1890

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1890

Consett Public Park

The Northern Echo of 10th January 1890 reported on the work in progress on Consett Public Park. There is mention of an ornamental lake "if practicable". There was no record of such, however, in the newspaper reports when the park opened in 1891.

Consett public park - Preparations have just been commenced in real earnest by the Consett Iron Company for laying out and beautifying the plot of ground, 12 acres in extent, called Consett Public Park. For some time the park has been practically at a standstill so far as improvements are concerned, and Messrs Robson, nurserymen, of Hexham, have been commissioned to layout the landscape. It is understood that a very large number of young trees and shrubs - estimated between 30,000 and 40,000 – are to be planted, winding paths and carriage drives are to be formed, the ground is to be drained and trenched, and if practicable an ornamental lake excavated, besides other minor improvements carried into effect. Already half a dozen men are constantly at work, and it is expected that thirty others will be set on next week.

Queen Anne Sixpence

The Northern Weekly Gazette, on Saturday 5th July 1890, reported that a Queen Anne sixpence had been found.

A Queen Anne sixpence, dated 1708, was dug up in the laying out of Consett Park on Saturday last.

In Other News

On the same page as the Consett Public Park report, the Northern Echo reported on cases of hydrophobia (rabies) in Bradford.

It was only five years earlier, in July, 1885, that Louis Pasteur and his colleagues injected the first of 14 daily doses of rabbit spinal cord suspensions containing progressively inactivated rabies virus into 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been severely bitten by a rabid dog 2 days before. The immunization was successful; the Pasteur rabies immunization procedure was rapidly adopted throughout the world.

Hydrophobia in BradfordThe examination yesterday of the dog which, as reported on Tuesday, bit nearly a dozen people in Bradford, leaves no doubt as to its rabid condition, every sign of the disease being present. Efforts are being made to raise funds to send the persons attacked to Paris, to undergo Pasteur’s treatment.