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The Heaton Road Millionaires’ Row That Never Was

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In 1868, while Lord Armstrong was enthusiastically buying Ridley land in Heaton, he acquired a plot north of Heaton Hall as far as Benton...

The Donaldsons of Seventh Avenue

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Autumn 1914 saw frenzied efforts to mobilise the huge army that the government knew would be needed to win the war. Many men...

Craigielea – history of a Heaton house

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'Craigielea' (276 Heaton Road) is an imposing early Edwardian brick villa situated on the corner of Heaton Road and Cartington Terrace opposite both St...

Royal Opening of Heaton’s Parks

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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

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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

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

Chilli Chimps

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The site now occupied by Tesco on the corner of Chillingham Road and Tosson Terrace was once, as many readers will know, a cinema....

The Coachman of Heaton Hall

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The man in the middle of this photograph is Richard Shannon, coachman at Heaton Hall for more than twenty years around the turn of...

Heaton Avenues in Wartime

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We’re delighted to announce that Heaton History Group has been awarded £8,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a project, Heaton Avenues in...

Nostalgic views of the North: the Ward Philipson collection

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The Ward Philipson collection comprises over 150,000 images of the North East with engravings and etchings dating back to the 1700s and photographs from...
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