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VERY LOCAL HISTORY

DISCOVERING THE PAST ON OUR DOORSTEP

The project involved archaeological digs, local history research at Durham Archives and a skills day where local people could learn stone carving and rural crafts.

The experiences in Holwick and Evenwood were genuinely transformational for some of the participants and certainly created a deeper understanding of the lives once lived there, now hidden beneath the earth, but glimpsed again.  Click play below to see two films about the excavation at Holwick.

Go Deeper

Click on the PDF icon to download and read Ewan Allinson's Report On Very Local History

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