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Friday 3rd July 2015Shildon & District Town Crier Issue 722 Page 1
Published at:First Floor, Town Council Offices,
Civic Hall Square, Shildon, DL4 1AH.
Telephone/Fax: 01388 775896Duty journalist: 0790 999 2731
www.shildontowncrier.comemail: [email protected] our wonderful community
Town Crier
Shildon & District At the heart
Friday 3rd July 2015Issue 722
Fully archived online at www.shildontowncrier.com email us at: [email protected]
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Great Goodbye wins ‘Best Event’ in Journal’s Culture Awards
Locomotion, the National Railway Museum at Shildon has won The Journal’s Culture Award for Best Event in Durham.Mallard 75 – The Great
Goodbye at Locomotion, was the finale to a series of UK events which were part of the National Railway Museum’s Mallard 75 project, held in February
2014, marking 75 years since the iconic steam lo-comotive Mallard broke the steam speed record on 3rd July 1938. The culturally prestig-ious nine day event was attended by nearly 120,000 (119,049) visitors, and based on data from the museum’s annual visitor survey, 30-35% of those attending would have travelled from outside the North East region.The Culture Awards were held at Sunderland Minster on Tuesday 30th June when hundreds of people gathered to watch the best of the North East cultural quarter recognised and rewarded for their work during 2014.Sixteen trophies, made by Gateshead artist, Corinne Lewis-Ward, were handed out in a range of catego-ries.The museum beat off stiff competition in its category, including Steam-song, another event com-missioned to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Mallard breaking the steam speed record.
‘The Great Goodbye’ event at Locomotion has won The Journal’s Culture Award for Best Event in Durham for 2014.
Town Councillor passes awayShildon Town Council has paid their respects to Town Councillor Muriel Gordon, who sadly passed away on 21st June following a short illness.Muriel, nee Hillary, was born in Foundry Street - one of 11 children. She met her husband David at a dance in Heighington in 1966, marrying three years later in 1969.Muriel’s jobs over the years included a Machin-ist position at Block & Anderson and manager of MIND in Newton Aycliffe, where she stayed for 18 years until she became ill. She was also a qualified Reiki Master and a regular church goer. As an active member of Shildon Town Council she represented the Sunnydale Ward, as well as holding the position of Deputy Town Mayor.Her Husband David, who is also a Town Councillor, described his wife as having
lived a full life, making lots of lifelong friends along the way.Town Mayor, Cllr Matthew Burdess said, “Muriel was not only an exceptional individual, she was also a first class elected repre-sentative for the town. The thoughts and prayers of all her friends and colleagues at the Town Council are with her family at this ex-tremely sad time.”
Cllr Muriel Gordon, who sadly passed away recently, aged 66.
Friday 3rd July 2015 Shildon & District Town CrierIssue 722Page 2
Passed Away Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays
ClassifiedsAll about local people...
Town Crier Shildon & District
In Memoriam
Service to take place at Methodist Chapel on 3rd
July at 10am
June BrownDied on 23.6.15
Died peacefully at home on 25th June
Valerie Thompson
Funeral Service at Shildon Methodist Chapel on Friday
3rd July at 2.45pm.Friends please meet at the
Chapel.
(Nee Hardaker)
Beloved Mother of Gareth & Wayne. Also a loving
Sister & Aunt.Will be sadly missed by all.
Nanna, we can’t believe it’s been a year since you’ve been gone, we miss you
every day and we are always thinking of you.
Maureen Makepeace5th July 2014
Love you loads,Anna & Beth
xxxx
Special memories of a Mam who we will never forget
Maureen Makepeace
Love and miss you so much,Jim & Julie
xxxx
30 Years have slipped away but our thoughts of you will
always stay
Suzan Jary(Nee Langley)July 3rd 1985
Love Kenny & Rozx
Sheila Thompson
Every day is a special day
05 07 50
Happy Birthday
Happy 4th Birthday
Connor Jack Allen6th July
Loads of love fromNana, Grandad, Granny
& Uncle Stephenxx
Happy 4th Birthday gorgeous boy!
