North-East History Tour

The village of Hunstanworth, a little to the SW of Blanchland overlooking the valley of the River Derwent, holds a unique status among al...

Howden-le-Wear is only a little place. However, it has a healthy collection of strange bits and bobs… The Australian Hotel – a pub wit...

Source: WellcomeLibrary blog (WI no. L0016013) A couple of miles north-west of the Northumberland village of Stannington, pretty mu...

© Copyright  Andrew Curtis  and licensed for  reuse  under this  Creative Commons Licence . The man who would become the first (an...

(from Wikipedia ) Real tennis, the ancient forerunner of our more familiar racket sports, has been around since at least as long ago...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. Years ahead of his time, he worke...

(image from the iSeeGateshead website ) Private Edward Hutchinson was one of the many who dutifully joined up (with the Durham Light...

One individual more than any other helped spread British influence and drive its foreign policy in the Middle East in the early twenti...

‘New Towns’ are often thought of as a twentieth century phenomena, but they have been a constant feature of the evolving British lan...

William Henry Short was born in Eston, Middlesbrough , on 4 th February 1885 , to his (at the time unmarried) parents, James Short an...

Ernest William Hornung was born at what is now 404 Marton Road, Middlesbrough, on 7th June 1866 – a spot more famously known as Erdel...

© Copyright DAVID ELSY and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Situated on its lofty perch atop the Cleadon Hills, thi...

    RMS Mauretania is, or rather was, the most famous ship ever built on the Tyne. It emerged from the Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richards...

In its pre-‘New Town’ days, Cramlington was a good deal smaller than it is today. It was essentially rural for centuries; and even after th...

Blyth Battery is a decommissioned coastal defence artillery station on the Northumberland coast a little south of the town whose name it b...

Shoresdean, an unremarkable housing estate some 5miles SW of Berwick, bears a history of little antiquity. A somewhat isolated spot for a ...