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Disappointing visit to NEMT: 02-Aug- 25

Alec Renwick alec.renwick@gmail.com, 5/8/2025 22:42Re: Disappointing visit to NEMT 02-Aug- 25To Mick Dawson mick.dawson@nemaritimetrust.co.uk Copy: zoe.mcphail@planninginspectorate.gov.uk”kevin.lund@nemaritimetrust.org.uk,Sue Griffiths, Peter Weightman, Richard Branson Below follows a commentary on his response to my complaint made on the morning of the 2nd August, 2025 … Continue reading

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Henry Frederick Swan?

The life boat is probably not the HFS but what I first noticed about this old photo of Amble were the two coal trucks on the skyline, on the further of the wooden bridges or staithes. Those structures served at … Continue reading

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Post Views Update

A month ago the counter for nemaritimetrust.co.uk passed 110,000 late on the 27th and this morning read 116,040 at 12:30 i.e. about 6000 a month while in March it was 8,500 which represents a drop of 30% interest in the … Continue reading

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The Legacy

In 2016 a pair of flats in the Heaton/Jesmond area of Newcastle were bequeathed and to be shared equally between both NEMT and NFHT, by Gordon Brown who passed away in May that year. At that time the pair would … Continue reading

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NFHT and NEMT

When I acquired the Coble, Peggy in 2007, I lived in Greens Place with good views over the river Tyne to North Shields and Tynemouth and it was not long before I joined NEMT but by 2014 I had fallen … Continue reading

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NEMT v NFHT : 2

From Part 1 of the divide, it would appear that a chairman, Mr A Renwick, of the charity, NEMT, is running it as a private group, and apart from 2 different versions of the NEMT AGM of 2023, that I … Continue reading

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NFHT – Raison D’etre

Put simply, the Northumbria Fishing Heritage Trust was set up to look after the assets such as the fishing vessels that have been rescued by people who are mostly members of the North East Maritime Trust and occasionally by those … Continue reading

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Fifty Thousand Views

– in seven months for the reborn website. The original which had about 800,000 in ten years had to be put down, like a very poorly pet that had developed a malignant growth which could not be contained and one … Continue reading

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Missing Archives

Before the provider for nemaritimetrust.co.uk was switched from TSOHost to IONOS in April 2024 the archives from the old site were copied so that they could be loaded into the new site and the first thing to notice was that … Continue reading

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Gaps in the Archive

Control of the website nemaritimetrust.co.uk was regained by its rightful owner when Nominet was asked to switch the provider from TSOHost to IONOS but the switch left big gaps in the archive:- 2005 – June 2008 The North East Maritime … Continue reading

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