| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1983-02-04 |
Picture of David and Charles Reay taken at Bardon Mill pottery ? the great grandchildren of William Reay, founder of Errington Reay. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1983-07-29 |
Work is underway on the bypasses at Bardon Mill and Greenhead. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1983-08-12 |
Meteorite shoots from the sky at Bardon Mill. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1983-09-23 |
Bypass work at Bardon Mill was ?too noisy.? |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1983-11-18 |
Residents in Bardon Mill celebrated the long-awaited opening of the ?1.5million Bardon Mill bypass on Tuesday 15th November 1983 taking the A69 away from the village. Cf. poem 25/11/1983. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1983-11-18 |
Despite local objections, Northumberland County Council approved plans to stockpile and blend coal at the site of a disused drift mine at Henshaw. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1984-04-13 |
Robin Rock drift mine. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1984-06-29 |
Once Brewed Information Centre. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1985-03-22 |
Once Brewed Youth Hostel extension. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1986-03-04 |
Residents of Bardon Mill and Henshaw were celebrating after persuading British Rail to halt timetable changes that would have reduced services at the station. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1988-01-23 |
A Bardon Mill woman narrowly escaped death when her car was crushed by a train. Primary school teacher Mrs. Patricia Newman had to abandon her car on an unmanned crossing and scramble to safety only seconds before a train smashed into it. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1988-10-28 |
Bardon Mill pottery celebrated its 110-year-old birthday, picture and article. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1988-12-04 |
Plans, since shelved, were being drawn up for a ?2.5 million, 50-bedroom, five-star hotel at Twice Brewed, near Bardon Mill. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1989-02-19 |
A 17th century kiln wheel from the old corn mill after which the village of Bardon Mill is named was stolen from a field there. The theft took place just weeks before the wheel was due to go on display on the village green. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1989-10-15 |
A UFO was spotted hovering in the sky over the Tyne Valley. The object was seen by Stephen Boyle of Bardon Mill, who described it as being shaped like a shallow saucer. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1991-11-02 |
Faced with opposition from parents, staff and pupils of Haydon Bridge High School, Northumberland county council agreed to abandon ideas to close the Ridley Hall boarding wing. However, they still planned to phase out discretionary boarding at the school. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1992-01-25 |
Work started on the replacement Henshaw First School after the existing timber-framed school was condemned as unsafe. The ?497,000 contract was awarded to Mowlem (Northern). |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1994-11-26 |
Alan Gorst from Bardon Mill was helping to keep poverty-stricken Romanian families to stick together by putting children into homes instead of orphanages. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1994-11-12 |
A joint bid by Northumberland and Cumberland county councils to win the contract to take over the running of the A69 trunk road failed. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1995-11-18 |
Masked men carrying hammers threatened staff at the Little Chef and forced them to empty the contents of the safe. The robbers escaped with a three-figure sum of cash. |
