Out & About Magazine (North East) May 2018 Edition 29

Your local interest & advertising magazine | May 2018 | Edition 29 Tow Law, Sunniside, Stanley Crook, Billy Row, Crook, Willington, Wolsingham & surrounding areas

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

We have Crook’s newest business on page 17, Kesha’s Closet open their doors on 8th May and will be selling a range of baby and children’s clothing. Lastly on page 19 we have Crook Community Leisure who are holding their own music festival.

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Years gone by...

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Crook Town championship winning cricket team in 1951 featuring Jimmy Thexton. Sent in by Deborah Walker.

Dennis Garforth poses outside of Park & White Animal Feed at Crook. Image supplied by Keith Lonsda le.

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An old paper sweet bag from The Cabin in Crook, dated 1939.

Sent in by Harry Sewell.

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Crook Cholera epidemic 1853: Part 2 Story by Aaron Cowen

For those who missed the previous part, a quick recap. In 1853 the country was hit by an outbreak of Cholera....

Crook had previously been a hamlet and the houses had been thrown up, with little thought to sanitation. So Crook was very badly hit by the outbreak. On top of that, people did not fully understand how the disease spread. At the time they believed that it was due to the strong odours from neighbouring collieries. An inquest had been called for by certain members of the public who were obviously tired of living in these horrid conditions. However not all agreed that an inquest was even necessary. They believed that they had the issue in hand.

Thomas Webster Rammell was an engineer and was an inspector of the General Board of Health, but was probably best known for establishing an underground tube network Thomas Webster Rammell in Central London.

Rammell visited the Mechanics Institute in Crook in December 1853 to hold an inquest into the conditions present at Crook.

Joseph Cowen a shopkeeper of Crook (and my 4 x Great Uncle) along with Mr Thomas Hall a farmer of Mown Meadows felt that the provisions of the Health of Towns Act were inapplicable to the circumstances of Crook village. To apply the act would cause considerable expense, difficulty and trouble to the inhabitants of Crook. Dr. James G. Nichol and Mr. Thomas Elliot (Guardian) believed that the sanitary state of the village could be resolved by simply removing any nuisance. They were determined to resist by every possible means the adoption of the Health of Towns Act in the township.

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Mr. W. Trotter felt that the feelings of inhabitants of the village must be taken into consideration. Dr. Nichol then began to attempt to pull the act apart.

He asked was the act not coming to an end. When he was told it was a permanent act he stated that Sir William Molesworth had condemned the act.

Rammell responded with, “Molesworth had only said one or two amendments should be made to the act”.

Dr. Nichol then asked about Croydon and suggested Commissioners sent there had also condemned the act. Rammel stated that he believed Dr. Nichol to be under a misapprehension.

Dr. Nichol continued to argue, bringing up costs applied in Durham and Barnard Castle. A voter got annoyed and said that Nichol should, “confine himself to this locality as he was wasting time”.

The Rev. William Sandford said the condition of Crook compared to a few months ago was much improved. There were many nuisances and the drainage and sewerage had been bad. But now drains had since been made under the Nuisance Removal Act. Mr. John Kellet (who was a builder and known as the man who built Crook) said much of the drains had been laid by voluntary work since the inhabitants were so fed up of the place. However the work could not be considered permanent.

Kellet said that no drains had been put in at the public’s expense, except those temporary ones put in since Cholera made its appearance. One was being put in from the foot of Willans house to meet the Mill Stream near Mr. Sandfords (now the Dentists on Mill Street.). This would drain around 30 to 40 houses. Another drain would run down the main street (probably Church Street) opposite the churchyard corner but not under the churchyard. Another drain goes from Bell’s corner, down to Grays buildings and empties itself into Crook Green. There was also a drain continuing where Mr. Hall’s shop was being built, but there

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were no public drains except those put in recently.

