Forum: New member zone
15-07-2022, 04:29 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 48,553
R Straker M.M. 10 Scott Street Amble
[QUOTE=magaidhn;3324]My mother's family have lived in Amble since the late 1800s after losing their farm at Stannington. They used to live at the gas works at the bottom of the Wynd and I am trying...
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Forum: New member zone
15-07-2022, 04:22 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 48,553
Military Medal R Straker Amble
R. (Robert?) Straker 10 Scott Street Amble a sea going engineer won the Military Medal in WW1 but sadly lost his life in WW2.
Can someone look this up? - May be a good story.
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Forum: General topics
26-06-2022, 02:39 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,945
Emigration agents in Northumberland
Assisted passages were advertised by emigration agents in The Morpeth Herald 24 December 1915 - right in the middle of WW1 - a perilous journey.
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Forum: General topics
25-06-2022, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,945
Amble to Canada
In 1913 a lecture was given in Amble on the virtues of life in Canada.
What a big step to take for local folk - for the young it would seem an attractive adventure -
Canada was crying out for...
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Forum: General topics
14-06-2022, 06:49 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,744
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Forum: General topics
11-06-2022, 01:19 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 951
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Forum: Warkworth and Birling
30-05-2022, 04:35 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 24,070
New owners of WHH in 1971
enthusiastic new owners took over the Warkworth House Hotel. Some nice quotes in the attached article
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Forum: General topics
30-05-2022, 03:51 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,721
Long Live the Queen
In 1952 Broomhill members mourned the late king and rejoiced at the prospect of the young queen
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Forum: Warkworth and Birling
30-05-2022, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 24,070
Photo
The image is so dark I never noticed your Dad on the right - it says the photo is by the Northumberland Gazette -
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Forum: New member zone
30-05-2022, 06:26 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,191
Bamburgh Survivor
Lieutenant Anthony Peter Wilkinson, younger son of Rev G R Wilkinson vicar of Bamburgh, was a survivor of the Royal Oak disaster.
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Forum: Warkworth and Birling
29-05-2022, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 24,070
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Forum: Warkworth and Birling
29-05-2022, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 24,070
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Forum: Widdrington
27-05-2022, 04:11 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 31,658
More info
At Buckingham Palace, Saturday 14 June 1919 George V bestowed over 300 war decorations - one was for James Johnson Second lieutenant NF.
Mon 16 June 1919 Shields Gazette
Back home in Newcastle...
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Forum: Warkworth and Birling
26-05-2022, 12:12 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 10,013
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Forum: New member zone
24-05-2022, 05:12 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 16,347
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Forum: Warkworth and Birling
24-05-2022, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,179
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Forum: General topics
24-05-2022, 10:46 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,721
Mrs Swinney leaves for Toronto
Presentation to Mrs A Swinney whose husband was manager of Broomhill CWS, before they were about to leave for Toronto Canada - 1952
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
20-05-2022, 05:01 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 13,162
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
18-05-2022, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 13,162
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
17-05-2022, 04:29 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 13,162
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Forum: General topics
17-05-2022, 10:25 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,721
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Forum: Togston, Broomhill, Hadston and Red Row
17-05-2022, 10:06 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,301
Mentioned in Despatches WW2
Thomas M. Dunn of Chapel Row, North Broomhill was ‘Mentioned in Dispatches’ in 1941. A Royal Navy gunner, a shot from his gun downed an enemy plane attacking his ship
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Forum: General topics
16-05-2022, 01:50 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,342
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Forum: General topics
16-05-2022, 10:42 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,342
WW1 Miltary Service Tribunal
Arguments were put forward to exempt baker Alexander Graham of Swarland Terrace from Military Service
The case was dismissed so he presumably had to join up.
‘We cannot expect women to do the...
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Forum: General topics
11-05-2022, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,765
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