John Muir
GNR_20202024-09-26T16:27:55+00:00John Muir was a 19th century conservationist who pioneered the national parks concept in the USA. He was born in Dunbar in 1838. The citizens of...
John Nevison – Highwayman
GNR_20202023-06-27T17:24:38+00:00John Nevison was one of the most infamous highwaymen operating along the Great North Road. His gang of outlaws met at the Talbot Inn at Newark and robbed...
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.....
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.....
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.....
Henry Royce
GNR_20202025-04-29T13:56:08+00:00Sir Henry Royce, a founding partner in Rolls Royce, was born at Alwalton in 1863 where his father was the miller. When the family business failed, they moved.....
Isaac Newton
GNR_20202025-05-01T20:35:01+00:00Isaac Newton was born on 25th December 1642 at Woolsthorpe close to the Great North Road near Colsterworth. Woolsthorpe Manor is now a National Trust.....
George Brown
GNR_20202020-11-06T17:39:41+00:00George Brown was test rider for Vincent in their heyday and in 1961 took the Standing Start Kilometre World Record for up to 1000cc machines with an.....