What made Hexham Courant headline news up to 150 years ago

10 years ago

BRIDGE REPAIRS: Work to repoint a parapet on Corbridge's 17th-century bridge was due to get underway in the new year.

GREEN LIGHT: Despite strong objections from Hexham Civic Society, Hexham and Northern Marts got consent for 122 homes at Craneshaugh.  

SEARCH: Catton resident Janis Hall, 65, went missing for more than a week.

25 years ago

The nuclear protest brought the military convoy to a halt in Hexham in 1998 (Image: NQ)

DEMONSTRATION DELAY: Nuclear protestors held up a convoy of military vehicles on the A69 Bridge End roundabout at Hexham. Five protestors were arrested and detained at Hexham police station.

JOB BOOST: Four new developments were expected to open in the town in the next summer, creating 150 jobs between them and a further 180 in the following year. 

BEEF EXPORTS: Tynedale farmers hoped to be exporting beef by spring the following year, with the lifting of the export ban by European agriculture ministers. 

50 years ago

BYPASS: Work on the Corbridge and Hexham bypass road was to begin in spring 1974, it was announced by then environment secretary and Hexham MP Geoffrey Rippon.

BID LODGED: Northumberland County Council put in a £75,000 bid for Tynedale Rugby Club's six-acre playing field site at Hexham. The council planned to build a 44-bed old people's home and a 24-bed hostel for those with mental disabilities there. 

PAGEANT: Printing operator Julie Little, 20, of Haltwhistle, was voted 1973's Miss BXL, a beauty queen-type title given annually to female employees at Plenmeller's BXL Cascelloid factory.

IN THE CLUB: A £40,000 extension was opened at Haltwhistle Working Men's Club.   

75 years ago 

WATER ON-WAY: Plans were being drawn up for a £175,000 scheme to provide a piped-water supply to every village and hamlet in the North Tyne Valley.

IN THE AIR: Smoke which was being spewed out of a chimney at Hexham's Co-operative Laundry in Rye Terrace was branded a nuisance by neighbours, with 115 signing a petition about it.

ON THE MOVE: The then Lord Redesdale was granted an order at Hexham County Court allowing him to evict a former gardener and handyman on the Redesdale estate, who was said to be reluctant to give up his cottage as he had nowhere else to go after leaving the Redesdale peer's employ.

100 years ago

FUNDRAISER: A concert held at Hexhamshire's Whitley Chapel Parochial Hall attracted a 200-strong turnout and raised £14 for Hexham's hospital.

125 years ago

WATERY GRAVE: A Gilsland man was found dead in a burn near the village. The former landlord of the Samson Inn was reported to have drowned after falling off a plank over Poltross Burn and hitting his head on the bed of the burn. 

HARD LABOUR: Three tramps were jailed for two weeks each, with hard labour, for sleeping in a cart shed in Alston.

SHEEP SHOCK: Twenty-six sheep were attacked in one night near Humshaugh at Lincoln Hill and Waterside Farm by a dog or dogs. Six were found dead, eight had to be put down afterwards and the remaining dozen were injured, some seriously.

150 years ago

KNIFE ATTACK: A young farmer was stabbed three times during a drunken quarrel in Haydon Bridge. Another farmer was charged with wounding.