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Heddon's history timeline 1800 to 1899

The Heddon history time-line is based on work by Pat Farnaby for his previous village web site.

1802    The Refuge French Clergy who had been occupying Heddon Square (Frenchman's Row) left under the terms of the peace of Amiens. They erected a sundial as a sign of their gratitude. After their departure the cottages were turned into a poor house.

1805    Battle of Trafalgar took place

1807    Slave trade abolished

1808    The Wylam Waggonway was converted from wooden rails to iron rails 1810 - 1820

1813    William Hedley produced a prototype steam engine for use on the Wylam Waggonway

1813    Mrs Ann Rutherford died on 1st September at the grand age of 102 years

1814    George Stephenson developed his steam locomotive

1814    The School House at Houghton was built, primarily to educate the children on the Close House estate

1815    Battle of Waterloo took place

1815    Williams Hedley's steam engines became established on the Wylam Waggonway

1821    The Great Heddon Tea Robbery

1823 - A school was opened at Houghton, by Mrs Margaret Bewicke, for the children of the Close House Estate. The building is still known as the School House

1829    The Newcastle to Carlisle railway line was incorporated

1829    The cottage at the junction of Heddon Banks and Towne Gate was built

1829    The terraced cottages on Hexham Road, to the east of the old Post Office, were built

c1830   The sale of ale was transferred from the Church House to a cottage almost directly opposite, which became known as the "Swan Inn"

1830    The six townships of Heddon Parish were taken from the Tindale Ward and added to the West Division of Castle Ward

1831    On September 8th 1831, at a celebration of the coronation of King William IV, an hot-air balloon piloted by Major Callender and Mr Green (aeronaut)  flew from Spital Fields, Newcastle and landed on the grass outside Close House mansion. Link

1832    Carter's Cottages built

1832    Blue Row's cottages built

1832    Mushroom Row cottages built. Demolished in 1955 to make way for the new Library building

1832    On Monday December 10th a dreadful accident occurred at Heddon-on-the-Wall. A number of workmen had placed cannon on an eminence near that place, for the purpose of saluting the voters as they passed, and a person of the name of Potts, a mason, who was in the act of charging one of the cannons, it went off, and blew him to a distance of several yards, shattering his body almost to atoms. The mangled remains were soon afterwards gathered up, and presented a most shocking spectacle. The Local Historians Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences by M A Richardson (1844).

1833    On  1st January, owing to the genial state of the weather, Mr. George Smith agent to Mrs. Bewicke, Close House gathered a dish of green peas. Many fruit trees were in full blossom. Local Records: Historical Register of Remarkable Events ... by T Fordyce (1867).

1837    The railway bridge was constructed at Wylam providing an alternative route for the coal  traffic using to the Wylam Waggonway

1839    New windows were inserted into the north aisle of St Andrew's Church

1839    The Newcastle to Carlisle railway line was opened for the full route in May

1842    The vicar, Rev J. A. Blackett, applied for a mortgage from the Queen Ann's Bounty Board for the sum of £702, to build a new vicarage. The loan was at 3.5% and to be repaid over 30 years, starting in 1842.

1841    East window of St Andrew's Church enlarged.

1841-45  A fourth bay was added to the knave of St Andrew's Church.

1842    The employment of women and children in mines was forbidden.

1842    The old vicarage house and an adjoining cottage were pulled down and a new vicarage erected on the same site.

1847    Barras & Co opened the firebrick works.

1847    Dr. Lyngard discovered two inscribed stones showing that parts of the Roman Wall were built by the fourth Cohort of the Twentieth Legion.

1848    George Stephenson, pioneer of the railway, died.

1849    The poor house was moved from the cottages at Heddon Square (Frenchman's Row) to Ponteland

1850    Queen Victoria opened the central station in Newcastle on the 29th of August.

1852    The village school was built at a cost of £732-4s-7d.

1852    Old Vicarage and adjoining cottage demolished and present Vicarage built.

1854    Five houses were erected opposite Mushroom Row, on what is now the site of Amos Bros Forge.

1855    James Knott was born in Howdon.

c1860   A series of revival meeting were held in Heddon, organised by the Heddon Methodist Society.

