A film about a North East family of fishing tackle makers is to have a homecoming this week.
The Lost World of Mr Hardy, which tells the 136-year history of Alnwick's renowned shop Hardys, will be shown in the town today.
Jim Hardy of the Hardy fishing tackle family
The film is about the value of craftsmanship in a global economy preoccupied with quantity.
An artifact from the Bailiffgate Museum in Alnwick has been picked as one of the top man-made objects which sum up the North East, its past and its impact on the world.
The regional objects are part of the History of the World project between the BBC, the British Museum and a further 350 museums and institutions across the country.
The item from the Bailiffgate Museum is a wanted poster. In the 1826 election, Alnwick was by far the most important town in Northumberland and the poster advertises for steam ships, horses and carts to transport candidates and voters to the election in Alnwick.
We dip into the Journal's archives to get into the festive spirit with some Christmas images from Northumberland's recent past.
Send your seasonal images of the county to northumberland@ncjmedia.co.uk if you would like to share them on our community sites.
This week's Journal Extra nostalgia feature looks at a few photos from the recent history of three villages north of Alnwick- Rennington, Embleton and Ellingham.
Rennington is the first to be featured, with another story about school closures, which remain controversial to this day.
When it opened in 1871, Rennington school had 117 pupils. The school closed on July 23 and the remaining children were taken by taxi to other schools.
Some photos from the Journal's archive showing the recent past of Longhoughton, near Alnwick, where in the 1980s banking in the village made the news.
The new Barclays Bank was set up in Longhoughton in February 1980 and the signs went up on the 200-year-old building that had previously been a hay barn, stables, cow shed, hen house and scout hut.
A popular Northumberland show enjoyed a special link to the past when it celebrated 100 years of fun and games.
Descendants of the founder of the Ingram Show came from across the country and gathered in the tiny village to hand out prizes and help the community commemorate the centenary.
Organisers tracked down members of Reverend Canon Roland Allgood's family from across Britain. The oldest is 98 and even his great great grandchildren aged just 19 months were on hand to see how the show has grown from its modest roots to welcoming almost 2,000 visitors.
Ingram is looking ahead to a major social event in its calendar this weekend when the traditional Ingram Show takes place in the village on Saturday.
We take the opportunity to look at three interesting pictures of the village and the surrounding valley from the Journal's photographic archive.
Ingram School was enjoying a celebration almost 60 years ago, too, in our first picture. The school is holding its Christmas party in the early 1950s, with headteacher Mrs Proudlock presiding.
The 34th Alnwick International Music Festival starts on Saturday, providing the perfect opportunity to look back at past events.
The festival has attracted acts from all over the world during its history, as well as being a showcase for Northumbrian culture and attracting thousands of people to the town.
A forgotten hero of North East golf, Peter Deeble, who is battling a rare form of motor neurone disease, will be taking a long and educated look at his television set today.
Sir Nick Faldo, who Deeble succeeded as English Amateur champion in 1976, will be teeing off in the same group as Bernhard Langer and Mark O'Meara in the Senior Open Championship on the Old Course at Sunningdale.
Deeble, now 55, but unable to play golf for 21 years, was one of Faldo's amateur peers. Our black and white picture, supplied by Chris Robinson, the father of junior golf in Northumberland, captures them together.
This week's trip into The Journal's photographic archives shows some striking images of life by the sea in Craster.
This aerial view of Craster in the sunshine of 1970 shows fishermen's cottages nestling in a rocky cleft, with fishing cobbles above the high water mark.
In sharp contrast to this rocky coast, the rich farmlands stretch away from the sea to the unspoiled Northumbrian moorlands.
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