North Umberland Gallery

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, formed in 1968 from the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (top right), the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers (bottom right), the Royal Fusiliers (City of London) (Bottom left) and the Lancashire Fusiliers (top left). (2 of 2 - No backgrounds). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

© Mary Evans/Malcolm Greensmith Collection

1968, Army, British, City, Colours, Dress, Fusiliers, Greensmith, Historical, History, Lancashire, Malcolm, Military, North Umberland, Regiment, Royal, Soldier, Soldiers, Uniform, Warwickshire

British Ballad, Chevy-Chase

CHEVY-CHASE. Popular British Ballad telling the story of a large hunt, lead by Percy, the Earl of Northumberland which was interpreted as an invasion of Scotland by the Scottish Earl of Douglas who had forbidden the hunt. Thought to have been based on the events of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Mark Furness

1388, Armour, Ballad, Battle, British, Chase, Chevy, Douglas, Earl, Faint, Historical, History, Hunt, Hunting, Invasion, North Umberland, Otterburn, Percy, Scot Land, Scottish, Stag, Story

Band Advertisement, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields

Advertisement offering the services of the Band of the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868, James Hall and other local businessmen set up a charity to provide shelter for Tyneside waifs and train young men for naval service. Their base from 1874 was the Wellesley until a fire in 1914 forced the institution ashore to become the Wellesley Nautical School

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection