What's new
A log of major changes to the site content. Look here to see if anything has been added recently.
30/07/2017 Waugh's Roman Wall Refreshment Rooms on the blog
24/07/2017 Heddon on the Wall Women's Institute Centenary Celebrations on the blog
04/07/2017 The wall was not the only boundary in Old News
25/06/2017 Garden House & the Cresswells on the blog
21/05/2017 Past & Present - new photo comparison page
05/05/2017 Jubilee Tree on the blog
29/04/2017 Thomas Kirkup & the Chickens on the blog
24/04/2017 Showtime 1964 on the blog
23/04/2017 John Lyall Aitchison on the blog
23/04/2017 A History of the Ancient Parish Church of St Andrew in Other Documents
08/04/2017 Service for William Brown, 'Father of the Coal Trade' on the blog
16/03/2017 Happy return for ex-pupil in Old News
06/03/2017 Answers to the Christmas Quiz on the blog
25/02/2017 Church House in Old News
25/02/2017 George Clark (1902-1966) in People
24/02/2017 Heddon old village on the blog
18/02/2017 Heddon - the baptismal place of kings? on the blog
18/02/2017 Anglo-Saxon history is at heart of area in Old News
15/01/2017 Heddon: a point of view on the blog
15/12/2016 Big machines at Bays Leap on the blog
10/12/2016 Bewcastle Runes on the blog
08/12/2016 Recovering memories on the blog
17/11/2016 A Moving Letter from Major James Knott killed at the Battle of the Somme on the blog
27/09/2016 Heddon in the News on the blog
26/08/2016 Heddon super Murum - a history of Heddon on the Wall on the blog
31/07/2016 Heddon Colliery Powder Fund on the blog
28/07/2016 Eachwick dagger on the blog
18/07/2016 A trip to Seaton Delaval on the blog
14/07/2016 Heddon in The Jam on the blog
15/06/2016 World Class Glass on the blog
12/06/2016 The Planning of Hadrian's Wall on the blog
12/06/2016 Stephensons of Throckley on the blog
19/05/2016 From Pit to Palace on the blog
28/04/2016 The World of William Brown by Les Turnbull book launch on the blog
24/02/2016 Rumbling Kern on the blog
24/01/2016 Heddon voices from early 1900s on the blog
16/01/2016 William Brown 2 on the blog
27/12/2015 Ten interesting facts about Newburn & Walbottle on the blog
27/12/2015 Ryton Ferry on the blog
21/12/2015 Local accidents on the blog
18/12/2015 More Local Rock Art on the blog
09/10/2015 Akensides of Eachwick on the blog
20/09/2015 War veterans singing send-off in Old News
12/09/2015 St Andrew's Church interior in Old News
06/09/2015 Heddon Village Show (2015) on the blog
16/08/2015 Heddon Old Postcards on the blog
22/07/2015 Heddon Old School on the blog
24/06/2015 Yetholm Common on the blog
19/06/2015 The Elf-enchanted Hanging Stone on the blog
16/05/2015 Sewing Shields with Tynedale Archaeology Group on the blog
14/05/2015 Churches of Northumberland by John Grundy on the blog
24/04/2015 Reay Family on the blog
24/04/2015 Pilot Officer J A Trotter on the blog
19/04/2015 New page on Hadrian's Wall for the WallWatch Project
03/04/2015 Henry James Chapman of Oakwood Lodge on the blog
29/03/2015 The Laidley Worm of Spindlestone Heugh on the blog
25/03/2015 Rock Art from Birney Hill, Ponteland on the blog
24/03/2015 Tales of the Frontier on the blog
24/03/2015 A Throckley Waggonway on the blog
12/02/2015 Haltwhistle to Alston Railway on the blog
24/01/2015 Lt. Forbes Tulloch R.A.M.C on the blog
11/01/2015 View of the North 2014 in Old News
11/01/2015 Heddon Village Show 2014 in Old News
09/01/2015 Fourstones Fairy Tale on the blog
30/12/2014 Heddon Quarries on the blog
03/11/2014 Northumberland's Named Stones on the blog
04/08/2014 Hexham Courant 1997 in Old News
