Out & About Magazine (North East) September 2019 Edition 45

Your local interest & advertising magazine | September 2019 | Edition 45 Tow Law, Sunniside, Stanley Crook, Billy Row, Crook, Willington, Wolsingham & surrounding areas

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Years gone by - pages 8 & 14 • Crook Town ABA - page 12 • Horse with no tongue - page 16

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This month on page 6 we welcome P8 Works Ltd to Out & About Magazine, they are based in Willington at the Barton Townley Garage and specialise in car body and paint repairs. Also on page 6 we welcome back Weardale Buses who are advertising a number of holidays plus one day bus trips, all for a great price.

Monthly advert price 1/8 Page £25 1/4 Page £45

Local plumber Steven Norris is once again advertising a massive amount of special offers on his advert on page 7, he has everything from oil boiler servicing to designer radiators. Give him a call for all of your plumbing needs.

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On page 13 we have The North Point Hotel in Tow Law who are holding a Thai Buffet event on Sunday 29th September. The Thai Buffet is back by popular demand after a highly successful first event, book now to secure your place at only £15 per head.

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

Lastly on page 17 we have the Crook Golf Club Wedding Fayre which will be held on Sunday 13th October and will be packed with lots of fantastic local wedding suppliers. Ideal if you are planning a wedding. Don’t forget to quote Out & About when replying to adverts & lastly we hope you enjoy this month’s edition.

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Willington AFC Forthcoming Fixtures 07/09/19 3pm KO

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Carlisle City

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League Cup - Group F

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Newcastle University

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Tow Law Town

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League Cup - Group F

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Willington AFC clubhouse available for a wide variety of events including birthday parties, christenings etc...

Willington AFC 2019/20 season tickets • Free entry to all Northern League home games • Discounted merchandise £90 Adults • Free drink upon entry £60 Concessions

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The Travellers Rest Live entertainment every Saturday Night Open Mic Night - Friday 20th September 8pm Psychic Night - Friday 27th September • £5 entry Family & dog friendly pub with beer garden Weekly Pub Quiz coming soon Showing all major sport on BT & Sky Sports

The place to relax, unwind & enjoy

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EDINBURGH WEEKEND £81

The Park Hotel, Falkirk Saturday 30th November - Sunday 1st December Includes Dinner, Bed & Breakfast. This tour takes us to Edinburgh with European Market Stalls & many more attractions.

CHRISTMAS SPARKLE £476

(without Panto Tickets £454) The Cairn Hotel, Harrogate Monday 23rd - Friday 27th December Each year we wonder where to celebrate Christmas & each year our passengers say The Cairn Hotel. Includes 4 Nights, Lunch, Dinner, Bed & Breakfast. An excursion, a visit to Ripon Cathedral for Christmas Eucharist & a trip to the Pantominme.

MYSTERY TOUR EVERY SUNDAY £13.50

Saturday 14th September Harrogate Flower Show/Shopper £14.50 (Entry not included) Saturday 21st September Houghton Hall Garden Centre & Gretna Outlets £15.50 Saturday 5th October Blackpool Illuminations £17.00 (Leaving 10pm. No lights tour

Thursday 10th October Autumn Tints (Coffee & scone at Crooklands, Hotel, Lakes Tour) £18.50 Saturday 12th October Doncaster Market/Shopper £15.50 Thursday 24th October Heighleygate & Boundry Mill £14.00

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Years gone by...

Billy Row Club in the 1960s.

Photo supplied by Janet Charlton.

A Ramars party in the 1960s.

Photo supplied by Karen Conlon.

Taken in 1900 at his Crook studio, A very early example of Crook photographer James Fairclough’s work. the photo shows Crook Town with the FA Amateur Cup.

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? Email any old photos to: ads@outandaboutmagazinenortheast.co.uk or drop into Ritchie Coatsworth Photography, 80 Hope Street Crook.

