Place explored through a personal selection of the lives, novels, art, architecture, poetry and history inspired by England's industrial era.​

Reasons to be hopeful part one: Chris Killip at the Laing – his Tyneside photos from the 70’s, when there was pride in making ships. Peter Robson’s anti war painting of the Ship of Fools on exhibition at Newbiggin-By-The-Sea

Reasons to be hopeful part two: Children giggle and play inside on the staircase of the Laing, while outside the sun shines, the air is fresh under a blue sky as nature conspires to tease us on an awful day. 

Chris Killip photos of the Tyne at the Laing

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