We dip into the Journal's archives to get into the festive spirit with some Christmas images from Northumberland's recent past.
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A school choir is set to be reunited 40 years on from a special concert in which they performed for the Queen Mother.
Now in their fifties, singers from the old boys' and girls' grammar schools in Morpeth - now The King Edward VI School - are to mark the anniversary of their performance at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank in London.
In March 1969, the choir was chosen as one of the best in the country and the Queen Mother even said their performance was in keeping with "Morpeth's long musical tradition".
The reunion - a meal in Mitford, near Morpeth on September 12 - has been organised by retired civil servant Mary Lucille Hindmarch, 56, who now lives in London.
Tony Henderson on the historian who made history himself
George Macaulay Trevelyan won fame as arguably England's greatest and best-selling historian during the 20th Century.
But time moves on, and historians themselves become history. Yet what GM Trevelyan (GMT) championed are issues which are very much to the forefront today.
An exhibition featuring a journey through the personal archive of one of the North East's greatest historians has gone on display.
Family photographs of George Macaulay Trevelyan have been brought together in a unique collection by the National Trust at Wallington Hall, Northumberland.
Theo Trevelyan, Sir George Otto Trevelyan and George Macaulay Trevelyan. Theo, the eldest son of George Macaulay Trevelyan died tragically the following year, 1911, of appendicitis.
It was opened by Trevelyan's grandson George at his family home and features the academic throughout his life.
The Journal has once again delved into its photographic archives to bring you a fascinating look at some of the images our photographers have taken in Morpeth during the 20th Century.
There are some great pictures of the Northumberland Miners' Picnic, with huge crowds listening to the speeches in 1948 and equally large numbers of people listening to a marching band in the town centre three years later.
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