| Bellingham |
1941-01-01 |
(1941 Date unspecified) A cinema was opened at Bellingham. The first film to be shown at the Town Hall Kinema, run by Allendale Cinema proprietor Bert Young, was Strike Up the Band, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. |
| Acomb |
1941-01-01 |
(1941 Date unspecified) Plans to improve the water supply of the village were turned down by the Ministry of Health. |
| Hexham |
1943-01-01 |
(1943 Date unspecified) The Charlotte Straker hospital, Corbridge, was celebrating its 25th anniversary. |
| Hexham |
1946-01-01 |
(1946 Date unspecified) The Hexham Courant took over two rival newspapers, the Hexham Weekly News and the Haltwhistle Echo. |
| Hexham |
1947-01-01 |
(1947 Date unspecified) Newcastle Corporation plans to convert the old Hexham Hydro, now part of the Queen Elizabeth High School, into a home for ?mental defectives? sparked an outcry. The controversial scheme was later rejected. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1948-01-01 |
(1948 Date unspecified) A hospital was opened at Swinburne Castle, near Barrasford. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-01-01 |
(1948 Date unspecified) Featherstone prisoner-of-war camp, which had played host to 25,000 captured German officers during World War Two, closed. |
| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
1950-01-01 |
(1950 date unspecified) Allendale railway closed to goods traffic on 18th November 1950, 83 years after the first stretch of the line was opened. The saga of the closure dragged on for much of the year with Hexham Rural Council calling for an inquiry into the British Railway plans. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-01-01 |
(1953 Date unspecified) Isolated villages such as Byrness, Allenheads and Sparty Lea were promised ?electrification? before winter. |
| Hexham |
1954-01-01 |
(1954 Date unspecified) A new ?4,000 maternity wing was opened at Wooley Sanatorium by the Hexham Hospital management committee with money raised by Wooley Industries Limited. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1958-01-01 |
(1958 Date unspecified) The National Coal Board closed its pits at Lambley and Stagshaw and announced plans to close Ventners Hall colliery, the following year. |
| Haltwhistle |
1959-01-01 |
(1959 Date unspecified) The ?60,000 Haltwhistle bypass was completed, the forerunner of the more ambitious ?17 million bypass around the town begun by Road Link in 1996 and opened in 1997. |
| Bellingham |
1961-01-01 |
(1961 Date unspecified) Hareshaw Lynn was saved for posterity when the funds of the old Lynn committee ?350 in bonds was handed over to the Parish Council to make the future secure and prevent it being closed. |
| Schools |
1961-01-01 |
(1961 Date unspecified) New secondary schools, now middle schools, were opened at Allendale and Haltwhistle at a combined cost of ?254,000, and a ?9,000 new primary school was unveiled at Birtley, near Wark. |
| Schools |
1961-01-01 |
(1961 Date unspecified) The closure of seven Tynedale primary schools was announced, the victims being those at Healey, Minsteracres, Featherstone, Melkridge, Colwell, Shotley Low Quarter and Dalton, near Stamfordham. Those at Knarsdale, Beaufront and Herdley Bank, near Coanwood, were reprieved. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1962-01-01 |
(1962 Date unspecified) After three years of preparatory work, the first bed testings of the Blue Streak rocket ? the UK?s contribution to the Sixties Space Race ? were carried out at Spadeadam. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
1964-01-01 |
(1964 Date unspecified) A suit of Roman armour complete with sword was unearthed at the Roman site of Corbridge. This was the most important find made for over 50 years. |
| Haltwhistle |
1965-01-01 |
(1965 Date unspecified) A new public library was opened at Haltwhistle. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
1965-01-01 |
(1965 Date unspecified) The proposed provision of traffic lights at the Stagshaw crossroads was rejected by the Ministry of Transport. In 1969, a roundabout was built. |
| Hexham |
1969-01-01 |
(1969 Date unspecified) The Hexham Courant took over the Haltwhistle Echo. |
