PONTELAND LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY – QUIZ 2020 ANSWERS
THE NORTH EAST
1. Which ship, built in Wallsend, and launched in 1906, held the transatlantic speed crossing record for 22years? MAURITANIA
2. When the electrically powered Souter Lighthouse was opened in 1871, what was the equivalent candle power of the light? 700,000
3. Which NE castle was the first in England to succumb to cannon fire? BAMBURGH CASTLE
4. The Newcastle builder, William Boutland Wilkinson was the first in the world to use this material, having patented the process in 1854. What was the material? REINFORCED CONCRETE
5. Which NE town was named after the leader of England’s first all Labour county council which assembled in Durham in 1909? PETER LEE
6. What is the name of the Gateshead inventor of the incandescent light bulb? JOSEPH SWAN
7. Gladstone Adams, of Whitley Bay, patented his invention in 1911 after driving home through snow, following the Newcastle United v Wolves cup final in 1908. What was the invention? WINDSCREEN WIPER
8. In which NE town is the oldest purpose built prison in England? HEXHAM GAOL
9. Marie Chapman was born on June 5th 1938 in South Shields. For 51 years she was the Guinness Book of records’ lightest surviving infant. How much did she weigh at birth? 10 OUNCES
10. Which NE bridge is the world’s oldest surviving railway bridge and was the longest single span bridge in the country when completed CAUSEY ARCH
Newcastle
1. Bessie Surtees House
2. Harry Hotspur
3. Black Friars
4. Queen Charlotte
5. Burmantofts tiles
6. Emerson Chambers
7. Eldon Square
8. Earl Grey
9. George Stephenson
10. RVI
11. Cardinal Basil Hume
12. Andrews Liver Salts (The Magnet Court Building on Gallowgate is a student residence building. However, the art deco relief panels on its façade suggest a different history, and indeed this building, previously called Magnet House and Andrew's House, was built for the General Electric Company in the 1930s.)
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14. Ditto
15. Ditto
16. Stephenson’s Rocket, coal mining, shipbuilding, the Tyne Bridge and Grey’s Monument.
17. Ditto
18. Ventilation shaft for Metro
19. Painting of Grainger Market which is housed in the Weigh House
20. Trinty house, Newcastle
21. High Level bridge
22. Robert Stephenson
23. St Andrews
24. Roger Thornton
Ponteland
1.
Prestwick
2. Blackbird Inn
3. 1924
4. Pele Tower
5. Pumping station
6. Eland Lane
7. George Stephenson
8. Black Callerton
9. PONTELAND Methodist Chapel
10. PONTELAND Smithy
11. Coates Endowed School
12. Tithe Barn
13. St Mary’s Church
14.1962
15. 1900s
16. Level crossing keeper
17. Whellens
18. Memorial Hall
19. Bellville House
20. Coates Institute.
21. 1719
22. 1831.
Bridges
1. Twizel Bridge
2. Union Tweed Bridge
3. Royal Tweed Bridge
4. Royal Border Bridge
5. Lion Bridge, Alnwick
6. Wallington Bridge
7. Cragside Iron Bridge
8. Telford Bridge, Morpeth
9. Bellasis Bridge
10. High Level Bridge
11. 2nd Redheugh Bridge
12. King Edward VII Bridge
13. Swing Bridge
14.Pons Ali
15. Ouseburn viaduct
16. Ponteland Bridge
17. 1st Redheugh Bridge
18. Scotswood Chine Bridge
19. Dean Street Viaduct
20. Corbridge Bridge.
Sculptures
1. WOODHORN COLLIERY ASHINGTON MINERS MEMORIAL (Formerly listed as: SIXTH AVENUE ASHINGTON MINERS MEMORIAL IN HIRST PARK) Memorial, 1923, by W H Knowles and John Reid. Re-erected in 1991 at Woodhorn Colliery Museum.
2. Ditto
3. Ditto
4. St. Aidan (1958) Sculptor: Kathleen Parbury Location: St. Mary's Churchyard, Holy Island
5. Ditto
6. The Badger, Prudhoe 1994
7. Gary Power
8. The Lion Bridge over the River Aln at Alnwick was built in 1775 by John Adam.[1] The stone bridge has 4 arches and in the centre of the bridge, on the east side, is the lead cast Percy Lion. The bridge is built in a castle-style and is overlooked by Alnwick Castle.
9. Ditto
10. Blagdon Bulls
11. WALLINGTON GARGOYLES 4 stone dragons' heads on lawn east of Hall probably C16. Limestone. Grotesque style with oriental influence. Brought 1760 from Bishopsgate, London, as ballast in one of Sir Walter Blackett's colliers; moved to present position in 1928.
