| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1968-05-31 |
Ridley Hall Teacher Training College was opened on Saturday, 26th May 1968 by Mrs. Gladys Robson, a former Lord Mayor of Newcastle. She was chairman of the Northern Counties College of Education. A ten year lease of the Hall was obtained in 1966. It has accommodation for 68 men and women students and 7 full-time tutors. It has first year students only. Because of the comparatively isolated position of Ridley Hall, extra-curricular activities were very important. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1968-07-12 |
There was a bid to ask the Ministry of Works to excavate the remains of Haltwhistle Burn Fort an area probably greater than Housesteads Fort, which attracted 60,000 visitors last year. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1968-09-10 |
A big clean-up was being organised at the Once Brewed youth hostel, above Bardon Mill, in readiness for its opening by the Duke of Northumberland. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1969-12-26 |
Death of William Lowes, partner in the bakery business of Chesters, Bardon Mill, aged 63. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1970-03-08 |
A better rail service is proposed for Bardon Mill. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1970-08-14 |
Ramshawfield Colliery closes. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1971-04-02 |
Bardon Mill Co-op is to close on 10th April but Mr. Alan (Mac) Oliver of The Forge, Tow House, plans to open a travelling shop on that day. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1971-06-18 |
Bardon Mill Pavilion opens. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1972-01-21 |
The funeral of Bardon Mill bandsman George Lowdon (72) with picture. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1972-02-11 |
Advert for bakers Lynn and Brian Jubb (compare 30/06/1972). |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1972-04-11 |
Haltwhistle Rural Council called for the two severe dips on the B6318 Military Road at Bradley Park and East Twice Brewed to be filled in, saying that road safety was more important than Roman heritage. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1972-06-30 |
Twelve miners on their way to start their evening shift at Bardon Mill colliery were injured when their bus crashed. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1972-10-13 |
The Strand at Bardon Mill was sold for ?19,500. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1972-12-08 |
Labour nominee Dr. Eric Wade urges the case for Bardon Mill pit. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1973-02-02 |
Lynn and Brian Jupp of Chesters Bakers & Confectioners in Bardon Mill curtail their wholesale supplies (Bardon Mill 242). |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1973-04-13 |
A new picnic site at Allenbanks was to be opened. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1973-10-09 |
Fire-fighters from Hexham and Haltwhistle took two days to put out a big blaze at Winshields Farm. The fire gutted a two-storey barn, causing ?10,000 worth of damage and claiming the life of a sheepdog. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1973-11-30 |
Bardon Mill colliery closed with the loss of 240 jobs. It was in the same month as 15 years earlier new pit baths were opened at a cost of ?32,000. The National Coal Board said that the 33 year-old drift had ceased to be viable. [In October 1999, an illustrated talk was given by former National Coal Board official, John Carrick, who came to know the drift mine and its miners when he visited Bardon Mill to pay out the wages. Deteriorating working conditions of water and wafer-thin coal seams made the closure of the 33 year-old NCB pit inevitable. There were mixed feelings as the miners bid farewell to King Coal. One said ?It was like losing an old friend,? but another commented ?They should have closed the bloody place when the rats came back!? One man who worked the last shift was Johnny Peadon of Acomb, who toiled in seven pits over 47 years, having begun at Greenside as a lad of 14. He worked as a deputy for 20 years and describes it as the wettest pit he had ever worked in. There were no mixed feelings for him when he walked out of the pit for the last time. ?By then, I had had enough of being a miner.? Bardon Mill colliery was the largest local employer.] |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1974-08-09 |
The pit-head of Bardon Mill colliery is pulled down. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1975-10-03 |
Picture of Potter Wood, manager for Mrs. R. M. Benson of Whitshields with a champion Bluefaced Leicester shearling ram. |
