| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
1936-06-27 |
Mr. John Ridley, Allendale Stores pioneer, celebrated his 86th birthday. |
| West Woodburn |
1902-01-25 |
Mr. Joseph Robson is leaving the district and has put up for auction the household furniture and farm stock of Brandy Bank, West Woodburn. |
| Haltwhistle |
1926-08-03 |
Mr. Justice Rober, sitting at Carlisle, made an order for the closing down of Plenmeller Colliery and at a meeting of the Haltwhistle Guardians this was described as a very serious matter for Haltwhistle. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1931-11-01 |
Mr. Leonard Potts of Bardon Mill, widely known as mine host of the Twice Brewed Inn, where he had been for over 25 years, died aged 75 years. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1903-12-19 |
Mr. Maughan and the death of John Lee, aged 70, a farm labourer. |
| Bellingham |
1916-04-22 |
Mr. R. Notman of Woodburn succeeded Mr. W. Yeats as stationmaster of Bellingham on 11th May 1916. After three years? service at Bellingham, he had been appointed as stationmaster of Jedburgh. See 05/08/1916 for his presentation. |
| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
1888-10-25 |
Mr. R. P. Milburn of Newcastle gave an experimental trial of his electric light at Allendale where he was able to produce lights of 10 and 27 candle power. |
| Corbridge and Matfen |
1924-07-23 |
Mr. R. Patterson of East Moor House Farm, Matfen, ?piked? 80 large pikes of seed hay from a four acre field. The average crop was about 12 pikes to the acre. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1910-06-25 |
Mr. Reay, confectioner, takes on the agency for the Hexham Courant at Bardon Mill from Mrs. Tweedale. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1928-11-28 |
Mr. Robert Bestford had recently retired as stationmaster at Chollerford after 28 years? service and a total of 42 in the London and North-Eastern Railway Company. A large gathering attended a presentation in his honour at Humshaugh [at which he was presented with an illuminated time-piece and gold watch]. Cf. 05/12/1928. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1904-01-16 |
Mr. Robert Errington of the firm of Errington, Reay & Co, brick and pipe manufacturers, Bardon Mill, died on Wednesday 13th January 1904 in his 55th year. |
| Railway |
1932-04-23 |
Mr. Robert Milligan, stationmaster at Barrasford for more than 33 years, is retiring on a pension. He is 62 years of age and is a native of Bewcastle, spending all of his working life on the railway. |
| Haltwhistle |
1878-09-28 |
Mr. Saint and the Crown Inn, Haltwhistle. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1883-10-31 |
Mr. Saint, of Walk Mill, near Chollerton, said to be in possession of his faculties, was due to celebrate his 100th birthday in February. |
| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
1950-02-11 |
Mr. T. A. Henderson, vice-chairman of Allendale Parish Council, condemned the proposed closure of the Allendale railway line by British Railways as a deadly blow to the ?Dale. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1952-02-15 |
Mr. T. Bell, licensee of the Fox and Hounds Hotel, died on Thursday morning. |
| Elsdon |
1913-08-30 |
Mr. Thomas C. Waitt, headmaster of Lord Redesdale?s School at Rochester, has been appointed headmaster of the Elsdon Senior School. Mr. Waitt has been at Rochester for three years?educated at St. Bede?s College, Durham. |
| Bellingham |
1927-03-30 |
Mr. Thomas H. Glass, of the Railway Hotel, Bellingham, a highly respected man in the district, died aged 72 years. Obituary printed HC 16/04/1927. |
| Bellingham |
1927-07-23 |
Mr. Thomas Henry Glass of the Railway Hotel left a gross estate of the value of ?1866, with net personally ?1743. |
| People |
1987-01-09 |
Mr. Valdemar Blankenburgs formally handed over to Bellingham Parish Council three more volumes of photographs depicting life in Bellingham from the turn of the century to the present day. He had given three already, making a total of six, housed in Bellingham Library. |
