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Monthly Archives: February, 2015

The People’s Theatre: Past, Present and Future

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

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

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

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

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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