Northumberland Past: Source List

Published Histories of Northumberland 19th and early 20th century

County History Committee and Hinde. (Search: Northumberland History)

https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum09nort#page/n17/mode/1up Earsdon and Horton Parish

https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum08nort#page/n25/mode/2up Tynemouth Parish

https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum09nort#page/300/mode/2up Bebside and Iron Works

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=AxYMAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PR2 Hodgson Morpeth Area

https://books.google.co.uk/books/reader?id=-YoHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA97 Wallace Blyth

www.archive.org

https://archive.org/stream/monthlychronicl02unkngoog#page/n8/mode/2up North Country Lore and Legend 1888 (5 volumes 1887-91)

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924251#page/n9/mode/2up Middleton's Rising 1317

https://archive.org/stream/localhistorians05unkngoog#page/n6/mode/2up Richardson's Table Book

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/a03999d2-8ed3-4974-b5d2-53c5c8e0e4da Ridley Family of Blagdon Biography

National Archives + A2A

Catalogue of the national archives and a partial catalogue of local archives

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Society of Antiquaries (Newcastle)

Search facility to the contents of their publications

www.newcastle-antiquaries.org.uk

North-East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers

"Custodians of the Industry's Heritage". Online library catalogue. The library houses many important and unique collections, although some are on loan to the NRO

www.mininginstitute.org.uk

Home page from the "Keys to the Past" site.

This site unlocks the secrets of the archaeology of Durham and Northumberland. It also includes a feature where maps from any historic period can be compared. A link is provided to the "Past Perfect" website where 3D reconstructions can be viewed from five periods in North-East history including 20th century Woodhorn Colliery in nearby Ashington.

http://www.keystothepast.info/k2p/usp.nsf/pws/Keys+to+the+past+-+Home+Page

http://www.keystothepast.info/Pages/pgDetail.aspx?PRN=N13847 Keys to the Past Blyth

Sites and Monuments for the whole country

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/

Tyne and Wear Museum Collections Online

Objects, photographs and prints (including a Burradon Colliery token)

https://twmuseums.org.uk/collections

Collieries of the North East

Extensive database of information on collieries (including Burradon and Weetslade) with a collection of photographs of colliery locomotives (including locos used at Burradon) and some archives not available elswhere online (1872 Our Colliery Villages from the Chronicle and 1842 Royal Commission on Children in the coal mines)

www.dmm.org.uk

https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum08nort#page/n45/mode/2up Tynemouth Collieries and the Coal Trade

https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum09nort#page/223/mode/1up Horton Collieries and the Coal Trade

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=6hNgAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA1
Hair Sketches of the Coal Fields