Northumberland & Durham Family History Society is holding a one-day conference on “19th Century Migration into the North-East” on Saturday 16 June 2018, at Brunswick Methodist Church (Newcastle, NE1 7BJ).  The speakers include Linda Bankier, talking about migration south from Scotland.

Further details and booking arrangements can be found at:   http://www.ndfhs.org.uk/diary/

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Clive Hallam-Baker will give a talk on “Carham 1018: the start of the Border story” to Bowsden History Group on Monday 7th May 2018 at 7.30pm, in Bowsden Village Hall. Free to members and children under 16; visitors £2 at the door; includes light refreshments.

The talk will be followed at 9.00pm by the AGM of Bowsden History Group.

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Berwick Museum & Art Gallery opens for the new season on Wednesday 28th March 2018, with two new temporary exhibitions on display:

Entitled “Fragments”, the first exhibition is the final round up of the arts & culture strand of the Peregrini Project. It is displaying pots by Graham Taylor of Rothbury, who ran several pottery workshops at the museum last season, and will provide community engagement work at the museum this season. There is also a display of photographs by Jose Snook and poetry by Katrina Porteous.

Accompanying and complementing the Fragments exhibition, the Museum  stages a small seaside...

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The exhibition “The Archive of Smith” currently at the Granary Gallery in Berwick shows local photographs of the 1950s onwards held in the Photo Centre collection. Many local people will have memories of the events or individuals shown, and archivist Linda Bankier and exhibition curator Cameron Robinson are eager to collect any related recollections and stories which will add to the background context of the photographs.

Two drop-in sessions are being held at the Gallery on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th March 2018, both from 11.00am until 1.00pm, to which you are invited to come along and share with Linda and Cameron...

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An exhibition of photographs from the Photocentre collection, now held by Berwick Record Office, is being presented by Berwick Visual Arts at the Granary Gallery, from 27 January until 13 May 2018. It tells the story of the photo news agency founded in Berwick by David Smith in 1951, and continued by his son Ian in their Bridge Street premises until its closure in 2012. The exhibition is entitled The Archive of Smith, Berwick: From Photo-News Service to Photo Centre and it is curated by Cameron Robertson with Kate Best.

The Granary Gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday, 11.00am-4.00pm. Admission free.

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