Out & About Magazine (North East) November 2020 Edition 56

Your FREE local interest & advertising magazine • November 2020 • Edition 56 Tow Law, Sunniside, Stanley Crook, Billy Row, Crook, Willington, Wolsingham & surrounding areas

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Inside this month’s edition: Years gone by • Spotlight on Tesco in the Community

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Welcome to the November edition of Out & About, your friendly local interest & advertising magazine.

On page 7 we have Her’s & Sir’s Hair & Beauty who have recently added hair extension fitting & removal to their range of treatments & services which are available from their Tow Law salon.

This month we welcome Get Gorgeous to Out & About on page 13, where Vikki is offering 10% off all beauty & hair treatments from her Willington salon. The Blue Stone Tea Shop in Crook are advertising their Festive Lunches on page 15, make sure you book yours to avoid disappointment. If your PC or Mac is not running at it’s best check out page 16 where CS Computers of Hope Street, Crook are advertising their range of services, if they can’t fix it then it’s not worth fixing!

On page 18 we have Ritchie Coatsworth Photography who offer a range of design services as well as photography. They have recently purchased an embroidery machine so check them out for all of your workwear needs. Lastly on page 19 we have St. Cuthbert’s RC Primary School who have nursery and reception places available at their lovely school.

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BOOK YOUR ADVERTISING SPACE TODAY THE DEADLINE FOR THE DECEMBER EDITION IS SUNDAY 22ND NOVEMBER AT 4PM. No design fees if you don’t have your own artwork • Discounts on 3 month bookings • No VAT • Debit & credit cards can be taken in person at Ritchie Coatsworth Photography or over the telephone.

Please note: Payment is due at the time of booking.

Call us on 01388 417 337 or 07963 635 568 or email us at studio@rcphoto.co.uk DISCLAIMER - Whilst we take every care to ensure accuracy in this magazine, we regret that we cannot accept responsibility for any incorrect information. All adverts are accepted in good faith as to their accuracy. The copying of any material within this publication is strictly forbidden without the publishers consent.

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PAINTING & DECORATING SERVICES Experienced Decorator

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Call Alan on 0191 386 8534

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Crook Masonic Hall AM and PM sessions by prior booking only.

Tel: Christine 07494 253 429

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Wolsingham AM and PM sessions by prior booking only.

Tel: Barbara 07931 790 758

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We are very excited to announce we are now qualified in fitting and removing hair extensions using 5 different methods!!

Consultations are essential before any bookings are made, please call the salon for more information. Fittings start at £50.

Willington Working Men’s Club AM sessions by prior booking only.

Tel: Barbara 07931 790 758

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Monday 5pm - 7pm Gents Night (walk in haircuts) Tuesday 10am - 2pm Wednesday & Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 9am - Late & Saturday 9am - 3pm

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Years gone by...

Chris & Cliff Sayers with Mr Lerigo at the Durham County slow melody duet contest. Image supplied by Cliff Sayers.

Crook Town AFC Commitee with the 1964 Beauty Queen. Image supplied by Coral Humes.

Alf Wilson the butcher doing his rounds on Wooley Terrace. Image supplied by Evelyn Johnson.

50 years ago 3 lads from Bear Park married 3 lovely ladies from Crook. Image supplied by Malcolm Watts.

We URGENTLY need your old photos!!

We are running low on old photos of places & people from years gone by and would love to keep the feature going. Can you help? Due to the current social distancing measures we are unable to accept these in person for the time being.

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We can add a radiator to any cold room.

We can also replace your old kitchen sink.

We can replace your bathroom.

We also replace old oil tanks.

We can replace your old bath with a shower.

We also install all types of oil boilers.

We specialise in new bathroom & wetroom installations • Power flushing • Vented & unvented cylinders • Replacement of taps, cold water tanks, showers & ball valves.

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North-East based leading firm of chartered surveyors, land agents and estate agency has fulfilled its enterprising plan and moved to purpose-built premises in Darlington Auction Mart’s multi-million pound Humbleton Park site, situated on the A68.

