| Haltwhistle |
1957-11-23 |
Haltwhistle councillors condemned the policy of nationalised transport bodies to close branch railway lines and cut rural bus services. |
| Haltwhistle |
1958-05-23 |
Workers at Spadeadam were blamed for an outbreak of hooliganism in Haltwhistle, resulting in several injured men requiring treatment at the local hospital. |
| Haltwhistle |
1958-06-20 |
Haltwhistle Rural Council agreed to hold a meeting to save the Alston railway line as the possible closure of Lambley Colliery was jeopardising its future. |
| Haltwhistle |
1958-06-27 |
The National Coal Board announced the imminent closure of Lambley Colliery. The 76 miners would be transferred to Bardon Mill or Morwood collieries after the summer holidays. |
| Haltwhistle |
1958-11-07 |
Midgeholme Quarry laid off a number of employees until spring because of a lack of orders for stone. |
| 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. |
| Haltwhistle |
1959-03-27 |
Mr. C. Simpson realised his dream to open a caravan site for 30 vehicles on the site of Blenkinsopp Castle dating from 1339. |
| Haltwhistle |
1959-05-08 |
After being closed for 18 months, the new premises of the Haltwhistle, Greenhead and District Co-operative Society opened on Thursday 7th May in Main Street, Haltwhistle, on the site of the old Co-op destroyed by fire. |
| Haltwhistle |
1960-01-08 |
Following a meeting between Hexham MP Rupert Speir and local officials, hopes were raised that a bypass road scheme in Haltwhistle would be under way soon. |
| Haltwhistle |
1960-02-12 |
Haltwhistle qualified for Government aid because job prospects looked bleak with the collieries at Morwood and Bardon Mill facing an uncertain future. |
| Haltwhistle |
1960-12-09 |
After showing films for 25 years, the Westgate Cinema closed its doors for the final time. |
| Haltwhistle |
1962-05-11 |
Approval was granted for the removal of waste tips at Blenkinsop Colliery and the landscaping of the site. |
| Haltwhistle |
1965-01-01 |
(1965 Date unspecified) A new public library was opened at Haltwhistle. |
| Haltwhistle |
1967-06-16 |
Cowburn School closes. Originally built by the local Methodists in 1876 to serve as a combined chapel and school for the local farming community. In 1890, the population of the district was 133. |
| Haltwhistle |
1971-02-12 |
Yont the Cleugh caravan site near Haltwhistle opens for business. |
| Haltwhistle |
1971-04-02 |
Ernest Alfred Webster of Unthank Hall dies. [Cf. entry for 12/11/1971] |
| Haltwhistle |
1971-05-21 |
Five hundred people sign a petition to stop the Gem Cinema closing in Haltwhistle. |
| Haltwhistle |
1973-03-20 |
Northumberland County Council added its voice to calls for the retention of the Haltwhistle-Alston branch railway line. |
| Haltwhistle |
1973-10-02 |
Haltwhistle Rural Council backed the controversial decision of Northumberland County Council not to oppose the closure of the Haltwhistle to Alston railway line. |
| Haltwhistle |
1973-12-04 |
Plans to build an all-weather Alston-Haltwhistle road to replace the railway, then just seventeen months away from being closed, ran into opposition from Coanwood parish council and farmers whose land would be affected. |
