| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1938-04-12 |
A public meeting was held in Newbrough to raise money to enable electric street lighting to be installed in the village. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1938-06-28 |
A field day was held in the grounds of Newbrough Hall to raise money to install electric lighting in the town hall. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1948-11-12 |
Newbrough Mechanics? Institute, founded in 1830, was closed and given to Newbrough W.I. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1948-10-01 |
Advertisement for St. Oswald's Girls' School at Allerwash Hall. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1952-06-13 |
Refurbishment of the Town Hall at Newbrough. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1954-03-26 |
Because 49 new houses were being planned in the village, Newbrough Parish Council decided to renew its fight for street lights along the main street. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1954-04-23 |
Article on Fourstones Paper Mill, the last in the county. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1954-06-04 |
Newbrough parish councillors were delighted to learn that street lighting was proposed for the village. The 13 lampposts would cost ?457 5s. to install. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1954-12-24 |
The North Eastern Electricity Board lit up the dark corners of Newbrough for the first time. The work was completed on Christmas Eve and was described as a Christmas present for the villagers. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1955-08-05 |
A new and improved stage was opened at Newbrough Town Hall. The hall stage had been extended and a new podium added. There were also new footlights. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1957-01-01 |
(1957 Date unspecified) Rowallan, chief scout, visited Look Wide, near Fourstones, to celebrate the jubilee year of the boy scout movement by reliving the moment when Lord Baden-Powell lit the first scout bonfire. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1960-03-11 |
Swinhope Mine sold to Settlingstones Mines Ltd. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1961-12-08 |
Settlingstones had less work with 16 men being paid off. It is almost 50 years since mining began. Compare 11/04/1914. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1963-04-26 |
To mark the bi-centenary of the Fourstones Paper Mill, the Courant published a four-page feature on newsprint manufactured by the firm. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1964-01-24 |
Settlingstones mine had a life of two years, with 60 men being affected. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1967-03-17 |
Proposed closure of Settlingstones Mine is 25th March 1968. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1977-10-21 |
Newbrough loses its 100-year-old shop, run by Lu and Ann Fenton for eight years. Compare 28/10/1977. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1979-01-23 |
Plans to re-establish mining at Settlingstones, home of the world?s only witherite mine, were abandoned when test drilling failed to unearth workable quantities of the valuable mineral barites. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1983-03-07 |
Local residents opposed proposals by Northumberland County Council to turn Prudhamstone Quarry into a rubbish tip. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1983-12-30 |
Mrs. Ann Patricia Fenton was to open a restaurant at her home at Westfield in Newbrough. |
