2000 -
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.
1945 - 1999
1939 - 1945
1918 - 1939
1914 - 1918
1901-1914
Suffragists, social campaigners, aviation pioneers, Newcastle United’s heydey and the culverting of the Ouseburn…
1837-1901
The coming of the railways, Lord Armstrong’s gifts and the development of Heaton as we know it…
1714 -1837
We’ve stories of protests, a mining disaster, and one of the greatest mathematicians Britain has produced.
1485 - 1714
c410 - 1485
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…
122AD - c410
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…
Pre 122 AD
It was during the Carboniferous period, over 300 million years ago, that the coal deposits, so important to Heaton’s prosperity, were laid down…