Very useful information on Whickham Village, with more links to other areas in Gateshead.

Here you will find the most extensive range of books, DVDs, maps and gift ideas inspired by the stunning scenery and amazing heritage of North East England and surrounding areas. Everything you need to discover about this wonderful part of Britain, past and present...

Step back in time and visit the wonderful Bronte Parsonage. Learn all about the remarkable Bronte family, their achievments and their lives.

Set in this beautiful and historic village, the Hermitage Garden is a huge attraction for visitors and local people

Durham Bannermakers, the longest established firm of its kind in the North East, works with trade unions, community groups and schools to produce hand crafted banners for all occasions. For further details and many images of their creations visit

Visit this wonderful website and see hundreds of old postcards and photographs of Gateshead & Newcastle

Since it's arrival in 2004, the A Vision of Britain Through Time website has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to find wide-ranging and reliable information about the changing history of U.K. places.

The Sunniside to Causey railway section is now the World's Oldest Working Railway and the Causey to East Tanfield section dates from 1839. Visit this historic site on a day out, enjoy a railway trip along the Tanfield Line and the many family attractions.

The Sunniside History Sunniside hired Dunston Silver Band to help launch their new book & DVD (featured on the website) this film footage of the band marching was taken by Nick Neave.

Whickham.mobi is simply a website which has been designed for viewing both on a desktop PC and also on any mobile phone with an internet browser. It offers various useful sections to residents throughout NE16 Amongst other sections at the website, we run an events calendar for the NE16 area

This site includes pages from a range of community and voluntary organisations in Gateshead and promotes the many different activities happening in your neighbourhood. You can browse the site by topic or by group and our events calendar shows you what's happening across Gateshead

The link is to enable service men & women past and present to see a wide range of merchandise applicable to all branches of the Armed Forces especially medals. It is also very informative and well worth looking through.

This link is a must for everyone interested in the Royal Family. Loads of information and pictures

Former Gateshead Central Library Head of Local Studies Anthea Lang has just recently set up a new group. St Mary's Heritage Group, Gateshead, it has been established to support the work carried out at St Mary's Heritage Centre.

CISWO is a National Charity which has a focus on the key role of delivering community and personal welfare services within mining and former mining communities. CISWO is a responsive team-based charity positively impacting upon the lives of over 500,000 coalfield residents through a wide range of services delivered by professional, experienced and dedicated staff.

SKILLS •4 WORK Directing Your Future We offer supported long-term work placements for young adults (19- 30) with a learning condition. Placements provided by the local business community in Gateshead. We have strong established links to provide a bespoke placement opportunity. Our Development Manager will work closely with the company to provide a mentor who will support the young person 1-1.

Five local history societies (Sunniside, Swalwell, Whickham, Winlaton and Winlaton Mill), located respectively on the east and west banks of the river Derwent, collaborated to deliver this project. Building bridges between the societies' around the work of telling the story of the Butterfly Bridge and its surrounding area’s. Supported by the Herltage Lottery Fund and Gateshead Counc:l

Welcome to Conisbrough & Denaby Main Local History Group. This week is the third anniversary of the launch of our website in November 2010. In three years we have published over 3,000 pages with 1,300 photographs and 26 video's. The site contains details from 9 censuses of the area and extracts from 60 years of Parish records.

Direct From Lourdes is an online Catholic Store providing genuine Lourdes Water, Rosary Beads, Miraculous Medals and a large collection of other Catholic Gifts. Our fine range of quality and unique Religious Goods and Catholic jewellery can be sent to any location worldwide, all Catholic Products are sent direct from our Catholic Shop here in Lourdes, France.

Howden-le-Wear is a small, former mining village in Weardale in County Durham.This website aims to provide the reader with some information about the work of the History Society, its aims and objectives. We hope you enjoy it and the stories we have to tell