I am the owner of Rose cottage Clinic and the Gordon Wilkinson article in The Northumbrian magazine (issue no. 121), 'Its shopping, Steven, but not as you know it' had me creased with laughter. For some strange reason the demand for ...
I am trying to find any surviving relatives of Private Thomas Joseph Stoker of the 2nd/5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment who died on May 3, 1917, at the age of 41 and is buried at the CWG cemetery at Arras, France. He was the ...
I would like to thank you for all the effort involved in producing such a lovely magazine and the interesting local features it contains. I do try occasionally to follow some of the walks which are well off the usual beaten trails and ...
HAVING grown up in Cullercoats, I was delighted to read the article ‘A Haven for Artists and Fisherfolk’ in Issue 120 of The Northumbrian. You may imagine my surprise, however, to find my grandparents staring out at me from the ...
I AM responding to one of John Grundy’s always interesting and informative articles, about Embleton (Issue 121). In the early 1980s when we moved to Malvern in Worcestershire, I was very surprised to see the name Sir John Craster ...
MY youth was spent in Tynemouth and - as with all my generation - September 3, 1939, stays vividly in my mind. It was a Sunday morning and I’d persuaded my parents to let me go out for a walk along the seafront with my friend, ...
READING ‘The Day a Young American Dropped In’ (Issue 120) and of parachutist Alma Beaumont’s landing near the cycling grounds of North Shields, I was reminded of how those same cycling grounds were well used by the Tyneside ...