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Friday 1st July 2011Shildon & District Town Crier Issue 517

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The Bishop Auckland and Shildon Area Action Part-nership (AAP) scored a goal with football loving youngsters by providing funding to enable coaching sessions to continue.Shildon Junior League provides coaches and league games for children aged between five and sixteen in Shildon and

Members of Shildon Junior League, who meet on a Saturday morning.

the surrounding area on Saturday mornings in Hackworth Park.The AAP, together with councillors David Hancock and Garry Huntington, awarded £3,500 from the small grants fund and neighbourhood budget.The funding has enabled more than 100 young people to take part in a 10

week football programme within Shildon. Elaine Jennings, from Shildon Junior Football League, said, “This funding has enabled the young people to be part of a team, gain valuable experience in sport along with the physical benefits, but most of all have a fun time with their families.“The league is extremely grateful to receive this funding, without which the activity could not be run.”Alan Boddy, chair of the task and finish group for the AAP, said, “The AAP is committed to supporting projects of this nature, which have such a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of children and young people in our community.“It is also as important that we recognise and value the incredible commitment of the volunteers involved.”For more information about the Shildon Junior League, contact Elaine Jennings on 07854 814 546.Bishop Auckland and Shildon Area Action Part-nership is one of 14 set up by Durham County Council in 2009.

The Maternity Ward at Bishop Auckland Hospital is to close its doors for two months due to a shortage of qualified midwives.Expectant mothers who have planned to give birth at the hospital next month will have little time to make new arrange-ments, as the unit will be closed from 2nd July and will not reopen until 5th September.Parents have been told that they must now choose to have their babies at either Darlington Memorial Hospital or the University Hospital of North Durham during this time.Representatives of Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the maternity ward, say that the closure is due to a combination of staff on long term-sickness or leaving the hospital to work elsewhere.Although new midwives

are currently being recruited, they won’t be available to work until early September, and bosses feel that it would be unsafe to keep the ward open while it is un-derstaffed. Durham County Council’s Adults Wellbeing and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee is to raise concerns about the closure.Cllr Robin Todd chair of the scrutiny committee said, “Members have considered these proposals and identified a number of concerns and we need reassurance and guarantees.“The biggest concern is communities not having a service close by for a set period of time and the effect this will have on expectant mothers.”The Overview and Scrutiny Committee will write to the trust to let them know of their concerns.

Temporary closure of maternity ward

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Friday 1st July 2011 Shildon & District Town CrierIssue 517

Birthday Memories Birthdays Anniversaries Congratulations For Sale

ClassifiedsAll about local people...

Town Crier Shildon & District

Frank Ingram

With love from all your loving family

Happy 96th Birthday DadYour 1st away from home

Gone but not forgotten

4th July

Birthdays

Christopher Alderson

Lots of love,Mammy & Daddy

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Happy 2nd Birthday!!

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Love Nana, Grandad & Auntie Becca!

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Happy 2nd Birthday

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13thHappy Birthday Reid

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2nd JulyHappy Birthday ReidCongratulations on

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Happy 92nd Birthday Mam1st July

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Love from Alan, Robert, Sky & family

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Happy 40th Birthday Carol(Boddy) 27th June

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Love from Auntie Shelley, Mark, Thomas, Lucas & Ellis

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27th JuneHappy 18th Birthday

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Acknowledgements

GoddardJoyce and family of the late Harry wish to express their sincere thanks to relatives, friends and neighbours for

the kindness shown to them during their recent sad bereavement.

Also for the many cards and floral tributes received.Thanks to Holly Lodge

Nursing Home for the care they gave Harry, also to

Rev Kalus for a wonderful service and to Christine

Dowson and staff of Co-op Funeralcare for the funeral

arrangements.