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Weardale motor services is a family run business established in 1926 and are proud to operate a fleet of luxury coaches

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Monday: St. Cuthberts Centre, Church Hill, Crook: (BEGINNERS) 12 noon - 1pm & 6.15pm - 7.15pm Wednesday: Crook Cricket Club, Dawson Street: (BEGINNERS) 12pm - 1pm Thursday: Tow Law Community Centre, Ironworks Road: 10:30am - 11.15am

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Crook Masonic Hall 8:30am & 10:30am Tel: Angie 07713 859 151 5pm & 7pm Tel: Christine 07494 253 429 Wolsingham Methodist Church 9:30am, 5:30pm & 7:30pm Tel: Barbara 07931 790 758

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Lorna Moore Childminder • Open Monday to Friday from 7am until 6pm • Flexible part time & full time spaces • Government funded places available including, 2 years play & learn, 30 hours places & nursery education (subject to criteria) • Wrap around care available for children attending Crook primary • Home cooked healthy balanced meals including tea for those attending after school.

Ofsted inspection report January 2019 rated OUTSTANDING in all areas “Lorna and Beth create an environment that is full of fun and love amongst education and learning. Children learn a sense of their own responsibility and understanding towards others and the world around them. Lorna and Beth’s enthusiasm, exceptionally high level of care, flexibility and ability to provide a ‘home from home’ for my children allows me to go to work without worry.”

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Spotlight on Crook Town ABA. This month we shine the spotlight on Crook Town ABA, Christopher Pollitt answers our questions.

Hi Christopher, tell us a little bit about the Crook Town ABA. Crook Town ABA is a amateur boxing association that trains for Olympic style boxing.

We have varied ages and boxing skills at the gym, some at championship level and others on the GB squad training with the best of the boxers in the country. We also have a number of up and coming boxers ready to get in to the mix of things while we still have people coming down for fitness, helping to shape the body and mind while trying to be the best they can be.

I have been involved with Crook Town ABA for over 9 years now. The gym is at the Old Boy’s Club just next to the skate park and everyone is welcome to come down and try it out. I became involved with Crook Town ABA when we where still called West Durham. I started taking my kids there as I was friends with the head coach Brian Wright who himself was a professional boxer and the older brother of Nigel Wright former professional and English champion.

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What sort of age range is the club and what sort of competitions do you take part in?

In the gym we start from as young as 7 years old up to any age as long as you can manage the training. We take part in club shows as often as possible, boxing other kids from all-over, some as far as Brighton, Glasgow and Ipswich and then as close as our home show at the Belle Vue Working Men’s Club in Crook once a year.

What’s been some of your highlights over the years that you have been involved?

Some of the greatest achievements and highlights in the last few years of Crook Town Boxing would have to be when Arron Bramfit beat the Scottish Champion in his forth fight and also getting into the semifinals in the national championships. We also have three more North East champions Stevielee Vickers, Brendan Pearson and Lewis Owens. Stevielee and Brendan are both national runners up, there are so many more highs. All of the coaches are fully trained in boxing and child welfare plus we all are police checked.

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THE NORTH POINT HOTEL

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ONLY £15 PER HEAD

How can people get involved and what does it cost?

If people are interested they can contact us on our Facebook Page Crook Town ABA below for more information or just come right in on a Monday, Wednesday or a Friday from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. That only costs £2.50 or on a Sunday from 10:00am to 11:00am which costs £1.00. ​ Facebook - Crook Town ABA

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Years gone by...

Sunniside SC Juniors Football Club in the 194849 season. Photo supplied by Sheila Brown.

Oakenshaw Orchestral Band (Year unknown).

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by Robert (Bob) Lee.

the rear of uben Shaw at Hairdresser Re supplied by e ag Im . et re St Commercial .

Susan Gibson

Alderman Cape production of Pirates of Penzance 1973. Jean Parker (now Jean Hutchinson) front row third left. Image supplied

by David Parker.

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? Email any old photos to: ads@outandaboutmagazinenortheast.co.uk or drop into Ritchie Coatsworth Photography, 80 Hope Street Crook.