1861    American Civil War started.

1866    Present vestry built in St Andrew's Church.

1870    Education Act established elementary education.

1873    East window of St Andrew's Church was stained.

1873    Several new properties were erected in Heddon to assist with developments at the Colliery, which was owned by Mr. Thomas Bates.

1873-77  St. Andrew's Church was re-roofed, re-seated and a new organ, built by Bevington & Son of Soho, Birmingham, was installed at a total cost of £1100.00. This sum was raised at a meeting of the Church Restoration Committee in 1874, when Sir M. White Ridley, who then owned east Heddon, Mr J. Clayton, Mr Burdon and Mr Bates consented to their lands being taxed, according to their rateable value, to raise £500. Mr C. Bewicke provided £500 and Col Joicey £100.
 
1876    Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
 
1876    The branch railway line from Scotswood to Wylam North was opened. Heddon Station was opened 5 years later.

1877    Methodist Chapel built in Heddon at a cost of about £450.

1877    An accident on the ferry boat, used by Heddon residents to cross the Tyne to the railway station at Ryton, caused the death of three people ( Gravestone inscription).

1878     A serious outbreak of Typhoid was recorded in Heddon, resulting in ten deaths.

1878    James Knott married Margaret Annie Garbutt.

1878    Killibrig quarry was opened near Close Lea.

1881    Heddon on the Wall Railway Station opened

1882    The Married Women's Property Act abolished the law whereby upon marriage a woman's property became her husbands.

1883    The cottages at Heddon Square (Frenchman's Row), were thoroughly repaired and became known as the Frenchman's Row. The cottage at the eastern end of Frenchman's Row was converted into a beer-house.

1844    The vicar of Heddon produced a report on the conditions in the 64 houses in the village, 26 of which only had one room. A particular one roomed house, measuring 16 feet by 16 feet 7 inches, housed a family with nine children. (A copy of the report is available in the village Library).

1885    Cadwallader Bates wrote a history of Heddon (published in 1886)

1886    Daimler invented the Internal Combustion Engine.

1888    Average attendance at the village school was 133 children.

1889    Blaney Row cottages were built.

1891    Free education was adopted at the village school and the average attendance rose to 152.

1894    First meeting of the Parochial Parish Council held in the Schoolroom on the 4th of December - a copy of the minutes of this meeting are held in the Library. Prior to this the responsibilities of the Parish Council had mainly been undertaken by the vicar.

1894    A schoolboy at Heddon-on-the-Wall stabbed his headmaster in the leg as he was being punished for bad behaviour, a court in Newcastle heard. The boy admitted a common assault on Mr Thomas Child, and it was ordered that he be removed from the neighbourhood. His father was bound over in the sum of £5.

1896    Daniel Lynch (a Platelayer) drowned while swimming with five friends at Bates Hole (later named Hedwin Streams) in River Tyne. An onlooker called John O'Neill spotted him and he and his brother tried to save Daniel but lost him in the water. Daniel's body was found 3 hours later. It was the middle of June and it had been very hot.  The inquest was held on 16th June 1896. Reported in Newcastle Chronicle.

1897    The Royal French Arms was built, partly on the site of the cottage at the eastern end of Frenchman's Row, which had already been converted into a beer-house.

1897    J. W. Thompson sold the "Swan Inn" to Newcastle Breweries. The old cottage was demolished and rebuilt on it's present site.

1897    Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on the 22nd of June (Photos of the celebration bonfire)

1897-8  The Men's Institute (Reading Room) was built.

1899    Start of the Boer War

1899    The "Swan Inn" opened as a beer-house on Christmas Eve.

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