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Morpeth
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014
The Morpeth Missionary (NZ195864)
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Robert Morrison, the first Protestant Missionary to China and the man responsible for translating the Bible into the Chinese language, ...
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Newminster Abbey, Morpeth (NZ189857)
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A little beyond the southern extremities of our region can be found a landscape riddled with the remains of abbeys and monasteries. As one...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Emily Davison’s Northumberland Links (NZ197851 & NZ148947)
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Emily Wilding Davison, the accidental martyr of the 1913 Epsom Derby, is arguably the most famous suffragette of them all. And as she i...
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
RAF Morpeth (NZ173821)
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If you’re a car boot sale enthusiast you may well know about this little bit of wartime history. For three miles SW of Morpeth, near the v...
Friday, 1 April 2011
Catherine Cookson, 1906-1998 (NZ355653)
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[The following article originally appeared as an obituary in the now defunct North-Easterner Magazine in 1998] An Obituary of Dame Cat...
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