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Photograph of boys on parade on the deck of the Wellesley training ship c. 1900

Page from Newcastle Poor Law Union Workhouse punishment book, 1893

‘Need behind bright lights’, Newcastle Journal, 5 September 1988

Poster produced for Newcastle City Council’s ‘No need to beg’ campaign, 2015

Page from the admissions book of Newcastle Ragged and Industrial School, 1860

Care of the Homeless: Emergency Rest and Feeding Centre Scheme, issued by Newcastle City Council, 1943

Report by the Medical Officer of Health on Sellar’s & Mill Entries on Sandgate, 19th August 1895

Photograph showing 3 Bulls’ Heads lodging house, Sandgate c. 1871-1880

Single persons guide to temporary accommodation in Newcastle and Gateshead, published by Tyneside Housing Aid Centre, 1998

Recipe for soup included in minute book of Newcastle General Soup Kitchen, c. 1870

'Protest over new beggar crackdown', Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 8 December 2016

Newcastle Gaol record for Sabina Forbes written on her release, 1873

Postcard with a photograph of Thomas Ferens (aka ‘Tommy on the Bridge’) on Newcastle’s Swing Bridge, c. 1900

Warrant for the Removal of Margaret Adams and her four children from their home of Newcastle to Belfast in February 1857

Count of Homeless Persons Sleeping Rough on Tyneside, 1969