|
List of Local Events
1795 Newbattle Paper Mill began
1802 Road between Eskbank and Newtonloan opened
1805 Newtonloan Toll began
1831 Innocent Railway began - Mineral railway to Lingerwood
began - First viaduct at Lothian Bridge built
1835 First colliery houses at Newton Grange built - New
parish school at Crawlees built
1837 Strike at Newbattle Collieries (3 months)
1838 New pit at East Bryans opened
1839 Lingenvood pit rebuilt
1840 Newbattle Brick and Tile Works opened - First pit
ponies used underground
1842 Colliery School began at Galadalehill
1846 Millhill House built
1847 Main railway line to Edinburgh opened - Dalhousie
Station opened - New Viaduct at Lothian Bridge built
1849 Newton Grange Colliery Schools built
1861 Lingerwood Pit shaft deepened to 888 Feet
1870 Newton Grange House built
1871 Red Lion House built
1872 Six houses at St. Davids built
1873 Strike (7 weeks) - Newbattle Gasworks opened
1874 Abbey Granary built Romans's Building built First
Free Church built
1875 Good Templar Lodge 'Lothian Star' began - Good Templar
Hall built - Newtongrange Flower Show and Industrial Society
began
1879 Newtongrange Lothian Cricket Club began
1880 Second Free Church building - Lothian Lodge of the
Independent Order ot Scottish Mechanics began
1881 Cowden Grange built
1884 Newtongrange Colliery School extended
1886 Free Church Manse built
1890 Lothian Coal Company began - Newbattle Paper Mill
closed
1892 Lothian Cycling Club began
1893 New-battle Public School opened - Newtongrange Colliery
School closed - School at Crawlees closed - Lothian Halls
began - Strike at Newbattle Collieries (9 weeks)
1894 Newbattle Paper Mill demolished - Strike at Newbattle
Collieries (17 weeks) - Lothian Brass Band oegan
1895 Lady Victoria Pit opened - Newtongrange Star F.C.
became a junior team
1896 Whitehall and Newbattle Building Company began - Newbattle
and Dalkeith Golf Club began
1897 Abbey Inn began
1898 First houses built at Dean Park
1899 Dean Tavern built - First houses built at Monkswood
1902 Newtongrange Bowling Green opened - Newton House built
- Newtongrange Ornithological Society began
1903 Newtongrange Star pavilion built
1904 Newtongrange Homing Society began
1906 Public park improved - New cricket pitch and pavilion
opened - Reid's Buildings built - Arbuthnot Cottage built
- Stewart's shop built
1907 Newbattle Public School extension built
1908 Newtongrange Station built - Dalhousie Station closed
- Gorebridge Co-op Store built - Miniature Rifle Range built
1909 Saughs Cottages built - Masonic Lodge Newbattle St.
Mary began - First nurse's cottage built - Newbattle Colliery
Employees Nursing Association began
1910 Easthouses Mine opened - Bryans Pit closed - Women's
Liberal Association began New Dean Tavern opened
1911 Y.W.C.A. began Band Hall built - Newtongrange Institute
opened
1912 Strike at Newbattle Collieries (6 weeks) - Monkswood
re-named
1913 Newtongrange Gala Day began - Newtongrange Cage Bird
Fanciers Association begun
1914 The Square built - Addition to Newtongrange Institute
built - Newtongrange St Andrews Ambulance Association began
- First public phone Branch of Dalkeith Savings Bank opened
1915 Newtongrange Picture Palace - Ambulance Association
began
1920 Newbattle Miners Welfare Committee began - Second
nurse's cottage built
1921 Strike at Newbattle Collieries (3 months)
1922 Newtongrange Lawn Tennis Club began
1923 Last pit ponies underground
1924 Victoria Park and pavilion opened - Lothian Terrace
built
1925 Easthouses Institute built - Newtongrange Primary
School built
1926 Newtongrange Welfare Park opened - Strike at Newbattle
Collieries (7 months)
1928 Newbattle Parish Council ended
1929 Free church building first used as Newtongrange Parish
Church
1932 Back kitchens and baths put in houses
1933 Gardiner's Place (first council scheme) built - Allan's
Garage began - Old Abbeyland demolished - First talkies
at the picture house
1936 Galadean built
1937 Newbattle and District Welfare Pipe Band began - Newbattle
District Council Offices opened - Newbattle Abbey College
began
1939 Newtongrange Parish Church hall built - Newtongrange
Juvenile Pipe Band began
1940 Masterton House demolished 1942 - Newtongrange Parish
Church built
1945 Electric street lighting began
1946 Masonic Lodge bought old Free Church
1947 N.C.B. Vesting Day
1948 St Annes Roman Catholic Church began
1950 County Council took over Welfare Park - Welfare Pipe
Band finished up Brickworks closed
1953 Esk Valley College began at Lingerwood - Pithead Baths
built at Easthouses - Newbattle Institute ended
1954 Pithead Baths built at Newtongrange
1956 Gasworks closed
1960 Easthouses pit closed - Picture house closed
1962 Mainline railway closed to passengers - Dean Tavern
extension built - New Bowling Green Pavilion built
1965 Newtongrange Library opened
1967 Lingerwood Pit closed
1969 Mainline railway closed to freight - Newbattle High
School opened - Easthouses Mine closed - Esk Valley College
moved to Eskbank - Newbattle Swimming Pool opened
1971 Dean Trust formed
1972 Strike at Lady Victoria Pit (8 weeks)
1974 Strike at Lady Victoria Pit (4 weeks)
1976 Newtongrange Community Council began
1981 Lady Victoria Pit closed
1983 St. Anne's Sheltered Housing built
|
1745 
