| Bardon Mill Crime |
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. |
| Bardon Mill Crime |
2007-07-20 |
A safe dating back to the 1880s containing a large amount of cash was stolen from the Errington Reay Pottery between the previous Sunday evening and Monday morning. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1864-09-05 |
Employees of Newcastle firm of Hawke, Crawshaw & Co. and their families were entertained at Haughton Castle but responded by behaving with great impropriety. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1877-04-12 |
The entire contents of Swinburne Castle were put up for sale because the owner, J. D. Lambton, was moving to the south of England. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1899-11-04 |
Foundation stone laid at Gunnerton Church. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1878-11-14 |
A householder in Gunnerton was condemned by the Hexham Rural Sanitary Authority for keeping a pig in a barrel a short distance from the family house. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1900-11-10 |
The new church of St. Christopher at Gunnerton was formally consecrated by the Bishop of Newcastle, Dr. Jacob. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1901-03-16 |
A new church was completed at Gunnerton at a cost of ?953. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1900-11-10 |
The unsanitary condition of houses in the centre of Hexham was blamed for the fact that the death rate in the town was twice what it should have been, according to the medical officer of health. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1904-05-21 |
The new Morris Tube rifle range was opened at Barrasford for members of Chollerton Rifle Club by Mrs. N. Riddell of Swinburne Castle. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1904-06-04 |
It was announced that a sanatorium for consumption was to be established at Barrasford, which had been chosen from 50 possible sites in the district. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1905-09-23 |
A ?21,000 appeal for the building of a sanatorium for consumptives at Barrasford fell ?7,000 short of its target. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1905-11-11 |
A new sanatorium for the four northern counties? pauper consumption patients was suggested. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1905-11-18 |
A labourer lodging at the Post Office in Gunnerton was found lying face down on the floor, dead, by a fellow lodger. It was thought he had suffocated after being seen earlier that day go into his lodgings ?under the influence of drink.? |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1906-02-24 |
Barrasford sanatorium was completed and ?ready for the reception of patients? by the Newcastle and Northumberland branch of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis. Fund raising continued to find the outstanding ?2,500 towards the ?20,000 total cost. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1906-08-25 |
Opening of a new reading room at Gunnerton, the official opening being conducted on Saturday 18th August by Mrs. J. F. Hornby of Sandhoe. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1907-05-11 |
Opening today (Saturday) of Barrasford Sanatorium. Compare a longer article on 18th May. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1907-10-12 |
Formal opening of the Children?s Sanatorium at Stannington on Saturday 5th October 1907. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1909-01-23 |
Hexham Rural District Council took the Duke of Northumberland to court alleging he had broken building byelaws in the construction of a house at the fish hatcheries at Barrasford. |
| Barrasford and Gunnerton |
1908-03-14 |
The annual report of the Newcastle and Northumberland branch of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption said that 49 patients had received treatment at its Barrasford sanatorium. |
