North-East History Tour

William Greenwell was born in 1820 at Greenwell Ford, a little to the south of Lanchester, Co.Durham. He lived a long and full life, dy...

The mighty Colin Milburn is perhaps the biggest name to come out of Burnopfield – in more ways than one. At 18 stone , his size was bot...

When you hear the name Charles Thorp muttered in and around the parish of Ryton these days, it is almost always in connection with the ...

On the 10 th May 1941 , with World War II occupying the hearts and minds of every Briton, Billy Green, who was Head Observer for the Roya...

Brinkburn Priory, one of Northumberland’s historical jewels, lies cosily on the banks of the River Coquet just off the A697 between Lon...

Mary Elizabeth Wilson, a resident of Windy Nook, Gateshead , for more than 40 years, had the dubious distinction of being the last woma...

Precisely upon the spot where the shiny new University Hospital of North Durham now sits (the old Dryburn Hospital ) is the site of Durh...

Via Wikipedia (public domain) As we all know, the mortal remains of St.Cuthbert lie in Durham Cathedral, right? Well, probably....

For all its Norman grandeur, Durham Cathedral was the scene of one of the most heinous war crimes in British history. The story of the ...

On the face of it, there doesn’t appear to have ever been very much in the way of activity in and around Garmondsway. The few farm- and h...

  [thanks to Rebecca Kennison at http://en.wikipedia.org ] The story of the Dun Cow, as depicted in the above eighteenth-century panel o...

A famous local landmark, St.Cuthbert’s Cave is a large, natural sandstone feature 3½ miles west of Belford. It is not really a cave at all,...