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First card of Christmas

... mas card out. I can report that we received ours in the Gazette office on Monday morning. The card depicted a group of Second World War POWs marching through thick snow with German guards beside them. The card, as well as offering best wishes, asked the ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 2001
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 274 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Pageant poser for budding performers

... Historical pageants were first staged in the grounds of Warkworth Castle in the 1920 s and 1930 s and following the Second World War have been produced every three years since the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. In all weathers, up to 120 local people ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 2002
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

S. R. STEPHENSON 3 MARKET PLACE MORPETH OBITUARY

... in Fenkle Street. Later Mr Short took over the| firm's branch in Amble and ; lived in Warkworth. Not long before the second world war he returned to Alnwick and renewed his association with St. Paul's, being vicar's warden again from 1940 to 1943. In ...

Published: Friday 03 March 1950
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Wooler mourns the loss of Cheviot Charlie

... affectionately known as Cheviot Charlie, who was aged 89. Born in Lowick in 1912, Geordie moved into Wooler when the Second World War broke out and served with the Durham Light Infantry. He was then involved in secret research in Tamworth Park. After ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 2002
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

B ol T ; u 3 , \ @ Voice from the past... Lou Reed in the White Room (Channel

... profile of the marmots of the Tyrol 12.40 FILM: THE LONG VOYAGE ,» HOME (1940) Powerful saga of h merchant seamen in the Second World War, following the characters on board a tramp steamer sailing into U- Boat-infested waters. Staring John Wayne and Thomas ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1996
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 250 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

ST JOHN'S FIRST SCHOOL Interesting A walk Results back ro the past

... pupils of St. John's First School went for a walk with Mr lons around the town of Alnwick to look at the changes since the Second World War. The childern started from Lisburn Street where the school is. Then he showed them some very old houses on Clayport Bank ...

Published: Friday 04 June 1993
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

stmas

... and never contacted the company again. The ring, letter and 10 shilling note are still in the safe today. During the Second World War restrictions were placed on the production of cracker snaps. The Ministry of Defence commissioned Tom Smith to fold and ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 2000
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

LION’S EYE VIEW: The magnificent view from the top of the Tenantry Column, looking across Alnwick

... and the Rotary Club have also agreed to make financial contributions. around its base, which were removed during the Second World War, are to be restored. Amble firm DP Builders are currently on site completing their part of the project. They are realigning ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 2000
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 289 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TTINGHAM ALNW Did in the

... fa ily and their extended titled circ including the Percys, were in the by ness of bringing about a preman end to the Second World War They attempted to do this arranging Hess's misguided Scotti excursion, which, having not gone quite according to plan ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 2001
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

nonnumeeriand life S€@rch to find mystery Beadnell artist

... about him. All we know is that his name was Kenneth Glover, and that he lived at Beadnell from the later years of the Second World War. “We know this because one of his paintings - Boats in the snow, Beadnell - bears an exhibition label showing that it ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 2000
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 278 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Heather aged 10, brings home a bomb

... home a bomb N A ROTHBURY family had a lucky escape when their daughter returned from a trip to the Coquet clutching a Second World War bomb. Ten-year-old Heather Elsdon was washing the exglosive along with pebbles and pieces of pottery when her startled ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1993
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

SIR,

... welfare care for those who have served in the RAF and their dependants, not just the airmen and women who took part in the Second World War but today’s service personnel and their families. People like Olivia Grace Webster, the daughter Garden Sonnet A project ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 2002
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 8 | Tags: none