This period covers the implementation of the Blind Persons Acts , the strengthening of the Society and the huge impact of the National Assistance Act that took away our Home Teaching Home Working and register responsibilities.

British Newspaper Archive

This is a link to a powerpoint files of our cuttings from 1923 to 1953

This is a link to a powerpoint file of cuttings about Sutherland Memorial Hall in WW2

Social Policy 

This is a link to a PDF file of Handbook Welfare of the Blind 1939 edition

Objects

This is a link to file  of our Objects and Constiution from 1939

 Sutherland Hall

This is a link to an article in Beacon magazine 1936 about the opening of Sutherland Hall

Home Teaching 

This is a link to an extract from a 1948 directory giving Newcastle agencies providing employment support

This is a link to Home Teachers Adverts for 1926 and 1936

This is a link to an extract from Home Teaching handbook published 1934 

This is a link to an article on the Development of Home Workers Scheme from Beacon magazine 1936

Work 

This is a link to a article from Beacon magazine in 1928 on the North East Coast Exhibition

This is a link to a 1935 advert for our shop

This is a link to adverts for our shop for 1925 and 1937

Newcastle Cathedral Service for the Blind 

This is a link to a file explaining what we know about the 1932 Annual Service

This is a link to a Beacon Magazine 1932 report about the Special Service for the Blind in Newcastle Cathedral

The Sterilisation Debate

This is a link to a PDF file of an article for the Eugenics Review by Charles Darwin’s son

This is a link to a file of the article in Beacon magazine in  February 1936 detailing the Northern Counties Association’s response to the Brock Report

This is a link to a PDF file of a newspaper article on the eugenics movement

Free transport for blind people in Newcastle 

This is a link to a Beacon magazine article from 1921

This is link to an article FREE TRAMS FOR THE BLIND IN NEWCASTLE from Beacon magazine 1923