Stockton-on-Tees Heritage Blog

Head Wrightson Project Week One

Head Wrightson Project Week One

It’s been a great first week for The Head Wrightson Photographic Archive project. After many emails and phone calls it was lovely to get most of our volunteers together in person…

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On This Day: 31st March 1827

On This Day: 31st March 1827

Richmond’s The Local Records of Stockton and The Neighbourhood once again gives us an intriguing glimpse of Stockton’s past.  Many of you will have no doubt visited the internationally famous Madame…

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Volunteers needed!

We’re looking to recruit a team of volunteers to conserve, catalogue and digitise an important collection of over 16,000 photographic negatives.…

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On this Day: February 14th 1804

Thomas Richmond’s Local Records of Stockton and Neighbourhood is a treasure trove of information about our area.  As it’s subtitle states “this register of memorable events” details hundreds of…

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Can you help?

We recently had a set of postcards donated to us. Two of the postcards are hand painted images of flowers, and date back to early 1900’s.  One is addressed to Master Ernest Jewitt at the Post Office…

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