Words From Hyem

Historian, author, songwriter, poet, businessman, humourist,man-about-town, lexicologist, Society of Antiquaries stalwart, President of theLiterary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne and a canny bit elsebesides, Richard Oliver Heslop is the Toon's forgotten Victorian champion. The man responsible for Northumberland Words - hispopular and nationally recognised dialect dictionary, prior to then a weeklyfeature in the Newcastle Chronicle - was a towering figure of his day andn