WELCOME TO THE WALLSEND LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY WEBSITE .
The aims of our Society are to bring together all those who
are interested in Local History and in particular the history
of Wallsend; to record information about the town and share
it with others through meetings, archives, books, talks, local
history trails, trips, exhibitions and the internet.
We meet every month [except January & August], 7:00pm-9:00pm, with a Speaker [see Speaker’s List on the Home Page] & refreshments, at St Lukes Church Hall, Frank Street, Wallsend. NE28 6RN
Membership Fees – £15.00 / year.
Visitor Fees £4.00 / evening meeting
We celebrated our 50th Anniversary in October 2023 and hosted a series of events to showcase our extensive archive material at Wallsend Library, Wallsend Festival, and St Peter’s Church Open Days to date.
We also held an exhibition of our various archive memorabilia at St Peter’s Church in September as part of Wallsend Heritage open Day.
Following this event we held a Wallsend Local History 50th Celebration Dinner which was be held at The Masonic Hall on Station Road, Wallsend on Saturday 30th September.
We subsequently held an Exhibition of our Archives at Wallsend Library, in October 2023.
We have compiled a book recording the last 25 years of the Society, which is available for sale via contact with the Society Secretary, for £5:00.
‘Monday 25 March 2024 – We will be providing a display of a sample of our Archive material In the Wallsend Library as part of their 10th Anniversary celebrations.’
‘Tuesday 26 March 2024 – Wallsend Shops Talk by Steve Allerdice at 14:00 in the Wallsend Library.’
‘1-6 July 2024 – We will be providing Displays and Talks in support of the Wallsend History Week by North Tyneside Council’.
Once you have taken a look around our website, please leave any comments in our Guestbook!
Born in Wallsend, living Down Under, in Canada or U.S.A.?
If you have a desire to see how your old street looks now, we’ll do our best to photograph it and post the image on our site.
If you have any photos of Wallsend which you could send or lend to us, we’d love to hear from you.