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Yearly Archives: 2015

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...

Pit to Pi: the life of Charles Hutton

How many Cragside or Heaton Manor pupils, struggling with their homework, realise that, in High Heaton, they're following in the footsteps of one of...

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