We’re on at the Old Low Light Heritage Centre (FREE event)
Saturday 19th September 11am – 12pm.
As a special Heritage Open Day event, there will be a showing of two new short films, produced by the North Shields Heritology Project, about local hero Ralph Gardner, who played a major role in freeing North Shields from the Newcastle monopoly that had stifled the economic and social development of the town for centuries.
One of the films is a documentary ‘Righting the Grievance’ telling the Ralph Gardner Story and the other, ‘Feathercoats and Fables’, an animation, made primarily with schoolchildren in mind.
Heritologists David Young and Keith Spedding will provide background information on how the films were made and will take questions at the end of each film.
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the school in Chirton that bore Gardner’s name – you may even have attended it yourself.
But what do you know about Ralph Gardner the man, what he achieved, and how his words and deeds eventually changed the course of history for Shields?
Book your tickets by clicking on this link – they are going fast!
The North Shields Heritology Project 