| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| When: | Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:30 pm First Tuesday, Cheviot Centre NB earlier times from November 1:30 - 3:30 |
| Venue: | Cheviot Centre |
Travel through the ages as we explore history in its broadest sense. A friendly group with wide-ranging interests in all aspects of history.
We meet on the first Tuesday of the month at 2.30 until 4.30 in the Cheviot Centre but start earlier during the winter weather, from November 1:30 to 3:30.
In 2025:
- 7th Jan 2025 - No meeting
- 4th Feb - Maggie Harker: A Brief History of Hedges
- 4th Mar - Sandra Gann: Tin Tabernacles
- 1 Apr - Jean French: Memories of Early Childhood
In 2024:
- Jan - No Meeting
- 6th Feb - ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement’ A talk by Bob Taylor
- 5th March - Judith Oughton: ‘Georgian Bling: the history of cut steel jewellery’
- 2nd April - "The New Hartley Mining Disaster", David Douglas
- 7th May - "Life of Karl Faberge & History of the Imperial Eggs" - Mrs Olga Douglas
- 4th June - "The Dalziel family of Wooler" - Jeremy Carr
- 2nd July - "An Archaeological Miscellany" - Susan Turner and Joan Thomas
- No meeting in August
- 3rd Sept - ‘History of the Borders’ – Joan Thomas
- 1st Oct - ‘Grave Matters’ – Jeremy Carr
- 5th Nov - Sandra Gann: Medieval Medicines & Monasteries in the North East
- 3rd Dec - Pam Ratcliffe: Holidays in the Cheviots, 1910-1915
The History and International Groups have been reinstated as this combined group. Joan Thomas is facilitating. You can contact Joan on 01890 882853.
Everyone is welcome, please bring your own hot or cold drinks.
Homildon hill as it was once known is just outside Wooler and is mentioned by Shakespeare on Henry IV Part 1 after the battle of 1402 when the Earl of Northumberland and his son Harry Hotspur defeated the Scots army led by Archibald Douglas.