Our Street: Percy Terrace

Percy Terrace is a street close to Alnwick town centre with a fascinating history. Its origins are in the Georgian period when a great deal of social and economic change was taking place in the town.

In a public meeting the residents told us that they would like to develop a project which tells the story of their street from the time when the houses were built to the present day. They said they would like to produce a digitised film using historic photographs and images information drawn from old census information,”talking heads”, news articles etc.

Museum volunteers  worked with the residents helping them collect the information. A DVD  has been compiled from the findings of the project and was launched in July 2013 . Participating residents were  presented with their own copy of the DVD and it was made available to view at the Museum.

The Project    Demographics     Water    Rev Joseph   Red Noses   G D Teasdale    Gas      Titles  Voices

   

The launch event of the Percy Terrace DVD in Bailiffgate

Note :  If you have family links /information about Percy Terrace although you no longer live there, do please complete the contact form below,so that your ancestors can be included in as much detail as possible within the Percy Terrace history on this website.