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Dissertation
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In 1932, a young Connie Ayre was a geography student at Armstrong College, Newcastle – then a part of Durham University, later to become Newcastle University in its own right. In her final year, Connie wrote a dissertation on Upper Weardale which she’d assumed had been read, marked and binned nearly 70 years ago.
Not so. Last year, on the occasion of her 90th birthday, Connie’s son-in-law David – a computer science professor at Keele University - tracked it down, quietly yellowing in a forgotten basement, and brought it to light. It’s now been snapped up by the Killhope Lead Mining Museum as a priceless record of a way of life all but forgotten.
Connie told us that in her neck of the woods it wasn’t that unusual for girls to go to university, even in 1932.
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