The First Council House in Britain

First Council House Wansbeck matters

The first Council House. Was this the first Council House built in Britain? It was completed in 1916 with a grand ceremony in Cleveland Avenue, Newbiggin by the Sea to fulfil the promise of ‘HOMES FIT FOR HEROES’. Four Avenues of houses followed, Northumberland, Westmorland, Cumberland and Sutherland.   Posted by James Alan Thompson. Author […]

The Coal’d War

The Coal'd War

The Coal’d War The Coal’d War is a riveting thriller about two men, one on either side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, brought together by chance and separated by world politics, whose lives are changed and endangered by circumstances that they could never have imagined. The Author, James Alan Thompson is from […]