Ponteland Historian- July 2020

Ponteland Historian March 2020

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

Items invited for Pont Island News

Contributions of between 5000 and 1500 words are invited for the next edition of Pont Island News to be published in September. WW1 items are of particular interest by end of June please.

Pont Island News 2012 just published

Pont Island News is published bi-annually by Ponteland local History Society and distributed free to members. Non members can purchase from the society at £3 per copy.