We have been kept busy this past year so the website has taken “a back seat” but we intend to add articles in the New Year.

9 December 2025:

Under DIALECT, some words and sayings from Nelson Dunn’s dictionary.

https://evenwoodramshawdistricthistorysociety.uk/dialect/

6 December 2025:

BEFORE THE RAILWAYS: TURNPIKE ROADS & PROPOSED CANALS

Last September, our history display dealt with the railways.  Prior to the railways, in the 1760s and 1770s, a canal network for south Durham was proposed by the eminent engineer James Brindley and the Dixons of Cockfield.  These schemes failed to attract financial support and the opportunity was then available for an alternative transport system. Railways met the challenge.