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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...

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...

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...

Eileen O’Shaughnessy Blair: rebel who married Orwell

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Wednesday 28 June 7.30pm South Shields born Eileen O'Shaughnessy is best known now for having been married to Eric Blair, aka George Orwell. But there...

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...

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...

The Night Bombs Rained on Heaton

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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

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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

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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

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