The farms and fields that predate the Heaton we know.

Music, art, literature, drama… a big part of Heaton’s story.

So many Heaton pioneers of air travel and aerial warfare.

Heaton schools, schooldays, educators and academics.

Relaxing and having fun in Heaton down the decades.

Toffees, tea and temperance. Heaton’s factories, pubs and speciality shops.

Notable doctors, nurses, dentists and hospitals of Heaton.

Heaton’s inventors, engineers and world famous manufacturers.

Recollections of growing up and the Heaton of yesteryear.

Adventurers, travellers, refugees. Migration to and from Heaton.

Heaton’s most important industry until the mid-nineteenth century.

Trades unionism, social campaigning, protest, local and national politics.

Heaton, a nationally important railway centre from the mid-nineteenth century to today.

With at least eight churches on Heaton Road alone, religion has played a huge part in the life of Heaton.

From 18C to the present, Heaton has nurtured and attracted some of the best brains in history,

The corner shops and small family businesses on which Heaton has depended.

From football to golf, cycling to cricket, bowls to athletics; champions, local clubs, and heritage venues, sport has helped put Heaton on the map.

From the ultimate sacrifice to the promise of peace: front lines across the world and the home front in Heaton.

History is often ‘his story’ but we’re gradually uncovering and sharing the stories of amazing Heaton women.