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Featuring music by: The Newcastle Male Chorus, The Gibside Singers, Kids on Sunday, Elizabeth Ferguson and Alistair Dawes, Stanhope Silver Band and Ian Nicholson

Includes: North Country Fantasie (Gordon Langford), The Weardale Hymn (Harry Hopeful; trans. Steve Robson), Old English Melody (Samuel Wesley), How Great Thou Art (Arr. Norman Williams), and a selection of hymns written by Charles Wesley.

Format: CD

Musical works performed at a Concert to raise funds to save the iconic High House Methodist Chapel which is now part of the Weardale Museum.

Includes the premiere of an especially written piece ‘A Weardale Rhapsody’ composed by David Jennings

Performers Pamela Redman (Violin) and Ken Forster (Piano)

Filmed at the Town Hall St. John’s Chapel, Weardale

Other works include:

Harvest Moon Suite, Three Irish Pieces, Sonatina 1,2 and 3

A collection of writings with both personal and generic, poetical and pictorial elements reflecting on the things that the author feels are his most valued ‘possessions’ – Family, Health, Happiness and Freedom.

Author: Graeme C. Halloway

Take a journey through time up the valley of Weardale. Unlock clues to past worlds, discover the impact of ice sheets and rivers and see how the mining of lead, iron and fluorite has supported the people of Weardale. Experience the variety of scenery the dale has to offer from the lush pastures of the valley bottom to the open moorland of the peat covered fells.

Author: Alistair Bowden

A wonderful history of life in Weardale during Victorian and Edwardian times.

Newly revised 2020 edition. 196 pages.

Author: Alf Milburn

Life saving at sea is always associated with the R N L I but less well known are the Volunteer Life Brigades, set up to provide shore-based rescue facilities using rocket equipment and breeches buoy. Created during a time when loss of life from shipwreck was almost on a scale of national disaster, it was volunteers who set up the brigades, trained the recruits, raised funds and gave their time - and sometimes their lives - to save others. Sunderland VLB was established in 1877 and has saved over 800 lives around the coastline. One of just three remaining VLBs in the UK, this book reveals the people behind it, its development over the years, and it's great significance to the maritime history of the north east.

Author: Kathleen Gill