Vacant shop units and closure of banks have hit High Streets throughout the North East. But one village is fighting back against the blight. The Chopwell Regeneration Group had its origins in a public meeting called to discuss ways of improving life in the Gateshead village. Its first major project was to take over the …
The looming General Election will be a relatively sedate affair compared to some of the contests of the past, a Tyneside-based project suggests. While today people will cast their secret vote in the local polling station or by post, in the 18th and early 19th centuries it could be an altogether livelier event. A study …
For more than 150 years, lead mining dominated the North Pennines, shaping its landscape and communities. Now a new project to unearth the hidden stories of lead mining in an area which includes swathes of Northumberland, County Durham and Cumbria has been awarded more than £2m by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England. …
Leading architect Ignatius Bonomi dotted the County Durham landscape with impressive works, ranging from mansions and a pioneering bridge to churches. Durham-based Bonomi worked on Lambton Castle, grand Durham country houses such as Eggleston Hall, Windlestone Hall and Blagdon Hall in Northumberland. Now another of Bonomi’s projects, the Grade II-star listed Burn Hall, near Durham, …
The owners of Sunderland’s thriving 18th and 19th century pottery industry were no mugs. They produced vast numbers of jugs, mugs and wall plaques, many of which illustrated dominant occupations such as mining, maritime, farming and brewing. Pieces were relatively cheap and decorated local workers’ homes and were also bought as keepsakes by visiting sailors. …
The shimmering centrepiece of a major museum is back in daily action for the first time in four years. The 250-year-old automaton Silver Swan at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, returned to its daily performance duties on Tuesday, March 19, after a lengthy conservation overhaul. And the swan project has been shortlisted …
The guildhall on Newcastle Quayside was full to capacity on the morning of March 5, 1829, for the trial of a woman charged with murdering her mother. Jane Jamieson was accused of killing her mother with a poker in the town’s Keelman’s Hospital. On Sunday March 24 history will repeat itself with two performances at …
Wildlife reserves along a Northumberland bay will be boosted by a £750,000 cash injection. The award from Defra and the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Species Survival Fund will restore habitats, enhance biodiversity, and improve access on Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s reserves at Druridge Bay including Hauxley, West Chevington, and East Chevington. It is the latest leap …
In 1900 a Tyneside youngster was ‘taught a lesson’ for stealing from his employer by being birched. Now the fate of George Sayers, aged around 12, has provided a lesson in turn to pupils at a school near to where he lived in North Shields. George’s story is the latest project by the North Shields …
A rare natural history collection is back “in the family” after being believed lost for decades. The internationally important 18th century shell collection has been returned to English Heritage’s Chesters site in Northumberland after once being saved from a skip. Containing more than 200 specimens, including an extinct species and several believed to have been …
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