12 events found.
Events
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Stakeford and Bomarsund Social Welfare Centre Gordon Terrace West, Stakeford, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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Gertrude Bell: ‘The Desert Queen’ By Anthony Atkinson
Room 3, Brunswick Chapel, Newcastle Brunswick Chapel, Northumberland Court, Newcastle, United KingdomBorn in Washington, Gertrude Bell was an adventurer, Archaeologist, cartographer, historian, linguistmountaineer, traveller and Writer. During WW1, she became an intelligence officer and then played a major role creating the modern Middle East.
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Members’ Forum: Recent Family History Discoveries
The Bates Room, Hexham Golf Club Hexham Golf Club, Spital Park, HEXHAM, Northumberland, United KingdomBranch members are invited to share any new “finds” in their family history research
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The Parish Chest By Joyce Jackman
Online meeting via ZoomEvery parish church used to hold its records, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, in a wooden chest. These therefore became known as parish chest records. In addition to the registers, the records collections could include minutes of meetings held by parish officials; rate books; accounts; maps; charity deeds; church seating plans; settlement and […]
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Women of the Durham Coalfield By Margaret Hedley
Online meeting via ZoomThe success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who worked in the coal-mining industry during the Victorian period. There has been very little written about the importance of the home life that supported the […]
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Annual General Meeting
St Mary’s Hall, Blyth St Mary’s Hall, Wanley Street, Blyth, United Kingdom -
William Henderson and Durham’s New Town Hall By David Butler
Belmont Community Centre Belmont Community Centre, Sunderland Road, Gilesgate, Durham, County Durham, United Kingdom -
A day at the Seaside By Andrew Clark
The Charles Dickens Room, The Word The Word, Market Place, SOUTH SHIELDS, South Tyneside, United Kingdom -
“Dr. John Carr of Muggleswick” by Paul Heatherington
Heart – Heritage & Arts Centre, Consett The Ambulance Hall, John Street, Consett, County Durham, United Kingdom -
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Through the Needles Eye By Barry Mead (Meeting Cancelled)
Stakeford and Bomarsund Social Welfare Centre Gordon Terrace West, Stakeford, Northumberland, United KingdomUnfortunately, due to electrical work at the venue, this branch meeting has had to be cancelled
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Angels with Dirty Faces By Theresa Brolly
Room 3, Brunswick Chapel, Newcastle Brunswick Chapel, Northumberland Court, Newcastle, United KingdomThe talk focuses on various occupations of North East women whe were often thrust into an environment of heavy industry. It uses local accounts and includes the dangerous work of the 'munitionsettes' and the challenges of engineering and shipbuilding
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The Hetton Partners by John Banham
Online meeting via ZoomThe story of the partnership established in 1820 to develop a coal mine below the magnesian limestone escarpment in the east of County Durham and link it to the River Wear by George Stephenson's first steam hauled railway (three years before the Stockton & Darlington Railway). I will be looking at the family and business links […]