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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne is in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland [Map].
On 31st October 1834 John Bruce died at his home on Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Northumberland Regiments Boer War Memorial, Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North-East England, British Isles [Map]
22nd June 1908 Northumberland Regiments Boer War Memorial, Newcastle upon Tyne [Map] was unveiled by Lieutenant Genral Sir Laurence Oliphant
Sculpted by Thomas Eyre Macklin. The Mason was Mr J C Ferguson and the founders were Messrs Montacutelli Freres. It cost £4,707 to build.
The winged figure of victory stands with her right arm holding out a laurel garland and a sword in her left hand and the figure of Northumbria at the base stands looking upwards with a palm branch in memory of her fallen sons in her out-stretched right hand and a standard in the other. The relief panel shows a battle scene; each panel is linked by a garland.
