Marie Cousens

Thank you ever so much.  I've been working on family history for years but it just goes to show you can always learn something new, thanks for giving some subjects to chew over.

This is probably a really basic question but I'm trying to get some information about historical Bedlington and surrounding areas.  My husband's family were the Walkers and they seem to have been resident in Bedlington since records began (his great grandfather moved to London so the line ends the connection about 1900).  We can find census returns and parish records up to about 1680 but that only gives us name and I'd love to know what the town was like and what their lives might have been like back in the day.  Any help or direction you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.