Water for Man and Beast

The Wells of Prudhoe Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Galleries 1.02.2 and 3.07 The Prudhoe map of 1859 shows the locations of nine wells which were in general use at that time. Note that the road from the Castle...

Palace or Polluted ‘RAA’?

Housing Conditions for Miners Families Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Galleries 1.03 and 1.04 and 5.04.1 Many remember the old colliery houses of Prudhoe with great affection. There was a strong sense of...

From Family to Hospital & Place of Worship

Prudhoe Hall & Our Lady and St Cuthberts RC Church Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Galleries 7.02 and 7.03 Matthew Liddell was the son of Cuthbert Liddell of Benwell Hall, Newcastle and principal owner of...

Started by Eight Men from Wylam

The Prudhoe Gleemen Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Gallery 2.01.3 After an evening service at Wylam Methodist Church one Sunday in 1903 a group of eight men sowed the seeds of what was to become a choir of...

John Wesley Sparks a Flame

Methodism Comes to Prudhoe Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Gallery 4.01 A stone on South Road in the wall of Prudhoe House (once the meeting place of Prudhoe Council) marks the place where John Wesley preached...

Raids and Rationing

Some World War II Memories Photographs relating to this article, including those in this extract, may be found in Galleries 3.05 and 2.01 At a meeting held in Prudhoe’s Employment Exchange, Ethel Batey, then aged sixteen, volunteered to join the Civil Defence (A.R.PJ....