The City of Durham Trust

Trust’s spring talk, 2023

“Up the Wooden Hill”: A History of the Staircase in Durham and the Wider North East

Saturday 20 May, 2pm

Room CG 85, Chemistry Building, University Science Site

We are delighted to welcome back Martin Roberts to give the Trust’s Spring talk. “Up the Wooden Hill” will follow the development of the timber staircase in Durham and the surrounding region, from the earliest examples through to its fashionable heyday in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A record of the talk is available on our YouTube channel ‘Up the Wooden Hill’.