27 December 2020

PONTELAND LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY – QUIZ 2020 ANSWERS

 

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.)

13. 

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

 

 

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