Vickers & Barrass offers a professional land, estate agency and surveying services for residential, agricultural and commercial property across the region. The investment by Vickers & Barrass has seen the relocation of its Crook Estate agency operation and the consolidation of its current VICKERS seven strong team of sales negotiators, chartered surveyors and support staff from across the region who have all relocated as part of the move to Darlington.

and economic uncertainty post Brexit. He said “We are a local firm, employing local people and we’re delighted to be open at the new DFAM site.

Our expansion programme will serve us well as we continue to grow our regional footprint of our estate agency services across the county”.

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Adam Barrass, the company’s Managing Director and rural chartered surveyor, says that the expansion programme is a key investment for the 23 LOUVAIN TERRACE, firm, despite the backdrop of the globalCROOK pandemic OITRO - £179,950

market appraisal Theyour firm’sproperty existing Tow Law office has also on seen investment during lockdown, its been please call extended,Forster doubling office capacity and Edward continues to offer its services to the wider on 01325 728084

Vickers and Barrass offer a free market appraisal on properties across the region and if you are intersted please call Edward Forster on 01325 728 084 BECKWITH CLOSE, or the 8KIRK Tow Law office on 01388 730 095.

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Darlington Office Darlington Farmers Auction Mart, Humbleton Park, Darlington, DL2 2XX T: 01325 728084

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Spotlight on Tesco’s Community Champion This month as Tesco Bishop Auckland celebrates it’s 10th birthday we speak to their Community Champion and former Councillor John Bailey.

Hi John, as part of your role at Tesco you do lots of work in the Community, tell us a little bit about what your role involves.

Well my role as Community Champion is quite varied, in the community we support organisations, charities and schools, all in different ways. I often go along to schools and nurseries to provide products for their breakfast clubs as it is vital for children to have something to eat in the morning. We also hold coffee mornings at various community centres and help with any events which they carry out, they can apply to us for raffle prizes or gift vouchers.

Sometimes we also invite small groups for a tour of the store where we let the children know how and what we do with waste and where products come from. We also have invite various groups such as football teams, sporting clubs and various organisations like cubs and scouts to come into the store for bag packing. If you would like to apply to do this you would need to write in to myself and I sort out a date (obviously not at present due to covid).

How has Covid 19 affected what you do?

Covid has affected all activity at the front of store, as we have charity partnerships with BHF, Diabetes UK and Cancer Research we have tried our best to get round it. The Race for Life is sponsored by Tesco and since its start up until 2019 £40 million has been raised so we have done virtual events online this year. I’ve been going out into our community taking out various products and donations, the NHS has been one of the areas we concentrated on, as well as care homes and small hospitals. In the first month we delivered over £2000 worth of donations, we have donated and delivered food parcels, cookies, apple pies, sun cream, craft materials and made lots of food bank and family donations.

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What are you working on at the moment?

We have just carried out a food collection in store and have collected 12 large box trays, these will be distributed next week to local food banks, schools, families, community groups and others who will benefit from this collection. A huge thanks goes out to our generous customers and staff.

Last week Escomb School had an event for Mental Health Day where all of the children dressed in yellow and we provided 200 plus doughnuts. During the school holidays Hunwick Primary School are looking to help 17 families out in the community so we took 3 large boxes of donations to help with this. I will also be visiting a couple of nurseries with donations of craft materials and sun cream for the little ones and in amongst that I will be doing a couple of breakfast clubs for them. Things change week to week and if people would like to join our site, it is “John Bailey in Bishop Auckland Helping our Community” and you will see what we do in the community. Bags of Help has also recently returned where any group or organisation can apply and could receive £1000 funding for their organisation.

Over the years what has been your proudest achievement while in the role?

I think my best achievement or achievements is that

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certain feeling when you can and do help people.

