| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: |
Dorothy Thompson
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| Leader: |
Irene Blackburn
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| Group email: | Local History group |
| When: | Monthly on Friday mornings 10.00-11.30 1st Friday |
| Venue: | Cramlington HUB |
There will be no Local History in September
Please buy your refreshments on the way in. There is a cafe on the ground floor where you can buy drinks 'to go'. We meet on the 2nd floor.
If anyone wishes to help run this group, or just do a one-off talk please get in touch with our Groups Coordinator via the Contact page or speak to Irene or Dorothy at one of our meetings.
Our Local History group covers Northumberland and Durham.
Dorothy gave an interesting talk about Hexham accompanied by several of her wonderful photographs.
This is the tombstone of a Roman cavalry man which had been used as building material for the abbey.
His name is Flavinus, he is holding a standard and riding his horse.
Members of Local History and Genealogy groups visited The Story: Durham where among other things we saw Mary Ann Cotton's teapot (no arsenic in it) and the Wakenshaw gun named after Adam Wakenshaw VC
Thanks to Dorothy for bringing her camera!
This is the statue of Emily Wilding Davison, the suffragette who is buried in Morpeth Parish Churchyard. The statue is in Carlisle Park, Morpeth.
When we have a quiz it can get quite rowdy!
There are no prizes but there is often some cheating, begging for extra points, and a lot of laughter, however we usually learn something.
This is a memorial to Newcastle men who won the Victoria Cross, it is outside the Discovery Museum.
Dorothy gave a wonderful talk about St Mary's RC Cathedral in Newcastle, her photos were wonderful and explanations about the stained glass windows were fascinating. She covered a range of subjects from shipbuilders' bait bags to Newcastle men awarded the Victoria Cross