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An Outstanding School

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The Legend of the Horse with no tongue.

Story by Aaron Cowen

When I was young I can remember going to Durham with my Uncle and being told about the Horse with no tongue.

In the middle of Durham Market Place stands the well known statue of a horse with a rider on it’s back. The statue is that of Charles William Vane Tempest Stewart, 3rd Marquis of Londonderry born on 18th May 1778 in Dublin, Ireland. Charles fought as a soldier in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and in the Napoleonic Wars. He was also a politician and a nobleman, but was held in very low esteem by Queen Victoria.

His widow had the Londonderry Equestrian Statue installed on Durham Market which was unveiled in 1861 in a ceremony attended by Benjamin Disraeli.

The Statue was created by an English based Italian Sculptor by the name of Raffaele Monti.

He first married Lady Catherine Bligh, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Darnley to whom he had a son called Frederick who would later become the 4th Charles William Vane Tempest Stewart Marquis of Londonderry.

Catherine died in 1812 and Charles married Lady Frances Anne Vane-Tempest daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest who was an MP for the City of Durham and had inherited the Tempest Estates of County Durham, notably Wynyard and Brancepeth.

Charles went on to acquire Seaham Hall with the intention of opening up the Coalfields there. He also opened up Seaham Harbour to rival that of Sunderland. He commissioned Benjamin Wyatt to build a mansion at Wynyard Park. During its construction it was destroyed by fire and the architect who designed St. Catherine’s Church in Crook, Ignatius Bonomi was commissioned to complete it.

In 1823 he became Earl Vane and Viscount of Seaham. In 1842 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Durham and the following year Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards. In 1853, Queen Victoria finally made him a Knight of the Garter and he died a year later in 1854 at Londonderry House.

Today the base provides a carved inscription but note on the photograph taken in the late 1860s, there is none. When I was young the statue was a green colour from the copper material it is made from. In recent years they controversially moved and cleaned the statue to its current position to allow more space on the market place for events. Many complained they would only see the rear end of the horse rather than its head.

Monti utilised a new method for creating the statue. Using a plaster base that was covered by electroplating copper.

Legend has it however that Monti was so convinced that his work was perfect in every way said he would jump off one of the Durham bridges and commit suicide if anyone could find fault. Many came from far and wide to look for fault. But no one could find anything amiss. Until! A blind man came along. He was hoisted up to the statue to feel around the horse with his hands.

Placing his hands in the horse’s mouth, he had found a fault. The horse had no tongue.

Supposedly the sculptor, true to his word, took his own life. However Monti died in 1881 and not from suicide and the horse would appear from the Raffaele Monti ground to have a tongue.

In the 1950s however the Marquis did lose his head requiring restoration works.

Next they will tell us the Pink Panther doesn’t live in Durham, Durham, Durham, Durham, Durham!

Aaron is a keen amateur historian and one of the admins of the Crook Town and District History Group Facebook group.

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From party plates to party cups to party decorations and gifts, we hope you love our products as much as we do.

WEAR VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP TRIPS 2019 The Wear Valley Community Action Group are organising some trips over the next few months.

We only have 1 bus per trip so places are limited and sell out fast.

Kirkley Zoo Ponteland - Saturday 2nd November £2.50 per person. Seats available to book from Monday 9th September 2019.

York Christmas Shopping - Saturday 14th December £2.50 per person. Seats available to book from Monday 23rd September 2019.

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Pick up points: Willington, Stanley Crook, Billy Row, Crook Market Place, Howden-le-Wear, Cockton Hill Bishop Auckland, St. Helens and West Auckland.

For more information please contact Angela on 07396 244 862 Monday - Thursday 10am - 2pm.

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Sunday 13th October Crook Golf Club, Low Jobs Hill, Crook, 11:00am - 2.00pm Come and see a fine selection of local Wedding venders including...

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Celebrate and treasure an everlasting bond with your loved one.

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