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Monthly Archives: September, 2022

The Sinking of the Cobra: a Heaton maritime disaster

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

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

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...

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