There are so many different things you can do in this job. Raising £50 for something small to raising bigger amounts for other things. £50 to some groups can be a lifeline, you always get a great buzz when something comes together and that’s what it’s all about. We had a bag pack when little Mason Campion passed away, wow the community came together in droves and since then Mason’s family have gone on to help others. We had a day for Bradley Lowery where we released balloons and were overwhelmed by the support, sad days but good days as we had done something positive, our customers cannot be faulted they are such a fantastic generous bunch. During Christmas 2018

Watson Harrop set a food bank nomination away and wow a total of 29 tonne of food was donated to us, lots of work to distribute it but we did it and created around 36000 meals in our community, that was a proud moment. On another occasion on Christmas Eve in 2017 an 8 year old boy called Logan came into store with his savings of £100 and bought food for our pet food collection so we organised a day at an animal sanctuary for him. That was such a proud moment when a young child gives up his pocket money for others.

A similar thing happened during Christmas 2016 when 3 brothers from Bishop Auckland aged 8, 7 and 5 gave their pocket money up to buy food for people over Christmas which we took to Shildon Alive.

We are looking for groups or charities in the area that have been adversely affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic and would like to feature in the Spotlight for some free publicity. Email us at studio@rcphoto.co.uk

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Years gone by...

The Wooley Pit ponies enjoying some fresh air.

Image supplied by Evelyn Johnson.

Stanley United 1908-09. Image supplied by Evelyn Johnson.

Mrs Whitfield and her youngest son Keith outside Bobby Whitfield’s betting office in South Street, Crook (now Langley insurance).

Image supplied by Lynne Bainbridge.

Cooperative Terrace to the left and Mount Pleasant to the right with Alma Terrace in the distance. Image supplied by Evelyn Johnson.

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We are observing the 2 metre social distancing inside the tea shop & adhere to social contact restrictions & the rule of 6. There is a covered terrace outside with seating. If you have any concerns regarding distance & Covid 19 please discuss these with us.

Masks should be worn when entering, leaving & taking away.

All of our food is homemade Opening Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 9am - 4pm (Booking a table is recommended) Sunday Lunch 12 - 3pm (Booking essential) Sunday Lunch is available to book, to sit in or take out.

Our Take Away Menu is available on Facebook or please email us for a copy. Please ask about delivery for those shielding. FREE delivery in Crook.

RISE ARTISAN BREAD Please order by Friday for collection on Saturday after 11am.

DISABLED ACCESS • FREE WIFI • DOG FRIENDLY Restaurant GURU “Best Café in Crook 2019”

Festive Christmas Lunch (Booking essential)

Available to book on Thursdays and Fridays throughout December from 12 - 2:30pm.

If you have a special dietary request we will do our best to help.

Starter £5 • Main Course £15 • Pudding £5

Available to order for Christmas

Cheesecakes, Florentines, Quince Jelly, Assorted Large Cakes, Christmas Chutney, Christmas Scones, Salad Dressing and Christmas Hampers

We will be CLOSED from Thursday 24th December 2020 until Tuesday 5th January 2021

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Event Package £199 10 x A3 Posters, 20 x A4 Posters, 2 x A1 Poster and 5000 x A5 Flyers.

New Business Package £249 500 x Business Cards, 5000 x A5 Flyers, Logo design or a vector redraw and one month advertising in Out & About Magazine.

PERSONALISED Christmas Mugs £8 each

Vehicle Signage Small Van £125 • Transit Van £180 Large Iveco Type Van £220 Shop Header & Window Signage Prices start from £80

We now supply EMBROIDERY for all of your workwear needs!

Mug Printing £8 • T-Shirt Printing from £6.50 • Embroidery from £5 We can also print large format Canvases, Posters & Popup Banners.

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“PLATINUM AWARD for Outdoor Play and Learning”

“They offer a GOOD start to a child’s education” Ofsted

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“We open our hearts to welcome ALL children into our school family”

For every funeral plan taken out in November and December Hardy’s Funeral Service will donate £25 to The Royal British Legion.

For more details or to arrange an appointment please get in touch.

Crook 01388 765 069 www.hardysfunerals.co.uk Willington 01388 747 747