BLAYDON
Printable colour leaflet 'Lost Industrial Blaydon' including guided walk
Digital Voices film The Spike
Blaydon and Winlaton War Memorial Project
The Road to Blaydon part 1 - film about Scotswood Road
Winlaton and District Local History Society. A History of Blaydon. Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. 1975.
Allen, Joan. Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside 1829-1900 Merlin Press. 2007.
Todd, Nigel. The Militant Democracy: Joseph Cowen and Victorian Radicalism. Bewick Press. 1991.
The Life and Speeches of Joseph Cowen M.P. by E.R.Jones
Joseph Cowen on Newcastle University blog
An Archaeological Survey of Blaydon Burn
Journal of the North East Labour History Society
Film of the 1962 Blaydon Races Festival
Blaydon Races Song sung by Roley Veitch
Film about the demolition of Blaydon
Maps and explanation of the demolition of old Blaydon on Roly's website
Pathe film of the opening of the new Scotswood Bridge in 1967
'Then and Now' Photograph Slide show by Dennis Shaw
The documents below were researched and written by Dennis Shaw and posted to the Old Blaydon and Winlaton page on Facebook, along with many and varied fascinating photographs. With Dennis's permission, I save them as Word documents and have collected them here for reference.
Dennis's website is no longer directly available, but if you click here, you will see an archived version.
The Early History of Blaydon and Winlaton to 1297
History of Blaydon & Winlaton Part 2, 1600 -
Cromwell, Clockburn Lonnen & Crowley
FACEBOOK OLD BLAYDON & WINLATON PAGE
