Newcastle Airport "on the ball"

A week ago attention was drawn to the uncut hedge on Prestwick Road - its now been cut! And a good job as well.

All credit to the airport who own the hedge! 

Newcastle Airport delays?

Newcastle Airport has usually cut its hedges on Prestwick road by this time of year.

Predestrians are finding it difficult to use the foopath to Prestwick Road Ends and beyond because they remain uncut.

 

All the other roadside hedges have been cut by landowners but the uncut ones pose a danger and potentially could "snag" a coat, skirt or trousers

 

Rent Dobbies Roundabout for £8,000 a year?

Northumberland County Council are proposing to erect advertising boards on many highway roundabouts and sell the space.


But what price a life, a broken leg or broken arm? There have been a least 3 fatal accidents  at Dobbies roundabout.

Should drivers not be concentrating on driving rather than reading notices? Are there not enough illegal notices at this location already?

Prestwick Colliery Home Guard

Back Row: Officer from Woolsington? Gordon Taylor (aged 16) ? from Woolsington, "Buck" Graham, Tommy Strangeways, George Barras, "Reggie" Graham, Billy Weightman

Mid Row: Cyril Graham, ?, Jack Coulson, Wilson Scott, "Robbie" Graham, Jack Lynch, 

Front row: John Guy, Mick lynch, Stan Taylor, Ronnie Lynch, Tommy Winthrop, "Tucker" Robson, Stan Simpson

Prestwick's £36,000,000 company

Northern Bear  has just posted turnover of £36,000,000 and a profit of £8,000,000

Fryer's Map 1820

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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