The regional objects are part of the History of the World project between the BBC, the British Museum and a further 350 museums and institutions across the country.

A Hartley Colliery Disaster memorial drinking glass from the Woodhorn Museum is included in the list.

Northumberland County Council produced a video (below) to raise awareness of the facilities available to people wanting to know more about their ancestors.

It was uploaded onto internet video sharing site YouTube and has got more than 12,000 hits.

Send your seasonal images of the county to northumberland@ncjmedia.co.uk if you would like to share them on our community sites.

From German aircraft landing on rooftops to the VE Day celebrations across the region, a new DVD has been produced to show how the area both suffered and survived the Second World War.

The rare archive footage showing places was brought together to remember how millions of men, women and children coped during one of the worst conflicts in history.

Recently, school children and Ashington fans buried a time capsule at the club's old ground. Read related story »

It included memorabilia from the football team's illustrious history and poems written by the children about how Ashington might look in the future. It will be opened in 100 year's time.

Memories Of The Northumberland Coalfields is a collection of anecdotes and eye witness stories that flesh out the historical facts and figures of the region's industrial heritage.

At the age of 69, Neil, pictured, who lives near Morpeth and is a grandfather of seven, fondly recalls his two decades in the mining industry, beginning with his 16 weeks of intensive training as a 16-year-old at the Ashington mine training centre in 1955.

People gathered at the former site of Ashington FC to bury a time capsule with memorabilia from the club gathered over the years from its origins 100 years ago and through its glory days.

Many fans brought along their treasured possessions to place in the capsule to keep the memories of the happy times at Portland Park alive.

Items included a programme signed by Jack Charlton and another from the last ever game played at Portland Park, one from the new ground, an old strip and an aerial photograph from 1974 showing how much the area has changed.

From left, David Wilson, George Hale, Alan Wilkinson and Wellesley Old Boys members Dennis Roe and Vince Clarke

Now, he's gone back on show at the Ashington Sea Cadets headquarters - TS Tenacity - thanks to the Wellesley Trust Trustees and the Old Boys from the school.

An afternoon tea party was held at the Woodhorn Museum and Archives Centre, near Ashington, where the Northumberland at War exhibition is on show to visitors until the end of November.

Bevan Boy Angus Winter, who worked at Blucher mine and later fought in the war, with his wife Audrey

More than 50 guests were invited to sit down for tea, sandwiches and cakes as a thank you for the part they played in helping to stage the display, which focuses on life in foreign fields and on the home front during World War II.

More than 40 contributors to the Northumberland at War exhibition currently running at the Woodhorn Museum and Archives Centre near Ashington have been invited to Monday's event.

The guests, from Northumberland, Tyneside and beyond, have all provided photographs, memorabilia and personal recollections about their wartime experiences.

Volunteers who run the Weardale Railway, between Stanhope and Wolsingham in County Durham, expect to have the locomotive ferrying passengers next month.

Members of the Weardale Railway Trust say Locomotive Number 40 has successfully passed a number of trial runs.

Seaton Hirst Church of England Middle School in Ashington will hold an open day for past students and parents before the school becomes part of the new Northumberland Church of England Academy in September.

Visitors are welcome to have a final look around and share their memories of the building before it closes forever.

The Northumberland Miners' Picnic at Bedlington is one such event, with hundreds of pictures in our files.

Many show the bands and mine banners that were the mainstay of an event that at its height - when mining was one of the main industries in south east Northumberland - attracted thousands of spectators.

Special CDs containing recollections and life experiences dating back to the 1890s have been produced by staff at the Woodhorn Museum and Archives Centre in Ashington as a new teaching resource.

They have been culled from a unique collection of hundreds of oral history recordings held at the museum, and feature extracts from interviews with subjects as diverse as a housewife, a major, a Bevin Boy and a former suffragette.