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Gateshead

Local History

This popular Local History Group meets each month at 10am (please don't come earlier than 10am) and will run at this time on the 1st Monday of each month.

The Group meets in the Wailes Room, 1st Floor, Gateshead Central Library which is on Prince Consort Road, Gateshead.

Please come along and support us. Thelma Stelfox

6 July: The Rise, Falling and Rise again of Seaton Delaval Hall. Speaker: Sue English.

3 August: Two Weeks a Slave: My Experiences as a Volunteer Excavator at Vindolanda. Speaker: Dave Griffiths.

7 September: A History of Tyne and Wear in Ten Remarkable Buildings. Speaker: Margaret Bozic.

5 October: Possible Group Visit.

2 November: A Virtual Walk Round 19th Century Newcastle. Speaker: Malcolm Smith.

7 December: To be confirmed,

4 January: The History of Department Stores Around the Region. Speaker: Graham Smoult.

1 February: World War Two Evacuees: Part 2. Speaker: Marion Anderson.