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Parish Church of St Gabriel Part 1: wood, iron & stone

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A study of the 1895 Ordnance Survey map of Heaton reveals a building described as St Gabriel’s Church but it is not where you...

An exile remembers: Part 5 – Heaton Park 2015

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Heaton History Group is often contacted by people who used to live in the neighbourhood and have vivid and usually fond recollections. We love...

Shields Road Landmarks and Legends

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On Wednesday 27 July, Heaton History Group members are invited to join Mike Greatbatch for a walking tour of Shields Road in which old...

The People’s Shakespeare

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On 20 June 2016 (with perfect, even poetic, symmetry, the very day on which this year's midsummer solstice will fall), actors from the People's Theatre, Heaton,...

Bowlers in bowlers?

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This fantastic photograph, showing a group of men in front of the pavilion in Heaton Park, was taken by Edward G Brewis or at...

Rex Hart, The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

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Knowing that we're always on the look out for stories of interesting Heatonians from times past, Allan Robinson of High Heaton has contacted us...

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