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    • Plan Your First Visit and Use The Study Centre
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    • Trace Your Family History
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    • Use the Catalogue
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  • Learning Zone - Resources for Schools Using Archive Sources
    • Life in Ashington c.1900 (Key Stage 2)
      • Activities for Pupils
        • Lesson 1 - Census
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        • Lessons 2 & 3 - Maps
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        • Lesson 4 - A Child's Week
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        • Lesson 5 - Diary Work
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      • Teachers' Notes
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    • Evacuation (Key Stages 3 and 4)
      • Teachers' Notes: Introduction
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        • Before the War
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        • Operation Pied Piper
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        • The Drift Home
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        • Education and Recreation
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    • At the Seaside (Early Years Foundation Stage)
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        • Taking it Further
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      • Image Bank
        • Then and Now
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    • Cholera
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      • Pupils' Activities
        • Section Two
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        • Section One
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        • Section Three
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    • Let's go Fishing!
      • Teachers' Notes
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      • Pupils' Activities
        • Workshop One
          • Table one
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          • Table two
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          • Table three
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        • Workshop Two
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    • Lord Crewe's Charity; Helping the Victorian Poor.
      • Menu
        • Part 1: Attitudes towards the poor
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        • Part 2: Deserving or undeserving poor
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        • Part 3: The petitions
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        • Part 4: 'Your humble servant'
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        • Conclusion
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        • Classroom Resources
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    • Shop 'til you drop!
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      • Victorian Shop Signs
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    • To an Unknown Hero
      • Letters of Condolence
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      • Who was Robert Cooper Clements?
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    • Investigating Industry with the Delavals
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      • Working at the Colliery
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Wansbeck Matters

Free demonstrations every Thursday between 12 noon and 2pm.

Come and watch the traditional art of Hooky and Proggy mat making demonstrated by the Wansbeck Matters. Demonstrations take place in the 1936 Coal Town display area in the Cutter building.