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Oswald Gardner's Lament
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Looking back at whickham
Our book
Looking Back at Whickham
, includes:
A brief history of Whickham and District
Albert Thomson – local artist and historian
Going to school in the 1930s and early 1940s
Beech Grove – an estate for professionals
The local Co-operative Societies
The Glebe Sports Club
Henzell’s tea shop and grocers
Diary of a Sun Vitesse bicycle
Whickham Orchard
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
Methodism in Whickham and District
St Mary’s RC Church and School, Dockendale
Dockendale Hall
Ralph Carr of Dunston Hill House
Charles Attwood – industrialist and political reformer
Whickham Theatre Club
The Dunston Rocket
Whickham Workers’ Educational Association
A living memorial to a Gallipoli casualty
The book is published by
Summerhill Books
.
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