History

Earsdon, Northumberland

Contents

• Blyth:
  • The Pictures of Blyth website has a large collection of "past" and "present" photographs of the Blyth area and a brief history of the town.
    
    
  • The following books have been published on microfiche by Northumberland Collections Service:
    
    
    • Blyth Pictorial Almanac, l861.
    • Robinson's Penny Almanac & Blyth Directory, 1871. Including Blyth & Amble Shipping List.
    • Robinson's Penny Illustrated Household Almanac for 1882. General Local Year Book, Directory for Blyth, Amble & Warkworth & Maritime Register for Blyth & Amble.
      
      
• Hartley:
  • Transcription of section on Hartley from Pigot's Directory 1828/9
  • "The Hartley Families" by Adam and Joan Bunting tells the story of the 1862 Hartley Colliery Disaster and provides details of the victims and their families.
  • The webpages of the Seaton Sluice and Old Hartley Local History Society include some very interesting material.
  
  
  
• Holywell:
  
  • Transcription of section on Holywell from Pigot's Directory 1828/9
  • Transcription of section on Holywell from Whellan's Directory 1855.
  • Transcription of a contemporary eye-witness description of Holywell from 1873.
  • Transcription of section on Holywell from Bulmer's Directory 1887.
  • Transcription of section on Holywell from Kelly's Directory 1897.
  
  
  
• Seaton Sluice:
  • Transcription of section on Seaton Sluice from Pigot's Directory (1828/9)
    
    
• Craster, H.H.E., A History of Northumberland, Vol. IX, Andrew Reid & Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, 1909.
  
  
• Middlemiss, Joan, Echoes of the Past: Holywell, Seaton Sluice, Seaton Delaval, Whitley Bay, 4 Thorneyburn Avenue, South Wellfield, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear, NE25 9HW, U.K., 1992. ISBN: 09520613 09
  
  
• Allan, Tom, Seaton Delaval: a history in photographs, Northumberland County Library, The Willows, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1TA, U.K., 1991. ISBN: 1874020 01 9
  
  

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