Connor Jack Allen6th July
Loads of love & kisses,Mammy, Daddy & baby Zak
xx
Yazmyn Natasha Kyle
All our love always,Mam, Neil, Robert, Nanna & Grandad
xxx
3.7.99
Happy 16th Birthday Yazmyn
Happy 1st Birthday baby boy
Bobby-Ray Baynham1.7.14
Love you loads,Mam & Dad
xxx
Happy 1st Birthday Have a fab day
Bobby-Ray Baynham
Love Nan & Grandadxxx
Happy 1st Birthday babyBobby-Ray Baynham
Love lots,Auntie Topo, Uncle Tony,
Alexa, Auntie Bobo, Uncle John, Auntie Becca, Auntie
Cha Chaxxx
Bobby-Ray Baynham
Love you always,From Nan J & Grandad Brian
xxx
1.7.2014
Happy 1st Birthday sweetheart
Shaun Robinson
Love from Brother & Sisters & families
xxx
1st July
Happy 40th little Brother
40!
Happy 40th Birthday big lad
Shaun Robinson
Love, Annxxx
Happy 40th Birthday DadShaun Robinson
Love lots,Tonilee, Tony, Shauna,
Billiejo, John, Becca, Charlexxx
Happy 40th Birthday Grandad
Shaun Robinson
Love Alexa & Bobby-Rayxxx
Happy 21st BirthdayHope you have a lovely day
Liam Alliston2nd July
Love you loads,Sammi Jo
xxxxx
Liam Alliston
Your little Princess,Jameliah Rose
xxxxx
Happy 21st Birthday DaddyI love you to the moon
and back
Happy 21st Birthday LiamLiam Alliston
Love Aunty Mandy, Stacey & Josh, Becky & Daniel
xxx
Liam Alliston
Love Mam & Dadxx
Have a good one little Brother,
Love Christopherx
2nd July
Happy 21st Birthday SonHave a great day
Happy 21st Birthday LiamLiam Alliston
Love Auntie Tina & Mick& family
Happy 21st Birthday LiamLiam Alliston
Love Aunty Debra, Uncle Dave & Sarah
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Residents at Holly Lodge Care Home on Maddison Street had a special visitor recently, when Activities Coordinator Stacey Purvis
took along her family pet tortoise.“Everyone enjoyed meeting the tortoise, we feel as if he is now
part of the Holly Lodge family,” said Stacey, who has promised to make him a regular visitor to the home.
Acknowledgements
Would like to thank all her family and friends for making her 50th Birthday
party a fantastic night, and for all of her cards, gifts
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Harriet Hodgson, a resident at Holly Lodge, being introduced to the tortoise by Stacey.
Tortoise is ‘part of the family’
Saturday 27th June saw the Community of Shildon out in force as Saint John’s Summer Fayre recorded their highest number of visitors ever. Opened by Shildon Mayor Matthew Burdess, the Fayre had a Victo-rian theme, a tradition of costume and fun stretching back over 60 years. With cake and tea in plenti-ful display the Mayor spoke of his delight in seeing a
community event where all ages were represented, both in the visitors and amongst the volunteers. Revd. David commented that the Saint John’s Summer Fayre, supported by Shildon Town Council, was ‘truly a town event, a community coming alive’.Lanchester Brass band played in the sunshine of the Church’s quiet garden and the many who sat and listened spoke of the
days when Shildon’s own BR silver band could be seen at events throughout the town. But this was an event that looked forward as well as back with un-precedented numbers of young people helping and enjoying the day. PCC member Adele Todd and coordinator of the Fayre said, “So many people have helped make this day special, we will be saying thank you all week!”
Fayre-goers step back in time
Shildon Mayor Matthew Burdess opens the Fayre, with Revd. David Tomlinson.
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Year 6 children at Prince Bishops Community Primary School held a fashion show on Wednesday 24th June, to raise money for housing and homelessness charity Shelter. The children up-cycled old and used clothes to make new outfits, which they
then paraded in front of the other children and their parents. Teachers also joined in the fun, donning outfits the children had designed and made for them. The event was a great success and raised £97 for the charity.
Miss Dawson, who coordi-nated the show said, “The children had great fun designing and making the outfits. They have been learning about charitable acts in RE and decided that they wanted to help the homeless. They raised an amazing amount of money.”
Youngsters flaunt their ‘up-cycled’ style for charity
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Asda’s Community Life Champion Ashley Casey presents a cheque for £300 to Salva-tion Army volunteers Irene Turnbull, Brian Turnbull and Ken Smith.
The Shildon Salvation Army Foodbank were delighted to receive a cheque for £300 from Asda’s Commu-nity Life Fund recently.You can receive food from
Asda supports local foodbank
the foodbank if you have been given a red foodbank voucher by a referrer. These include: Citizens Advice Bureau, Jobcentre Plus, One Point and Sure
Start.The foodbank is open at the Salvation Army on Cross Street on Mondays between 2pm and 4pm, and Thurs-days from 10am to 2pm.
