City and County Magazine

CITY AND COUNTY is a quarterly magazine edited by Nigel Jenkins and distributed to members of the Society. The magazine contains news of forthcoming events, reviews of recent events, reports from committees and articles on various topics of interest.

Contents from the last four issues include:

August 2010

Editorial
AGM 2010: Chairman's report, tribute to John Laidler and the AGM from the new secretary's perspective
Reports from Recent Events: The Tyne in Trust and Visit to Moorbank Garden
New Books: Jesmond from Mines to Mansiona
County Matters: Windfarms
Tyneside Committee: The delisting of the Odeon and Commemorative Plaques
Red Telephone Boxes

May 2010

People: Chairman's Honour and Tribute to Peter McIlroy
Report from the Tyneside Committee
Reports from Recent Events: Admiral Collingwood: Local Hero, National Treasure and Live Theatre - Past Present and Future
New Books: Berwick upon Tweed Through Time and Armstrong's River Empire
County Matters: Reflections on Opencast Mining
John Buddle
Reports from Other Local Events: Reinvigorating the Region
Cut The Clutter: Campaign Update

February 2010

Recent Events: Once upon a Time in the West and Now We Are Five
Book Reviews: Beneath this Green and Pleasant Land by John Graham; It's My Life: 1960s Newcastle; and Wallsend Through Time by Ken Hutchinson
The Hadrian Awards and The Lord Mayor's Design Awards
County Matters: Wind farms and other major development in rural Northumberland
Retirement of our Secretary Ros Hall
Whittonstall Open Cast Coal Extraction
Roads, Railways and Pentechnicons
Tyneside Matters

November 2009

Tyneside Committee Report
Recent Talk: Charles Avison
Recent Talk: Alexander Davison
New book: George Fenwick of Brinkburn
County Committee Report: Tourist Signs / Civic Buildings
Friends of the Lake District: The Early Years
Robin of Pegswood / Northumberlandia
Church Buildings and Spiritual Heritage of the North East

Views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of the Society or Editor.