral of Nelson’ at 7.30 pm, on Tuesday 15th October 2019 at the Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House. Nelson’s funeral was quite definitely the grandest state occasion…

Tuesday 9th July 2019:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House:  7.30pm. Society Member Tim Gittins takes a ‘professional’ look at justice in the Georgian Navy.  Sobering and inhumane by today’s standards maybe, but it has to be recognised as the…

‘Old Sunderland’  (incorporating the Aged Merchant Seamen’s Homes [Trafalgar Square], the Trafalgar memorial, Jack Crawford’s grave, the Sunderland Maritime Heritage workshops, the ‘WILLDORA‘ [Dunkirk little ship] and the Boar’s Head [lunch] Summer Outing time again and this year, we are…

Wednesday 8th May 2019:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House:  7.30pm. Commander Andrew Collier RNR, DL is another Society member making his presentation debut this year.  A past-Commanding Officer of Gateshead’s RNR training establishment, Cdr Collier will be telling us…

The following may be of interest to Collingwood Society members, sharing, as some of us do, an interest in whaling and others in tales from Arctic waters.

Thursday 4th April 2019:  The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House:  7.30pm So… was it ‘Kiss me, Hardy’ or ‘Kismet Hardy’?  This seems to what Nelson’s Flag Captain at the time of his death aboard HMS VICTORY is most remembered for. …