Andy Millne
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Gas works were installed at the Doctor Pit.
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The Bedlingtonshire Health Board completed its fresh water scheme for the area.
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Doctor Terrace was built by the Bedlington Coal Company. -
Vulcan Place School was built. Funding came from the church & Bedlington Coal Company.
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All colliery houses of the Bedlington Coal Company had privies & ash-pits installed across the lane from the houses.
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A schoolhouse was erected in a corner of the churchyard of Saint Cuthbert's.
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Stoker's Buildings were completed in Bedlington.
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Saint Cuthbert's Church bell was damaged & replaced.
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Shiney Row was built by the Bedlington Coal Company.
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National Gazetteer report on Bedlingtonshire.
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Ann Gibson, of the nailing family died. James Gibson then took over the business.
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The first candle-makers, William Barnes of Blyth, set up at eastern side of the Clayton Estate what was known as Moor Lane.
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The Bedlington Iron Company folds.
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The first Miners Picnic was held at Polly's Folly at the north end of Shankhouse. Miners from Bedlington & other areas attended.
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Daniel Gooch was made a Baronet.
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An attempt to control sewage disposal began with a sewer laid down Newcastle Road to Browns Farm field.
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Daniel Gooch successfully completes the first transatlantic cable message.
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A donation 0f £800 was given by Mrs Sidney of Cowpen, Blyth towards the cost of the Catholic School at Bedlington. It cost just over £1100.
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Daniel Gooch enters Parliament where he served for twenty years.
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Bedlington Coal Company purchase the works and trade as Bedlington Iron Company.
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Capper, Mounsey & Dixon leave the Bedlington Iron Works.
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Dixon & Mounsey built twenty-one cottages named Puddler's Row.
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Daniel Gooch resigns as engineer of the Great Western Railway to concentrate on telegraph communications to America.
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Bedlingtonshire Health Board came into existence & DrJames Trotter was a member.
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On 31st January Mrs Mounsey, during a tour of the factory, got caught up in some of the working machinery and was literally torn to pieces in front of her children.
