| Hexham |
1931-05-05 |
The Queen?s ballroom in Hexham was re-opened after refurbishment. The Ball Room was remodelled to keep it in line with the updated look of the Queen?s Cinema, which had been restored earlier in the year following a fire. |
| Hexham |
1931-06-30 |
After a disastrous fire devastated the Queen?s Hall, the management readied themselves to reopen one of the most luxurious and ultra modern cinema halls in the country. |
| Hexham |
1931-07-04 |
The school at Halton Shields closes. [picture in HC 17/09/2004] |
| Hexham |
1931-08-11 |
The letters column of the Courant examined the history of Hexham?s title as the ?Heart of all England?. The debate ended with the definitive response from the editor that it was first used in the title of the Hexham Courant in the issue of April 10th, 1869. |
| Hexham |
1931-09-26 |
The Queen?s Hall at Hexham re-opens. |
| Hexham |
1931-09-29 |
The popular Saturday night dances resumed at the Queen?s Hall after the refurbishment of the ballroom. |
| Hexham |
1931-12-15 |
The Hydro Hotel near Hexham was bought for more than ?12,500 by a business syndicate. The 55-bed hotel had a lounge, ballroom, billiard room, reading room, Turkish baths and magnificent winter gardens. |
| Hexham |
1932-02-23 |
The 36-bed Abbey Hotel in Beaumont Street was put up for sale at a public auction. The agent, S. W. Wallhead, tried to start bidding at ?2,500. No offers were received and the hotel was withdrawn from sale. |
| Hexham |
1932-05-14 |
Centenary of the Newcastle Journal, first published on May 12th 1832. |
| Hexham |
1932-06-04 |
Priestpopple Bus Station was being erected. |
| Hexham |
1932-07-20 |
Residents at Wooley Sanatorium could not receive their mail until a swarm of bees had been hived by a local bee keeper. |
| Hexham |
1932-01-01 |
(1932 Date unspecified) Hexham bus station, built at a cost of ?5,000 opened for business. |
| Hexham |
1933-03-14 |
Traffic Commissioners in Newcastle upheld the decision to move the bus stop in Beaumont Street to the newly-opened bus station in Priestpopple. |
| Hexham |
1933-02-15 |
John Tweed, of Chelsea, sculptor of the Benson Memorial at the head of Beaumont Street, paid a visit to Hexham |
| Hexham |
1933-03-07 |
The final bill for the recently opened Hexham bus station was ?308 3s 11d. |
| Hexham |
1933-08-05 |
RUDDOCK: at 12 Woodlands, Hexham, the residence of his daughter, 28th August, John Candlish Ruddock, late of Alnwick. Interment at Alnwick Cemetery on Monday at 4 o?clock. This is the only intimation. |
| Hexham |
1933-10-03 |
Thanks to subscriptions from staff and patients, a new bell at the chapel of St. Luke the Physician at Wooley Sanatorium, near Slaley, peeled merrily for the first time. |
| Hexham |
1934-05-22 |
The time-honoured craft of making clog soles by hand came to an end when George Boustead, the sole representative of the craft in Hexham, announced his retirement. |
| Hexham |
1936-03-04 |
The first electric (flashing) sign was erected above a shop in Fore Street. |
| Hexham |
1936-07-08 |
The Hexham Courant produced a special 16-page supplement to mark its 4,000th issue. |
