Month: December 2025

Wwe King Of The Ring 2001.

This is my other favourite really old Wwe King Of The Ring pay per views from when I was younger it is Wwe King Of The Ring 2001. It was on Sunday the 24th June 01 when I was fourteen years old when I was in year nine when I was in my third year at Southlands School. It is also from The Wwe Attitude Era 2001 too. It is on for 2 hours and 46 minutes just under 3 hours I am going to watch it on Netflix sometime too.

Wwe King Of The Ring 2000.

This is one of my favourite really old Wwe King Of The Ring pay per view’s from when I was little. It was on Sunday the 25th June 2000 when I was thirteen years old when I was in year eight when I was in my second year at Southlands School when I was younger. It is on for 2 hours and 39 minutes just over 2 and a half hours I am looking forward to watching it on Netflix sometime it is also from The Wwe Attitude Era 2000 from the year 2000.

WW1 Armaments production Newcastle Upon Tyne

During World War I, Newcastle upon Tyne was a global hub for armament production, primarily through the industrial giant Armstrong Whitworth. The company’s massive Elswick and Scotswood works produced a vast array of war materiel, making it the largest munitions company in the world at the time. 

Key Armaments and Production

The factories along the River Tyne manufactured a wide variety of armaments and related equipment: 

  • Guns and Artillery: The Elswick works had a long history of making naval and field guns. During the war, the Scotswood factory alone produced 13,000 guns.
  • Ammunition: Production included 14.5 million shells, 18,000 fuses, and 21,000 cartridge cases.
  • Warships and Shipbuilding: Armstrong Whitworth built complete warships and their armaments at their Elswick and Walker naval shipyards, playing a major role in the naval arms race.
  • Aircraft: The company also built aircraft on Newcastle’s Town Moor.
  • Other Equipment: This included searchlights, hydraulic machinery, and components like trench periscopes and clinometers produced by smaller local firms such as N.F. Ramsay & Co.. 

The Industrial Landscape

  • Elswick and Scotswood Works: These were the primary sites of production, stretching for over a mile along the River Tyne. By the end of the war, Armstrong Whitworth employed 78,000 people, with 60,000 working on the Tyne.
  • Lemington Munitions Factory: Known locally as “Canary Island,” this isolated factory at Lemington Point produced cordite, a yellow-coloured explosive, traces of which often remained on workers’ skin and hair.
  • Birtley National Projectile Factory: Due to a national shell shortage and a lack of skilled workers, the government established a National Projectile Factory in Birtley, South Tyneside (then County Durham), specifically recruiting skilled Belgian armament workers who lived in a purpose-built village called Elisabethville. 

The vast scale of the Newcastle armaments industry meant the region had a disproportionately large impact on the war effort and its eventual outcome.