Slaggyford

SLAGGYFORD is a hamlet, on the Alston and Haltwhistle road, with a station on the Alston branch of the North Eastern railway, about I mile south from the church, and 8 south-by-south-west from Haltwhistle Here is a small Wesleyan chapel, erected about 1856, and a good reading room

Slaggyford. Post &; T. Office, Slaggyford. Henry Park, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Carlisle at 8.45 a.m. ; dispatched, 6.20 p.m. ; no delivery on Sundays. AIston, 5 miles distant, is the nearest money order office Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.45 p.m

Railway Station, Slaggyford, Thomas Bell, station master

Lowes Mrs. Tamar

Armstrong Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeeper

Bell John Henry, farmer, Fell end

Bell William, joiner, see Edgar & Bell : Edgar & Bell, joiners

Henderson John N. boot & shoemaker

Lawson John Thomas, tailor

Park Henry, stationer, & temperance hotel, Post office

Raine William, farmer

Reading Room (William Edgar, hon. sec)

Ridley James Thirlwall & John Joseph. farmers

Tinniswood Jane (Miss), dressmaker, Island cottage