Study Centre Information
Woodhorn Site:
QEII Country Park
Ashington
Northumberland
NE63 9YF
The Study Centre is open 10am-4pm, Wednesday-Friday & on the first Saturday of each month.
No booking is required.
Users of our service must register prior to using The Study Centre. Northumberland Archives is a member of the Archives Card scheme. Details of the scheme can be found here – https://archivescard.com/. You can begin your registration process online before you visit us.
The Study Centre is located within the main Cutter building on the Woodhorn site. Last document production time is 3.30pm
Please note: Study Centre opening hours differ from those of Woodhorn Museum.
Berwick Record Office:
Walkergate Building
Walkergate
Berwick-Upon-Tweed
TD15 1DB
Opening hours are 9.30am-12.45pm & 2pm- 4.45 on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
** Document requests must be made in advance via email**
Visitors wanting to consult our family history resources or ask for advice can just turn up on our open days and we will do our best to help you.
John “Jock” Carr-Ellison and the Unknown Women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
While exploring the Carr-Ellison collection, in connection to John Campbell Carr-Ellison, I came across a series of photographs showing military officers alongside women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY). Some of the images showed brief moments of happiness and distraction away from the horrors of war. But who were these women, and how did they cross paths with John “Jock” Carr-Ellison? To begin answering those questions, I first needed to uncover more about John’s wartime service. The only information
BERWICK JOURNAL, 9TH SEPTEMBER 1926
MR. JOHN PEACOCK TO RETIRE HIS 40TH, YEARS OF SERVICE “This is my last race among the boys of the Borough,” said Mr. John Peacock, Headmaster of Tweedmouth Boys’ National School at Spittal Feast Sports on Monday night. By these words M. J. Peacock conveyed to the Public the fact that he was about to retire from the Headmastership of Tweedmouth National School. He retires in November. When a man has been connected with an intuition for 40 years, the
BERWICK ADVERTISER, 8TH AUGUST 1926
BERWICK PETTY SESSIONS THURSDAY Before the Mayor, Major A. Tower Robertson, T. Purves, Ald. T. Wilson, W, T. Hofarth, H. Lockhart, and J. Peacock, Esqs. THE THIRD REQUEST Capt. A. F. Watt made application for a dancing licence from 11.30 pm to 1am on 6th August for the Palais de Danse at Spittal. The bench pointed out that this was the third request. Capt. Watt said he had had a special request from some people from Galashiels. Supt. Shiel objected
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