More evidence has emerged of what was a widespread campaign in the North East for the abolition of slavery. Efforts ranged from buying the freedom of a slave and raising petitions to present to Parliament, to the work of famous engraver Thomas Bewick, a leading anti-slavery figure. Ten years ago part of a bowl of …
It wasn’t just the Germans who knew Britain and her Allies were preparing to invade France in 1944 in a bid to end the deadliest conflict the world had ever seen. The British public was also aware that plans were being finalised to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation and destroy Hitler’s despotic regime. What …
Joanne Coates, an award-winning visual artist, spent a lot of time with her grandparents when she was growing up. “My grandad would get me to use disposables over months and think about what I was making. I was about eight,” says the artist who spent her childhood in North Yorkshire and now lives between County …
Half a century has passed since the last shift clocked off at Elemore Colliery and emerged from the darkness into an uncertain future. Today, the landscape is very different. The grey spoil heaps have been replaced by vibrant, green countryside, with woods alive with birdsong — and the future is about to get even brighter. …
It wasn’t the most auspicious of first meetings. Claire Thorburn — as she then was — was riding her horse across the fields between Seahouses and Bamburgh when she had the misfortune to meet the farmer who owned the land. He was none too happy with the schoolgirl he deemed to be trespassing on his …
Author Glenda Young has turned to a town’s famous toffee factory as the setting for her new trilogy of novels which follow the lives of three women workers. Glenda has written eight books, all with central female characters, based on the County Durham mining village of Ryhope, now part of Sunderland, where she grew up. …
When Mary Butterwick was born, the drunk midwife, who delivered her, took one look and declared: “This one’s no good.” Blue and seemingly lifeless, with an umbilical cord wrapped around the baby’s neck, a life that was destined to be remarkable, might have ended at its beginning. Thankfully, Mary’s dad, James, heard his wife’s cries, …
One Monday morning long ago, a young man called Charlie Rogers limped down Bensham Road in Gateshead, wincing as he went. Two days before, this ‘ageing left back’ (his description) was playing in a Cup-tie for Kibblesworth Colliery Welfare when he got ‘a hefty whack on an already dodgy left knee’. The doctor studied it, …
Given the fluffy texture and moreish taste of his freshly baked blueberry muffins, it’s easy to imagine Jeff Brown’s future lies in cakes. “It’s my first attempt at making these,” he tells me, proudly transferring his debut batch from tray to plate. They’re delicious — but surely Jeff should be baking Brownies? Or perhaps, once …
Simone Jimena Rudolphi grew up in Germany — her primary school years spent “on a hill overlooking Mayen, roaming the forests of the volcanic Eifel area”. Rheinhessen, the largest of Germany’s wine regions, was home during her adolescence, offering job opportunities during the grape harvest. The 55-year-old has spent more than 30 years in the …
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