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The People’s Theatre: Past, Present and Future

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The People's Theatre has been a thriving part of our community in Heaton for over 50 years, but its origins go back a further...

Jack Common’s Avenues in Wartime

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Jack Common was born at 44 Third Avenue on 15 August 1903. In his autobiographical novels, 'Kiddar's Luck' and 'The Ampersand', he wrote about...

The Heaton Main Colliery Disaster 1815

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This year is the 200th anniversary of Newcastle's worst ever peacetime catastrophe, often known locally as 'The Spinney disaster'. In the first of a...

Celebration of our Mining Heritage

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Les Turnbull's book has been written to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the major disaster at Heaton Main Colliery in which 75 men...

Back Close to Craigmore

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Craigmore is a large red brick house on the east side of Heaton Road, number 252. It's in the same block as Heaton Methodist...

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