Audrey & Ray Simpson

Audreyxx

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For my wonderful Husband and friend, with love on our 30th Wedding Anniversary

Audrey & RayCongratulations on your

Pearl Anniversary on 4th July

With love from Helen

Many congratulations Mum & Dad on your

30th Wedding Anniversary on 4th July

With all our love, Hayley, Andrew & Jonny

Audrey & Ray Simpson

Good Luck

Dean Grindley

Love and pride always,Mam & Dad

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On Friday 24th June staff at Redworth House Care Home on Byerley Road held a Mad Hatters Tea Party for their residents. The Mayor of Shildon,

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Susan North, of Albion Avenue, Shildon, appeared before magistrates at Newton Aycliffe recently, facing a charge of burglary and theft. The 52 year-old pleaded not guilty, electing for trial at Crown Court and will now return to the court on

17th August for committal proceedings. It is alleged that the defendant entered a house in Osborne Terrace, Leeholme and stole a tin containing £570 belonging to a Mr. Young, who had gone out leaving the door unlocked.

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Vintage Vehicles, Shildon’s lorry museum on Dabble Duck Industrial Estate, is to hold its annual Steam Weekend on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th July.visitors will be able to see a selection of steam engines, from full size steam rollers to miniature traction engines.

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Funding is music to the ears of a group of youngsters set to benefit from The Bishop Auckland and Shildon Area Action Partnership. (AAP)A Shildon toddler group has been granted funding from Youth Music to enable them to benefit from visits from The Sage Gateshead’s early years team.Additional funding of £952 from the AAP will pay for music sacks which will encourage children to find a love of music whilst developing skills and increasing musical op-portunities available in the local area.The project will run until January next year and will benefit St John’s

Toddler group which meets in St John’s Church Hall in Shildon, as well as Leeholme Toddler Group which meets in Leeholme Community Centre.Alan Boddy, Activities for Children and Young People Task and Finish Group lead, said, “Engaging young people at such an early age with music is a fantastic idea, one which the AAP fully endorses.”Durham Sub-committee of the Pre-school Learning Alliance was successful in gaining £30,000 of funding from Youth Music to support toddler groups in the area.Janine Jackson senior development worker with

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Shildon Library exhibitionAn exhibition of photographs from Bishop Auckland Pho-tographic Society is on show in Shildon Library until the end of June. There is also a display of beautiful handmade jewellery on show until the end of July. If you are a member of a local group or society and would like to put on

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Community cleans up with loan equipment schemeShildon Children and Young People’s Action Network (SCYPAN) have secured funding from Bishop Auckland and Shildon AAP to introduce an innovative loan scheme into the local community.Special kits will be purchased to be loaned to the community for bulb planting and litter clearing exercises. The kits, containing litter pickers, rigger gloves, high visibility vests and storage bags, will provide a hands-on learning opportunity and encourage responsibility and pride in the local community. A Public Announce-ment system will also be purchased, to be loaned out to youth clubs, outdoor

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Dear Editor,

I bet the person who owns the cockerel on the allotments out the back of Braithwaite Street does not get woken up by it just after 4am every morning!!

Cannot even sleep with my window open on warm nights at present....not that having it closed would drown out the noise of it!!

From a Braithwaite Street resident.Name withheld on request.

Dear Editor,

Reading The Town Crier made me realise that it is 35 years since I left Shildon. Birthday notices for Elaine Anderson and Robin Hacker's dads brought that statistic to the fore.

It was way back in 1976 that I left Shildon County Junior Mixed, in which I was class mates with Elaine and Robin. How time flies, but Shildon and the class of 1976 is always close to my heart.

I even remember daft things like when our class went to Stubb House, Robin tried to convince us that the jam was caviar. I still regularly visit Shildon and every time I'm there I trace back all my happy memories and always hope I bump into old class mates such as Elaine, Robin, David Peareth, Christine Parker, Mandy Bolton, Mark Robertson, Andrew Vasey, David Brown, Andrew Smith, Kevin Snowden,I an Storey, Dawn Spence, Philip Rowley. I could on for ever. I also have to mention Mr Denham who coached me for the football team.

Sadly places like Jacques, Elliots and the Friday Market are no longer part of the town. I still remember the kipper heads (with the eyes still in) staring at me on my way home to Lime Grove/Jubilee Road.

