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Gertrude Bell: desert queen

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Our talk in June will feature on of the BBC's recent twentieth century 'Icons'. Born in Washington, Durham, Gertrude Bell was an adventurer, archaeologist,...

Heaton’s ‘Harley Street’

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Heading up the left side of Heaton Road from its junction with Shields Road, you’ll soon come to Heaton Road Surgery, a health centre...

FA Cup to US Vases: Lucien Emile Boullemier

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This plate or plaque, made by the Maling company to commemorate the North East Coast Exhibition of 1929, depicts some of Tyneside’s most iconic bridges and...

Class Act? A history of Newcastle schools

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School education in Newcastle has gone through many changes since the mid nineteenth century. Using research undertaken while writing a history of the National...

Matron Lily Atkinson Royal Red Cross

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When Heaton History Group's Ian Clough was researching the names on Heaton's many WW1 church war memorials, one name stood out, that of Matron...

Tyneside’s Home Front in WW2

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To commemorate 80 years since the start of the second world war, local author Andrew Clark will evoke the days of evacuation, gas masks,...
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