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Monthly Archives: October, 2024

Ball Powder to Blue Poles: Fred Olsen

People across America mourned, in November 1986, the loss of 95 year old Dr Fred Olsen. In Heaton, Newcastle, his birthplace, few would have...

Coxlodge Waggonway: a line through time

Those of us who pass along it to school, work, church or a hospital appointment or linger to watch wildlife, have a chat or...

Heaton Stan: 115 years of football

Wednesday 25 June 2025 7.30pm THERE IS NO NEED TO BOOK Our June talk on the history of Heaton Stannington will celebrate the club's 115th anniversary...

The Kremlin’s Geordie Spymaster

Wednesday 28 May 2025 7.30pm THERE IS NO NEED TO BOOK Lots of people have seen Steven Spielberg’s 2015 blockbuster Bridge of Spies, but the...

Wild West at East End 

The recreation ground at Heaton Junction, on the site of which houses are currently being built for the first time, was from 1886 until...

William Smith and the discovery of Antarctica

Wednesday 11 December 2024 7.30pm THERE IS NO NEED TO BOOK Was Antarctica discovered by the Russians or by the Americans? Or could it possibly have...

Tyneside Writers and Revolutionaries

Wednesday 26 February 2025 7.30pm THERE'S NO NEED TO BOOK Writers and Revolutionaries of the North East is a talk describing many individuals who have...

Sir James Knott

Wednesday 23 April 2025 7.30pm THERE’S NO NEED TO BOOK Sir James Knott is a familiar name on Tyneside. The trust he founded has given...

Quakers in Newcastle

Wednesday 26 March 2025 7.30pm THERE IS NO NEED TO BOOK The Religious Society of Friends was established by George Fox in 1652.  The movement...

Valentine’s Gift: a talent for music

Few of Valentine Orde’s neighbours on Boundary Gardens in High Heaton knew much about the ‘retired’ music teacher’s past - until they watched the...

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