| Haltwhistle |
1936-03-11 |
A public meeting in Haltwhistle, attended by 1,000 people, rejected proposals to provide water supplies to the town from Broomlee Lough. |
| Haltwhistle |
1943-11-20 |
Death at the age of 73 of Henry Scott Graham, sub-postmaster of Haltwhistle since April 1912, who succeeded his father William Graham, making a total of 60 years with the postal service. |
| Haltwhistle |
1944-01-01 |
Death of Dr. John Morley Glasse, aged 64, on Monday 27th December, a doctor at Haltwhistle for 40 years. |
| Haltwhistle |
1947-05-16 |
Work was abandoned on a bypass for Haltwhistle on the Carlisle to Sunderland trunk road then being proposed. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-04-17 |
German officer Ernest Kah (46) escaped from Featherstone prisoner-of-war camp, sparking a district-wide search. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-05-15 |
Some 500 German officers kept at Featherstone prisoner-of-war camp were sent to a repatriation camp in Sheffield. This exodus, the biggest since the South Tyne Valley camp opened, was followed by the release of a further 150 officers the following week. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-06-04 |
Story of Featherstone ?Freedom? Camp told by a German journalist. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-01-01 |
(1948 Date unspecified) Featherstone prisoner-of-war camp, which had played host to 25,000 captured German officers during World War Two, closed. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-08-13 |
A Polish ?anti-squatting? brigade has taken charge of the four-year-old hutted township of Featherstone, which has stood empty since its 25,000 men left it for home a few weeks ago. Compare 13/08/1948 for Catton camp. Compare 06/08/1948 (Haltwhistle Echo) for Alston camp. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-08-28 |
Though Haltwhistle Rural Council turned down a proposal to convert 250 huts in Featherstone Park Camp to provide homes for overcrowded families in the area, the Ministry of Works decided to spend ?1200 on the improvement of the camp to accommodate hundreds of Polish land workers. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-10-29 |
Featherstone Freedom Camp was empty of its former German and Italian officers and PoWs. |
| Haltwhistle |
1948-11-20 |
Mr. James Norman, the oldest butcher in Haltwhistle, collapsed and died aged 62 at his Westgate shop |
| Haltwhistle |
1950-02-18 |
Plans were announced to stage a carnival to help equip the new ?143,000 swimming pool. |
| Haltwhistle |
1954-02-06 |
Residents of Haltwhistle were told that they would not get a completed by-pass in 1954 because of the limited money available for major road works. Works on the incomplete by-pass had previously been suspended through lack of funds. |
| Haltwhistle |
1954-07-23 |
Residents in Halton Lea Gate voiced their concerns that their village would be deserted within a few years. Haltwhistle Rural Council heard that there would soon be three properties standing empty and there was no one on the waiting lists to take them over. |
| Haltwhistle |
1954-10-15 |
Work on the Haltwhistle bypass, stopped for a lack of cash, was restarted. |
| Haltwhistle |
1955-04-08 |
Three men from Haltwhistle, Humshaugh and Crawcrook were fined between ?3 and ?5 each for not meeting their required number of Territorial Army attendances. They had to attend at least 30 drills each year but had only managed that number between them. |
| Haltwhistle |
1955-12-02 |
The head of Haltwhistle paint and varnish company Smith and Walton, Douglas Smith, became chairman of the ?4 million company, which employed more than 3000 people, when it joined forces with wallpaper manufacturer Ashley United Industries of Gosport in Hampshire. |
| Haltwhistle |
1957-01-19 |
National Coal Board officials announced the closure of the High Main seam at Lambley Colliery on economic grounds. Miners affected by the decision would be offered jobs at other mines in the district. |
| Haltwhistle |
0000-00-00 |
A fire caused ?40,000 worth of damage to the Haltwhistle and District Industrial Co-operative Society premises in Main Street. Only a week earlier, the store had been entirely redecorated. More than three fire brigades were unable to prevent damage, estimated at more than ?40,000. |