31/07/2014 William Maxon Collingwood Wilson on the blog
09/06/2014 Lord Kitchener's Army on the blog
31/05/2014 James Hill of Bottle Bank on the blog
22/05/2014 Border Counties Railway on the blog
04/05/2014 BRAG 2014 on the blog
26/04/2014 Is your name on the shell on the blog
05/04/2014 William Brown of Throckley on the blog
26/03/2014 The Black Dyke on the blog
20/03/2014 Newcastle Swing Bridge on the blog
11/03/2014 Improving the Tyne on the blog
06/03/2014 65 Years on a Ferry Boat in Old News
23/02/2014 Heddon in 1911 on the blog
16/02/2014 More memories of Winnie Spoor (nee Wanless)
14/02/2014 Extracts from early Minutes of the Parish Council
14/02/2014 Extract from Bulmer's Directory (1886)
14/02/2014 Miscellaneous memories from Betty Cockburn
13/02/2014 Memories of Elizabeth 'Nora' Eames (nee Tulip)
08/02/2014 Sir James Knott Village Property Sale catalogue (1924)
02/02/2014 Lock up your petroglyphs on the blog
19/01/2014 'Come Claim your Kiss at Heddon' on Old News
04/01/2014 Remembering the Great War on the blog
28/12/2013 Walbottle Moors Waggonway on the blog
15/12/2013 'Canny Wylam' on the blog
22/11/2013 Wylam & Walbottle Walks leaflet added to Walks page
02/11/2013 Historical Records 1888-1890
27/10/2013 The Blue Bell on the Blog
25/10/2013 Alleged brutal murder at Heddon on the Wall in Old News
18/10/2013 Welcome Home Puffing Billy on the Blog
06/10/2013 Memories of Wooden Waggonways & Wylam Dilly on the Blog
06/10/2013 Tale of the Model Steam Locomotive at Close House on the Blog
03/10/2013 The Death of Old Bays Leap on the Blog
29/09/2013 New page of Puffing Billy Festival galleries
15/09/2013 Puffing Billy & the Heddon Balloon on the Blog
28/08/2013 Tree Planting by Heddon School Children on Remembrance Day, 1996 in Old News
24/08/2013 Update to Romantic account of a visit to Heddon Hall on the Blog
20/08/2013 A new page added about Hadrian's Wall
19/08/2013 Heddon-on-the-Wall, a poem by James Anderson on the Blog
14/08/2013 The Waggoner, traditional Tyneside song on the Blog
27/07/2013 Excavation of waggonway in Newcastle on the Blog
27/07/2013 Ponteland Summer Festival on the Blog
26/07/2013 The Story of Alice Robson - convict on the Blog
25/07/2013 The Blog has a new look courtesy of a Div Tag Add-on
04/07/2013 The Armstrongs of Bays Leap on the Blog
09/06/2013 Wylam Waggonway on the Blog
09/06/2013 Lindisfarne Gospels Durham on the Blog
30/05/2013 Lemington Staiths & Lemington Gut on the Blog
11/05/2013 St Mary's Church, Staffordham on the Blog
26/04/2013 'The waggonways & industrial railways of Wylam & Prudhoe' on the Blog
21/03/2013 'Northumbrian Pipes' on the Blog
23/03/2013 Romantic account of a visit to Heddon Hall on the Blog
22/03/2013 Snowdon family photo on the Blog
16/03/2013 Wreck of a Steam Drifter on the Blog
23/02/2013 Ryton Wherries on the Blog
18/02/2013 The Rev Richard Burdon of Heddon House by JPS
14/02/2013 Heddon Methodist Church Centenary 1877-1977
13/02/2013 Sale of Heddon Hall in 2012
09/02/2013 Photos of Eachwick Hall from late C19th on the Blog and Old Photos 7
24/01/2013 Heddon in 1901 on the Blog
18/01/2013 Hedwin Streams Railway on the Blog
11/01/2013 Bronze Statue at Close House to be Auctioned
17/11/2012 Victorian Panorama by Alan Morgan on the Blog
10/11/2012 Oswald's Northumbria on the Blog.
14/10/2012 The Stob Stanes, Yetholm Common & the Anglo-Scottish Border on the Blog
13/10/2012 The story of Sir James Knott - a book by John Dobson (2012) on the Blog
16/09/2012 Understanding Prehistoric Rock Art on the Blog.
