We are afforded bird’s eye views of a busy, working river, and the now-vanished shipyards of Hebburn’s Hawthorn Leslie and, on the opposite side of the Tyne, Wallsend’s Swan Hunter.

The Wallsend Boys Club was formed 120 years ago ... It was 14 November, 1904, when builders from the Swan Hunter's shipyard opened their new club for their boys. "They got fed up with the police ...

Lady West, wife of First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Alan West, did the honours at the rejuvenated Swan ... Wallsend yard to witness the naming of the ship that was built in 20 months and put Swan Hunter ...