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    • Heritage Lottery Project - Protecting the Tyne

    During the Autumn term of 2016, teachers Miss Christie and Miss Pattison and the Year 6 children from Hadrian Primary School, South Shields, investigated the loss of a local pilot cutter during World War I.

    Supported by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant, they researched those killed in the conflict and buried or commemorated at St Aidan's and St Stephen's Church, South Shields.

    They were fascinated to find that their local area had been in the front line of naval warfare.

    Decorating our memorial bottles at the NET

    Painting at the NET

    Knitting comforts for the troops with the A list ladies

    Jay's family war memorabilia

    Lesson plans and resources

    1. protecting-the-tyne-lesson-plan-guide
    2. 01-researching-first-world-war-headstones-in-stephens-cemetery
    3. 02-discovering-lance-corporal-bower
    4. 03-the-bombardment-of-hartlepool
    5. 04-ruth-dodds-diary-december-1914
    6. 05-south-shields-in-the-first-world-war
    7. 06-reading-the-1911-census-baring-street
    8. 07-a-muse-at-sea
    9. 08-problems-for-tyne-pilots
    10. 09-zeppelins-over-south-shields
    11. 10-gott-strafe-england