Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
11-04-2023, 09:25 AM
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Forum: Other Northumberland Miscellanea
22-10-2018, 08:22 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 13,806
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Forum: Other Northumberland Miscellanea
22-10-2018, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 13,806
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This is my mother's clique, cleek -...
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This is my mother's clique, cleek - whatever. It was pushed through the canvas and a part of a large clipping was pulled through to make a loop. Then a half inch or so farther away the process...
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Forum: Other Northumberland Miscellanea
21-10-2018, 12:22 PM
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Replies: 8
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Forum: Other Northumberland Miscellanea
21-10-2018, 12:21 PM
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Hello, I spent many happy childhood hours...
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Hello, I spent many happy childhood hours helping my mother to make proggy and cliquie mats. There is a difference between the two kinds: with proggy mats the clippings were cut quite short and...
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
22-06-2018, 04:54 PM
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Replies: 12
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The man in the Radcliffe video was Temple...
The man in the Radcliffe video was Temple Caruthers. His father was called Sam. I think Billy Caruthers was Sam's brother and Temple's uncle but I'm not absolutely sure. I remember all three of them...
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Forum: General topics
09-04-2018, 07:13 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 18,555
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
29-11-2017, 10:14 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 21,885
This video makes me feel very sad. There was an...
This video makes me feel very sad. There was an incredible sense of community in Radcliffe as people encountered their neighbours more than in other places because they had to leave their houses to...
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
07-06-2017, 08:34 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 35,469
I lived in Leslie Row in the 1950s and early...
I lived in Leslie Row in the 1950s and early sixties. We called that square the "tettie lots" which means potato allotments. I don't remember any potatoes being grown in that spot but have fond...
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Forum: Amble and Hauxley
27-11-2016, 04:42 PM
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Forum: Amble and Hauxley
27-11-2016, 04:26 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 15,623
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Forum: General topics
01-07-2015, 08:42 AM
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Views: 10,955
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
12-05-2015, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 17
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I remember the blocks well and Billcon's...
I remember the blocks well and Billcon's description of that part of Bondicar with the tank trap, the pill boxes and (a bit farther away) the three tanks brought back a lot of memories. I've found...
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
14-01-2015, 01:53 PM
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Replies: 106
Views: 111,196
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
14-01-2015, 11:24 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 111,196
There seems no way to dispute that there was...
There seems no way to dispute that there was smallpox in Radcliffe in 1864. However, I have a problem with the statement from the Alnwick Mercury 14th of April 1877 (quoted earlier in this thread)...
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
13-01-2015, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 106
Views: 111,196
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
11-01-2015, 09:06 PM
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Replies: 106
Views: 111,196
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Forum: General topics
24-12-2014, 09:31 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 8,122
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
02-10-2014, 08:30 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 43,449
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
14-04-2014, 08:33 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 10,108
The standard book on the origin of English...
The standard book on the origin of English place-names is "The Concise Book of English Place-names" by Eilert Eckwall first published in 1936.
He says:
"Hadstone, Northumberland, (Hadeston 1189,...
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Forum: Amble and Hauxley
19-02-2014, 08:09 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 27,028
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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift.
12-12-2013, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,269
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Forum: General topics
29-11-2013, 09:23 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 8,908
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Forum: General topics
28-11-2013, 08:36 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 8,908
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Forum: General topics
27-11-2013, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 8,908
wrecked aeroplanes?
I spent most of my formative years playing on the shore or the links at Bondicar. I have a strong memory of looking at very small bits of wrecked aeroplanes which were lying in the dunes? Is this a...
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