Haltwhistle and surrounding area about 1910
A look at the history of Haltwhistle in 1910, Who's Who with photos of its people, its Churches, Railway, Basle houses, Castles, Halls, and the villages and hamlets around are Blenkinsopp, Greenhead, Thirwall, Gilsland, Bellister, Featherstone, Coanwood, Lambley, Eals, Burnstone, Slaggyford, Halton-lea-gate, Plenmeller, Melkridge, Henshaw, Bardon mill, Thorngrafton, and Beltingham.
I would like thank all those who gave me photo's and the text which would appear to have come from some directory or other publication it is not my intention to infringe on anyones copy right and if I have please forgive me. John
A view from the air of Haltwhistle about 1920
HALTWHISTLE is a small market and union town, a township and extensive parish, and head of a county court district and petty sessional division; the town is on the north side of the South Tyne river, here crossed by an iron bridge of three arches, erected in 1875. and has a station on the Newcastle and Carlisle section of the North Eastern railway, which is also the junction for the Alston branch of that company, 16 miles west from Hexham, 21 east from Carlisle, 36 west from Newcastle and 315 miles from London, in the Hexham division of the county, Tindale ward, rural deanery of Hexham, archdeaconry of Northumberland and diocese of Newcastle
The town is mainly formed by one long street, and is lighted with gas from works erected in 1856
Haltwhistle Gas Co. Limited. William Bell, Manager. E. Blackburn. Sec.
The market, for which a charter was granted by Edward 1 in 1306, is held on Thursday, but it has now become almost extinct; and fairs are held for the sale of cattle. horse. and sheep, on the 14th of May, the 17th of September and the 22nd of November. Hiring for servants are held on May 12th and November l0th. An auction is held here on Thursdays for the sale of store and fat cattle and sheep.
About 2 miles north of the town runs the Roman wall of Hadrian and Severus, a wonderful work, extending from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Carlisle, a distance of 73! miles, and supposed to have been originally at least 15 feet in height: though frequently built along a line of ridges, at a considerable altitude, the outside stones were dressed and squared : there was also a ditch and vallum or turf wall to the same extent, with camps or stations every four miles, castles at every mile, and watch towers between every castle: the wall is generally believed to have been meant as a territorial boundary, but as there were Roman stations for some distance north of the wall its purpose was more probably that of a military outpost and defence : the whole district, which continued in a state of constant disturbance from the Roman invasion to the Norman period, and thence through the Scottish and succession wars, as well as from local broils and feuds caused by the lawless raids of moss-troopers and freebooters, is full of historical and antiquarian interest.
The atmosphere is pure, the country being open; The surrounding scenery, wild but picturesque, is diversified by mossy hills and rocky dells with rivulets and streams well stocked with fish. The farms are mostly fells and common lands, in closed for stock, for which they afford abundant pasturage.
Crag lough and Hadrians wall our wild and wonderful country side
Along the banks of the Tyne the land is arable and yields good crops of oats and other cereals. Messrs. Adamson, of Newcastle, hold the manorial rights.
Ernest A. Webster esq, J.P. of Unthank Hall,
Edward Joicey esq. Of Blenkinsopp Hall,
James Hope-Wallace esq. Of Featherstone Castle, and John Burkill Lowes esq. Of Allen's Green, are the chief landowners. Tile area of the township is 3,090 acres of land and 44 of water ; rateable value, £16,099 ; the population of the township in 1901 was 3,145 including 4 officers and 35 inmates in the workhouse, and in the ecclesiastical parish, 4,690. Sexton, Edward Steele.
Haltwhistles first bus I must tell you about the bus it travelled between Haltwhistle and Halton lea gate and stopped anywhere it went by Redpath and down by Pinkings Cluff to Maiden Way and down Craigs bank now that was an experience you would never forget because you had to get off at the top of Craigs bank and walk down to the bottom which was Burn Foot as the brakes were not very good and on the way back you had to get off at the bottom and help push the bus up to the top.
Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office (letters should have Northumberland added).- William Graham, postmaster. Letters arrive from Newcastle & Hexham at 8.5 a.m. ; from Newcastle at 4 p.m. ; from Carlisle at 7.30 a.m. & 5.5 p.m. dispatched, Newcastle, 10.20 a.m. ; to Newcastle, 2.40 p.m. & Hexham, 2.4° & 7 p.m. ; to Carlisle, 11.10 a.m. & 3.40, 5.55 & 8.I5 p.m. Sunday, arrive from Newcastle & Hexham, 8.55 a.m. ; Carlisle, 8.5 a.m. ; dispatch, Newcastle & Hexham, 6.I5 p.m. & Carlisle, 6.I5 p.m. Deliveries commence at 8.30 a.m- & 5.3° p.m. week days & 9.3° a.m. on Sundays Wall Letter Boxes :- West end, cleared at IO a,m. & 2.3°, 5.30 & 7.30 p.m. week days only Haltwhistle Bank, cleared at IO.45 a.m. & 640 p.m
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