Posts by John Webster
Community Foundation Award Grant for Ashington Schools Project
NACT awarded grant by Platten Family fund.
Read MoreNorthumberland Healthcare Project Update
A brief history of Beulah Maternity Hospital in Blyth
Read MoreTrust’s Third Annual Report charts further progress
Annual report for year ending March 2023 now available
Read MoreHidden Stories in the Archives
![Letter from James Loch, Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland, to A[nthony] Marshall - 27 August, 1829](https://northumberlandarchivestrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Marshal-Atkinson-NRO-4433-Bundle-2-Letter-27-Aug-1829-pg-001-846x1024.jpg)
A glimpse of some of the content hidden within uncatalogued collections.
Read MoreStrathmartine Trust Awards Grant for Work on the Atkinson & Marshall Papers
Grant will allow work on these interesting documents.
Read MoreTrust’s Official Launch at County Hall, Morpeth
The Trust, started during Covid, has finally been able to hold a public launch – with not one but two events on the 26th June 2023. The Northumberland Archives Charitable Trust marked the occasion with celebrations of its work to date, raising money to save and analyse historical records, documents and images for future generations.…
Read More“Blyth to the Future” Exhibition
Exhibition in County Hall, Morpeth
Read MoreCommunity Foundation Grant for Work on Clayton Family Papers
The Northumberland Archives Trust is delighted to announce the success of an application for a grant to fund the cataloguing of papers formerly belonging to the Clayton family. EDF Energy Green Rigg Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund, administered through the Community Foundation, have made a grant of £3,372. The grant will be used to add…
Read MoreAtkinson & Marshall Papers and the Highland Clearances in Scotland
Material of trans-national interest has been discovered amongst documents relating to 19th century Northumberland farmers, Atkinson and Marshall. From 1805, Atkinson & Marshall began to lease land on the Sutherland Estate eventually leasing more than 100,000 acres. Introduction of large-scale sheep farming resulted in the mass eviction of tenants, a movement that became known as…
Read MoreA New Home for Berwick’s Record Office?
Berwick Record Office may have new home in redeveloped Barracks
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