Wooler, Northumberland - Happy Valley RP local pmk 1939

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Happy Valley, Wooler, Northumberland - real photo type
• Publisher:  none given but numbered 709
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 1d red.
• Postmark(s):  Wooler 5 June 1939 cds
• Sent to:  Mr & Mrs. J. Gibson, Viewfield, Fenwick, near Kilmarnock
• Notes / condition: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Wooler (pron.: /'w?l?r/ WUUL-?r) is a small town in Northumberland, England. It lies on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, by the Cheviot Hills and so is a popular base for walkers and is referred to as the ""Gateway to the Cheviots"". As well as many shops and pubs, the town boasts a youth hostel, many hotels and campsites. It lies on the St. Cuthbert's Way long distance trail between Melrose Abbey and Lindisfarne.

The main A697 runs by the town linking Morpeth to Coldstream on the Scottish Border. Wooler contains two schools; Wooler First School and Glendale Middle School. Noel Hodgson, the author of Below Flodden and Dancing Over Cheviot, two Northumbrian poem books, lived and taught at Glendale Middle School.

Close by is Yeavering Bell crowned by a large iron-age fort, a stronghold of the Votadini.

Wooler was not recorded in the Domesday Book, because when the book was written in 1086, northern Northumbria was not under Norman control. However, by 1107, at the time of the creation of the 1st Baron of Wooler, the settlement was described as ""situated in an ill-cultivated country under the influence of vast mountains, from whence it is subject to impetuous rains"". Wooler subsequently enjoyed a period of prosperity and with its expansion it was granted a licence in 1199 to hold a market every Thursday. The St. Mary Magdalene Hospital was established around 1288.

Wooler is close to Humbleton Hill the site of a severe Scottish defeat at the hands of Harry Hotspur in 1402. This battle is referred to at the beginning of William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 – of which Hotspur is the dashing hero.

Wooler also used to have a drill hall that used to be the local ""picture house"" that children were evacuated to in World War II. There also used to be a fountain situated at the top of Church Street in the town.^[2]

Alexander Dalziel of Wooler (1781–1832) was the father of the celebrated Dalziel Brothers. Seven of his eight sons were artists, and became celebrated engravers in London.^[3] Their sister Margaret was also an engraver.

Between 1887 and 1965 the town was served by Wooler railway station on the Alnwick to Cornhill Branch.

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=northumberland

number of items=single

period=inter-war (1918 - 1939)

postage condition=posted