12. Ditto
13. Ditto
14. A square sandstone pillar stands near the site of the battle, and is known as ‘Percy’s Cross’. It can be found on the east side of the A697, a couple of miles north of the village of Powburn. The road at this point is following the line of the Roman road known as the Devil's Causeway.
15. Ditto
16. In the churchyard of St Alban's Church in Earsdon is a memorial to the 204 miners lost in the Hartley Colliery Disaster of 1862.
17. Lanton Memorial, Ewart Obelisk. Probably erected 1827 to John Davison of Lanton by his brother Alexander Davison of Swarland Park.
18. Blagdon
19. Butter Market, Newcastle
20. The Response 1914 (also known as the Northumberland Fusiliers Memorial) a war memorial the north of the Church of St Thomas the Martyr in Barras Bridge, Designed by Sir William Goscombe John.
21. Ditto
22. Ditto
23. The Tyne God- water sculpture at Newcastle Civic Centre.
24. David Wynne
25. Northumberland County Hall, Morpeth.
WHO WHERE WHAT
1. Hexham
2. This bronze statue of Lieutenant-Colonel George Elliott Benson is located at the south end of Beaumont Street in Hexham. Benson served with the Royal Regiment of Artillery in various colonial campaigns. He died in 1901 in the Battle of Bakenlaagte of the Second Boer War.
3. The Nelson Memorial, Swarland is a white freestone obelisk at Swarland in north Northumberland, England. Erected in 1807, two years after the death of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, victor of the Battle of Trafalgar, it was placed by his friend and sometime agent, Alexander Davison, who owned an estate centred on the now demolished Swarland Hall. It is a Grade II listed monument.
4. Ditto
5. Ditto
6. MORPETH MARKET PLACE The Hollon Fountain Public drinking fountain. Given in 1885 by Mr. Hollon in honour of his wife. Grey polished granite.
7. Ditto
8. Flodden Field, Branxton,
9. Corbridge Bridge
10. Grace Darling, Bamburgh
11. Seaton Delaval Hall
12. Walton
13. Vicar used bridge to get from Vicarage to Walton Church
14. Winters Gibbet
15. Rebellion House is probably the oldest building in High Callerton. It gets its name from a tradition that Oliver Cromwell hid there
16. ditto
17. Allendale Allen Lead Smelt Mill was operating as early as 1692 when it was owned by the Bacon family. In the 18th century it was leased from Sir William Blackett by Lancelot Algood. From 1786 the mill was owned by the Beaumont Company which carried out improvements and extensions to the smelt mill. Long horizontal flues were added in 1808 and between 1845 and 1850. The smelt mill finally ended production in 1896.
18. The Percy Cross (also Battle Stone) is located just off the A696, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from Otterburn, Northumberland, England. It was erected before 1400 to commemorate the Battle of Otterburn, which took place in 1388
19. The old village lock-up on the village green in Stamfordham was built in the early 19th century.
20. Wallington clock tower.
PEOPLE
1. Cardinal Basil Hume born at 4, Ellison Place
2. Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) engraver.
3. Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February 1783 Capability Brown landscape Architect
4. Dame Catherine Cookson, writer south Tyneside
5. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons anglo irish apprenticed at W Armstrong
6. Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey Viscount Howick Prime Minister Grey reform Act 1832
7. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire nee Spencer – the Duchess
8. Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire – daughter of lord Redesdale – youn
9. Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood Morpeth Estate
10. Sir Daniel Gooch, born Bedlington. Apprentice RS works Great Western Railway
11. Michael Longridge, owner Bedlington iron Works
12. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,novalist stayed with William Turner (founder Lit andPhil)
13. Emily Wilding Davidson, Suffragette from Morpeth
14. George Stephenson, Engineer, Wylam
15. Giuseppe Garibaldi one of founders of Italy, revolutionary stayed South Tyneside
16. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist
17. Emperor Hadrian Publius Aelius Hadrianus
18. Nancy Spain
19. John Wesley co founder of Methodism Came to Ncl Wesley Square Quayside
20. Grace Horsley Darling English lighthouse keeper's daughter rescue of Forfarshire
21. Jack Armstrong, Dof Northumberland piper worked Dinnington Colliery – Barnstormers.
22. John Dobson, Architect
23. Lord Eldon, William Scott, lord Chancellor eloped with Bessie Surtees
24. Robert Stephenson Engineer
25. Josephine Elizabeth Butler born Milfield, Social reformer
26. King Charles 1st imprisoned Newcastle for 9 months 1645
27. Lord Armstrong 1st Baron William George, Industrialist
28. Ove Arup, Architect, born Newcastle, Sydney Opera House.
29. Joseph Conrad, Novalist born in Ukraine –early career sailed between Lowestoft and Ncl.
30. John Knox, Scottish clergyman, leader Protestant reformation. 1550 preacher at St Nicholas church
