The North East of England boasts a proud maritime and industrial heritage that has all but disappeared from today’s landscape along the River Tyne. Over the course of 100 years, thousands of seamen from Yemen settled in the small town of South Shields and made it their home. This multimedia exhibition, running through to March 22nd, 2013 at The Mosaic Rooms, London, features interviews with and portraits of 14 of these sailors, the last survivors of the first-generation who settled in South Shields.

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