CURRENT PROJECT, FROM 2008

Societies have now begun work on our new project, which is estimated to last approximately two years, or longer.  It concerns an investigation into the Names and Signs of Pubs and Inns of Northumberland.  Details have been circulated to both Societies and Individual Members.  All are urged to take part, since brewers are currently changing long-standing names of Inns and Pubs.  This means historic names will be unrecorded unless A.N.L.H.S. ensures they are recorded for posterity.

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PAST PROJECT - SHOPS AND TRADE

The display on Members' Day, Oct 2006, of a selection of material received.

The purpose of our last Project, held between 2004-2007, was to record the changing patterns of retail and trade premises in the towns, villages and hamlets of Northumberland. As post offices, banks and public houses are closed, this survey will provide an important record of 'what was then' and 'what is now' for the communities of the participating local history societies.

**  The results of the above project have been published in "Tyne and Tweed", October, 2008.  They give evidence, among other things, of the gradual decline of the small craftsman who worked in a workshop or shed close to the family home.  Increased globalisation and more leisure has led to a fascinating new array of shops and facilities.

*****  The data collected during the 'Shops and Trade' project has now been deposited in the archives collection at Woodhorn, Northumberland, where it is available for public viewing.

      

***** Non- members of the Association may buy a copy of the 2008 edition of "Tyne and Tweed" by sending a cheque made payable to A.N.L.H.S. for the sum of £5.00 (including postage) or for £4.50, when purchasing from A.N.L.H.S. exhibitions - for example, at the Family and Local History Fair at Hexham, Northumberland, on 1st December, 2007.   Please see 'Contact' section for address to which a cheque should be sent.