Andy Millne

Soup kitchens were set up in Bedlington.

Jimmy Milne born.

James Spence sold his stock in a ten day sale at Bedlington Iron Works and the works were left derelict for six years.

Bedlington Locomotive Factory was closed down.

William Carr begins Bedlington's first newsagents in January. It was situated on Front Street east.

Bedlington "D" Colliery began sinking the shaft. Known as "Doctor Pit".

New owners of Bedlington Iron Works is James Spence.

Michael Longridge leaves the Locomotive Works.

On 14th October Kings Cross station opened. The first train to leave was hauled by a loco built at the Bedlington Locomotive Works.

Prince Albert is believed to have been the last locomotive built at the Works.

Daniel Gooch was awarded a gold medal at the great exhibition.

The population in Bedlington was 5101.

Michael Longridge provided an exhibit for the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace.

Bedlington Coal Company complete the building of the wooden viaduct over the River Blyth in June.

Cholera outbreak at Bedlington. Description of Bedlington in A Topographical Dictionary of England. BEDLINGTON (St. Cuthbert), a parish and division, in the union of Morpeth, N. division of the county of Northumberland, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Morpeth; containing 3155 inhabitants, of whom 2023 are in the township of Bedlington. This district was purchased about the beginning of the tenth century by Cutheard, second bishop of Chester, who gave it to the see, by which means it was annexed in jurisdiction to the body of the county palatine of Durham lying between the Tyne and the Tees; it anciently had courts and officers of justice within its own limits, appointed under commission from the Bishop of Durham. The town or village stands on high ground, in a pleasant situation, and consists principally of one long street of considerable width, forming a kind of sloping avenue to the river Blyth, which glides past, between steep banks. The parish, commonly called Bedlingtonshire, and including the townships of North Blyth, Cambois, Choppington, Netherton, and East and West Sleckburn, is on the coast of the North Sea, and is bounded on the north by the Wansbeck, and on the south by the Blyth, which is navigable for small craft, and affords facility of conveyance for the produce of the Bedlington iron-works. At these works, which are among the oldest and most extensive in the kingdom, are manufactured chain-cables, bolts, bar and sheet iron, and all the heavier articles in wrought iron, which are conveyed to the port of Blyth, where they are shipped for London: the buildings occupy an exceedingly romantic site, the banks on each side of the river rising to a considerable height, while the impatient waters hasten rapidly along, and, in passing over a dam, form a very beautiful cataract. There are also some extensive collieries, and several quarries producing grindstones, scythe-stones, and whetstones of superior quality. Petty-sessions are held occasionally. The living, of which the net income is £454, is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £13. 6. 8., and in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, who are also appropriators. The great tithes of the township have been commuted for £361. 10., and the vicarial for £40. 8. 4.; there are 234 acres of vicarial glebe. The church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert, whose remains are said to have rested here, on the flight of the monks from Durham upon the approach of the Conqueror, in 1069; it was enlarged and repaired in 1818. At the eastern extremity of the village is a petrifying spring, called Spinner's Well.

Blyth Building Society opened its first branch in Bedlington.

The founder of the Gibson family of nailers died and his wife Ann took over the running of it.

Michael Longridge refuses his second knighthood.

Longridge gave evidence at the Children's Employment Commission.

The steamship Bedlington was built in 1841 by T D Marshall of South Shields for the Bedlington Coal Company (1851 in April the "Auld Reekie" steamer from Leigh arrived in Blyth to tow the "Bedlington" to Leith as her career was over for the coal company. 1854 on March 19th the Bedlington was sunk nine days before the outbreak of war between Britain and Russia. the location being near Ismail on the Danube).

The population in Bedlington was 2023.