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Three Photographers: their development in Heaton

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Over the years, Heaton has been the home of many photographers, a number of whom we’ve already written about here: portrait photographer Edward Brewis,...

A Peacock’s Tale

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It's a two minute walk from 44 Third Avenue to 19 Cheltenham Terrace, 150 metres if that. Like most buildings in this part of...

Robbie Burns in Heaton: a Scottish mystery

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Who remembers a statue of Scottish poet, Robert Burns, in Heaton Park between the mid 1970s and mid ‘80s? It seems that, even among...

The Captain’s Medal

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Heaton was, as many readers will know, the home for many years of East End, the team that became Newcastle United. But in the...

Where the Shoe Tree Grows

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In August 2020 the Woodland Trust shortlisted a sycamore in Armstrong Park, known as the ‘Shoe Tree’, for its English 'Tree of the Year'....

Heaton Park’s Forgotten House

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A house that is shrouded in mystery…..  a house that seems to have all but dropped out of living memory, yet Nursery House certainly...

Jack Common: man of literature

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In a recent article, Peter Sagar looked at how Jack Common described life in Edwardian Heaton in his famous semi-autobiographical novel ‘Kiddar’s Luck’, here...

Heaton Voices Tour the World

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On 17 March 1911, Mary ‘Molly’ Wharton Parkinson of Heaton stood on the deck of RMS ‘Victorian’ in Princess Dock, Liverpool and waved at...

John Henry Holmes: electrical leading light

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Newcastle and Tyneside in general, is rightly famous for the inventions produced here.  From the railways to the hydraulic crane and from the first...

Arthur Edward George: aviation pioneer

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Heaton, we know, was home to a number of clever, adventurous and brave young men who learnt to fly in the early days of...
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