Thank you all for coming this afternoon/evening to see this exhibition about the Photocentre Collection and the Blyth to the Future Project. My particular thanks go to Councillor Catherine Seymour, the Civic Head of Northumberland County Council, and to Cllr Jeff Watson, Cabinet member and Portfolio Holder for Healthy Lives whose wife, June, a regular…

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.…

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…

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…

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…