North-East History Tour

Mickley, Northumberland, is not a very large village. It is known, historically, as the birthplace of the famous engraver, Thomas Bewi...

One of the North-East’s greatest sporting heroes is also one of its least known: John Richard “Jack” Greenwell, who was born at Billy R...

In the days when Coxlodge was a settlement consisting of a handful of terraces around a couple of collieries, a certain T.W.Glidden was...

Peter Wilson, left, at the 1974 World Cup (From Wikipedia ) Felling is quite famous for its footballers. Chris Waddle, for one, was b...

Chester-le-Street isn’t the only place in the North-East with a tradition of playing Shrove Tuesday Football, but it is one of the bette...

Bob Paisley, the man who was so famously associated with Liverpool FC at the height of their powers a generation ago, was born in Hett...

In the little village of Edmondsley , a mile or so north of Sacriston, was born the first professional footballer to become a Member of ...

(from  Wikipedia ) Perhaps Sacriston’s greatest claim to fame is its status in the realm of professional football – namely, as the...

Like the rest of the North-East’s football teams, Newcastle United’s glory days have long since disappeared over the horizon. But a co...

In the early 1980s, Nunthorpe, on the southern edge of the Middlesbrough conurbation, gave birth to and raised three of our most promine...

Ex-professional footballer Stan Anderson published an autobiography in 2010 entitled Captain of the North (see here ).   Never can a ...

Often referred to as a ‘lamb on a leash’ (or something similar), the Bedlington Terrier is a breed of dog named after the town of Bedlingt...

This little piece will come as no surprise to those of you with even a passing interest in North-East sport, but there may just be a few re...

I know you’re curious, so let’s start with the pronunciation. Is it, literally, ‘Ulg-ham’? Or maybe ‘Ulf-ham’? Or is it a silent ‘g’, perha...

   Well, if you’re a Burnley fan, anyway. The chap in question being one John Angus, a ‘one-club man’ who spent his entire professional care...