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THE GREAT WAR & GIBSIDE EVENING TALK

Thu 09 Nov

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Land of Oak & Iron Heritage Centre

An illustrated evening talk with local historian Helen MacFarlane and author Val Scully.

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THE GREAT WAR & GIBSIDE EVENING TALK
THE GREAT WAR & GIBSIDE EVENING TALK

Time & Location

09 Nov 2023, 18:30 – 20:30

Land of Oak & Iron Heritage Centre, Winlaton Mill, Blaydon-on-Tyne NE21 6RU, UK

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About the Event

Join researcher and historian Helen MacFarlane and author and historian Val Scully for this fascinating, illustrated talk about the Great War and the men of Gibside. 

From the Derwent Valley to France, Salonika and Baghdad – tracing the Great War careers of the men of Gibside.

In 2018, the final year of the Centenary commemorations of the Great War, Helen, a volunteer researcher at Gibside, began to investigate how the war had affected the men working on the estate.

Basing the research on the 1911 census, she identified eight men who had served and discovered just how far they had ended up from the mines and pastures of home.

In this fascinating talk, Helen will tell the stories of the men, and how she constructed those stories from the wide variety of documents and records available to Great War researchers.

The talk will be introduced by local author and historian,…

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  • Great War Evening Talk

    £14.95

    VAT included

    +£0.37 ticket service fee

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Land of Oak & Iron Heritage Centre,

Spa Well Road (A694), Winlaton Mill,

NE21 6RU

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