| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1970-05-22 |
Otterstone Lea was named as the site of the giant new reservoir proposed by the Northumbria River Board. The project would cost around ?27 million, including an aqueduct to the Wear and Tees. Cf. 19/06/1970. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1973-01-12 |
4 Castle Cottages at Kielder were to become public toilets. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1973-01-26 |
The Forestry Commission was planning to build a public convenience at the Blakehopeburnhaugh picnic site near Byrness. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1973-05-11 |
Alan and Warren Swailes find demand for coal booming from their new pit at Falstone. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1973-10-02 |
The battle to have the Upper North Tyne Valley flooded for use as a reservoir was finally won by the Northumbrian River Authority. The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hexham MP Geoffrey Ripon announced that Kielder Water was to be created, following two public inquiries. The scheme was strongly opposed by numerous objectors, including dozens of families who stood to lose their homes. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1973-09-14 |
Article ?The Border Forest Drive.? |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1973-12-11 |
Forestry workers at Kielder were threatening to ban the use of chain saws in support of their pay claim. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1974-02-26 |
Plans were afoot to establish a parish council at Greystead for the first time. This was prompted by concern among locals about disruption expected to be caused by construction traffic generated by the forthcoming Kielder reservoir project. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1974-03-19 |
Upper North Tyne Valley dwellers about to be made homeless by the creation of Kielder reservoir rejected an offer of new houses on a 35-house council estate to be built at Falstone. The proposed new houses were too close together and too urban in style, a meeting of Falstone Parish Council heard. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1974-04-30 |
Tynedale Council and Northumberland County Council announced that a development plan would be drawn up for the Upper North Tyne Valley to help avoid planning problems following the creation of the Kielder Reservoir. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1975-03-03 |
Replacement homes for Falstone families displaced by Kielder Water were being held up by the government, it was claimed. Tynedale District Council decided to defer any decision to buy a 3.5-acre site at the Crofts because the chief executive, Athol Bates, was still waiting to hear from the Department of the Environment. Falstone Parish Council also felt that it was being left in the dark. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1975-05-26 |
Tynedale Council formally gave its approval to plans by Northumbrian Water Authority to build dams at Kielder and Bakethin to create Europe?s largest man-made lake. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1975-06-23 |
The blueprint for redeveloping the Upper North Tyne after the creation of the Kielder dam was approved by Tynedale Council. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1975-08-25 |
A public notice advertising the compulsory purchase order for the Kielder Reservoir Access Road appeared. It listed the land needed to improve the access road from the B6320 Hareshaw via Lanehead and the North Tyne road on the south side of the River Tyne to Yarrow Moor; and construction of a new highway to bypass Stannersburn and a new road to bypass Hott, Greystead and East Greystead. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1975-09-29 |
Tynedale District Council?s housing services committee formally recommended approval of the purchase of an acre of land at Falstone to re-house families made homeless by the Kielder reservoir scheme. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1976-04-06 |
Work on the ?100 million Kielder Reservoir was threatened when families planned to stay put in their homes, shadowed by the dam at Falstone. They refused to leave until promises were made that replacement housing would be provided. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1976-04-20 |
Forestry workers at Kielder were told to stop working so hard or their wages would have to be cut to the minimum. The workers were producing so much timber on a piece-rate deal that the Forestry Commission could not afford to pay them. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1976-06-01 |
The contracts for the Kielder and Bakethin dams were officially inaugurated. The whole scheme was expected to be completed by 1980. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1976-06-18 |
Death of Mrs. Mary Wear Nevin, proprietor of the Crown Inn at Stannersburn, in her eighties. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1976-07-06 |
There were 5000 applications from all over the country for the 300 jobs available as work started on the ?25 million Kielder Dam main contract. |
