Heritage & History in Heaton
Historic buildings, walking trails, museums, churches, and the stories behind the streets of Heaton.
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A Heaton Heritage Walk: A Self-Guided Trail
A self-guided heritage walk through Heaton, taking in a medieval ruin, Victorian parks, Lord Armstrong's bridge and the shoe tree, all in an easy afternoon.
The History of Heaton's High Street
How Chillingham Road and Heaton Road grew from Victorian speculation into one of Newcastle's liveliest independent high streets. A history of shopping in Heaton.
Heaton in World War Two: The Night the Bombs Rained
Heaton was on the front line of the Newcastle Blitz. The story of the suburb in the Second World War, from the terrible raid of April 1941 to the turbine works that armed the war.
The Lost Buildings of Heaton
A grand hall, a windmill, and the picture palaces of Chillingham Road. A guide to the vanished and demolished buildings of Heaton, and the medieval ruin that survives.
Heaton on Screen: Film and TV Locations
From Byker Grove, the show that launched Ant and Dec, to Get Carter and Vera, a guide to the film and television made in and around Heaton, Byker and the Ouseburn.
Ouseburn & Byker History: The Victoria Tunnel and the Byker Wall
How the Ouseburn valley became the cradle of Newcastle's industry, the coal tunnel that runs beneath it, and the celebrated Byker Wall that overlooks it.
Local Places
Full directory →Seven Stories - The National Centre for Children's Books
CommunityThe UK's national museum dedicated to children's books, in a converted Victorian warehouse in the Ouseburn Valley. Interactive family exhibitions, a bookshop, events and a nationally significant archive.
Ouseburn Farm
CommunityA free-entry community city farm and charity in the heart of the Ouseburn Valley, home to pigs, goats, sheep and poultry, with education, training and volunteering alongside family visits.
The Biscuit Factory
CommunityThe UK's largest independent contemporary art, craft and design gallery, over two floors of a restored Victorian warehouse. Free entry to browse and buy work from hundreds of artists, with a cafe and event spaces.
Stepney Bank Stables
CommunityAn equestrian centre and registered charity in the Ouseburn Valley offering horse-riding lessons for children and adults, plus youth and community programmes - one of the few inner-city riding schools in the UK.
Victoria Tunnel
CommunityA preserved 19th-century waggonway tunnel beneath Newcastle, later a WWII air-raid shelter, cared for by the Ouseburn Trust. Guided tours (book ahead) descend underground from the Lime Street meeting point.
The People's Theatre
CommunityA long-established theatre in Heaton running a year-round programme of drama, comedy and classics plus a youth theatre, at its Stephenson Road home since 1962.