We will meet at Heaton Cemetery gates at 3.00pm, visit the family grave, then go on to Heaton Community Centre for 3.30pm for a short talk and musical interlude by Peter Sagar from A Living Tradition and Heaton History Group. Fred would have been only 14 at the start of the war and, like his siblings, was a pupil at Chillingham Road School. He was buried in Byker and Heaton Cemetery (Grave reference xviii.v.3). (...Read full memory). Face book has a friends of Newcastle east end group wth a very good collection of photos of old Walker , as to the engineering works I can remember it but I don't know its name. I had smashing mates there my own age but we all got on with the older women as well. This article was researched and written by Michael Proctor, with additional input by members of our ‘Heaton Avenues in Wartime’ research team. Published: 05:13 EST, 15 February 2017 | Updated: 12:38 EST, 15 February 2017. Her engagement with the local community helped gain their trust, and Ms Konttinen has previously said: 'Being a foreigner gave me one advantage: I could be nosey, and be forgiven. history. A brush leans against the wall, ready to be used to groom the dog, 'Kids with Collected Junk Near Byker Bridge': Young children pose amid discarded household furniture, TV sets and prams. It's easy to add your own memories and reconnect with your shared local The book, which is published by Summerhill Books (ISBN: 978-1-906721-75-6), can be obtained from a range of local retailers but if you buy it at one of our meetings, £1.49 of the recommended retail price of £4.99 will be donated by the publishers to Heaton History Group to help fund our programme of talks. Heaton History Group on Twitter. Some of the windows and doors of the houses are barred, as is the window of a small shop that is nestled on the street corner, 'Carville Road at Night': This photo offers a view from a distance of the Victorian housing of Byker in relation to the centre of the city, with its many steeples, modern residential developments and the Tyne Bridge that links Newcastle with Gateshead, A Google Street View photo taken from roughly the same location in the present day shows the changing Newcastle skyline. Classes and groups start up on a regular basis, creating opportunities for people to gain new skills and network with other enthusiastic members of the public. As part of this, the government issued to their next-of-kin (in addition to any of the standard campaign medals an individual might have been entitled to had they lived) what was known as the Memorial Plaque and the Memorial Scroll. Finally, Olive’s daughter Margaret took this photograph of the war memorial in Heaton Presbyterian Church  on which her great uncles are remembered. When he retired from national politics in 1922, Wilkie returned to his Heaton home and became an alderman for the city of Newcastle. Nineteenth-century terraced houses are seen in a semi-deserted and derelict state, but the people still living in the area show a resilience that was captured on camera by Finnish-born Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. In the 1960s its densely populated housing was deemed unfit for human habitation and demolished, making way for an iconic block called the Byker Wall which was built by the architect Ralph Erskine in the early 1970s. Olive said the shop was on Chillingham Road between Simonside and Warton Terraces ‘opposite Martha and Mary’s’. The playground seemed so big and I felt overwhelmed - I'd never (...Read full memory), I started work at 15 when I worked at the quilt factory, I later went to work at Tizer pop factory. inbox. Isabella was born Isabella Walker on 19 May 1861 in Ayton, Berwickshire to Robert and Isabella Walker (nee Gourlay). I remember my mum doing the washing in the wash-house in the back yard, she had to start a fire under this concrete bowl thing and fill it with water from the tap in the back yard. 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Finally, those to the RAF had a large black H in the main text, with the hand-written naming at the bottom in both red and blue ink. She confirmed that her grandparents had an allotment on railway land near Heaton Station but also that her Great Uncle Robert cultivated a field near Red Hall Drive. Since this article was written, we’ve been lucky enough to meet Olive Renwick, Isabella and David’s grand-daughter – Olive’s mother was Isabella, the Woods’ eldest daughter. in days gone by. It is also possible that the family had an allotment somewhere nearby. The medical record notes that he was admitted unconscious, before going on to develop bronchopneumonia and late emphysema. Ten years later the 1901 Census shows the family living at 33 Elvet Street, Heaton (parish of St. Michael) with four more children: John David, age eight, Robert Thomas, age six, Margaret Cleghorn, age four, and Stanley Alexander, age one. now. Yet he died on 1 March 1919, 18 days short of his 19th birthday, some four months after the end of the war and is listed as a casualty of war, buried in a Commonwealth War Grave at Byker and Heaton Cemetery. She also recalled that her father, who worked on the railways, used to buy leeks from Dobbies in Edinburgh and sold them on to work colleagues and neighbours. Her father used to call in and buy something every day on his way home from work, leading his mother to wonder why he’d suddenly acquired such a sweet tooth. During the war, the opposite happened, with those affected transferred away from the front to hospitals both locally and in the soldiers’ home country, spreading the disease around the world. © Copyright Frith Content Inc 1998-2020. An aerial view of the Byker Wall, an iconic 1,800-home estate for 9,500 people which was constructed in the 1970s, Byker was made famous by BBC children's soap Byker Grove, starring Ant and Dec as PJ and Duncan. Fred was almost too young to have been involved in the war and certainly too young to have fought at the front (young men could join up at 18, but weren’t posted to the front until they reached 19). Fred was in hospital – the St John’s VAD Hospital in Hull – when the armistice was signed, having fallen ill with diarrhoea on 10 October, which he took 35 days to recover from. Heaton Presbyterian Church War Memorial where the contributions of Robert, John and Stanley Wood are commemorated. His head is thrown back and light is reflecting off the lenses of his glasses, 'Ragman's Horse and Cart by Union Road': A stretch of wasteland where buildings have been demolished but roads remain. There were lots of people living there, all in a 1 bedroom flat with just a scullery and a dining/sitting room. Byker suffered from high unemployment after the collapse of local traditional industries such as shipbuilding and coal mining, with incidents of anti-social behaviour three times the national average at one stage. The 1881 Scottish Census shows her still living in Ayton with her mother Isabella, now widowed, and her brothers John, Robert, James and Thomas. Two factors made it particularly deadly. Joseph was a commercial traveller, born in York. Do you remember stories about the community, its history and people?

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