![]() ![]() First there is our own world’s genius, George Stephenson, the inventor of the steam engine, looking with a kindly, yet business eye upon that quiet and humble genius, Isaac Jackson, displaying upon the table of the Fox & Hounds his model of the four eccentrics in an engine. The picture one is left to imagine is greatness in the making. ![]() The genial host of the Fox & Hounds was also a keeper of the law – a constable, and though the stories told to Mrs Taylor do not give one much concerning the kind of cases Mr Ramsey had to tackle in those days, they do reveal some interesting items concerning the celebrities and men of genius who used to assemble at the Fox, to be assured of the encouragement of its landlord. This noted house no longer stands, and in its stead, is erected modern stone-built villas. Ramsey, proprietor of the Fox & Hounds, which then stood in its snowy wilderness adjacent to the old schools and facing the Ovingham Road, which afterwards did service as a boarding school owned by Miss Watson. It was in a conversation about old Wylamers that we elicited the information that Mrs Taylor, Algernon Terrace, is a grand-daughter of the late Mr Robt. ![]() It was to an article in the Hexham Courant published 8th February 1919 (page 8, column 2), under the title, Wylam Notes & News – Links of the Past. Wylam historian, Philip R B Brooks, kindly provided me with the reference he had to the same story, from notes he had made a few years ago. War veterans singing send-off (September 2015) Heddon pupils celebrate British heritage (2011)Īuction of Bronze Statue, Close House (2012) Letter from the Emigrant Clergy of Frenchman's Row (1802)Īlleged Brutal Murder at Heddon-on-the-Wall (1876) ![]()
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