Author: Peter Witham

Miners’ Life 9

The Leek Show. There is a tradition among many ex-mining communities, Hetton included, to still hold an annual leek show. Most working-mens’ clubs include it in their activities every autumn.

From 1885 with the production of the safety bicycle, cycling, as a hobby became very popular. Below the Hetton cycling club are holding a meet at Finchale Abbey around 1895.

Miners playing Quoits on Beckwith Fields, now the Seven Fields, c1898