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9/5/2019
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by Alan Fryer
Adapted from the Northumberland County History: Earsdon and Horton.
The district surrounding...
8/3/2019
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by Alan Fryer
Edmund Hannay is famous as the first shipbuilder in Blyth, starting his trade in 1750 at a...
18/1/2019
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by Alan Fryer
The map shows the areas and locations of farms in Blyth around the end of the 18th and beginning...
17/11/2018
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by Alan Fryer
The formation of the Blyth Harbour Commission in 1882 was arguably the most important development...
23/4/2018
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by Alan Fryer
From 1700 the White Ridley family have lived at Blagdon Hall about eight miles to the West...
24/3/2018
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by Alan Fryer
The Middletons of the much visited tourist attraction Belsay Hall and Castle fame were descended...
24/3/2018
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by Alan Fryer
A letter sent by Taylor Winship, who was effectively the managing director of Cowpen...
5/2/2018
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by Alan Fryer
On a site in Blyth Dene where Lord Delaval, in the 16th century, had once built a weir, stood...
29/1/2018
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by Alan Fryer
In 1872 a reporter from the Newcastle Chronicle toured the colliery villages of the North East....
22/1/2018
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by Alan Fryer
From one of a series of articles published in the Newcastle Chronicle in 1872 called "Our Colliery...
13/1/2018
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by Alan Fryer
In 1872 a reporter from the Newcastle Chronicle toured the colliery villages of the North East....
16/11/2017
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by Alan Fryer
From the mid 19th century maps of South East Northumberland show small reservoirs dotted around...