| Catcleugh |
1900-10-13 |
Catcleugh: complaint is made of a scarcity of labourers at Catcleugh Water Works. About 450 men are employed but another 150 are required. |
| Catcleugh |
1902-01-25 |
Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company outlined proposals to increase the height of the dam at Catcleugh Reservoir by three feet to impound 300 million more gallons of water. |
| Catcleugh |
1903-04-25 |
Smallpox outbreak at Catcleugh. ?Two cases of smallpox have been notified from Catcleugh Waterworks. They are stated to have been imported from Matfen. About 400 navvies at the works were vaccinated.? Compare 04/04/1903 for Matfen. |
| Catcleugh |
1903-09-05 |
Two undercover police officers posed as navvies to gain work at the Catcleugh Reservoir construction site, where they discovered more than 40 men drinking in an illegal shebeen, or drinking den. The husband and wife hut keepers were fined a total of ?70. |
| Catcleugh |
1904-07-02 |
A trip was made by company railway to Catcleugh Reservoir by the directors. |
| Catcleugh |
1904-07-16 |
A sale of equipment from Catcleugh was to be held on 26th July at Woodburn sidings. |
| Catcleugh |
1904-07-30 |
An account of the sale of equipment from Catcleugh. |
| Catcleugh |
1904-08-06 |
William Bell writes a fond farewell poem in honour of the navvies of Catcleugh. Compare 20/08/1904 for local concerns and 17/12/1904 for ?The Cleugh? poem. |
| Catcleugh |
1905-01-28 |
A new public hall at Otterburn ? the Public Institute ? was officially opened on Thursday 19th January 1905, described as ?a fair-sized hut from the Catcleugh Reservoir site.? |
| Catcleugh |
1914-11-14 |
Tragic death of gamekeeper Johnson George Milburn who was accidentally killed while cleaning his gun in Ramshope Cottage near Catcleugh. |
| Catcleugh |
1983-11-18 |
The children of Byrness School complete a project on Catcleugh Reservoir. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1872-07-04 |
The 1,307-acre Buteland Estate was put up for auction at Newcastle but failed to find a buyer, the biggest bid made being ?50,000. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1878-08-31 |
There was a fire at The Chesters on the previous Sunday morning in a large hay shed. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1878-09-28 |
There was a liquidation sale of stock and the shop of J. W. Whinfield, Humshaugh. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1879-12-17 |
It was reported that J. G. Riddell Esq. of Swinburne Castle had kindly given a hare to each of the guards passing through Chollerton railway station. ?The officials at the station likewise sharing in the worthy squire?s bounty,? published the Courant. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1883-10-31 |
Mr. Saint, of Walk Mill, near Chollerton, said to be in possession of his faculties, was due to celebrate his 100th birthday in February. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1895-01-26 |
There was an alarming accident at Haughton Ferry when Baty the ferryman was carried down the river and the boat sank. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1898-05-15 |
An extension to the churchyard at Chollerton was consecrated and officially opened by the Bishop of Newcastle. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1901-07-06 |
The new Presbyterian Church at Chollerton was opened on 29th June for worship, with the preacher at the opening ceremony being the Rev. Dr. G. Robson, of Perth. |
| Chollerford and Chollerton |
1903-12-05 |
An 18-inch by 12-inch stone with a dagger-shaped cross in the centre was unearthed at St. Giles Church, Chollerton, along with a Roman coin and some skulls. |
