NELH Tuesday Meeting: Heather Wood, Just A Pit Lass, an account of growing up and living in Easington Colliery

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Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83987112493?pwd=SDlHN3JCUTgxQ0JlckhoaDRrd1NKUT09 Meeting ID: 839 8711 2493 Passcode: 768850 Born and raised in Easington, the daughter of a miner and from a family of strong working class women, Heather Wood has been involved in virtually every aspect of her community, not least her work with Save Easington Area Mines (SEAM), a group that […]

NELH Tuesday Meeting: John Griffiths, Washington: Crocodiles and Cows, Sixty Years of a New Town

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Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84338306591?pwd=MnRVL3JRc1QrNzNQUkhVVFh2TmlRUT09 Meeting ID: 843 3830 6591 Passcode: 953770 Washington New Town was ‘designated’ for development in 1964, part of a second wave of New Towns to be built under the provisions the New Towns Act of 1946. Its purpose was to stimulate economic development in the Tyneside and Wearside area, and it […]