After five months the Temporary Site had been viewed nearly 200 times and a decision was made to keep it and hopefully time will be found to move all of its contents, from what was a Temporary Home, to this site.*
Originally posted on September 7 2024, Five Months On, was first made ‘sticky’ but it became impractical and has been converted to this page. The day before, the number of views to its replacement, nemaritimetrust.co.uk had passed 25,000 which compares reasonably well with the old site’s of 826,000 in the ten years of its existence. The old North East Maritime Trust had been taken down after it had become corrupted earlier this year and is now with a different provider.
Corrupted by accident, maybe, but the evidence seen since, shows otherwise. When I was locked out of the administration of this site, I naturally contacted TSOHost to whom it had been registered for a number of years and discovered the reason why. I had been replaced as the administrator of the site by current Chairman of NEMT and this would not have mattered if our views about both the Trust and its partner, the NFHT, had been consistent. They were not as I have pointed out in some of the posts made in this, the replacement site, since April. ‘NEMT Chair’s Closure of Slipway’ which he made good during 2024 is a good example.
More broadly, a report on NEMT was commissioned from the North of England Civic Trust in 2006 and with financial support from South Tyneside Council it was published in 2007. The table below has been taken from that report to show how many vessels were in the care of the two Trusts when the report was published:-
The second trust, the Northumbrian Fisheries Heritage Trust had been formed to maintain the assets created by the work of the volunteers while at the same time one must appreciate that this could not be carried out without sponsorships and grants from various bodies such as the Barbour Foundation, International Paints and South Tyneside Council etc. being shared equitably between the two Trusts.
This who viewed original site will remember the banner line at the foot of the main page showing the major sponsors:-
They have not been shared evenly between the two trusts for some time, as shown by their accounts given to the Charity Commission. Use 1117855 and 1135295 to make a search more easy.
Mick Dawson, 12th September ’24
* by the end of 2024 much of it had not been rewritten to the NEMT website but to what became a website for nfht.co.uk which was deleted by request on the 3rd of January 2025 and let’s just say the request was made for entirely understandable reasons. – M Dawson, 4th Jan ’25