Meeting Notes September 2

 Meeting Notes September 2

There was a good turn out to our September meeting, Iris brought some home made cookies which went down well. Peter reported back on the York Players but unfortunately there was not much to find. There was a book written in the 1930's but nothing to note on Google. Peter has found some images and will post them shortly but it looks like we will have to do some more digging, the modern term is 'data mining !!.'
We had quite a few topics that we discussed. We talked about the miners who had worked abroad prospecting for gold, (see John's letter further down).

Link to John's article

We also talked about the Fenwicks and wondered if Alderman Fenwick was any relation to the modern Fenwicks. Dave replied to this and a query on what was on the site of the Civic Centre before it was built.

'With regard to the site where the Civic Centre now is this was housing and an eye hospital.'

'Alderman Fenwick is no relation to Fenwicks of Newcastle.'

I do have further information about both these subjects and will bring it to the next meeting I can attend.

 

David

There was a story which is posted in the blog about Lady Margaret Fenwick (Meg of the Moneybags) from a book written By Joan Morgan called Tales of Northumberland. You can get it from the City Library on loan or buy through Amazon for £2.70. If you are doing the search remember to type in Joan Morgan as you will get Robson Green's rather limp DVD from the BBC TV show Tales from Northumberland. Further down the blog is an extract of Megs story follow the link below.

 Megs Storey


It came out in our discussion that you can access Ancestry UK on the City Library computers. Joan has done a lot of research using this and with a little persuasion could give us a little demo at the library. Other areas we discussed for research was Find My Past, The Discovery Museum and Newcastle Historical Society any help would be welcome.

We mentioned a possible trip out to Woodhorn Colliery  Museum. There are buses from Newcastle which take you to Ashington and you can then get a taxi from the bus station to the museum. It takes around 15 minutes to get there and the cost is around £5 so for four people round trip from Ashington to the museum and back should be around £2.50 each. or we could do a car share. The staff would give us a tour but they need to be informed in advance of us coming. Let us know how you feel.

 Link to Woodhorn Museum

 It was suggested we could do our own self programming 10 week course with a hired tutor. Eric mentioned that Freda Thompson was running a history course at Brunswick  for £40, it might be possible to hire the chapel and get our own tutor. Caroline has still not come back with any information on setting up a self financing course through Adult learning. The cost of hiring one of the rooms in the Chapel is as follows:

 Upstairs room £32 for 3 hours either 9-12pm or 1-4pm
(upstairs room has lift access and tea and coffee facilities)
Downstairs room £26 for 3 hours either 9-12 or 1-4
 (no tea and coffee facilities)
If we were to do a 10 week course self programming without a tutor the cheapest it would cost us would be £260 which for 10 people attending would cost £2.60 each per week.

Rooms Available for Hire


Its worth giving it a thought, we all might be happy with just the monthly meeting, let us know.

175 years of medical education in Newcastle

Val has obtained an interesting article/walk which is called 1834-2009 A Stroll Through Time, it celebrates 175 years of medical education in Newcastle. You can download a readable version of this from the link below:

A Stroll through Time

If you have any problems I can e-mail you a copy.

Is is not remarkable how when we come together we can learn so much more. If you have anything to share such as research you have done or any past research you have done please pass it on for us to see on the blog the e-mail address is:

nlhgroup1@gmail.com

Next Meeting 

There are a few of us who are on courses on Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday through September to December and a few of us will not be able to make the meetings but for most people the first Wednesday of the month seems to be available so our next meeting will be October 7.

David will not be able to attend the next meeting on 7th October.  He is  doing a Highlights Walk from Central Arcade at 10.30 a.m. and it would lasts about 90 minutes ending on the Quayside. If you are interested in this walk instead of the meeting let me know and I will inform David. I know there may be a few of us who could not do this walk due to its duration but I will still be at the Hancock to meet up with those of you who just want a coffee and chat.

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