Well, if you have read my previous posts you will know I keep my Blog to talk about things close to my heart. For this posting I am breaking my golden rule. Not more than thirty minutes have past since I said goodbye to a neighbor friend. For more than …
My thoughts this month are around something I have felt before, and still have no explanation for… Déjà vu… What is Déjà vu?. Well, most all of us are aware it means to experience the illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time. Have you …
Born on November 3rd 1822, Sir Charles Mark Palmer a successful shipyard/steel company owner not only gave Jarrow much needed employment he was also responsible for the building of a much needed hospital. He was married three times. His first wife Jane was the daughter of Ebenezer Robson who hailed …
I came across the following eerie story in an old newspaper clipping (Shields Gazette 2005). The story was wrapped around Boldon Colliery Coal Mine. Boldon Colliery used to be a mining village in the North East of England. The village, more like a small town these days, is still there, …
Well what do you know our Government is thinking about opening what they term Poly clinics. This is not a new idea Germany has had these kind of walk-in clinics, with everything but the kitchen sink built in to them, for some time now. We are told that if and …
I guess the best way to start this post would be with a question, everyone seem to be asking, should the UK law be changed to allow the 16 to 18 year old to be able to order, and drink alcohol in a pub?… At the moment the law allows …
Sir Charles Mark Palmer and his brother George set up a shipyard at Jarrow on the south bank of the River Tyne. Jarrow lies between Hebburn and South Shields. The year was 1851 and the new company was opened on the site of an earlier yard, that had built wooden …
My Blog postings have slowed down some over the last month. I was hoping to give the website a new face lift, for the time being I am going to stick with this one for the minute. Anyway you did not pay me a visit to listen to my sad …
Come the 1900′s Palmer workforce would be in excess of 9,000 men and boys. Charles Palmer also held major interests in the local Coal Mining industry. With this in mind Charles wanted to ferry coal to London, from the Durham coal fields, using his own steam collier ships. This is …
The ‘John Bowes’ had a long life span. Some 81 years in which she served as a stores vessel in the Crimean War, under went several name changes, survived many collisions and carried general cargo instead of coal. While under one of her many name changes ‘Villa Selgas’ sadly the …
