Prestwick Pete

 

And Prestwick Pat

 

Last remaining Beech Tree felled at Stone Cottage

Planning Application for S-Fix site refused but amended and resubmitted

The planning application for a dwelling on S-Fix site has been refused fir the following reasons:

 1. The application site lies within the designated Green Belt and the open countryside where, under both national and local policy, new dwellings are inappropriate development. Residential development on this site is therefore contrary to the NPPF and Local Plan Policies C17 and H16. The very special circumstances necessary to overcome the presumption against inappropriate development in the Green Belt have not been demonstrated.

 2. The application site is not considered to be a sustainable location for new housing development in that the village of Prestwick does not have an adequate range of services. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy C1 of the Castle Morpeth Local Plan and the NPPF.

3. By virtue of its scale, massing, design and overall appearance, the proposed new dwelling would not result in an acceptable form of development or design in this location and would have a resultant adverse impact upon the visual amenity of the surrounding area. The proposal would therefore be contrary to Policy H15 of the Castle Morpeth Local Plan, and the provisions of the National Planning Policy Framework

Planning Application for S-Fix site

Mr and Mrs Robson have submitted an application for a four bedroom dwelling.

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Proposed elevations

Proposed Ground Floor

Proposed First Floor

New roundabout at Prestwick Road Ends and roundabout at cemetery?

Airport master plan to 2030

The airport master plan published this week shows a proposed new access into the airport at Prestwick Road Ends and a new roundabout on Prestwick Road near the cemetery.

Street Houses to be redeveloped as 3 storey 45 bedroom hotel?

The proposal is to demolish both houses and erect a 3 storey 45 bedroom hotel

Local Architect

Designed by local architect, Peter Fletcher.

Third week in June advertised to let at £1000 per month

Stag and Hen parties!

More on Street House or Prestwick House or The Badger

Solicitors' documents, deposited at the Northumberland Record Office in 1959, provide much of the information about the owners and occupiers of Street Houses during the 18th and 19th centuries, and also make it possible to attempt to fix the boundaries of the property after 1724.

By 1724 Jane Carr (nee Shafto) was the sole surviving member of Lawrence Shafto's family and, together with her second husband, Robert Carr, owned the west part of Prestwick. They had been married with a lycence in May 1692 in Bedlington ; in 1693 he was overseer of ye poor for Prestwick .

A family settlement of 1724 arranged for the estate to be divided equally between Robert Carr's two daughters, Mary, wife of John Coulter, and Dorothy Carr. Failing heirs from the Carr sisters, the inheritance would go to their four older half-sisters, daughters of Jane Carr and her first husband, William Fenwick. He had been vicar of Lesbury and Shilbottle and had died there in September 1688 .

A deed drawn up in 1733 deals specifically with the part of Prestwick West Farm known as Mengeys (or Mindseys) Close, the site of what was to be known later as Street House Farm. Described as a Messuage Tenement and Close with John Coulter as the tenant, the property was to be for his use during the lifetime of his parents-in-law. Since John Coulter was of the Town and county of Newcastle, he and his family may not have lived at Prestwick. The Coulters were married, in 1716, at St. John's, Newcastle, where their four sons and seven daughters were all baptised .

Jane Carr was buried at Ponteland 7 May 1736 and her husband the following February , leaving their two daughters tenants in common of Prestwick West Farm.

John Coulter, tobacconist and feltmaker , died in 1743. According to the Land Tax Returns for 1748, 1750 and 1753, Mrs Coulter was liable for the tax on a property in Prestwick, whether as owner or occupant is not clear.
In 1756 Mary Coulter of Newcastle and Shafto Coulter of the same place Merchant eldest son and Heir of the said Mary Coulter..had documents drawn up to destroy the entail (so that the possessor would be allowed to sell the property outright) on all that full undivided moiety or half part of Prestwick West Farm.

Mrs Coulter's will was proved in 1774. In 1779, Shafto Coulter and Robert Carr [cousins] were . . Tenants in common for life of Prestwick West Farm containing by Estimation 200 acres and wanted to divide the estate between them. Since the capital messuage [large house i.e. Prestwick Hall] and the greatest part of the other Houses and Buildings [had] fallen to the lot of the said Robt. Carr Shafto Coulter was to be awarded £122.10s. to be paid by ...Robt. Carr together with a further £2 in view of the greater value of wood piling in Robt. Carr's allotment. This £124. 10s. was to be extended and laid out by Shafto Coulter in making and erecting a new Dwellinghouse outhouses and other necessar,' Buildings upon the said Premises so awarded to him.

The new house was a well designed, U-shaped farmstead. Solidly built of stone, it had a meticulously balanced brick facade facing the road. The two-storied central portion was flanked by two single-storey wings, housing the kitchen and a large reception room. The rest of the farmstead included: good Stabling, Coach House, Dog Kennel, Dove-Cot, a Garden walled with bricks, with other Offices and Outhouses, besides all necessary Buildings for a Tenant.

The dove-cot was artistically positioned in the field opposite, so as to be visible from the main windows of the house.

