COMPILED after a lengthy hunt through many private collections and lighthouse authority archives, the many fascinating images in this book are all taken from actual postcards, some more than a century old. The combination of ...
THIS year’s Collingwood 2010 Festival is celebrating the life and courageous career of Tyneside’s greatest naval hero, and the book explores the lives and experiences of battle-hardened naval officers whose family roots lay in ...
THE authors of this guide book, who both live in Eyemouth, begin with an in-depth look at the history of this old fishing port but gradually extend their area of interest to cover a large part of the eastern Scottish and English ...
DESCRIBING himself as a bairn from mining families in Haltwhistle, the author has compiled this social and economic history of coal mining in south-west Northumberland and east Cumbria in the period between 1750 and 1980. The ...
A growing number of people are now delving into their family history as a serious hobby and this personal family history, fully illustrated with original maps, old photographs and documents, could certainly be used as a model and ...
RECORDED at a live concert given in St Michael’s Church, Howick, by the young musicians who make up one of the county’s 13 creative and performing arts ensembles, this CD offers an exuberant collection of traditional music ...
THIS is the second CD of self-penned folk songs by Jim, a field studies instructor at Ford Castle who was awarded a Rothbury Music Festival prize for original composition for a track on his first recording. Many of the new songs ...