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Monthly Archives: May, 2023

The Prince at Parsons’: 100 years on

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

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

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?

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

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...

The Night Bombs Rained on Heaton

On Friday 25 - Saturday 26 April 1941, Newcastle endured one of its worst nights of the Second World War, with terrible consequences in Heaton. The area had...

Escape to Heaton: Mike’s wartime memories

Stories of women and children hurriedly gathering a few belongings together and leaving the home they know to escape the horror of war, only...

Memories of Eighth Avenue

Reading Eric Dale's series of articles in growing up in the Heaton's Avenues was all the motivation one of our readers, Jean Sowrey, needed...

Life and Wartime on Heaton Hall Estate

Heaton History Group member, Keith Fisher, is a keen local and family historian. Here is his account of his grandparents' move to the Heaton...

Scrannin’ on the Tip

The grandly titled City Stadium is a well-used green space at the south end of Heaton. In all weathers, you’ll find runners, cyclists, walkers,...

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