The North East Digital Story Centre, Curiosity Creative has collected oral histories backed with documents and photos of life in Newcastle There are several stories on their website - easily navigable from this link http://curiositycreative.org.uk/project/roots-and-visions Roots and Visions is an account of the my own Gilhome family, recounted by my mum, Gwen Usher, nee Gilhome, of her father and aunts who were some of the first children to attend teh Chilllingham Road School when it opened in 1894. If anyone else has links withthe area I'm sure the "contact us"" page might be a useful source of more information. For the school project, they had access to the schoool registers and admisisons books, and as you will see on hte video they also collected family photos to illustrate Including the amazing sight of my greeat aunt riding a motor bike in the 1930s when she was a district nurse Chris Usher, studying Gilhome