November Meeting Report On Monday 4th November Eleanor George treated us to a very thorough and detailed account of the Bainbridges ‘from Department Store to Eshott Hall’.Many of those present remembered well Bainbridge’s department store in Newcastle before it became part of the John Lewis group. Its founder was Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge, born 1817 into…
October Meeting Report War, plague, monastic life – who knew that cheese could play such an important part in world history? Well, by the end of Sue Brown’s talk on ‘6000 years of cheese history’ those who crowded into the Memorial Hall on Monday 7th October certainly did. We were even treated to a tasting…
Alnwick as a historic market town has more than its fair share of old and interesting pubs.Local historian Tom Allen has taken the time to research and record many of the histories of Alnwick’s present and lost pubs in his booklet ‘Alnwick, Pubs, Lanes & Alleyways’. Copies of this booklet may be obtained from the…
Warkworth History Society members recently visited Abbotsford House in the Scottish Borders: the former home of Sir Walter Scott, historical novelist and poet.The house itself was developed by Scott from a farm into a Baronial mansion in the Gothic revival style between 1817- 1825. Later it had an additional wing added to the building by…
On 13th May we welcomed Belinda Booth to speak about the history of our hall, part of a Heritage Project which started in 2019. The story begins in 1866. Adam and Robert Howitt were two of the original founders when it was known as the New Church following a division in the church on the…
On Monday 8th April Chris Tipple spoke on the topic of ‘Lord Armstrong of Cragside – Hero or Villain?’ The son of a coal merchant, William was born in 1810 near Carlisle and brought up in Newcastle. He was apprenticed into the legal profession but his main passions remained science and mechanics. In 1847 he…
Woodhorn is well known for its mining museum. It is also the home of Northumberland South Archives. On Monday 4th March archivist Sarah Littlefear introduced us to some of the work carried out there. The collection contains a history of Northumberland’s people, places and events, in the form of books, photographs, documents, film and newspapers….
