Kevin Dowling explores the fascinating story of the Ulgham window head
A visitor to the church of St. John the Baptist in the ancient Northumberland village of Ulgham (locally pronounced ‘Uffam’) will find a curious stone set into a wall inside the church. It is an old sandstone window head which is thought to have been a part of the exterior of an earlier chapel which occupied the same site in the 12th Century.
Ian Burdon reflects on the article in The Northumbrian issue 181 focusing on Lord Haldane and his Newcastle roots. The article was written by Malcolm Campbell, based on the book Haldane, by John Campbell.
Derek Knox, of Longhorsley History Society, remembers the installation of a memorial to World War I airmen
In 2018 the local history society was contacted by the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust to inform us that we would be receiving an Indian granite plaque to commemorate there being an airfield here in World War I.