04/08/2012 Cheviot cross-Broder routes on the Blog.
07/07/2012 John Grundy's talk, Gardens of Northumberland, on the Blog.
05/07/2012 Lots of new photos on the Old Photo pages.
05/07/2012 Heddon Beagles on the Blog.
01/07/2012 North Lodge on the Blog.
24/06/2012 Diamond Jubilee Festival of Flowers
20/06/2012 Tree planted for coronation in 1902.
16/06/2012 A walk along North Shields Fish Quay on the Blog
15/06/2012 Elswick Lead Works Shot Tower on the Blog
09/06/2012 'Merci Beaucoup Cottage, Houghton on the Blog
08/06/2012 Spearman Family of Eachwick Hall on the Blog
02/06/2012 Victorian Life in the Ouseburn on the Blog
15/05/2012 The Great Heddon Tea Robbery on the Blog.
24/04/2012 Cullercoats fishwives on the Blog.
08/04/2012 Tim Swann, cabinetmaker to the Queen, in People
05/02/2012 Sad boat accident at Ryton (1877)
17/12/2011 Forth Banks Railway Station? on the Blog
16/12/2011 Illustrated (mostly as original document) Occupations in Heddon from 1800
15/12/2011 Town Farm post on the Blog
20/11/2011 'Earl Grey - the Man on the Monument' on the Blog
13/11/2011 Account of the Ascension Day ceremony at the Tide Stone in 1818
11/11/2011 Closure of Roman Wall Forge page added in Old News
20/10/2011 Stagecoach runs through Heddon on the Blog
28/08/2011 The Twite of Heddon on the Wall
28/08/2011 Added report of excavation of the Roman Vallum in 1880.
27/08/2011 Visit to Northumberland Records Office at Woodhorn on the Blog and new page in Memories
02/08/2011 Trinity House visit on the Blog
29/07/2011 Occupations in Heddon from 1800
19/06/2011 Start of major new project to illustrate the Monumental Inscriptions page with photos.
15/06/2011 Currently obsessed with the Roman Wall so added new page on the 1920s excavations.
07/06/2011 Added a page for the obituary of Cadwallader John Bates, antiquary and former historian of Heddon
20/05/2011 Added a page on the Heddon place-name
13/05/2011 Descent of property in Heddon from A History of Northumberland vol 13
12/05/2011 Talk by John Grundy on the Blog
24/04/2011 Added 'The Commons and Village Greens of Heddon' on Common Land page
24/04/2011 'Down Memory Lane' by P Reay
23/04/2011 The Stained Glass Windows of St Andrew's Church
05/04/2011 Upcoming talk by John Sadler on the Blog
31/03/2011 Added page 'Heddon Banks Farm'
30/03/2011 Added 'Tithe Award' page
24/03/2011 Added 'Old News' page Heddon WI (1987)
20/03/2011 Added page Rudchester
20/03/2011 Added 'Old News' page on The Swan (1972)
20/03/2011 Added page for aerial photo
19/03/2011 Added page Heddon in the Middle Ages
18/03/2011 Major revision of page structure based on the six townships
17/03/2011 Added page on Ad Murum
16/03/2011 March meeting - talk by Dr John Charlton on the Blog
08/03/2011 Added photos to place-mark captions on History Map
06/03/2011 Wylam Brewery feature on the Blog
05/03/2011 Added page Walks
27/02/2011 Upcoming talk by John Charlton on Blog
27/02/2011 Added theories about cippi pits and the Vallum on Hadrian's Wall page
19/02/2011 Added page Calendar
18/02/2011 Article on Heddon milestones on Transport page
18/02/2011 Added page History Map
16/02/2011 February meeting - talk by Dr Tony Barrow on the Blog
12/02/2011 Added page Archived documents
12/02/2011 Added page Old Photos 5
11/02/2011 Site Search page added
11/02/2011 Added page Old Photos 3 and Old Photos 4
09/02/2011 Short article on Ouston Aerodrome from Hexham Courant in 2007
07/02/2011 Small section about the proposed Newcastle to Maryport Canal on Transport page
06/02/2011 Added page What's new (here)
