Cycling
GNR_20202022-11-13T14:56:48+00:00Cycling the Great North Road became a popular past time in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. Today’s car and truck drivers should perhaps.....
Ferrybridge Power Station
GNR_20202025-04-29T14:17:30+00:00The giant cooling towers of Ferrybridge power station represented an important psychological milestone for those travelling the Great North Road in.....
Emperor Hadrian
GNR_20202024-01-16T15:18:37+00:00Hadrian visited Britain in the summer of AD 122 as part of his first major tour of the provinces. His primary concern was to to neutralise threats to.....
Wansford – Bauhaus
GNR_20202022-09-08T15:20:32+00:00This Bauhaus inspired building has been a notable feature for travellers on the Great North Road since it was constructed in the early 1930s. It has seen.....
Ogilby’s Britannia
GNR_20202021-12-04T15:51:23+00:00John Ogilby published an early road atlas of England and Wales. Each of his chosen roads was displayed in linear form. The route from London to Barwick....
History of The Post
GNR_20202024-02-05T14:45:03+00:00The Great North Road developed as a means of faster and more frequent transport of people and goods, but it was the needs of the emerging postal service that....
De Havilland – Hatfield
GNR_20202024-01-16T12:50:22+00:00Many who travelled the Great North Road during the 20th Century will recall the latest De Havilland prototypes being flown above and around Hatfield – and.....
Hadrian’s Wall
GNR_20202023-07-29T11:04:26+00:00Hadrian’s Wall embodies one of the key reasons for the existence of the Roman Roads north through Britain which were the precursors to our Great North.....
The Banks of Scotland
GNR_20202024-01-16T12:23:11+00:00Edinburgh's banks have long been at the heart of the city's success. The Great North Road was the basis of communication between Britain's two leading.....
E M Forster
GNR_20202020-11-08T20:42:22+00:00The writer Edward Morgan Forster lived at Rooks Nest House near Stevenage between the ages of 4 and 14. His time there had a lasting impact on him. In.....