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Branch Meetings

Click on the link to the branch to find out more information about the time, location and future meetings

Date Subject of Talk Speaker Branch
5th March 2024 @ 1:30pm Basil Bunting Tony Stephenson North Tyneside
6th March 2024 @ 1:30pm The Newbiggin Genealogy Project-The Biggest Community Family Tree in the World? Hilton Dawson Wansbeck
6th March 2024 @ 2pm Fenham Hall and its Legacy, 1740-2024 Mike Greatbatch Newcastle
9th March 2024 @ 1:15pm Fat Cows and Railway Lines: The links between agricultural development and industrialisation in North-East England Dr Winifred Stokes London
13th March 2024 @ 7pm How I successfully solved a genealogical problem dating from the late seventeenth century Keith Bishop NE Roots(PM)
14th March 2024 @ 7pm AGM & Members’ Forum – Memories of Schoolday Tynedale
18th March 2024 @ 10am Wilson Hepple – a local artist Brian Waters NE Roots(AM)
19th March 2024 @ 1pm Herring Lasses Chris Killen Blyth
20th March 2024 @ 1:30pm A TREASURE OF MEMORIES JULIAN HARROP (BEAMISH) South Tyneside
20th March 2024 @ 1pm Seaham Harbour -pre Londonderry’s to the present day Alan Smith Belmont Durham
27th March 2024 @ 1pm Introduction to DNA for Family History & Some Personal Experiences Prof. John Heckels Consett
2nd April 2024 @ 1:30pm A Miner’s Life Steve Allerdyce North Tyneside
3rd April 2024 @ 1:30pm ‘My Family and the Military’: records, memorabilia and artefacts. Workshop Session Wansbeck
3rd April 2024 @ 2pm Newcastle in the Swinging 1960s and 1970s Freda Thompson Newcastle
10th April 2024 @ 7pm Irish Ancestors Joyce Jackman NE Roots(PM)
11th April 2024 @ 7pm The Newbiggin by the Sea Genealogy Project Hilton Dawson Tynedale
15th April 2024 @ 10am Irish Ancestors Joyce Jackman NE Roots(AM)
16th April 2024 @ 1pm Three heroes of the sea David Hastings Blyth
17th April 2024 @ 1:30pm BOBBY THOMPSON – THE LITTLE WASTER BEN HADDON South Tyneside
17th April 2024 @ 1pm The North East Coast Exhibition John North Belmont Durham
24th April 2024 @ 1pm Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century Margaret Hedley Consett
6th July 2024 @ 1:15pm The Building of Durham Viaduct David Butler London

Annual General Meeting

Date Location Talk Details
Saturday 9th September 2023 10.30am for 11am North Shields Library – see North Tyneside Branch for location Followed by a talk by Carolyn Ball, County Archivist, on the new archives in Durham Details have been published in the Autumn Journal – pages 101 – 105
Provisional
Saturday 13th July 2024
South Shields Museum Details will be published in the Journal

Regional Events

This is a list of events that are happening in Northumberland or Durham, or that the Society is attending. They have not been organised by the Society and the Society is unable to provide further information about them. Anyone seeking further information should contact the organisers direct.

Date Location Event Details
Online Exhibition Durham University Library Website Prince Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall Durham University Library has asked the Society to share this link to their new online exhibition about Prince Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall:
See here for more details
22nd – 24th March 2024 Hawick, Scottish Borders Hawick Reivers Festival See here for more details

Zoom Presentation by County Durham Forum for History and Heritage

Our Society is affiliated with the CDFHH, and members of our Society can attend their zoom presentations.
See CDFHH Website for more information on the group.

Details on how to connect to the meeting will be emailed to members.
If you have not received instructions before the day of the meeting, please email membership@ndfhs.org.uk with your name and membership number.

Date Subject of Talk Speaker
9th Jan Cramlington Train Wreckers Ed Waugh
20th Feb Secret Darlington Chris Lloyd
12th Mar The Tyne Brewery Site Richard Annis
17th Sep The Woman in Question Tony Nicholson
1st Oct Durham County & its Turnpike Roads David Butler
19th Nov Tony Blair Anthony Atkinson

Last updated: 2nd March 2024