I still come down and see Shildon play, which means getting the train down at 7am on a Saturday morning from Scotland. As a kid my greatest moment was seeing the team win the Durham Challenge cup and, in recent years, I actually saw them get to the first round proper of the FA Cup for the first time in my lifetime. Seeing Shildon's name come out of the hat on the television at Dean Street made me feel so proud of being a Shildon lad.

1975 (the year prior to moving back to Scotland) was also a big year for the town, and I remember our class writing songs which were published. ‘Shildon Shildon Happy Old Shildon’ was my ditty. ‘Shildon is a windy place’ was the winning song, however.

We had the Queen Mum visit, and to this day I still put people right by telling them that the first passenger train started at Shildon and not Darlington. I still have my Royal George/Timothy Hackworth mug which Dufay Paints gave us all.

The class of 76 will be 46/47 now. It would be great hearing how some of them are doing and to share a vodka and umbongo with some of them on my next visits. Could you maybe publish my email address in the event that any of them would like to catch up?

Thank YouGraham [email protected]

Dear Editor,

I wish to express my disappointment at the way in which the Peppa Pig visit at the Locomotion was ran.

I arrived at 1.30pm with my daughter and stood in a queue outside, which then eventually moved slowly towards the inside of the museum, which went ¾ of the way up. A member of staff came to tell us that we could stay in the queue if we wanted but probably won’t get the chance for a photo as they were going in the half hour. We waited and then suddenly without any notice Peppa and George left, leaving loads of children deeply upset that they stood for nearly 2-3 hours without seeing what they went for.

I have to say the way in which it was organised was absolutely terrible and they can’t say that they weren’t expecting that many people as it was a nice day and children love peppa.

They would have done better as a pre-booked time slots for people, like they do for the Santa visit. That way they wouldn’t have had all those disappointed children, and that way they would have been able to handle the amount of visitors as they would have known numbers before hand. I am sure I ain’t the only parent with a disappointed child!

Name and address witheld on request.

Dear Editor,

“Shildon Corps was long thought to be officially opened in June 1911, although there is a quote from "The Salvationist" of June 1879 confirming the "opening of New Shildon on Sunday, May 4th 1879", and the appointment in The War Cry, dated December 27th, 1879, of the first officers at Shildon Corps now listed as Old Shildon and New Shildon, Sarah Caswell and Ann Copeley." (A brief history of Shildon salvation Army - Ken Smith 1995). So we missed our first centenary! The corps chose to celebrate the centenary of the 1911 opening of the corps by hosting, over the weekend, a community fun day in recognition of its work in the community with approximately 250 - 300 attending.This was followed by a corps fellowship meal held in the "Locomotion" NRM - recognising the close links with the town’s railway heritage. Special guests for the weekend were Lt.Col. Bill & Gill Heeley who, some thirty years ago, were the Commanding Officers at the corps.Sunday morning worship recognised not only the "birthday" of the corps but of the church, and a "Celebration" meeting included the band, songsters, singing company and timbrels participating with former members joining in.Individual items were also presented by present and former corps members as was a specially composed Band march entitled "Celestial Railway", (incorporating choruses and tunes based on railways), by Bandmaster Kenneth Smith and his brother Deputy Songster Leader Chris Smith. We would like to thank all tose who were involved and helped out in any way to celebrate this milestone in our history. It was a God glorifying weekend - we praise Him and thank Him for His faithful-ness and look forward to what is to come. Many thanksMajor Linda Watson

Dear Editor,

On Sunday I visited the Railway Museum along with my family and three little grandsons.

After standing for one and a half hours we had to come away disappointed at not seeing Pepper Pig and George. It was a complete shambles. I am sure I am not the only one that thought so.

From a very disappointed grandparent,Joyce SnellShildon

Dear Editor,

This year Magistracy celebrates 650 years in office. To mark this historic event two local schools are par-ticipating in a mock trial dating back to the year 1361.

The script has been compiled by one of our legal clerks and the sentence/punishment for the child is throwing apples at the defendant who is placed in the stocks, (the apples are to be replaced with sponges). This would be a memorable event for the schools. Timothy Hackworth School will be participating on Wednesday July 6th from approx 10am, starting with the trial followed by the punishment at approx. 11am, which will take place in the school yard. Thornhill Primary School has yet to confirm when their mock trial will be taking place.

