Pont Island News 2014 published

The Ponteland Local History Society has just published its 11th edition of "Pont Island News" which is being distributed free to members. The edition is also available to others price £4.00 including postage or electronically as a PDF file price £1.00 

This edition includes a "Dissington Hall" history by Michael & Gill Brown, an item entitled "The Curate, a Vicar and Five Engineers" by J Michael Taylor and a biography of the engineer "Robert Nicholson" by Michael Money

Readers will also find interesting Michael Taylor's item entitled "RAF Woolsington and RAF Ponteland" and the rev. Peter Barham has written an item "Commemorating the First World War- A few local churches"

Other items relating to the First and Second World Wars have been written by Patricia Stephenson and Muriel Sobo: "Two War Veterans",  "Caterpillar Club", "Family loss in the wars of the twentieth century" and "The Somme"

© The copyright of each article remains with the author and of each illustration with the artist.

ISSN 1468-1390