WHEN? HEATON TIME-LINE AND ANNIVERSARIES
By clicking on any period on the time-line below, you can find articles about that period in Heaton’s history and by clicking here you can find significant Heaton anniversaries. We are constantly adding to the calendar.
21ST C
What will history remember of Heaton today? What would you like to tell future generations?
MID TO LATE 20C
Within living memory, post war regeneration and baby boomers…
WW2
One of Heaton’s worst ever tragedies, air raids, evacuation, rationing and more sacrifice.
INTER WAR
Expansion northwards to High Heaton and a global pandemic…
WW1
Suffering and sacrifice, bravery and resilience…
Early 20C
Suffragists, social campaigners, aviation pioneers, Newcastle United’s heydey and the culverting of the Ouseburn…
Victorian
The coming of the railways, Lord Armstrong’s gifts and the development of Heaton as we know it…
Georgian
We’ve stories of protests, a mining disaster, and one of the greatest mathematicians Britain has produced.
Tudor and Stuart
Dorothy of Heaton’s story is one of religious intolerance and persecution…
Medieval
Amazingly, there is still a building in Heaton that was built in the 13th century, although it’s been much-altered and patched up over the years…
Roman
Hadrian’s Wall, which ran along what is now Shields Road, was, at the time it was built, the northern limit of the Roman Empire so Heaton was unconquered…
Prehistory
It was during the Carboniferous period, over 300 million years ago, that the coal deposits, so important to Heaton’s prosperity, were laid down…