The 2025 Spring Voyage, organised by Past President Lester Sonden, explored the engineering past and present of the North-East from Wednesday 21 to Sunday 25 May 2025.
The programme included a city tour taking in the Tyne bridges, the Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Gateshead Quays, the Scotswood Road site of William Armstrong’s Elswick works, Hadrian’s Wall and the Vindolanda Roman fort, Cragside House (the first house lit by hydroelectricity), Woodhorn Museum at the former colliery, the Angel of the North, Beamish Museum and the Discovery Museum.