the college we now know as newcastle university was turned into the first northern general hospital.urgical techniques to treat war wounds would ultimately benefit the whole population. growing losses on the continent would cast a terrible shadow over the streets back home in tynemouth. the community project has pulled together addresses and dates to reveal the impact of one of the war's bloodiest campaigns. when things really got bad, was the first day of the battle of the somme and the period thereafter. here you saw the impact on our small town here. and it's impossible to ignore that there's been fatalities. goodness! i don't know how you begin to deal with this. maybe there's some collective mourning helps, assists, in some way. clearly, there's a lot of pain here. to me, this is the first time i've really seen the impact of the war, actually. so strongly displayed, it's amazing. there's an impact of one man dying abroad, but this is showing the story of the wife and the six kids, the wife and the three children. the mums, the dads, the brothers, the sisters, all having to carry