| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1934-02-13 |
Hexham magistrates noted at the annual licensing meeting that the demise of two more local inns: the Locomotive at Riding Mill and the Red Lion at Greenhead. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1939-03-28 |
The gable wall of a property was destroyed when a lorry crashed into it after running out of control at Greenhead Bank. The driver was uninjured. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1950-04-07 |
The sixth motor accident within five weeks took place on the notorious Glenwhelt Bank. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1951-06-15 |
Electricity comes to Wallend and Longbyre on Saturday 16th June 1951. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1951-10-26 |
Three women and two children missed death by a few feet when a tanker carrying 400 gallons of methylated spirits went out of control down Greenhead Bank and came to rest in the sitting room of their house. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1952-01-18 |
Death of lorry driver at Greenhead Bank. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1957-08-31 |
A collision between a lorry an a van carrying farm produce left the road at Bankfoot, near Greenhead, covered in broken eggs. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1959-01-30 |
The National Coal Board granted George Wardle permission to re-open an old drift mine at Blenkinsopp. He promised to take on 30 of the miners made redundant by the closure of the nearby Ventners Hall Colliery. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1959-01-30 |
Hexham MP Rupert Speir was told that 1,911 people were employed at the Blue Streak rocket site at Spadeadam. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1959-12-18 |
At a special meeting, Gilsland decided that it wanted to be under the rule of Northumberland County Council. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1960-01-08 |
Following the appearance of four men claiming to be Government surveyors, rumours were rife that an atomic research station was to be built at Moscow near Gilsland. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1960-06-11 |
There was a warning that the defence testing establishment at Spadeadam would soon be reduced to skeleton staff unless the go-ahead was given for the development of the ?Blue Streak? rocket. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1961-02-11 |
Up to 90 jobs were at risk after permission was refused for an extension of Walltown Quarry across the line of Hadrian?s Wall. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1962-08-24 |
Gilsland ?a convalescent home with a difference.? |
| 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. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1968-08-16 |
Fire guts the roof of Station House, Gilsland, causing ?1000 of damage. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1970-03-06 |
Plans for the Greenhead bypass. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1971-08-20 |
The renovation of the Greenhead Hotel (with picture). |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1977-03-11 |
Greenhead Quarry was to close on 5th May 1977, with the loss of 30 jobs, because of the current economic situation. |
| Greenhead and Gilsland |
1978-07-01 |
Greenhead Youth Hostel opens. |