05/02/2011 Added description of village from old large scale maps here
04/02/2011 Added pages Old Photos 1 and Old Photos 2
24/07/2017 Heddon on the Wall Women's Institute Centenary Celebrations on the blog
04/07/2017 The wall was not the only boundary in Old News
25/06/2017 Garden House & the Cresswells on the blog
21/05/2017 Past & Present - new photo comparison page
05/05/2017 Jubilee Tree on the blog
29/04/2017 Thomas Kirkup & the Chickens on the blog
24/04/2017 Showtime 1964 on the blog
23/04/2017 John Lyall Aitchison on the blog
23/04/2017 A History of the Ancient Parish Church of St Andrew in Other Documents
08/04/2017 Service for William Brown, 'Father of the Coal Trade' on the blog
16/03/2017 Happy return for ex-pupil in Old News
06/03/2017 Answers to the Christmas Quiz on the blog
25/02/2017 Church House in Old News
25/02/2017 George Clark (1902-1966) in People
24/02/2017 Heddon old village on the blog
18/02/2017 Heddon - the baptismal place of kings? on the blog
18/02/2017 Anglo-Saxon history is at heart of area in Old News
15/01/2017 Heddon: a point of view on the blog
15/12/2016 Big machines at Bays Leap on the blog
10/12/2016 Bewcastle Runes on the blog
08/12/2016 Recovering memories on the blog
17/11/2016 A Moving Letter from Major James Knott killed at the Battle of the Somme on the blog
27/09/2016 Heddon in the News on the blog
26/08/2016 Heddon super Murum - a history of Heddon on the Wall on the blog
31/07/2016 Heddon Colliery Powder Fund on the blog
28/07/2016 Eachwick dagger on the blog
18/07/2016 A trip to Seaton Delaval on the blog
14/07/2016 Heddon in The Jam on the blog
15/06/2016 World Class Glass on the blog
12/06/2016 The Planning of Hadrian's Wall on the blog
12/06/2016 Stephensons of Throckley on the blog
19/05/2016 From Pit to Palace on the blog
28/04/2016 The World of William Brown by Les Turnbull book launch on the blog
24/02/2016 Rumbling Kern on the blog
24/01/2016 Heddon voices from early 1900s on the blog
16/01/2016 William Brown 2 on the blog
27/12/2015 Ten interesting facts about Newburn & Walbottle on the blog
27/12/2015 Ryton Ferry on the blog
21/12/2015 Local accidents on the blog
18/12/2015 More Local Rock Art on the blog
09/10/2015 Akensides of Eachwick on the blog
20/09/2015 War veterans singing send-off in Old News
12/09/2015 St Andrew's Church interior in Old News
06/09/2015 Heddon Village Show (2015) on the blog
16/08/2015 Heddon Old Postcards on the blog
22/07/2015 Heddon Old School on the blog
24/06/2015 Yetholm Common on the blog
19/06/2015 The Elf-enchanted Hanging Stone on the blog
16/05/2015 Sewing Shields with Tynedale Archaeology Group on the blog
14/05/2015 Churches of Northumberland by John Grundy on the blog
24/04/2015 Reay Family on the blog
24/04/2015 Pilot Officer J A Trotter on the blog
19/04/2015 New page on Hadrian's Wall for the WallWatch Project
03/04/2015 Henry James Chapman of Oakwood Lodge on the blog
29/03/2015 The Laidley Worm of Spindlestone Heugh on the blog
25/03/2015 Rock Art from Birney Hill, Ponteland on the blog
24/03/2015 Tales of the Frontier on the blog
24/03/2015 A Throckley Waggonway on the blog
12/02/2015 Haltwhistle to Alston Railway on the blog
24/01/2015 Lt. Forbes Tulloch R.A.M.C on the blog
11/01/2015 View of the North 2014 in Old News
11/01/2015 Heddon Village Show 2014 in Old News
09/01/2015 Fourstones Fairy Tale on the blog
30/12/2014 Heddon Quarries on the blog
03/11/2014 Northumberland's Named Stones on the blog
04/08/2014 Hexham Courant 1997 in Old News
