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Two Trustees Retire from NACT
John Carr-Ellison and John Webster retired at the end of 2024 from the Trust when their five-year term of office came to an end. Among other things, John Carr-Ellison was involved along with Willy Browne-Swinburne in setting up and recruiting to the Patrons membership group of the Trust and has made financial contributions over the…
Read MoreClayton Family Papers & Hadrian’s Wall
Nicola Whiteside of the Archive Service at Woodhorn has recently completed work on the Clayton Family papers and reveals some of the interesting details gleaned from the documents.
Read MoreNewsletter No.1 – Winter 2021
welcome – our first 18 months – what you can expect from membership – changes to membership details – volunteering – archives service offices
Read MoreNewsletter No.2 – Spring 2023
trustees update – projects completed – projects in progress -projects in development – potential new projects
Read MoreNewsletter No.3 – Winter 2023
grants update – cataloguing project – schools programme – origins of archive service – work of an archivist – archives and Berwick Barracks – Sir Philip Mawer steps down from role of chairman
Read MoreTrust Starts Work on More Funding Applications
The work of the Trust has now started in earnest with several applications now submitted for funding to support project proposals from the Archives Service. one application is to allow longer term work on the Photocentre collection (see Projects page). As described below, an initial grant was won earlier this year to allow a start…
Read MoreFunding to Support Photocentre Project
The Trust has been successful in obtaining a grant from the Lough Fund to allow the recruitment of Cameron Robertson to work 15 hours a week for a year, starting on 20 April 2022. Cameron will be working on the scanning and digitisation of the huge collection of photographic images acquired by the Archive Service.…
Read MoreWoodhorn Archives Reading Room Server Update
The Archives Service has been awaiting additional space to be added to the Reading Room server. This is now available, and the plan is to begin to load content to this shortly. The first content to be uploaded and made available will be parish registers and records and electoral registers. The Service has also prepared…
Read MoreThe Carr-Ellison Family History
One of our trustees, John Carr-Ellison, whose family has deposited many important documents with the Archive Service, provides this fascinating glimpse of his family history. This branch of the Carr family originated in the Tyne valley where they farmed and thrived by stealing other people’s cattle in the sixteenth century. Based in Dunston, they made…
Read MoreThe Swinburne Family Archive
One of our trustees, William Browne-Swinburne, whose family has deposited many important documents with the Archive Service, provides this fascinating glimpse of his family history. Given land in 1066 at Chollerton by William The Conqueror the De Swynburnes were lowly French squires. Over the centuries the Swinburne Family grew its estates to over 40,000 acres…
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