Parties building houses generally put in a drain to suit their own purpose but these were all inadequate for purpose. No drainage existed in the Village for privies or ash-pits. There was no general system of water supply. The inhabitants procured their water from a well 300 or 400 yards away called Holmes’ well (Likely at the Holmes along Arthur Street). Pumps were also used. Though there were several wells, only one was public and the purity of this water was very doubtful. One of the ratepayers interrupted stating that the well could only serve 3 families. No one had drawn water from it for tea for 10 years. Very few of the cottages were connected with springs. Water was scarce and the well on the green was very bad.

The water here was what drained from the surface.

Many people travelled half a mile out of the village for water. When the wells ran dry, for washing purposes the Mill Dam was used or the Bitchburn (the Beck) in Summer as it received all the water from the collieries North of Crook.

Grahamesley. A colliery in White Lea would also soon be in operation. He again mentioned Holmes Well stating that water was plentiful, however the quality was poor. Impurities of all kinds kept coming down the Beck and lodging in the Mill Dam. The previous Sunday there were 4 carcasses of dead animals lying in the beck. Mr. Wilson supplied around 50 families principally from the eastern part of the town. Mr. J. Marley, a Mining Engineer from Bishop Auckland said this was not likely to be continuous as it came from the top seam of coal which over the next couple of years would be worked and therefore drained. There were apparently two streams which could be used. One at Stanley Pastures and one at Mr. Hall’s Well (Mown Meadows). Mr. Wilson suggested a reservoir could be constructed.

Something which eventually happened in 1855 near to Mown Meadows Farm.

Mr. Joseph Cowen, grocer, was next examined.

He said he owned 20 houses in the town. He had a pump which supplied 20 families but it was very short in the summer. He joked that he had never known it to run dry, but he had known it to be pumped out. To sink a well cost £3.10s and they were only 8 feet deep. There were 7 privies to these 20 houses. The privies were open to the fields and the farmers took away the soil which they kept for their trouble. The houses had no ash-pits. (I believe these houses to have been around Commercial Street).

The Rev. William Sandford stated that there was one burial ground of an acre and a half in Crook which opened in 1843, but would only last another 2 years.

Mr. William Robinson, tailor, was then examined.

“There is a Mr Grey who has 6 houses, and I live in 1 of them”, said Mr Robinson. “There is only 1 privy to 6 houses and at times it is in such a bad state with so many people going to it”.

Mr. William Calvert Wilson, coal agent, was examined. He explained that there were 3 collieries currently in operation. Roddymoor, Woodifield and

Dr. John Winship said that he had 6 cases of Cholera in Helmington Row and 1 in Crook with a dozen in total. He had not known many epidemics in the area although some cases of Scarlatina, which was common. In 1849 apparently there was an epidemic of Smallpox.

At the end of the enquiry it was noted that there were some influential figures linked to the town who could resolve the matter in the area if an appropriate board was set up. It appears that our first public sewers and sanitation were created following this Cholera Epidemic with the help of the local colliery owners such as Bolckow Vaughn and Joseph Pease.

Aaron is a keen amateur historian and one of the admins of the Crook Town and District History Group Facebook group, he is also Chairman of the Empire Electric Palace group.

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The Welfare Story by Ritchie Coatsworth

Whenever I drive past the welfare at Stanley I’m always filled with a hint of sadness, as for me this will always be somewhere that fantastic memories were made.

The welfare football pitch is long forgotten and overgrown with weeds, and foot high grass now covers the once busy football pitch that children of all ages from all over Stanley would gather to play on during the long Summer nights. Many a Sunday league career was started on that pitch.

I’m pretty sure that newer residents of Stanley don’t even realise what used to be there.

today.

The welfare as it stands

We would spend hours down the welfare playing teams, penalties, knock-out, volleys, crossing etc… anything that involved a ball. We’d often play over there until it was too dark to be able to see properly or at least that was the excuse I would give as another goal sailed past me in the dimming light.