31/07/2014 William Maxon Collingwood Wilson on the blog
09/06/2014 Lord Kitchener's Army on the blog
31/05/2014 James Hill of Bottle Bank on the blog
22/05/2014 Border Counties Railway on the blog
04/05/2014 BRAG 2014 on the blog
26/04/2014 Is your name on the shell on the blog
05/04/2014 William Brown of Throckley on the blog
26/03/2014 The Black Dyke on the blog
20/03/2014 Newcastle Swing Bridge on the blog
11/03/2014 Improving the Tyne on the blog
06/03/2014 65 Years on a Ferry Boat in Old News
23/02/2014 Heddon in 1911 on the blog
16/02/2014 More memories of Winnie Spoor (nee Wanless)
14/02/2014 Extracts from early Minutes of the Parish Council
14/02/2014 Extract from Bulmer's Directory (1886)
14/02/2014 Miscellaneous memories from Betty Cockburn
13/02/2014 Memories of Elizabeth 'Nora' Eames (nee Tulip)
08/02/2014 Sir James Knott Village Property Sale catalogue (1924)
02/02/2014 Lock up your petroglyphs on the blog
19/01/2014 'Come Claim your Kiss at Heddon' on Old News
04/01/2014 Remembering the Great War on the blog
28/12/2013 Walbottle Moors Waggonway on the blog
15/12/2013 'Canny Wylam' on the blog
22/11/2013 Wylam & Walbottle Walks leaflet added to Walks page
02/11/2013 Historical Records 1888-1890
27/10/2013 The Blue Bell on the Blog
25/10/2013 Alleged brutal murder at Heddon on the Wall in Old News
18/10/2013 Welcome Home Puffing Billy on the Blog
06/10/2013 Memories of Wooden Waggonways & Wylam Dilly on the Blog
06/10/2013 Tale of the Model Steam Locomotive at Close House on the Blog
03/10/2013 The Death of Old Bays Leap on the Blog
29/09/2013 New page of Puffing Billy Festival galleries
15/09/2013 Puffing Billy & the Heddon Balloon on the Blog
28/08/2013 Tree Planting by Heddon School Children on Remembrance Day, 1996 in Old News
24/08/2013 Update to Romantic account of a visit to Heddon Hall on the Blog
20/08/2013 A new page added about Hadrian's Wall
19/08/2013 Heddon-on-the-Wall, a poem by James Anderson on the Blog
14/08/2013 The Waggoner, traditional Tyneside song on the Blog
27/07/2013 Excavation of waggonway in Newcastle on the Blog
27/07/2013 Ponteland Summer Festival on the Blog
26/07/2013 The Story of Alice Robson - convict on the Blog
25/07/2013 The Blog has a new look courtesy of a Div Tag Add-on
04/07/2013 The Armstrongs of Bays Leap on the Blog
09/06/2013 Wylam Waggonway on the Blog
09/06/2013 Lindisfarne Gospels Durham on the Blog
30/05/2013 Lemington Staiths & Lemington Gut on the Blog
11/05/2013 St Mary's Church, Staffordham on the Blog
26/04/2013 'The waggonways & industrial railways of Wylam & Prudhoe' on the Blog
21/03/2013 'Northumbrian Pipes' on the Blog
23/03/2013 Romantic account of a visit to Heddon Hall on the Blog
22/03/2013 Snowdon family photo on the Blog
16/03/2013 Wreck of a Steam Drifter on the Blog
23/02/2013 Ryton Wherries on the Blog
18/02/2013 The Rev Richard Burdon of Heddon House by JPS
14/02/2013 Heddon Methodist Church Centenary 1877-1977
13/02/2013 Sale of Heddon Hall in 2012
09/02/2013 Photos of Eachwick Hall from late C19th on the Blog and Old Photos 7
24/01/2013 Heddon in 1901 on the Blog
18/01/2013 Hedwin Streams Railway on the Blog
11/01/2013 Bronze Statue at Close House to be Auctioned
17/11/2012 Victorian Panorama by Alan Morgan on the Blog
10/11/2012 Oswald's Northumbria on the Blog.
14/10/2012 The Stob Stanes, Yetholm Common & the Anglo-Scottish Border on the Blog
13/10/2012 The story of Sir James Knott - a book by John Dobson (2012) on the Blog
16/09/2012 Understanding Prehistoric Rock Art on the Blog.
