The North of England Temperance Festival Association held a two-day event on the Town Moor at Newcastle in 1882. The event attracting over 200,000 people and it became an annual event held on the last Friday of June each year. The Hoppings now covers about 28-30 acres and is reputed to be the largest traveling fairground in Europe.
A smallpox isolation hospital was built on Town Moor, Newcastle, in 1882. The building was divided into two units: the Smallpox Hospital, with 72 beds, and an Isolation Section with 100 beds. The early buildings were constructed of timber and corrugated iron.
In 1882 John James Fenwick purchased a doctor's house at 5 Northumberland Street in Newcastle. It cost him £181 and 4 shillings to convert the house into a shop, becoming one of Britain's first department stores, soon expanding along other properties on Northumberland Street. In 1891 Fenwick opened a second department store on New Bond Street, London; the first of many Fenwick department stores around the country.
There was a disaster at Trimdon Grange Colliery on the 16th February, 1882 when 74 men and boys were killed following an explosion. Firedamp (flammable gas found in coal mines) was ignited, probably caused by shot firing. Poisonous gases created by the explosion killed some of the would-be rescuers from the adjoining Kelloe Colliery. 44 of the victims were buried in a mass grave at Old Trimdon, 26 were buried at Kelloe, 1 at Croxdale, 1 at Cassop and 2 at Shadforth. There is a monument to the victims of the disaster at St Helen's Church in Kelloe.
Tynemouth Station opened on 7th July 1882. It was designed by William Bell for the North Eastern Railway Company (NER). This replaced an earlier station at Tynemouth, which was opened in 1847 for the Newcastle and Berwick Railway. It was a major mainline station used by both locals and the many holidaymakers who came to Tynemouth in the late Victorian era.
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