1800 - 1810
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 Waggon
Way was converted from wooden rails to iron rails
1813 - William Hedley produced a prototype steam engine for
use on the Wylam Waggon Way
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
Waggon Way
1820 - 1830
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
Circa 1830 - 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
1832 - Carter's cottages built
1832 - Blue Rows cottages built
1832 - Mushroom Row cottages built. Demolished in 1955 to make way
for the new Library building
1837 - The railway bridge was constructed at Wylam providing an
alternative route for the coal traffic using to the Wylam Waggon Way
1839 - New windows were inserted into the north aisle of Saint
Andrew's Church
1839 - The Newcastle to Carlisle railway
line was opened for the full route in May
1840 - 1850
1840 - 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 Saint
Andrew's Church enlarged
1841 - 1845 - A fourth bay was added to the knave of Saint
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 - 1860
1850 - Queen
Victoria opened the central station in Newcastle on the 29th of August
1855 - James Knott was born in Howdon
1852 - The village school
was built at a cost of £732-4-7.
1854 - Five houses were erected opposite Mushroom
Row, on what is now the site of Amos Bros Forge
Circa 1860 - 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 Saint
Andrew's Church
1870 - Education Act established elementary
education
1873 - East window of Saint
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 - 1877 - 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
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 - The Killibrig Quarry,
beside Close Lea, commenced operation
1880 - 1890
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 - The branch in the railway
line, from Scotswood through Heddon to Wylam, was opened
1885 - Cadwallader Bates wrote a history of
Heddon
1886 - Daimler invented the Internal Combustion
Engine
1887 - Killibrig quarry
was opened
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.
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 celebreated her Diamond Jubilee on the 22nd of
June (Photos
of the celebration bonfire)
1897/98 - The Men's
Mission (Reading Room was built)
1899 - Start of the Boer
War
1899 - The "Swan
Inn" opened as a beer-house on Christmas Eve