Events

1975 Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, artist, died

1943 The King & Queen visited Heaton Secondary Schools.

1873 Edward Lawson, soldier & winner of VC, born

1895 Ove Arup, structural engineer, born in Heaton

2013 Heaton History Group’s first ever talk

1941 47 people died when bombs hit Cheltenham Terrace & Guildford Place

1902 John Glover, chemist, died

1617 King James 1 visited Heaton Hall

1815 Heaton mining disaster in which 75 men and boys died

1975 Wilfred Handley, inventor and entrepreneur, died

1880 Gladstone Adams, inventor and photographer, born

1881 Colin Veitch, NUFC captain, actor, musician and politician born