| Hexham |
1974-02-26 |
Plans were being drawn up for the conversion of Hexham?s 500-year-old manor office into the current Border History Museum. |
| Hexham |
1976-03-09 |
The Northumberland Area Health Authority decided to phase the closure of Wooley Hospital over a three month period because of potential safety hazards posed by rotting timber walls and partitions. The geriatric patients were to be transferred to nearby hospitals. |
| Hexham |
1976-05-11 |
Wooley Hospital was given a stay of execution for a month as union representatives fought to keep nursing jobs. The hospital was to remain open until 7th July, by which time all the remaining patients were to have been found other beds in Tynedale. |
| Hexham |
1976-06-29 |
The last 21 patients left Wooley Hospital, which was closed after providing nursing care at Slaley for 54 years. |
| Hexham |
1976-12-03 |
The final curtain rings down on Wooley Hospital. |
| Hexham |
1976-08-31 |
The change from selective education in Hexham to a new three-tier comprehensive system went ?pretty smoothly.? New middle schools were created at the former secondary school and junior grammar school at Hexham and at Corbridge where the old secondary school buildings had also been adapted to form a middle school. The new Hexham High School was established in the former Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. |
| Hexham |
1976-11-30 |
After more than 50 years, the final death knell sounded for Wooley Hospital when it was officially closed by Northumberland Area Health Authority. All 144 staff working at the hospital were employed elsewhere. |
| Hexham |
1976-12-14 |
A scheme to convert the Queen?s Hall into a library, arts centre and teacher training college suffered a setback when Northumberland County Council and the Department of Education cut their contribution by nearly ?30,000. |
| Hexham |
1977-01-01 |
The prospect of Wooley continuing as a sanatorium has quietly died. |
| Hexham |
1977-02-04 |
Geoffrey Robinson would officially open the ?7m Hexham-Corbridge bypass on Monday 7th February It had taken two years to build and stopped just to the east of Brockbushes. Cf. 11/02/1977. |
| Hexham |
1977-03-01 |
After a month of uncertainty, Northumberland County Council agreed the purchase of the Queen?s Hall. |
| Hexham |
1978-01-27 |
Gibson?s Pharmacy would close on Saturday 4th February 1978 after 145 years. It was reconstructed in a London museum. The shop became Laws? Supermarket. |
| Hexham |
1978-06-27 |
The new headquarters of Northumberland County Council?s national park and countryside department were opened at Eastburn by Viscountess Ridley, wife of county council chairman Lord Ridley. |
| Hexham |
1979-02-13 |
Laws supermarket revealed plans to open up the former Gibson?s chemists shop in Fore Street as a supermarket but they would retain the ornate shop front. |
| Hexham |
1979-03-05 |
Plans were set in motion for the provision of indoor and outdoor recreation facilities on the Wentworth site opposite the railway station. |
| Hexham |
1979-03-19 |
Hexham had a cinema again after a company acquired the Forum from Whitley Bay cinema owners Bailey Ltd. The company hoped to set up a studio cinema and bingo hall and was aiming to attract 2,000 patrons per week. |
| Hexham |
1979-06-25 |
The Forum Cinema reopened as a social club and bingo hall. The scheme cost ?90,000 and involved the conversion of the old cinema stall area to seat up to 500 people. |
| Hexham |
1979-09-03 |
Work to convert the former Gibson?s Pharmacy in Fore Street into a supermarket for Laws Stores was steadily progressing. |
| Hexham |
1980-01-18 |
?New guidelines on the future of Wooley.? The Northern Regional Health Authority, which is to put the property on the open market, wanted to clarify the planning position in respect of the site to help in its sale. |
| Hexham |
1982-02-09 |
The new 200-seat Forum Cinema was due to open. The premises would be open seven days a week, have matinees for children and a bar for film-goers in the evening. |
