Study Centre Information
Woodhorn Site:
QEII Country Park
Ashington
Northumberland
NE63 9YF
The Study Centre is open 10am-4pm, Wednesday-Friday.
The Study Centre is open the first Saturday of each month, 10am-4pm.
No booking is required.
We are offering ‘Behind the Scene Tours’ on the second Saturday of the month: please book tours here
On the third Saturday of each month you can book a research surgery here.
Users of our service must register prior to using The Study Centre. Northumberland Archives is a member of the Archives Card scheme. Details of the scheme can be found here –https://archivescard.com/. You can begin your registration process online before you visit us.
The Study Centre is located within the main Cutter building on the Woodhorn site. Last document production time is 3.30pm
Please note: Study Centre opening hours differ from those of Woodhorn Museum.
Berwick Record Office:
Walkergate Building
Walkergate
Berwick-Upon-Tweed
TD15 1DB
Opening hours are 9.30am-12.45pm & 2pm- 4.45 on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
** Document requests must be made in advance via Eventbrite or email**
Please click here to book a place for documents
(you will need to specify documents and include reference numbers)
Visitors wanting to consult our family history resources or ask for advice can just turn up on our open days and we will do our best to help you.
Atkinson & Marshall: Northumbrian sheep farmers in Sutherland, Scotland
This guest blog has been written by Professor Annie Tindley from Newcastle University. ‘Messers Atkinson and Marshall the first adventurers in stock farming in the earldom of Sutherland are stock and crop farmers, who reside near the river Aln in Northumberland. They breed and buy lean stock which they feed for Morpeth and the Yorkshire markets; and with the last 10 years they have embarked … not less than £20,000 on putting breeding flocks in the mountains of Sutherland …
Paul Hindmarsh Exhibition
Visitors to County Hall reception in Morpeth have had the opportunity to view a selection of images from the Paul Hindmarsh photography collection held at Northumberland Archives. Paul Hindmarsh worked as a commercial photographer from the 1960s until he retired in 2010. With his associate Don Riddell, he captured many important industrial developments throughout the region as well as the day-to-day activities of businesses and factories across Northumberland. His archive of over 20,000 negatives taken between 1968 and the mid
BERWICK ADVERTISER, 5TH MARCH 1925
BERWICK’S NEW BRIDGE For the benefit of our readers we give this week a composite photo view of the Tweed valley looking up the river, and showing the view which will be obtained when the new bridge is in position. We also give below a plan of the bridge and its approaches, which will enable the public at a glance to understand the line upon which it is taken, and the properties which will have to be demolished to make
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