RARELY have I had so much pleasure from reading a local history than that derived from Alan Morgan’s delightful account in ‘Jesmond: from Mines to Mansions’, reviewed in The Northumbrian (Issue 117). Our family moved to ...
COUNTRY lovers have a grudge against power-driven grass cutting machinery which removes wild flowers from roadside verges. For instance, two years ago at South Charlton on a strip opposite the cottages and on the curves before the ...
I WAS amazed to see Bagot goats mentioned twice in The Northumbrian (Issue 118). I was born in Staffordshire and went to school during the Second World War near Lord Bagot’s Blithfield Estate. The goats were reputedly given by ...
In Issue 117 of The Northumbrian, Tony Joisce mentions the name ‘cobnut’ and described a game where a hazelnut was thrown at a pile of smaller nuts. In the west end of Newcastle in the 1920s we called the nut a ‘japnut’ and ...
I NOTICED an item in Issue 118 of The Northumbrian about early editions of the magazine. We have, in fact, bound copies of a Saturday weekly newspaper called The Northumbrian from the 1880s! In the issue of December 22, 1883, price ...
WITH reference to Rob Tindall's article on the quarry at Fourstones (Issue 117) I worked there in the 1960s when they re-opened it to get stone for Waverley Station in Edinburgh. Stan Green, Gordon Moffat, Bill Farr, Ken James and I ...