| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1952-12-19 |
The Forestry Houses at Byrness were ready to be occupied by the New Year. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-01-01 |
(1953 Date unspecified) Isolated villages such as Byrness, Allenheads and Sparty Lea were promised ?electrification? before winter. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-06-13 |
Roman Catholics in Otterburn had somewhere to worship after 19 years of celebrating Sunday Mass from a farmhouse or farmyard. The new brick-built church was dedicated to St. Peter. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-07-25 |
Otterburn was dubbed diamond city, when Bellingham Rural District Council revealed that the 10 council houses it had erected in the village were the most expensive to build in Britain at a cost of ?2,085 1s 6d each. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-08-21 |
Electricity could come to Byrness and Rochester ?before winter.? |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-08-21 |
The ghost village of Byrness would come to life next week when the families of foresters move into the first 8 of 47 forestry houses. Compare 01/01/1954 for proposed school. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-08-28 |
The ?First and Last? at Horsley may lose its name. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-10-31 |
The plans of the Bellingham GP practice to open a branch surgery at the Forestry Village of Byrness were postponed when it was found that many of the first residents had already registered with practices over the Border at Jedburgh. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1953-12-18 |
Retirement of Miss M. Ferry from Otterburn School after 44 years teaching, 27 years as infant mistress. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1954-01-30 |
More than 1,300 cats? eyes were installed on the A68 between Otterburn and Rochester by Northumberland County Council to improve the safety of the road. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1954-04-16 |
Members of Rochester WI were given a demonstration on ?Cooking in an Electrical Cooker? which was given by Miss Smythe of the General Electric Company. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1954-07-16 |
Forestry Villages (Kielder and Byrness) allowed to deteriorate. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1955-03-11 |
The Forestry Commission failed in an attempt to open Northumberland?s first state-owned hotel at Byrness when Bellingham Licensing Justices refused an application for a full licence for Byrness House, the former home of Tyneside shipowner, Sir Leslie Lynn Marr. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1955-04-08 |
An inquest opened on the Otterburn air-crash victims though only the evidence of identification was heard. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1955-06-17 |
Residents in the lonely villages of the North Tyne and Redesdale had to cope with buses on only two days in six months. The bus owners said that it was not their fault and that they had stopped providing services to outlying villages in order to save money. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1955-09-02 |
Firemen fighting flames at West Wilkwood later found a live Howitzer shell lying 20 yards away from the blaze. The fire is believed to have passed over it, as the shell was red hot when discovered. ?We were very lucky,? said one fireman. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1955-10-14 |
The first shop at Byrness was opened by Mrs. Edith Anderson. It was a branch of the Otterburn and District Co-operative Society Ltd. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1955-10-21 |
The Forestry Commission village of Byrness got its first shop, with the opening of a branch of the Otterburn and District Co-op, with a sub-post office attached. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1957-04-26 |
The new bridges at Woodburn and Byrness were recently opened, having taken thirteen months to build. |
| Otterburn and Redesdale |
1957-08-23 |
Fire at Birdhopecraig Hall (on Tuesday 20th August). Compare Newcastle Journal & North Mail 21/08/1957. |
