Coquet and Coast Forum
Don't forget to check out our sister site: Amble and District

Go Back   Coquet and Coast Forum > Local History, Genealogy, People and Places > Amble and Hauxley

 We no longer use activation emails. Please allow 24h after sign up and your account should work
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 08-10-2012, 04:07 PM
janwhin janwhin is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Nr Eglingham
Posts: 1,377
Default Old Amble 1895

Morpeth Herald 20 April 1895: "Most places have old time associations, and Amble, though a comparatively new town, has a few. One of these is an old building on the Warkworth Road, and one of the commonest expressions in the local vocabulary is "Alang Warkworth Road past the Grennery". Originally intended for the storage of grain long before railways were in vogue, it has passed through many vicissitudes. First a granary, afterwards a dwelling house, a herring curing shed, a saw mill, and latterly a boat house. Lately it has been in a very dilapidated condition, and it is understood the stones are to be used to build villas at the Beal Bank. Thus one of the few old places in and around this modern town vanishes forever."
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 08-10-2012, 04:41 PM
Coquet's Avatar
Coquet Coquet is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Amble
Posts: 3,253
Default

This is probably the Acklington foundry warehouse ?
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 09-10-2012, 12:27 AM
brownknees brownknees is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: After a lifetime of globetrotting finally settled in Thailand in 2000
Posts: 76
Default Old building

Was it the building that was used for salvage items (paper/clothing/tin foil etc)in the late 1940s?
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 09-10-2012, 10:03 AM
Alan J. Alan J. is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Amble
Posts: 344
Default Salvage building on the braid.

This building had been part of the shipyard, I think it was the powerhouse. It was later, early 1960's, used for light engineering by Jackie Allan who was later Allans of Amble on the industrial estate.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 09-10-2012, 03:42 PM
janwhin janwhin is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Nr Eglingham
Posts: 1,377
Default Amble Grennary

I won't be going down the Amble/ Warkworth road any time soon but there is/was an old red pantiled stone building in the field half way along. I used to be told this was the oldest building around?
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 09-10-2012, 06:12 PM
Alan J. Alan J. is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Amble
Posts: 344
Default Pantiled biuildings.

There were in fact two of these buildings in the fields on the left side going to Warkworth, they were hemmels used by Jim Mossman who farmed that area.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 06:57 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.