The Tearaways Youth Theatre Group is looking for young people aged 9 to 17 years who would like to dance, sing or act in their Disney Cinderella Panto-mime this year.A spokesperson for the theatre group said, “I know it seems a bit silly talking about pantomimes when some people haven't had their summer holidays yet, but the group need
to start rehearsals as soon as possible on their annual show. “We are looking for young people who can either sing, dance or act, or are willing to learn. In The Teara-ways you will start making friends, having fun and learning new skills from the moment you arrive.”For more information call 01388 774838 or visit www.tearaways-shildon.co.uk.
Middridge Village Fete will be taking place on Saturday 4th July between 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Middridge Village Allot-ments Association will be hosting a stall at the event selling rhubarb and soft fruit.
Funds raised from this stall will go towards the construction of a disabled friendly allotment.If any readers would like to enquire about allotment availability at Middridge call Kathy Booth on 07530 899 874.
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Quiz nightShildon Methodist Church will be holding a quiz night on Friday 10th July from 7.15pm. Tickets cost £4 which include a pie and
peas supper (or vegetarian option), as well as cake and tea or coffee.For more information call 01388 775366 or 773171.
Eldon FairEldon Community Centre will be hosting a Village Fair on Saturday 18th July, from 11am. There will be stalls, refreshments, tombola, bouncy castle, bouncy slide, teacups, shuggy
boats, a face painter and a magician.If anyone would like a stall, tables are £5 each and are available by calling the Community Centre on 01388 775955.
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A story dash has taken place around Newton Aycliffe and Shildon.Linking in with National Bookstart Week, One Point staff from Durham County
Council’s children’s centres in the two towns dashed between local schools and nurseries reading stories.This year’s theme was ‘Rumble in the Jungle’
and, as well as the story, a range of activities includ-ing craft activities, animal hunts and jungle related rhymes kept little ones amused.
Rumble in the jungle theme for story dash
Joy Houlihan, family support outreach worker with Durham County Council, with Deejay Preston, Archie Brown and Payton Teder.
Church View Residential Home in South Church raised £355 at their Summer Fayre, held on Saturday 20th June.A spokesperson for the event said, “Special thanks
to Sainsbury’s, Dave from the Red Alligator and Paul from The Hut at Proudfoot Drive and the Bus Station for their kind donations, and also thanks to everyone for their support.”
Summer fun funds
On the afternoon of Saturday 27th June, a Shildon man was the driver of a stolen Vauxhall Vectra which failed to stop for a police traffic officer. He made off from the police vehicle before making his way at high speed along Middridge Lane and then Church Street. The driver continued to evade police through the streets of Shildon before heading towards Coronation, Close
House and Auckland Park. By this time the police helicopter had been scram-bled and gave assistance from the air. He eventually decamped from the vehicle with his male passenger on the Bishop Auckland bypass and they were both arrested. The driver was later charged with aggra-vated vehicle taking and dangerous driving along with a number of other driving offences.
Police chase driver through Shildon
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Shildon Library has been approached by many local residents about craft and community groups avail-able in the area, and as a result staff at the library have decided to open a Community Groups Board to advertise community groups.
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Thornhill Year 6 celebrate leavers prom in style
Keep healthy, keep fit, keep safe
Year five children from all three primary schools in the town enjoyed a ‘Keep Healthy, Keep Fit, Keep Safe’ event at Shildon Meth-odist Church on Thursday 11th June.The youngsters enjoyed a Zumba fitness session thanks to local housing provider livin, and a smoothie bike brought by Local Motion, while PCSO David Evans talked about
general safety and let the children try on an array of police equipment. The pupils also received goodie bags from Shildon Commu-nity Safety Group.Gemma Williams from the Safety Group, who organ-ised the event, said, “It was a very successful and well attended day and we would like to say a big thank you to livin and Local Motion, as well as the Method-
ist Church for providing healthy snacks for the children.“We would also like to thank Asda for providing water for the children, Sainsbury’s for donating bananas, Tesco for giving us a £10 voucher which bought the fruit for the smoothie bike and Andrew Ferguson from Bramble Fruit Shop in Shildon for donating a crate of delicious apples.”
Preparing goodie bags for the children - Carol Fletcher (Treasurer of Shildon Commu-nity Safety Group), Betty Carr (Chair), Gemma Williams (Administrative Officer) and Harry Fletcher (Secretary).
