| 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. |
| West Woodburn |
1906-01-20 |
Plans for a new church at West Woodburn were unanimously passed by the vestry and then approved by the Bishop of the Diocese. The building fund amounted to ?1012. |
| West Woodburn |
1906-09-01 |
Lord Northbourne laid the foundation stone of a new parish church to be built in the grounds of the vicarage in Woodburn. |
| West Woodburn |
1907-10-19 |
?The wife [Mary] of a railway porter named [William] Harper employed at Woodburn Station gave birth to triplets, all girls, on Sunday 13th October. The mother and children [Constance, Hilda and Beryl] are all doing well.? |
| West Woodburn |
1907-11-09 |
A new church at West Woodburn was consecrated by the Bishop of Newcastle, Dr. Straton. After the service, a celebration tea was held in the mission room. |
| West Woodburn |
1911-04-01 |
Death of Thomas Sisterson of the Bay Horse Inn on Friday 24th March. |
| West Woodburn |
1911-12-02 |
(HH) Mrs. Alice Beal was granted on Saturday 25th November 1911 the licence of the Fox and Hounds Inn, Brandy Bank, West Woodburn at the Bellingham Petty Sessions. |
| West Woodburn |
1915-06-26 |
Tribute to John Robson, postman of Woodburn, by Ernest Pigg of the Northumberland Huzzars. |
| West Woodburn |
1926-03-20 |
Opening of the new village hall at Ridsdale by J. Clark of Troughend. |
| West Woodburn |
1927-03-22 |
Celebrations to mark the anniversary of the opening of the village hall at Ridsdale took a dramatic turn when a fire broke out, destroying the piano. |
| West Woodburn |
1949-09-24 |
Only 49 of 128 houses examined by Bellingham Council sanitary inspectors at West Woodburn were found to be fit for human habitation ? and 12 had to be demolished. |
| West Woodburn |
1954-08-20 |
A new sewage plant opened at West Woodburn, the first to be provided by Bellingham Rural Council in the area for more than 50 years. |
| West Woodburn |
1954-09-17 |
Children at Corsenside County Primary School were suffering withdrawal symptoms after a free supply of fruit-flavoured milk tablets were withdrawn. The tablets had been part of a Government study to see what could be done to provide milk to schools that lacked a regular fresh supply. |
| West Woodburn |
1955-10-21 |
Work started on the first river bridge to be built in Northumberland since the War ? the new Rede Bridge at West Woodburn. |
| West Woodburn |
1956-10-26 |
Death of 87-year-old James John Hedley, who before his retirement shortly after the War, had been joiner, cartwright and undertaker at West Woodburn for more than half a century. |
| West Woodburn |
1960-12-16 |
Article ?West Woodburn once had a water flour mill? (Wade). |
| West Woodburn |
1993-05-09 |
A packed public meeting unanimously opposed plans by a Whitley Bay firm to build 45 new houses in the centre of West Woodburn. |
| West Woodburn |
1993-09-12 |
West Woodburn villagers were furious after it was revealed that the Kielder Tourist development Action Programme committee wanted to put up new signposts taking traffic to Kielder via the North Tyne Valley and not the A68. This would mean that the village missed out on tourism. |
| West Woodburn |
0000-00-00 |
] The lintel over the door at the Bay Horse Inn bears the date 1797 and licensees John and Irenee Cowans arranged a celebration for October 18th. |
| West Woodburn |
1998-10-17 |
John and Irenee Cowans put the towels on the pumps for the last time in 10 years, when they sold the Bay Horse pub in West Woodburn. |