Olga D. Bainbridge JP RGN SCM NDN certMIC (Magistrates in the Community) Coordinator South Durham


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Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon will welcome vintage and classic tractors and stationary engines of all descriptions to the Vintage & Classic Tractor Rally on Sunday July 10th.There will be a range of vehicles on display, including a Ferguson TEA-20 from 1948. This TEA-20 is one of the earliest examples, manufactured in January 1948, just a month after the prototypes were first tested.If you own a classic or vintage tractor or stationary engine, there’s still time to get involved. The event is open to ag-ricultural and construc-tion machinery of all descriptions – from small stationary engines tradi-tionally used to drive hand

tools; to larger ploughing engines, traction engines, and traditional tractors.Sharon Thorburn, the museum’s Front of House Officer, said, “Locomotion celebrates the region’s railway heritage, and our collection includes an impressive display of loco-motives. “But some of the technology used in steam locomotives was also used by stationary engines and the earliest tractors. We hope that our Vintage Tractors Rally gives visitors the chance to learn more about these powerful machines.”If you’d like to register your vehicle for the event, contact Pam Porter, Events Officer, by telephone on 01388 771445 or by emailing [email protected].

Close encounters of the bird kind

The New Shildon All Saints Baden Powell Scout Group were enthralled by a visit from birds of prey last Friday evening at their meeting held in the Mission Hall in New Shildon. The Gosling Raptors brought along birds and told the scouts details of their lifestyles, diets, habitats and how they are cared for. The Beavers were quite alarmed to find out that

some of the larger birds would think of the smaller birds as prey – and would attack and eat them if the handlers didn’t keep them apart!All of the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts that wanted to could handle Clyde the barn owl. The leaders were also very keen to handle the birds, with the scout leader taking the opportunity to hold Storm, a common

buzzard and a formidable bird of prey. Zeus the European Owl, and Sprite, a young Eagle Owl, were also introduced to the group and many photograph opportunities were taken as souvenirs.If you are interested in joining the group the Beavers can be contacted on 07587 961 271 or if birds of prey interest you then you can contact the Gosling Raptors on 07855 371 661.

Classic tractor rally at Locomotion

The Baden Powell Scout Group with an owl from the Gosling Raptors.

PACT MeetingsThe next meeting of the Police and Communities Together for all of Shildon will be on Thursday 7th July from 6.30pm at the Jubilee Fields Community Centre.The Pact meeting for

Middridge will be held on Monday 4th July at 6pm in the Village Hall. This is a special meeting where the big subject for the evening will be traffic speeding through the

village. The meeting will give villagers an oppor-tunity to put their views direct to Inspector Andrew Neil, who will be attending especially to answer questions.

Village FeteMiddridge Village Fete will take place on the village green on Saturday 2nd July 2011 starting at 1 30pm. There will be the usual

array of stalls and the music will be provided by the Aycliffe and Brancepeth Brass Band. The Mutt of Middridge will be selected

at the dog show which starts at 2 15pm. “Why not come down and join in and have a good time” said a spokesperson.

The Nifty Fifties are holding a Faith Lunch in the Welcome Rooms at the Locomotion Museum on Wednesday 6th July, from

Faith lunch11.30am till 1.30pm. “Could anyone attending please bring along a food contribution for all to share,” asked a member.

Rock ‘n’ roll weddingA former Shildon lad and Town Crier employee is hoping to win the wedding of his dreams after entering a radio competition. Twenty four year-old Peter Batten and his fiancé Laura Cooke have reached the final ten couple’s in the Rock Radio contest.Peter, who recently moved to Manchester but previously lived in Windsor Gardens in Shildon, said, “We just moved to Swinton into our

first apartment - starting our new life in a new place, new jobs, new everything... This is a once in a life time opportunity to have a wedding we will never afford.”The winners will par-ticipate in the Rock Royal Wedding on Thursday August 4th at Manchester Museum.To vote for Peter and Laura, simply text “couple 3” to 87711 by noon on Monday