Although the welfare football pitch was practically flooded for maybe 6 months of the year I always got a massive buzz playing on that pitch as it always seemed huge compared to a school pitch and I always loved the way that as you hit the ground in the wet you slid across the cold waterlogged grass. The Saturday’s that Billy Row were at home in the Crook & District league were always special as they would put the nets up at around 11am meaning that we 12

would get maybe an hour playing with proper nets. More often than not we would watch Billy Row play there then head over to Stanley United to take in their Vaux Wearside game.

At the top of the welfare there was the BMX track, sadly this is also completely overgrown and no longer in use. I remember one warm day in the 1980s when there was a huge BMX tournament or something similar being held there and most of Stanley School went down to watch the day’s proceedings as some pupils were in the competition. At the time to a small boy it seemed that the Olympics had come to town. I can’t remember that large of an event ever running again but it certainly can’t now.

Hopefully in the future something could be done with the welfare so that the children of Stanley can enjoy it as much as I did when I was young.

ts during Tyres for goalpos of 1995. the close season waterlogged The welfare in it’s glory in 1995.

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Spotlight on Byker Bear.

This month we shine the spotlight on Byker Bear of The Chyrelle Addams Cancer Support Trust who you may of seen around Crook over the past few months.

Tell us a little bit about Byker Bear for those that haven’t seen him…

Byker Bear is The Chyrelle Addams Cancer Support Trust charity mascot (based in Royal Corner, Crook). He is becoming quite a celebrity around the area making public appearances with the likes of Police Interceptors, Jet2 and the local Fire Service.

In order to raise money for The Chyrelle Addams Cancer Support Trust, 3 kind hearted local lads Trevor Atkinson, Tony Hurworth and Steve Armstrong are off on a European challenge to visit 30 countries in 13 days on motor bikes along with Byker Bear.

The Quest will begin on Sunday 3rd June and a picture of Byker Bear will be taken in each country and posted onto Facebook. So if you’d like to keep updated on Byker Bear’s European adventure than you need to add him as a friend on Facebook. Donations can be made via the The Chyrelle Addams Cancer Support Trust website www.chyrelleaddams.co.uk

The Crimdon Dene holi day home.

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What are you hoping to spend the sponsor money on and how much do you hope to raise?

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We have just Police Interceptor upgraded our Holiday Home for Cancer Patients that is sited at Crimdon Dene near Hartlepool and desperately need funds to enable us to ensure a long term commitment to this highly successful project. We send patients off for a break to help them cope with the effects of gruelling Cancer treatments. We also provide an opportunity for terminally ill patients to have a last holiday, spending quality time with loved ones and to make some very precious memories. We hope to raise about £5,000 from the European Challenge, this will allow us to pay all the fees and be able to maintain the home for at least the next year, the ground fees alone are £4,000 per anum.

What’s going on at the at The Chyrelle Addams Centre at the moment?

In the centre at the moment we have a room dedicated to prom and bridalwear, there’s our well established shop, chat room and complimentary therapy room for cancer patients and on a Monday we have our craft afternoons. The craft classes consist of sugar craft and cake decorating plus paper craft and card classes, these are on from 1pm till 3:30pm and are only £5 per class which includes all materials and refreshments. The 1st class is FREE. Why not pop down and give it ago?

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Happy Birthday St. Andrew’s Dawson Street 2018 is the 150th birthday of the building now known as St. Andrew’s Dawson Street Church Crook. It has previously been called Dawson Street Methodist Chapel and in the 60s Central Methodist Church. To celebrate 150 years of Christian presence in the town we need you. Anyone who has been to the premises over the years for baptisms, to the Sunday school, youth club, boys club, choir, 18

women’s meetings, guides, brownies, weddings or family funerals we want your memories, memorabilia and photos. We are having various events this year but the main celebration is from 15th - 17th June when we are holding a flower festival with hopefully a display of photos and a memory board. If you wish to contribute a memory or photo please contact Dorothy on 07720 287 739 for more information.

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