| Haltwhistle |
1954-07-23 |
Residents in Halton Lea Gate voiced their concerns that their village would be deserted within a few years. Haltwhistle Rural Council heard that there would soon be three properties standing empty and there was no one on the waiting lists to take them over. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1954-07-16 |
Tarset, Lewiefield and Deadwater stations were to become halts, whose passenger service was ?apparently extremely unremunerative.? |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1954-07-16 |
Kielder Village, opened two years ago by the late Lord Robinson of Kielder and Adelaide, was ?a slum of unimaginable ugliness.? |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1954-07-16 |
Forestry Villages (Kielder and Byrness) allowed to deteriorate. |
| Bellingham |
1954-06-25 |
Protest at the proposal to move the Boer War Memorial in Bellingham. |
| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
1954-06-04 |
Camping Cottages were opened on the closed Hexham-Allendale railway line. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1954-06-04 |
Newbrough parish councillors were delighted to learn that street lighting was proposed for the village. The 13 lampposts would cost ?457 5s. to install. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1954-05-21 |
A new Youth Hostel was opened at Kielder. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1954-04-23 |
Death of Luke Dodds aged 82 at Oakdene. |
| Bellingham |
1954-04-23 |
Because it was considered a danger to both traffic and pedestrians, councillors wanted the Boer War Memorial to be moved to Manchester Square. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1954-04-23 |
Article on Fourstones Paper Mill, the last in the county. |
| People |
1954-04-23 |
Article on shoemakers Peter and John Robson of Newcastleton. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1954-04-16 |
Members of Rochester WI were given a demonstration on ?Cooking in an Electrical Cooker? which was given by Miss Smythe of the General Electric Company. |
| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
1954-03-26 |
Article on the Fairlamb family and Post Office services, especially Maurice Fairlamb. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1954-03-26 |
Because 49 new houses were being planned in the village, Newbrough Parish Council decided to renew its fight for street lights along the main street. |
| Hexham |
1954-03-19 |
Hexham Rural Council entered three of its estates ? at Newbrough, Acomb and Ovingham ? for a Ministry of Housing medals competition. |
| Bellingham |
1954-02-26 |
The cobbler?s bench of Mr. J. Mole of Bellingham, who acquired it six years ago from another cobbler, Mr. W. Murray, who had it for 25 years. Compare 05/03/1954. |
| Bellingham |
1954-02-26 |
Snowflakes two and three inches across fell in a freak blizzard at Bellingham. ?It was like a raid by thousands of small flying saucers,? said one resident. |
| Haltwhistle |
1954-02-06 |
Residents of Haltwhistle were told that they would not get a completed by-pass in 1954 because of the limited money available for major road works. Works on the incomplete by-pass had previously been suspended through lack of funds. |
| Bellingham |
1954-01-30 |
A public enquiry was launched in Bellingham into a ?69,000 scheme to bring modern sanitation and the first piped mains water supplies to Bellingham, Wark, Lanehead, Birtley and Greenhaugh. |
