Qualla: Killingworth https://qualla.com/killingworth en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Killingworth https://qualla.com/killingworth Killingworth: Introduction https://qualla.com/killingworth/ In a colliery workshop behind a cottage on Lime Road, in the year 1814, a self-taught enginewright bolted together an iron contraption he called Blücher and watched it haul a load of coal up a hill. The world changed that afternoon, though nobody in Killingworth quite realized it yet. George Stephenson would go on to build the Rocket. He would build the railways that would weave Britain together and then the world. But the prototype, the proof of concept, the first working step into the railway age, happened here - in a colliery town north-east of Newcastle that locals still call simply 'Killy.'

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/c/killingworth-wp/gcyc-killingworth-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Killingworth: Before the New Town https://qualla.com/killingworth/ Killingworth's documentary history begins in 1242, when the land appears in records held by Roger de Merlay III. For centuries it remained a thin scatter of cottages and farms strung along a road, with Killingworth Moor - 1,800 acres of common land - stretching across the townshi...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/c/killingworth-wp/gcyc-killingworth-before-the-new-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Killingworth: Stephenson's Workshop https://qualla.com/killingworth/ The Killingworth Colliery was owned by Lord Ravensworth, and its Chief Viewer Ralph Dodds had a remarkable eye for talent. He trained or managed locomotive engineer George Stephenson, rack railway inventor John Blenkinsop, and Nicholas Wood, who would succeed him. With Wood's enc...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/c/killingworth-wp/gcyc-killingworth-stephensons-workshop.mp3 0:06 3 full Killingworth: The New Town https://qualla.com/killingworth/ Killingworth as most people know it today was built in the 1960s on reclaimed pit sites, the spoil heaps levelled and seeded, a fifteen-acre lake created where derelict workings had been. The estates were laid out as cul-de-sacs called Garths, all numbered - though Garths 1 throu...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/c/killingworth-wp/gcyc-killingworth-the-new-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Killingworth: Likely Lads and the Doctor https://qualla.com/killingworth/ Killingworth has had its share of screen time. The 1973 BBC sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? used a house on Agincourt in the Highfields estate as the home of Bob and Thelma Ferris. The architecture series Grundy's Wonders, presented by John Grundy, called the former ...

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