| People |
2016-02-05 |
Plans to honour Henry Travers (Clarence in It?s a Wonderful Life) born at Prudhoe on 05/03/1875 were put on hold because he left the town when he was two. |
| Rural Topics |
2016-02-05 |
Northumberland National Park launched online gallery to mark its 60th anniversary and appealed for pictures at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Compare 12/02/2016. |
| Haydon Bridge |
2015-07-03 |
The Railway Inn closed its doors on Wednesday 1st July 2015 after having had seven tenants over twelve years. Enterprise Inns put it up for auction on 14th July. |
| People |
2015-02-20 |
Peter Hunter (?Absolute Legend?) was celebrating his 80th birthday. |
| People |
2015-01-09 |
Death of Frank Atkinson, founder of Beamish Museum, on 30th December 2014 at Ovingham, aged 90. The museum opened in 1971, with many of the artefacts being collected between 1968 and 1972. He was made a CBE in 1995. |
| Plashetts |
2014-05-09 |
Colliery closures: South Tyne, Haltwhistle, 1931, Plashetts, 1935, Acomb, 1952, West Wylam, 1961, Bardon Mill, 1973. |
| Rural Topics |
2014-05-09 |
Colliery closures: South Tyne, Haltwhistle, 1931, Plashetts, 1935, Acomb, 1952, West Wylam, 1961, Bardon Mill, 1973. |
| Schools |
2014-01-10 |
Article on 50th anniversary of the opening of the present building of Kielder First School in October 1963 with head teacher Fay Hartland and Susan Enright. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
2013-10-18 |
The new village hall at Bardon Mill, the world?s first earth-sheltered community building, was officially opened on Saturday 19th October 2013 by miner?s daughter Kathleen Weir. |
| Haltwhistle |
2013-05-17 |
The new Haltwhistle War Memorial Hospital was due to open by March 2014. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
2013-03-22 |
Stephen Blair, formerly of the Twice Brewed, took over the management of The Bowes Hotel. Compare 29/03/2013. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
2012-12-28 |
Clive & Alice Emerson suddenly closed the 27-bed Percy Arms Hotel on Friday 21st December having recently celebrated 25 years at the hotel. They blamed the economic downturn for its demise. |
| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
2012-11-23 |
A new planning application was submitted by J. Champ to convert the Dale Hotel into accommodation and three commercial units for retail or caf? use. |
| Elsdon |
2012-11-23 |
A dance was to be held on 7th December 2012 to celebrate the golden jubilee of Elsdon Village Hall. Compare 16/11/1962. |
| People |
2012-10-05 |
Death of Dorothy Slee of Kielder, sister of Cyril Slee. She died at Lowgate Nursing Home, Hexham, on September 30th aged 90. |
| Bellingham |
2012-08-17 |
The Bellingham Country Store, which Glenn and Kerry Seedall had taken over from Glenn?s parents, Geoff and Joyce in 2007, closed on Sunday 12th August. Geoff and Joyce ran the store for 15 years before their retirement. The shop premises and the three-bedroomed flat above are on sale for ?225,000. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
2012-08-17 |
The London-based Angel Group, which had bought Otterburn Hall from the YMCA in 2002, suddenly closed the 65-bedroom Hotel, set in 500 acres of land, on Sunday 12th August. |
| Hexham |
2012-08-10 |
Robinson & Cowell, the electrical shop in Priestpopple, closed on Friday 10th August after 50 years of trading. The shop moved to its present position in 1968 in what was the Tynedale Farmers bakery and caf?. |
| Haltwhistle |
2012-07-13 |
In the year of the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Haltwhistle War Memorial Hospital, it was announced that a planning application to provide a new integrated care scheme had been accepted and that the old hospital would be demolished. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
2012-05-03 |
Mike and Dawn Smith would open the Bardon Mill Village shop on Saturday 11th May 2012. |
