Hidden Hamilton

Over the past decade, Hamilton residents Tony (Antonio) and Clare Rufo have travelled regularly to San Donato Val di Comino, Tony’s ancestra...

There was no celebratory clinking of glasses of Scotch whisky when Fanny Gow, aged 42, gave birth to a boy in 1886, after 10 girls in succes...

The pulling power of a high media profile was obvious even in the Newcastle of the late 1930s. When ‘sweetheart of the airwaves’ Elma Gibbs ...

It continued to await its future, concealed in a battle axe block behind 195 Denison Street. This compact nineteenth century residence was o...

The repetition of given names, especially naming first born sons after their father or grandfather, is a tradition with centuries of history...

It wasn’t until I took my place near the lectern, ready to speak, that I saw the crowd that had been tucked around the corner, out of my lin...

It was a yawning gap in my story about gay Hamilton of the 1970s and 1980s and the wine bar at the corner of Beaumont and Donald Street. ...

He was a man of influence in Hamilton – James Cameron. So influential was he that the locality boasting his hotel, the Queen’s Arms, became ...

Guest blogger Sandra Hargreaves Sandra Hargreaves is a Novocastrian who lives and works in London. She is the granddaughter of Charlie Re...

It was a house everyone admired – an elegant, two story residence at the west end of Hamilton – belonging to the Americans. A medical doctor...