| Bellingham |
1966-04-01 |
J. and R. Thompson (sons of R. J. and E. A. Thompson) were to take over The Garage at Bellingham. |
| Bellingham |
1966-04-25 |
The Duke of Northumberland was not able to override the decision of Bellingham Council to demolish Percy Street. Compare 16/10/1970. |
| Bellingham |
1967-06-30 |
Article on Bellingham. |
| Bellingham |
1970-10-16 |
Percy Street is demolished. |
| Bellingham |
1972-03-17 |
Demolition of the railway bridge at Bellingham on Sunday 19th March 1972. |
| Bellingham |
1972-10-06 |
The road at Catholic Corner was in a dangerous state. |
| Bellingham |
1973-08-03 |
A giant puffball weighing almost 20lb was found in a field at Bellingham by village newsagent Frank Mattinson. |
| Bellingham |
1973-08-03 |
The street sign for Lock-up Lane, once a place of confinement for drunkards, was reinstated following a campaign by heritage-conscious villagers. |
| Bellingham |
1975-03-17 |
The Border Natural History Society, based in Bellingham, unveiled plans to make remote Blackaburn Lough, near Wark, into a flourishing wildlife haven. |
| Bellingham |
1975-04-25 |
The county library was officially opened in Bellingham on Tuesday 22nd April 1975 in the former Bellingham Rural Council Offices. |
| Bellingham |
1975-09-12 |
Telephones in Bellingham and surrounding district would change from three to five digits on Tuesday 16th September. |
| Bellingham |
1975-11-03 |
A rural cinema service, which showed films in village halls and WI halls throughout the district, was dropped after running up debts of ?5000. |
| Bellingham |
1975-12-22 |
The Forestry Commission had to move its Kielder depot because it would be flooded under the reservoir. Its plan to move to the Foundry Yard was rejected at a public meeting. Instead, the North Tyne Valley Society came up with a location near Brownrigg Boarding School. |
| Bellingham |
1976-03-16 |
Friday night dances resumed at Bellingham Town Hall after being banned for two months because of repeated fighting and hooliganism. |
| Bellingham |
1976-10-15 |
Bellingham?s past was recaptured in an historic exhibition with a picture of Roddy Thompson, the oldest resident of Bellingham. |
| Bellingham |
1976-11-05 |
Brownrigg School was to be given a new lease of life. |
| Bellingham |
1976-12-03 |
The traffic priority at Bellingham Bridge was reversed, giving priority to traffic from the South. |
| Bellingham |
1976-12-17 |
Work was expected to begin on the development of the first government advance factory on the Bellingham Foundry Yard site in March 1977. |
| Bellingham |
1977-01-31 |
(Jan/Feb 1977) The railway bridge at Bellingham was dismantled. Mrs. M. Breckons? cort?ge was due to pass along this road on 9th February 1977 and out of respect the contractors postponed the demolition work on the bridge until after that date. |
| Bellingham |
1977-02-25 |
Two bits of Bellingham had disappeared in the last two weeks, the rail bridge near the Foundry Yard and the wall opposite Catholic Church at Catholic Corner to prepare for road widening at this traffic blackspot. |
