Durham Record Office Reopens
A brand-new visitor attraction telling the tale of County Durham’s heritage will open this summer. The Story, based at Mount Oswald in Durham City, is scheduled to open to the […]
Performances at the Tyne Theatre & Opera House, 1867-1919
Tyne Theatre & Opera House is a beautiful Grade I listed building in central Newcastle. They have recently developed a performance calendar to hold details of all performances from the […]
Newbiggin by the Sea Genealogy Project
When visiting Newbiggin, I spotted a poster in the Maritime Centre about this project and I thought members may be interested. —– Newbiggin by the Sea Genealogy Project may be […]
The Northumberland Name Book Project
The Tynedale branch received a talk by Diana Whaley who led a project which ran from 2016 to 2020 and which had transcribed and analysed the contents of the 103 […]
Cemetery Index
Information provided by NDFHS Journal, Spring 2022, p3. The Sunderland Ward of The Church of the JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints has prepared an index for several graveyards in Northumberland […]
1921 Census
The National Archives have recently announced that the 1921 Census will be available from 6th January 2022. Initially this will only be available through FindMyPast. See the two websites for […]
Catholic Burial Records Database
Contribution received from Colin Ashworth (catholicancestor@hotmail.co.uk): During the period of over 200 years from the middle of the sixteenth century until the late eighteenth century, when the practice of the […]
British Tramway Company Uniforms and Insignia
A personal website dealing with the buttons and uniforms of tramways. Local companies are listed including companies for Gateshead, Newcastle, Tynemouth, and Tyneside. Web site address is: http://tramwaybadgesandbuttons.com/
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s Library and Archive is delighted to announce the launch of its new website archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk, a catalogue of information that will enable visitors to […]
Manorial Documents Register for Northumberland
On 20th September 2018 The Hexham Courant published that: The Manorial Documents Register for Northumberland is an up to date record of all the county’s former manors that has been […]