The Northumberland Healthcare study outlined in the PROJECTS page of the website is beginning to bear fruits with work underway in various areas. Project volunteers are researching maternity care in Northumberland with particular focus on Castle Hills Maternity Home, Berwick, and Mona Taylor Maternity Home, Stannington. They are also researching in less detail some of…

Annual report for year ending March 2023 now available

The Trust is aiming to raise funding to create two posts, an Archivist and Assistant, to work for a two-year period on cataloguing some of the backlog of collections that has built up over several years. A scoping exercise was carried out recently to establish the scale of the backlog and to get an idea…

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.…

The Trust has recently published its Second Annual Report, charting the Trust’s development during the year to the end of March 2022. You can access the Report through the following link below. The report shows that, in spite of the challenges posed by the pandemic, the Trust has continued to make steady progress in fulfilling…

For many years the Archive Service has worked with The Genealogical Society of Utah [GSU] who have microfilmed and latterly digitised records in their care that includes names. This relationship has allowed users access to surrogate copies of archival sources in the public search rooms. More recently the Service has been working with GSU on…