Explosives

ICI's Nobel division transported explosives from its factory at Ardeer, Ayrshire to its depot from 1953 until the1970's. The explosives were distributed from the Callerton depot, with offices at Street Houses, to mines all over the North East of England.

A full history of the ICI local operations can be found in the Ponteland Local History Society publication "Pont Island News 2010" 

Prestwick Hall 1900

The 1911 Census shows that Prestwick Hall was occupied by 71 year old William Boyd and his of 40 years, 70 year old Jane Diana together with cook, Ellen Brown and 4 other female servants.

William Boyd, born in Arncliffe, Yorkshire, birth, first came to Wallsend in 1874, when he was invited to become managing director of the Wallsend Slipway Co. Under his direction the small shipyard became a major marine engine building concern, erecting the first steel boilers on the Tyne in 1878. Mr Boyd retired from management at the end of 1911.

He was involved in Wallsend local government from May 1878, when he became a member of the Local Board of Health. In April of the following year he was elected chairman of the board, and served in that position until 1894, when it was replaced by the new district council, of which he became the first chairman. Mr Boyd was elected an Alderman and first Mayor of the new council and continued to serve until October 2, 1906. On Wednesday, June 19, 1907, William Boyd laid the foundation stone for Wallsend's new Town Hall when a Freedom Ceremony was opened for him. By this time he had moved to Cheltenham, where he died in 1919.

The North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders was founded in November 1884 at the instigation of William Geddes Spence (1860-1946) of R.W. Hawthorn's marine engine works. William Boyd (1839-1919) Managing Director of the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Works served as its first President and is widely recognised as being the leading force behind the Institution's creation.

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Prestwick based charity accounts published

LEGACARE (UK) LTD
TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED ACCOUNTS

Legacare Accounts

None of the trustees or anyone connected with the trustees received any remuneration or was reimbursed expenses in the period. During the period Margaret Kirby's, who is a trustee of the charity, legal practice Kirbys Solicitors provided legal services by way of consultancy to the charity to facilitate the charity's objectives to the value of £33,333 which is in accordance with the governing document. This ocurred because there was insufficient funding to recruit solicitors for the charity at this time, which would also include costs for professional indemnity insurance, practising certificates, CPD training as well as supervision and monitoring. This is a temporary measure until the Charity has sufficient funding to recruit solicitors and their associate core costs.

Jack the Stripper

When the body of 30-year-old Hannah Tailford was found by rowers on the Thames shore near Hammersmith Bridge on February 2, 1964, the similarities to previous murders of Rees and Figg's corpses were uncanny. Naked apart from a pair of stockings, she had also been strangled, several teeth were missing, and her semen-stained underwear had been stuffed in her mouth.
It was an ugly end to a life that had seen precious little beauty.

Hanna Tailford

Born at Prestwick Pit Houses, Hannah was excluded from several schools as a child due to disruptive behavior. As a teenager she ran away to London, where she was soon "on the game", gaining convictions for soliciting and theft into the bargain. She became so desperate that on one occasion she even placed a classified ad in her local newspaper, offering her unborn baby for sale to the highest bidder.
The last confirmed sighting of Tailford was on January 24, and pathologists estimated that she could have been in the water for a week or more. As with Rees, there were several lines of enquiry that appeared to present themselves.
Tailford was said to have connections in a murky world of underground sex parties and "stag films" She frequented a coffee stall near Trafalgar Square where she was known to have been offered money to have sex on camera. One individual connected to these activities committed suicide a few days before Hannah Tailford was found.
In his book on the case, Found Naked And Dead, Brian McConnell reports that Tailford told friends of being paid to participate in bizarre orgies at the homes of aristocrats. Such stories tallied with the lurid tales of high society sex parties revealed during the Profumo Scandal of 1963, in which a British government minister's affair with a call girl was exposed.

John Profumo

Tailford told a friend she had attended an orgy at the home of a French diplomat named Andre, and on another occasion had been paid £25 and taken by a limousine to a house where a man in a gorilla costume had sex with her while a crowd of upper-crust revellers cheered him on.
Could Tailford have been silenced by someone with connections to this sleazy world? Tempting though the theory may have been, it seemed unlikely. Nevertheless, during the investigation police interviewed hundreds of people who they knew to have consorted with prostitutes, among them an international soccer player, and several clergymen.
Yet the possibility that Tailford had fallen victim to a "maniac," as the newspapers put it, was shortly to become even more terrifyingly plausible.

The Jack the Stripper murders have never been solved.

1953

"The Flight" crosses the A696.

                                                             

Coals from the "Robert colliery" at Dinnington arrived at the rail head at Prestwick by aerial ropeway. This picture was taken circa 1960 at the point where the ropeway crossed the Newcastle to Ponteland road. 

The photographer is standing approximatly where the wash bay is at the Airport Filling station, looking towards Newcastle . The Doubletree hotel site is on the left hand side and the street of houses, Prestwick Terrace, seen in the distance still exists.