Wheatley Hill History Club

Durham

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Sixty members, five published authors, one former pit village: Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine visits Wheatley Hill History Club.

Wheatley Hill History Club is the subject of this issue's Your Projects feature, in which Rosemary Collins talks to our chair Margaret Hedley about what a village history club can do for the place it belongs to. The piece traces the club from its first meeting in 1995 — just two people in the room — to a membership of sixty, and covers our monthly talks at Wheatley House, … [Read more...] about Sixty members, five published authors, one former pit village: Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine visits Wheatley Hill History Club.

HERITAGE LOTTERY GRANT AWARD

THE MAN THEY NAMED A TOWN AFTER - As you know from previous newsletter articles, Peterlee is celebrating 75 years since it became a new town in east Durham. Exhibitions and other events are planned to mark the event, but the History Club felt that the man himself, Peter Lee, had been overlooked. With this in mind, and working alongside Colin Robson, the Arts & Culture … [Read more...] about HERITAGE LOTTERY GRANT AWARD

Back from the Dead at Gallipoli: William Wilson of Wheatley Hill

To most Wheatley Hill folk of a certain age, 'The Dardenelles' is just the curious nickname for those many rows of identikit colliery houses that used to be at the back of the village's front street. But to one local man the name meant something much more: for this was the theatre of war in which he was erroneously reported killed in action in 1915. His family received the … [Read more...] about Back from the Dead at Gallipoli: William Wilson of Wheatley Hill