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Sailing South with Shackleton

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The parents and maternal grandparents of Heaton History Group member, Valerie Moffit, were residents of Heaton and Byker from the early 1890s through to...

‘Town with No Cheer’*: 1890s’ Heaton

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Why has Shields Road got so many public houses and Chillingham Road so few? Is it merely because of the limitations and restrictions stemming...

Food for Thought: Newcastle Corn Riots

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Shoe Tree Arts in partnership with Heaton History Group was funded during 2021-22 to commemorate the events of 1740 when, following an exceptionally hard...

Mary Eleanor Bowes: the greatest heiress of the north

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Wednesday 14 December 2022 7.30pm Open for Booking: members and non-members Precocious and indulged, Mary Eleanor Bowes, the King's great-great-great-great-great grandmother, was heiress to the Gibside...

The Sinking of the Cobra: a Heaton maritime disaster

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When, on 18 September 1901, HMS Cobra sank on its maiden voyage on route from Newcastle to Portsmouth, it was a huge shock for...

CHANGE Northumberland Hussars 1939-1945 CHANGE

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Wednesday 23 November 2022 7.30pm In a late change to the originally advertised talk, Dave Weatherstone will give a talk on the Northumberland Hussars...

BBC at 100 and a Heaton choir boy at 14

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Before her recent death at the age of 105, Lilian, the wife of St Gabriel’s parishioner Herbert Dixon (‘Dix’) Hodgson, shared some memories of...

NEW Newcastles of the World NEW

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Wednesday 26 October, Heaton Baptist Church  There are many places in the world named Newcastle. At one time they may have had castles. Some still...

Heaton’s Building Society Uncovered

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Earlier this year, during building work on their home, some Heaton residents spotted a dusty pile of fragile, browning papers under the floorboards of...

Miss Cooper and her girls

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‘Miss Cooper’ was the first headmistress of Heaton Secondary School for Girls and, as she stayed in post for 17 years, until her retirement...
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