| Hexham |
1954-11-26 |
A proposed ?250,000 bypass for Hexham was not supported by some Tynedale councillors who thought that creating new car parks would be a better way to spend money. |
| 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. |
| Hexham |
1955-02-11 |
Floods were blamed for causing a crack in one of the arches of the bridge that carried the Border Counties Railway over the Tyne. The bridge was closed to all trains. |
| Hexham |
1955-09-30 |
A committee laid plans for the funding and building of public swimming baths at Hexham. |
| Hexham |
1956-01-27 |
Plans to build a new swimming pool in Hexham were given a boost with a donation of ?620 10s 11d from the Hexham Coronation Committee. The committee hoped to raise ?1,000 for the fund by July. |
| Hexham |
1956-03-03 |
A long-standing Hexham mystery was solved when a body, discovered in West Dipton Wood, was identified as that of Evelyn Maas who had gone missing 26 years earlier. |
| Hexham |
1956-06-09 |
Woolworths held a party to mark the opening of its store in Fore Street, Hexham. |
| Hexham |
1957-05-18 |
Around 1,500 Hexham children were among the first in the country to be given a vaccination against polio, receiving the first of a two-part injection. |
| Hexham |
1957-11-23 |
Viscountess Allendale presented a certificate to the 50th State Registered Nurse qualified since the training school at Hexham General Hospital opened four years earlier. |
| Hexham |
1958-01-04 |
Children in Tynedale were among the first in the country to receive the new Salk anti-polio vaccine recently imported from Canada. |
| Hexham |
1958-01-18 |
Some 3,000 children in Bellingham, Hexham, Haltwhistle and Corbridge were the first in the country to be given the new Salk polio vaccine imported from Canada. |
| Hexham |
1958-05-09 |
Viscount Ruffside, who as Colonel Clifton Brown, served as MP for Hexham from 1918 to 1951 and as Commons Speaker from 1943 to 1951, died at the age of 78. |
| Hexham |
1958-05-16 |
A new development plan, involving a bypass road and new shopping centre for Hexham, were discussed by members of the works committee of Hexham Urban Council. |
| Hexham |
1958-10-03 |
According to the Hextol column, there were two other Hexham Courant namesakes in the British Isles, the Chester Courant and the Elgin Courant. |
| Hexham |
1958-11-14 |
Customers at the North British Arms spent 30 minutes trying to release two runaway heifers that became wedged in the narrow entrance to the hotel. |
| Hexham |
1959-01-16 |
Hexham councillor Joseph Cullen urged the urban council to get a move on with its plans to provide car parking spaces at the Wentworth Nurseries. |
| Hexham |
1959-03-06 |
The National Coal Board confirmed that it was to close West Wylam Colliery with the loss of 300 jobs. The NCB said that coal reserves were exhausted and the pit would cease operating some time during the following year. |
| Hexham |
1960-01-01 |
Robbs department store was set to expand with 30 sections under one roof. |
| Hexham |
1960-05-14 |
Land at the Hydro was approved as the site of a new premises for the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. |
| Hexham |
1960-07-09 |
The new car park at Wentworth opened with spaces for 700 cars, though signs directing traffic there had yet to be erected. |
