"VILLAGE SHOPS & TRADES" SURVEY

2004-2006

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

The purpose of our last Project 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.

Participation in the survey was open to all our affiliated local history societies. Members' secretaries were sent details of the current project in September 2004, including a Project Outline, Research Hints, a List of Retail & Trade Examples, and a photocopiable Record Sheet..

**  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.

 

Non- members of the Association may buy a copy of the 2007 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.