| Corbridge and Matfen |
1994-12-10 |
Plans were discussed to turn Matfen Hall into a country hotel, with alternatives offered including a school, health club, conference venue or nursing home. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
1997-03-23 |
Channel 5 started broadcasting with most of Tynedale facing blank screens. Only the Corbridge area was expected to receive a sufficiently strong signal. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
1997-11-16 |
A new half-mile long bypass was opened to take quarry traffic away from the narrow streets of Matfen. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
1999-04-09 |
New lease of life for Matfen Hall. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
1999-09-28 |
Public toilets in Matfen, Stamfordham, Ponteland, Cambo and Belsay were under threat unless parish councils took over responsibility for them from cash-strapped Morpeth Borough Council. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
2002-03-23 |
Tynedale Council approved plans to convert the former Lion of Corbridge public house into residential accommodation. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
2006-06-09 |
Post office services were being restored to the villages of Matfen, Stamfordham and Fourstones, all of which had lost their village branches in 2005. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
2010-01-22 |
The abandoned Farnley Scar Tunnel could soon be infilled and sealed at a cost of ?450,000. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
2011-10-07 |
The Queen?s Head in Great Whittington, which is believed to date back to 1615, closed its doors on Sunday 2nd October 2011. |
| Elsdon |
1877-11-10 |
Restoration of Elsdon Church uncovers 1,000 skulls. |
| Elsdon |
1878-07-25 |
An Elsdon farmer became so annoyed at the neighbour?s refusal to close gates around his property that he tried to force him to do so ? and was stabbed in the stomach for his pains. Although his wife sewed his protruding entrails back into his stomach, the farmer died and his assailant was charged with murder. |
| Elsdon |
1878-11-14 |
A man awaiting execution in Morpeth Gaol for the murder of a shepherd in Elsdon was reprieved by the Queen and his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. |
| Elsdon |
1880-11-18 |
Villagers in Elsdon found a notice posted on the church door signifying that the parish churchyard would ?forthwith be totally discontinued for purposes of burial.? |
| Elsdon |
1892-02-13 |
Disturbances during Methodist services in the ?Long Room? at Elsdon. ?Elsdon has always been a strange place, with strange doings, and so it must be still.? |
| Elsdon |
1896-12-09 |
(NJ) Death of Henry Storey, builder, of Elsdon on 07/12/1896. |
| Elsdon |
1907-02-09 |
Sad death of Robert Ormiston through burning at Elsdon. |
| Elsdon |
1907-07-20 |
Guided and aided by their Rector, residents of Elsdon had constructed and erected an organ for their parish church. |
| Elsdon |
1908-05-16 |
New Institute at Elsdon. |
| Elsdon |
1910-05-28 |
Death of George Ormiston on 19th May at Coalsfield House aged 52. |
| Elsdon |
1910-09-03 |
Death of Mr. Thomas Young Charleton of Whiskershiel on August 27th (Saturday) leaving a widow Sarah Elizabeth and large family of ten children. |
