A Family Map of Northumberland

Project Background

One Christmas I was contacted by a gentleman whose parents were about to celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary. The family home is in the tiny hamlet of Hebron in Northumberland, and the children (now all grown up) live all around the country.

Thanks to a very well-organised set of emails between family members, I ended up with an exhaustive list of places and stories to include on the map. This was very helpful because it all happened over the course of a Christmas…