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Monthly Archives: August, 2014

Royal Opening of Heaton’s Parks

20th August 1884 lived long in the memory of Victorian Heatonians. It was the day that royal visitors to the city processed down...

Ouseburn before 1850 – talk

On Wednesday 22 October, Mike Greatbatch will give a talk entitled 'Mills, mines and factories: Ouseburn before 1850'. Mike has over fifteen years experience of...

The musical ‘spies’ of Tenth Avenue

On 11 August 1914, only a week after Britain had joined World War 1, newspapers right across a country on edge reported that two...

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