4 Blogs for Newcastle ©
4 Blogs for Newcastle

4 Blogs for Newcastle

A Geordie writer's weekly notes on books and theatre, the Ouseburn's own trust, Heaton's history group, and a one-man photo record of the changing city

Newcastle's best local writing comes from people who live in a particular corner of it. A novelist back home on Tyneside sends weekly notes on the bookshops, galleries and theatres she actually goes to. The trust that looks after the Ouseburn valley digs into its own oral-history archive. A volunteer history group has spent more than a decade researching one suburb, Heaton, street by street. And one man has photographed the city's buildings, demolitions and new builds since 2005.

Between them they lead to a wartime air-raid shelter under the city, a medieval ruin in a Victorian park, two new bookshops in Heaton and the Byker Wall.

Further Reading

4 Blogs for Newcastle

  1. 01 The Sinful Spine hits Heaton traceysinclair.substack.com · Tracey Sinclair A Tyneside novelist's weekly notes on what she has been reading, watching and seeing in Newcastle: new bookshops, the Laing and the Baltic, and a lot of local theatre. Some posts are personal, and some are for paid subscribers only.
  2. 02 Wartime Memories: The Victoria Tunnel and Ouseburn Culvert ouseburntrust.org.uk · Daniel O'Keefe The charity that looks after the Ouseburn valley and runs the Victoria Tunnel tours, writing up its own oral-history recordings of the people who sheltered underground in the war.
  3. 03 King John’s Heaton heatonhistorygroup.org · Keith Fisher Volunteers who have researched one Newcastle suburb in depth since 2011, here on the medieval ruin in Heaton Park that locals call King John's Palace.
  4. 04 Byker Wall newcastlephotos.blogspot.com One man's photographic record of Newcastle's buildings since 2005, updated most weeks, with each place revisited over the years. Good for seeing how a street has changed. The page text is partly borrowed from Wikipedia; the photographs are his own.

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