04/08/2012 Cheviot cross-Broder routes on the Blog.
07/07/2012 John Grundy's talk, Gardens of Northumberland, on the Blog.
05/07/2012 Lots of new photos on the Old Photo pages.
05/07/2012 Heddon Beagles on the Blog.
01/07/2012 North Lodge on the Blog.
24/06/2012 Diamond Jubilee Festival of Flowers
20/06/2012 Tree planted for coronation in 1902.
16/06/2012 A walk along North Shields Fish Quay on the Blog
15/06/2012 Elswick Lead Works Shot Tower on the Blog
09/06/2012 'Merci Beaucoup Cottage, Houghton on the Blog
08/06/2012 Spearman Family of Eachwick Hall on the Blog
02/06/2012 Victorian Life in the Ouseburn on the Blog
15/05/2012 The Great Heddon Tea Robbery on the Blog.
24/04/2012 Cullercoats fishwives on the Blog.
08/04/2012 Tim Swann, cabinetmaker to the Queen, in People
05/02/2012 Sad boat accident at Ryton (1877)
17/12/2011 Forth Banks Railway Station? on the Blog
16/12/2011 Illustrated (mostly as original document) Occupations in Heddon from 1800
15/12/2011 Town Farm post on the Blog
20/11/2011 'Earl Grey - the Man on the Monument' on the Blog
13/11/2011 Account of the Ascension Day ceremony at the Tide Stone in 1818
11/11/2011 Closure of Roman Wall Forge page added in Old News
20/10/2011 Stagecoach runs through Heddon on the Blog
28/08/2011 The Twite of Heddon on the Wall
28/08/2011 Added report of excavation of the Roman Vallum in 1880.
27/08/2011 Visit to Northumberland Records Office at Woodhorn on the Blog and new page in Memories
02/08/2011 Trinity House visit on the Blog
29/07/2011 Occupations in Heddon from 1800
19/06/2011 Start of major new project to illustrate the Monumental Inscriptions page with photos.
15/06/2011 Currently obsessed with the Roman Wall so added new page on the 1920s excavations.
07/06/2011 Added a page for the obituary of Cadwallader John Bates, antiquary and former historian of Heddon
20/05/2011 Added a page on the Heddon place-name
13/05/2011 Descent of property in Heddon from A History of Northumberland vol 13
12/05/2011 Talk by John Grundy on the Blog
24/04/2011 Added 'The Commons and Village Greens of Heddon' on Common Land page
24/04/2011 'Down Memory Lane' by P Reay
23/04/2011 The Stained Glass Windows of St Andrew's Church
05/04/2011 Upcoming talk by John Sadler on the Blog
31/03/2011 Added page 'Heddon Banks Farm'
30/03/2011 Added 'Tithe Award' page
24/03/2011 Added 'Old News' page Heddon WI (1987)
20/03/2011 Added page Rudchester
20/03/2011 Added 'Old News' page on The Swan (1972)
20/03/2011 Added page for aerial photo
19/03/2011 Added page Heddon in the Middle Ages
18/03/2011 Major revision of page structure based on the six townships
17/03/2011 Added page on Ad Murum
16/03/2011 March meeting - talk by Dr John Charlton on the Blog
08/03/2011 Added photos to place-mark captions on History Map
06/03/2011 Wylam Brewery feature on the Blog
05/03/2011 Added page Walks
27/02/2011 Upcoming talk by John Charlton on Blog
27/02/2011 Added theories about cippi pits and the Vallum on Hadrian's Wall page
19/02/2011 Added page Calendar
18/02/2011 Article on Heddon milestones on Transport page
18/02/2011 Added page History Map
16/02/2011 February meeting - talk by Dr Tony Barrow on the Blog
12/02/2011 Added page Archived documents
12/02/2011 Added page Old Photos 5
11/02/2011 Site Search page added
11/02/2011 Added page Old Photos 3 and Old Photos 4
09/02/2011 Short article on Ouston Aerodrome from Hexham Courant in 2007
07/02/2011 Small section about the proposed Newcastle to Maryport Canal on Transport page
06/02/2011 Added page What's new (here)
05/02/2011 Added description of village from old large scale maps here
04/02/2011 Added pages Old Photos 1 and Old Photos 2
