| Acomb |
1901-12-07 |
New machinery installed at Acomb Colliery included a double-ram pump capable of pumping 40,000 gallons of water per hour. |
| Acomb |
1904-01-09 |
Messrs. William Wood & Son of Hexham, owners of the Tynedale Colliery, near Acomb, sold it and the surrounding coalfield. Mr. Wood had started boring some five years before and subsequently sank a shaft, from which coal was drawn on a limited scale. |
| Acomb |
1906-12-15 |
Acomb Prize Band gathered in the Queen?s Arms to mark the 30 years that veteran bandsman John Henderson had played in the band. |
| Acomb |
1913-05-03 |
All 120 employees of Tynedale Colliery in Acomb were invited to supper at the White Hart Hotel, Hexham, to celebrate the wedding of the managing director. |
| Acomb |
1925-02-04 |
Hexham Rural Council heard a complaint of unsanitary conditions in a field near Acomb Steadings, where a shaft was being sunk. There was no sanitation and in close proximity were two bell tents occupied by three adults, a youth, four younger children, two dogs, some ferrets and a monkey. |
| Acomb |
1926-09-06 |
Men resumed work at Acomb Colliery, with the commencement of work in real earnest. |
| Acomb |
1926-09-14 |
Miners returned to Acomb Colliery after accepting the owner?s terms. A lot of development work had been carried out that would create even more jobs in the mine. |
| Acomb |
1927-06-18 |
Recreation Hall at Acomb opened. |
| Acomb |
1930-02-18 |
Tenders were invited to take down the Salmon?s Well Monument, only a year after it was built. |
| Acomb |
1933-07-29 |
The Youth Hostel at Acomb, the first in Northumberland, is opened, converted from an old barn. |
| Acomb |
1933-08-08 |
At the opening of a new youth hostel in Acomb, it was noted that none of the younger generation dared to use the Americanism ?hiking? to describe the new craze for walking that had prompted the construction of the hostel. |
| Acomb |
1934-02-13 |
Owing to lack of interest, Acomb Flower Show committee decided that the event should be abandoned. |
| Acomb |
1938-01-18 |
Locals brought a blaze at the Queens Arms Hotel in Acomb under control before the fire brigade arrived. |
| Acomb |
1941-01-01 |
(1941 Date unspecified) Plans to improve the water supply of the village were turned down by the Ministry of Health. |
| Acomb |
1947-05-23 |
A ?2,800 borehole scheme intended to improve the water supply of Acomb proved to be a resounding failure. |
| Acomb |
1948-12-25 |
A ?500 appeal was launched to provide a lychgate at the church of St. John Lee. |
| Acomb |
1951-01-12 |
Acomb colliery was faced with the prospect of closure, unless it could strike a new workable coal seam. This threatened the village with increased levels of unemployment for the second time in the history of the pit. |
| Acomb |
1951-01-19 |
Miners at Acomb who were digging for a new workable coal seam to prevent their pit from closing had a narrow escape when tons of stone and earth crashed down on them. |
| Acomb |
1951-04-06 |
An aggregate of 480 years in the mining industry was recognised when the presentation of long and meritorious service certificates were presented to nine veteran miners at Acomb colliery. |
| Acomb |
1952-04-18 |
Acomb miners failed in their bid to find a new workable coal seam and to save their colliery from closing. The closure was announced because of a steady fall in output and a deterioration in the quality of the coal. All the men were to be found jobs in other pits. |