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Good night had by allThe Grey Horse Over 40s held their Presentation Night on Saturday 25th June.Team secretary Dave Bulleyment opened pro-ceedings with the fantastic news that Barrier Energy from Shildon had agreed to sponsor the team for the 2011-2012 season. As well as hopefully playing well, the team will be looking good in a new set of strips.The presentation night was a great success with most of the team, officials and their partners and friends attending. “A big thanks goes out to

the young lads of the band "Audio Ignition" for keeping us all entertained,” said a spokesperson.Two trophies were up for grabs. The first was Player of the Season. This is awarded to the player with the most man-of-the-match awards over the season and was won by john Myers (Scouse).The second is Players’ Player and is voted for by team mates. This went to Kev Costello who, since moving into defence, has found his niche, always gives 100% and is not afraid to go in hard.

Etherley hosted Shildon in the Under 13’s latest match.Etherley batted first and scored 15 runs for the loss of 15 wickets, which when converted made 95 for the loss of 15 wickets. It was a magnificent performance from the youngsters, with many of them turning in career-best figures. Special mentions to C. Witton for a top-class wicket-keeping display

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It was a very disappointing week for the Town Bowls League Teams with none of the teams managing a win.The Vets team played despite heavy rain only to loose 2-6 at home to Newton Hall.The Men's team enter-tained a very strong

Bronze for BoyekShildon’s own double north-east middle distance champion Cameron Boyek took bronze in the Under 20s 1500m in the UK Cham-pionships last Sunday.Despite being younger than most of his peers, the

17 year-old ran a time of 3min 47.46secs, finishing behind only Jonathan hay and Charlie Grice. He clipped almost a full two seconds off his personal best time to boot.

“He was in tears though when he went up to collect his award so he's a big softy really,” said an onlooker.Flowers were presented to Susan and Lucy from the pub for putting up with the rowdy bunch who quite often forget to go home after games.There was also special mention to previous manager Marty Joyce and current manager Dougie Grant and his assistant Kev Wild for their combined efforts over what turned out to be another successful season for the over 40s.

Railway Athletic B team and lost 1-4, however it was a close game with only 5 shots the difference. The Ladies’ game was even closer as they played top team Hundens and drew 2-2 with only 2 shots being the difference. In the South West Durham mixed league it was a 2-8

taking three catches and R. Huntingdon with a career best of 5-1, C. O’Leary, 3-2 and S. Tonge, 3-4.The Railwaymen put on a disciplined batting perfor-mance with a number of the side retiring undefeated, with Morgan Claydon being the stand-out batsman scoring 18 not out. Shildon lost 6 wickets in reply which equated to 205-6 wickets. Shildon won by 120 runs.

Disappointment for bowls teams

defeat for Shildon’s A team by a strong Mainsforth side, while the B team lost 4-6 at home to Brandon. Finally the Club played their 2nd Round K.O. game at Spennymoor A only to be beaten 10-0. “Now we will have to con-centrate on the league,” said a spokesperson.

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Are you free for a couple of hours on Sunday 3rd July from around 9.30am?Shildon AFC & Supporters’ Club is looking for volunteers to do a bit of clean-up work on the Dean Street ground in prepara-tion for the new season.The dressing rooms and the goalposts need painting, and there is gardening and weeding around the terraces which needs attention. “If you can help, you will be more than welcome” said a spokesperson.Shildon Supporters’ Club is organising a sponsored walk from the Dean Street ground to Spennymoor ground on the day the two teams play each other in the league.

The walk is planned for Bank Holiday Monday, 29th August. If you would like to do the walk and get spon-sorship for the club, then give Dave Jennings a call on 0785 980 4210.Shildon AFC is holding a Sportsman's Evening on Saturday 8th October from 8pm at Elm Road W.M.C.Guest speaker will be Lance Hardy, who is Executive Producer of Match of the Day, plus a comedian and another football guest speaker. Tickets are £22, which includes a pie & pea supper. They are available from Norman Smith on 07500 874 505, Wilf Tray on 07725 220 384, Andrew Timmiss on 07970 603 436 or Paul Mulley on 07704 828 522.

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