MAY I add to your readers’ recollections of Jesmond (see Issue 119)? In a way it was a sad time for me when, at the age of nine, I began to live in Jesmond at the Masonic Northern Counties Orphanage in Otterburn Terrace in 1946, ...
I WONDER if any reader can give more information on the following couple of verses my father used to sing. There are more verses but for the sake of brevity I have not included them. I would, of course, be willing to pass on the ...
IN 1975 I moved from Morpeth to Bridge of Earn, near Perth, following a promotion to nurse manager at the psychiatric hospital in Perth. Now retired, I have been researching my family tree and hope some of your readers might be able ...
WOULD any of your readers be able to shed some light on the history of Hazelrigg? Apparently, according to an old map, and a write-up on my wife’s family tree, there are two Hazelriggs: the village where I was born near Chatton, ...
PLEASE allow me to attempt an answer to the questions in Mrs Gillman’s letter about sheep problems in Issue 120 of The Northumbrian. She mentions that the sheep were rubbing themselves against and kicking her black car. The colour ...