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Saturday 21st May 2016, 11.30 hrs: Paxton House, Northumberland, 5 miles west of Berwick-upon-Tweed: The time has come for our Summer outing. Paxton House, an impressive country house and estate completed in 1763, is located some 5 miles west of…
Saturday 21st May 2016, 11.30 hrs: Paxton House, Northumberland, 5 miles west of Berwick-upon-Tweed: The time has come for our Summer outing. Paxton House, an impressive country house and estate completed in 1763, is located some 5 miles west of…
Thursday 21st April 2016: The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House: 7.30pm Society Member Captain Sandy Kinghorn looks at a standard training manual by which many a boy sailor was trained in the last century and a half. Although dated…
8th March 2016: 7.30 pm: The 2016 Collingwood Lecture: ‘The character and role of the Royal Navy in the 21st Century’: Captain Andy Jordan RN, Commanding Officer HMS COLLINGWOOD: The Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School (Performing Arts Centre) Eskdale…
Tuesday 16th February 2016: The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House: 19.30 Mr Bryce Lyons, President of the Asociación Menorca Britannia, lands on our shores to tell us about the wonderful Isle of Menorca and its connections, past and present, with…
Tuesday 12th January 2016 The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House 19.30 A companion presentation to his earlier talk on Warrant Officers, Capt Stephen Healy focuses this time on another group of seamen in the Georgian Navy, the Petty Officers.
Questions and answers from the four main rounds of the Christmas Quiz, plus the additional anagrams round. Click below. (more to follow soon….) 2015 Quiz
Round by round, we will be reproducing the 2015 Christmas Quiz, for those who could not make it. Here is the second of the picture rounds, plus below, you will find the first of the picture rounds, the anagrams round…
4th December 2015 19.00: Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School Eskdale Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4DX (Performing Arts Centre) A’ Collingwood Society Quiz and Social Evening’: Join us for our first end-of-year ‘pub-quiz’. Themed lightly towards matters maritime/Trafalgar/Georgian…
Wednesday 18th November 2015, 19.30 hrs: The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House Society Member and naval architect David Byrne returns to the stage to talk this time about the challenges of towing ‘dead ships’ after a sea battle, be they…
Trafalgar Day 21st October 2015 As usual and as to be expected, the Society is represented at the various Trafalgar Day events, both in the north-east and in London. You are welcome, nay encouraged, to attend! Newcastle: The Cathedral Church…