- | Alston Stories………
- A Letter from the English Civil War………
- The History of Tyne Bridge…….
- Strike a Light!– Alston's Gas Supply……..
- Emigrants From Alston Moor………
- Walton's Alston Lime & Coal Company………
- The lost altar of Epiacum………..
- Alston's Skating Rink………..
- …… and soe to the fells……..
- Chemist's Conundrum…….
- The Walton Memorial…….
- Alston Workhouse…….
- Alston Moor - or is it?…….
- Priorsdale…….
- Four dargue, five dargue, more…….
- Home thoughts from abroad……….
- The Alston Clockmakers……..
- Alston Bank Raid…….
- Millennia…….
- Mediaeval Gravestones Of Alston Moor…….
- Fire at Mill……..
- Jacob Walton and Iron Furnaces…….
- The Canons & the Black Book………
- Baptisms and Burials……..
- John Smeaton: Engineer on Alston Moor……..
- Shedding Light on Nenthead……...
- Alston's First Photographer………
- The Alston Police Station…….
- The Cumberland Hearth Tax…..
- Alston Moor in the 17th Century…..
- Jacob Walton Memorial…….
- …………… |………… More stories added every few days………..
THE ARCHIVES
- are now closed until the 19th January
WHAT'S ON - Historically
PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS2018 - 2019
2018
April 4th: The 1,000-year lease of Alston Moor
May 2nd: Alston Moor - The Scottish Connection
June 5th: Industrial Railways of Alston Moor
July 4th: How the Great War affected Alston Moor
August 5th: A walk - Industrial Alston (Sunday)
September 5th: A walk - Around Nenthead (Evening)
October 3rd: 29th January 1908 - The Roachburn Pit Disaster
November 7th: Nenthead Mines
December 5th: Christmas Social and ‘Winter Memories’
2019
January: No meeting
February: No meeting
March 6th: The Alston Branch Railway
April 3rd: AGM & talk (to be arranged)
IN MEMORIAM – WRIGHT’S BUS DEPOT, NENTHEAD, CUMBRIABy Alastair Robertson
Anyone who knows Nenthead will have noticed recently that there is something missing – a huge, unattractive brick, steel and zinc something that has stood in the middle of the village for ever, or so it seems.
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