| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1988-05-17 |
Chief Scout, William Garth Morrison, visited a weekend camp at Dilston held to mark the 80th anniversary of the first ever Scout camp at Look-Wide near Fourstones. |
| 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. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1996-12-08 |
Plans for a ?400,000 facelift to Newbrough Town Hall looked likely after the award of a grant from the European Community?s rural development fund. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1998-09-26 |
Newbrough Town Hall re-opened after a ?440,000 refurbishment, lasting two years, to mark the millennium. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
1999-11-20 |
Fourstones villagers won their battle to prevent the Railway Inn being converted into a house. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
2006-03-03 |
Peter Grice, who had run Fourstones post office at Broadfield House for the last 11 years, intended to stand down as post-master at the beginning of April, five months after he submitted a planning application to convert the shop into a house. |
| Newbrough and Fourstones |
2006-08-04 |
Dennis and Dorothy Bowman opened a new post office within the service station they run in the village to replace the old post office that closed in March. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1872-07-25 |
A house at Yarrowmoor was destroyed by fire after being struck by lightning. Its occupants, a Mrs Dagg and her granddaughter, escaped unharmed. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1873-02-27 |
Freight wagons on the North British Railway were derailed near Kielder after a wheel became loose. Freight was scattered over the embankments but no one was hurt. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1877-11-17 |
Re-opening of The Hott School after ?having been thoroughly repaired and put in order.? |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1879-01-02 |
A Christmas Fair was held in the Falstone schoolroom to raise ?40, the sum needed to reach ?500, the cost of restoring the Falstone Presbyterian Church. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1879-10-08 |
After being closed for extensive internal restoration, Greystead Church in Tarset, was reopened for the harvest festival. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1879-12-03 |
A new Free Methodist Chapel was opened in Tarset. It had ?long been desired? to have a chapel in Tarset and it was eventually built on land offered at ?a very reasonable rate? by Miss Tait. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1883-11-14 |
A concert was held in the Rectory Room, Falstone, to raise money for the foundation of a public lending library. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1888-02-01 |
A secret passage was discovered in Tarset, said to run under the River North Tyne from the old Tarset Castle to Dally Castle. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1898-01-02 |
The idea occurred to Mr. Seymour Spencer of Tarset that the Tarset Burn could be used to provide motive power for electric lighting. He set about constructing the turbine, which was then used to drive the dynamo, lighting all the lamps and afterwards to charge cells. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1901-09-28 |
The Duchess of Northumberland presented a gift of 12 books to Falstone Parish Library. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1901-10-19 |
Fords over the North Tyne and Tarset burn were replaced with bridges at a cost of ?3,300. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1902-05-10 |
Bridges are built over the Tyne and Tarset at Tarset. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1903-03-28 |
(HH) A colliery was opened at the Bower Farm on the Chirdon Burn Estate of Sir John Haggerstone. |
