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The Great Peace: a Heaton schoolgirl’s memento

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In summer 1919, every schoolchild in Newcastle was given their own, personally inscribed, copy of a booklet commemorating the 'Signing of the Great Peace'...

The Lit & Phil: ‘a valuable NE institution’

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Our January talk will be about a much loved local institution, Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. The Lit & Phil is the largest independent library...

Workers Aid for Bosnia: the Heaton connection

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Heaton History Group member, Peter Sagar, has previously described how Smajo Beso and his family came from war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s to find...

Heaton Colliery in Numbers

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Earlier this year, out of the blue, a stamp-collector from Wales made contact with Heaton History group to say that he had spotted being...

North East Film Archive Presents …

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...A visual journey through the history of the people and places of Newcastle caught on celluloid over the last century. Selected from the remarkable collection...

The Pumphrey Family: Newcastle Tea and Coffee Merchants

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In 1855 Thomas Pumphrey went into partnership with his uncle, Henry Richardson, as a grocer and tea and coffee dealer in Newcastle’s Cloth Market....

Gladstone Adams’ Inspired Drive

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As you wonder whether to venture out in the pouring rain, stop for a moment instead to remember a son of Heaton living when...

Dorothy of Heaton

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'Her funeral was the most remarkable ever seen on —‘ ‘ obsequies were celebrated with great splendour and solemnity. Several thousand  Catholics were at her...

Heaton and the Peterloo protest

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In October 1819, thousands of north east people including, almost certainly, miners from Heaton Colliery and their families, took part in a remarkable demonstration...

Parsons’ man and Apollo 11

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 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' 20 July, 1969 Famous words but in the millions spoken or written to mark...
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