Caroline Stringer

Caroline was born in Sheffield, brought up in Northumberland and went to secondary school in Newcastle. Following a degree in social anthropology at Edinburgh University she moved to London and then Oxford to work in publishing but the lure of Newcastle was too great and she returned to a job at the Museum of Antiquities – early history group training! After a few years she retrained as a careers officer and worked for the next 30 years at Newcastle Careers Centre and then Northumbria University. She has lived in Heaton for 22 years and was a founder member of Heaton History Group as its first treasurer and is now membership secretary. She was involved in some of the research for the ‘Heaton Avenues in Wartime’ project and a particular joy of this was meeting the living family of one of the people she had researched. She enjoys attending the talks and events and meeting so many like minded people there. Other interests include crime fiction, gardening, films and being a heritage volunteer in the local studies section at Newcastle City Library once a week.