| West Woodburn |
0000-00-00 |
] The lintel over the door at the Bay Horse Inn bears the date 1797 and licensees John and Irenee Cowans arranged a celebration for October 18th. |
| Coquetdale |
0000-00-00 |
] Alnham School closed and the eight remaining pupils were transferred to Netherton North Side School. [Northumberland Archives]. |
| Haltwhistle |
1971-02-12 |
Yont the Cleugh caravan site near Haltwhistle opens for business. |
| Coquetdale |
1923-07-17 |
World champion Cumberland and Westmorland style wrestler, Jack Liddell of Haydon Bridge, did battle with Long Lea?s Roger Robson at the prestigious sports meeting in Ashington. Liddell won two falls to one. The winner in the 10-and-a-half stone competition was George Common of Harbottle, after his opponent in the final, Joe Robinson of Newcastle, declined to take part claiming that Common was over-weight. |
| Haltwhistle |
1909-05-08 |
Workmen were sinking a shaft at Plenmeller for a coal mine to be opened alongside the Alston branch railway. The venture was supported with royalties held by Mrs. Webster of Unthank Hall. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1987-02-17 |
Workmen installing a new sewerage system in Fourstones unearthed a drift mine that had been closed foe 60 years. |
| Roman Wall |
1876-10-26 |
Workmen from the Settlingstones Mining Company were searching for lead ore near the old Roman Camp at Procolitia when they uncovered a section of Roman Walling. This turned out to be a well, some eight feet deep, but inside the well were 24 Roman altars and numerous Roman coins with estimates as high as half a million being given. |
| Haltwhistle |
1958-05-23 |
Workers at Spadeadam were blamed for an outbreak of hooliganism in Haltwhistle, resulting in several injured men requiring treatment at the local hospital. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1938-06-21 |
Work was well under way on a ?7,000 new school at Otterburn. |
| Railway |
1960-02-12 |
Work was under way on the removal of stone from the old Border Counties railway bridge spanning the Tyne at Hexham. Work began on 10/02/1960. |
| Wark |
1981-04-07 |
Work was nearing completion on the new ?200,000 Houxty Bridge on the main North Tyne road, just north of Wark, after the old bridge was declared unsafe. |
| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
1986-04-08 |
Work was in progress on creating the South Tyne Trail ? a recreational footpath following the route of the former Haltwhistle to Alston railway line. |
| 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. |
| Haltwhistle |
1907-12-07 |
Work was due to start on building a parish hall in Haltwhistle at a cost of nearly ?2,500. |
| Allendale, Alston, Whitfield |
1990-11-17 |
Work was completed on the first homes to be built in Allenheads for 150 years. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
2000-07-09 |
Work was being completed on the controversial ?280,000 Kielder Skyspace sculpture by American artist James Turrell, attracting about half a million extra tourists. |
| Bardon Mill and Melkridge |
1897-04-25 |
Work was begun on a new ?600 Methodist chapel at Henshaw, the previous chapel being no longer big enough. |
| Haltwhistle |
1947-05-16 |
Work was abandoned on a bypass for Haltwhistle on the Carlisle to Sunderland trunk road then being proposed. |
| Wark |
2011-02-18 |
Work to renovate the 132-year-old Wark Bridge was due to start on Monday, 28th February, with vehicles unable to use the bridge for four to six months. |
| Hexham |
1979-09-03 |
Work to convert the former Gibson?s Pharmacy in Fore Street into a supermarket for Laws Stores was steadily progressing. |
