We dip into the Journal's archives to get into the festive spirit with some Christmas images from Northumberland's recent past.
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Five old photos from the Journal's archive showing the village of Greenhead in its tranquil beauty.
The Hadrian's Wall Farmers' Market, featuring a variety of local produce, takes place in Greenhead this Sunday from 10am- 2pm in the village hall (and the second Sunday of each month in 2009).
Walkers will take a step back into their wartime babyhood this weekend.
During the Second World War Newcastle Corporation took over the Gilsland Spa Hotel in the village of Gilsland on the Cumbria-Northumberland border.
Charity walker Maureen Hart, from Haltwhistle, who was among those born at the Gilsland Spa Hotel
The aim was to provide a refuge for Tyneside mothers to give birth, safe from air raids.
Tony Henderson on the historian who made history himself
George Macaulay Trevelyan won fame as arguably England's greatest and best-selling historian during the 20th Century.
But time moves on, and historians themselves become history. Yet what GM Trevelyan (GMT) championed are issues which are very much to the forefront today.
A town that claims to be the Centre of Britain because of its position in the middle of the British Isles, Haltwhistle is a community that can also point to a rich history.
The town's name is derived from the meeting of the River South Tyne with the Haltwhistle Burn and the town is one of the closest approaches of the river to Hadrian's Wall.
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