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Louisa Brindley: a potted biography

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Louisa Brindley oversaw the auction of ‘household furniture, cottage pianoforte and other effects’  at her house in Eversley Place. That June Tuesday morning in...

Murder on the North Eastern Express

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In the spring and summer of 1910 the brutal murder of a colliery wages clerk from Heaton and the subsequent death sentence of the...

The Mapping of Newcastle

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Wednesday 25 October 2023 7.30pm, St George's United Reformed Church This talk will discuss the historical cartographic record of Newcastle and Tyneside and examine its...

The Great Flood of 1771

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Wednesday 22 November 2023 7.30pm, St George's United Reformed Church In November 1771, a sudden thaw in Upper Teesdale combined with heavy rain closer to...

King Edward I in Heaton

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On 7 December 1299, Edward I is said to have visited a chapel in Heaton and given 40 shillings to a boy bishop, who...

The Prince at Parsons’: 100 years on

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On Thursday 5 July 1923, Prince Edward Prince of Wales paid a short visit to CA Parsons' Heaton works, before returning to Newcastle past...

Bedlington Remembered

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Wednesday 27 September 2023 7.30pm, St George’s United Reformed Church From mining to multiple murders, our September talk will reveal the remarkable heritage of a...

Captain Aitkenhead’s Final Voyage

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Captain Thomas Aitkenhead had been at sea for more than 35 years when, on 30 July 1892, he was carried ashore for the final...

Someone at the Door?

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You could be forgiven for thinking that home deliveries had been invented by Deliveroo, Amazon and Hermes but people whose memories go back a...

Julia Darling: electrified the ordinary

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Julia Darling was a writer who lived on Heaton’s Stratford Grove Terrace between 1995 and 2005.  Among her many published works were several collections...
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