| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1976-08-17 |
Ten new houses were to be built at Hawkhope Hill, Falstone, to re-house families displaced by the building of the Kielder reservoir. Each house was to cost in the region of ?18,000, not to mention the cost of the roadworks, estimated at a further ?53,400. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1977-09-23 |
A new diversion road from Falstone to Kielder was opened, along with an information centre at Tower Knowe, although the reservoir had yet to be flooded. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1977-09-23 |
Article entitled ?The North Tyne Valley will never be the same again.? |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1978-04-04 |
After falling behind schedule because of bad winter weather, the Balfour Beatty Fairclough consortium sought permission for 24-hour working on Kielder dam. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1978-04-11 |
All five members of the parish council, set up at Greystead four years earlier to monitor the construction of Kielder Dam, resigned, considering that their job was done. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1978-04-25 |
A new ?30,000 caravan site at Leaplish was declared ?terrific? by its first official visitors, the Devenish family from Sydney, Australia. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1978-08-01 |
An ?8 million leisure package, intended to make Kielder reservoir the playground of the Borders, was unwrapped at a meeting of the North Tyne Valley Consultative Committee at Bellingham. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1978-09-05 |
Villagers living in the shadow of the Kielder dam being built were assured their homes would be safer than ever before, as there were 739 instruments buried in the dam to detect the slightest movement in the structure. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1979-02-06 |
Falstone Parish Council was considering going into the catering business with proposals to run a tearoom in the village. Northumbrian Water announced that it was to provide a tearoom and local councillors immediately stepped in with an offer to run it. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1979-06-04 |
A 28-year-old dumper driver from Brampton was the second person to die in the construction of Kielder Dam, when he was crushed in the cab of his 45-tonne vehicle. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1979-03-26 |
Tenants of the new ?35,000 houses built at Hawkhope Hill at Falstone for families flooded out of their previous homes by the building of Kielder Water hit problems ? their new homes were affected by flooding! |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1979-06-25 |
The final part of the 2.4-mile stretch of tunnel was completed as part of the Kielder Dam scheme between the Derwent Valley and Letch House near Kiln Pit Hill. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1979-09-24 |
The Scout Association unveiled plans for its new ?250,000 camp site at Hawkhirst on the shores of Kielder Water. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1979-12-17 |
Watched by 34 of his school friends from Kielder First School, nine-year-old Jonathan Hall pressed the button, which closed the steel sluice at Bakethin Dam and began the filling of Kielder Reservoir. Water from the River North Tyne, which has its source at Deadwater Farm, Jonathan?s own family farm for four generations, immediately started backing up behind the gate and within a very short time covered the whole of the shallow part of the river valley. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1980-06-13 |
?Very soon the last of the buildings in Plashetts, Hawkhirst, Mounces, Otterstone Lea and Lewisburn will disappear as the demolition programme reaches its conclusion?. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1980-11-25 |
The ?plug? was put into Kielder Reservoir to begin the two-year process of filling the ?150m reservoir. The impounding ceremony was performed by the newly retired president of the Institution of Engineers, George Geddes, who was responsible for the design and construction of the dam. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1981-03-31 |
The first sailing boat was launched on Kielder Water, just two days before the first water was drawn from the ?150 million reservoir. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1981-04-21 |
Kielder Water opened for its first Bank Holiday weekend and attracted over 20,000 curious visitors over the Easter break. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1981-10-06 |
Thanks to an update by Ordnance Survey, Kielder Castle was on the map for the first time. |
| North Tyne Valley and Kielder |
1981-11-03 |
Following pressure from concerned locals, Northumbria Water Authority agreed to contact police to establish what safety measures were in place should the newly constructed Kielder Dam ever burst. |
