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Maternity Hospital was a 14-bed facility built in 1926, the first to be built by Northumberland County Council. It was closed in the 1970s and demolished by 1995.
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to ask if readers would consider donating musical instruments to the unemployed of the village. One member of the community had apparently made his own violin. The same year, a
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