Thornhill pupils looked fantastic in their finery at their leavers party.Year 6 pupils from Thorn-hill Primary School were dressed in their finest to celebrate the end of their primary school career at their leaving prom on Friday 26th June.Teachers went along to the event at Elm Road WMC too, including Mr Cluskey who was in attendance
to say goodbye to all his pupils. One leaver and her sister put on quite a show by arriving at the party in a very different way. Isobel and Charlotte Coulls turned heads as they reached the club on the back of an 1893 steam traction engine!
A spokesperson for the event commented, “All of the children made a real effort and were dressed for the occasion.“Special thanks go to Clare and Michelle who worked hard to organise the evening, and to the DJ for making a very special night.”
“Please drop in and give us details of any groups running so we can display and promote your group,” said a spokesperson. If you do not have a poster or notice, simply call the library on 03000 269526 and give the details to a member of staff.
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Radio Tees came to Shildon last week, broadcasting from the town for the whole morning on Thursday 25th June. Organised through Shildon Alive (A Saint John’s Church Project) the broadcast was led by DJ Mike Parr and was based in the Shildon Alive hub in Church Street.Visiting local business ‘Sweet Greetings’ and talking with Christopher Bowman, chair of the local chamber of trade,
the broadcast presented a positive upbeat picture of the community. “The kids here are amazing”, said Youth Worker Naomi Tomlinson when asked what her fa-vourite thing about Shildon was, and on Thursday it was Saint John’s CofE (Aided) Primary School’s turn to be out in the town Guerrilla gardening. When interviewed by Mike Parr, the children spoke well of their town and hopes for
the future. Offering Mike a cup of tea, Revd. David stressed, “The work of the church is about seeing this community flourish, seeing the many good things come to the fore, because as one person cares so does the next and the one after that too.” The hub was buzzing all morning as people popped by to say hello and there was a palpable sense of pride as people spoke about their community.
Radio Tees broadcasts from Shildon
DJ Mike Parr interviews children from St John’s School for his morning broadcast on Radio Tees.
Locomotion, the National Railway Museum at Shildon, will host a massive Toy and Train Collectors’ Fair organised by the North East Diecast Collec-tors’ Club on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July.At the event you’ll find more than 100 trade tables, with traders from all over the country.The event includes displays by the North East Diecast Collectors’ Club, plus a range of model railway layouts in various
Harry donates 100th pint of blood
Harry March has donated 100 pints of blood over the past 50 years.
A Shildon man has been recognised by the National Blood Transfusion Service after donating 100 pints of blood.Harry March, of Lime Grove, gave his landmark donation on 19th June, having helped save lives since his first donation at the age of 18 in 1966. Harry received a certificate for his fantastic
achievement and will also appear in the next issue of the Blood Donors Magazine.If you would like to follow in Harry’s footsteps, make an appointment to donate blood at the next Shildon session - being held at the Methodist Church Hall on Wednesday 29th July - by calling 0300 123 23 23 or by visiting www.blood.co.uk.
Toy & train collectors fairgauges with a tram layout and more.The Toy and Train Collec-tors’ Fair takes place inside the Collection Building, with the museum’s impressive display of heritage vehicles provid-ing a dramatic backdrop – including the new display of S160 2253, an ex US Army Transporta-tion Corps locomotive, which can now be seen as a wartime train with the museum’s own warflat wagon and crusader tank,
plus a display of the Royal Train of Queen Alexandra (wife of Edward VII) and V2 Class locomotive Green Arrow.A spokesperson for the museum said, “The event will be a great day out for all the family – with Locomotion also offering a children’s play area, picnic areas and more.”For more information contact the museum on 01388 777999 or visit www.nrm.org.uk/locomo-tion.
At about 1.30pm on Thursday 25th June, an elderly lady was subject to a theft in the Secondz shop on Church Street. It is believed that two women were responsi-ble for the theft, which involved them slashing open the lady’s shopping trolley and stealing her
Witness appealpurse from inside. The two suspects are both white females in their 20s/early 30s. One was wearing black leggings and a long white striped t-shirt, while the other wore white trousers, a white t-shirt and a black jacket.Anyone with information is urged to call police on 101.
Lotto rolloverThe latest Shildon AFC Sup-porters Club lotto numbers were drawn on Sunday. The six numbers out of the bag were: 1, 6, 8, 10, 15 and
17. There were no winners of the jackpot, which now rolls over to £550. The consolation prize of £25 was won by J Atkinson.
Friday 3rd July 2015 Shildon & District Town CrierIssue 722Page 8
SportLocal leagues, competitions and events...
Shildon hosted the NYSD Youth Development League on Sunday which saw athletes having to deal with adverse blustery con-ditions. In the u13 girl’s 100m Isabel Forster came 3rd in her race, finishing in 15.2 seconds followed by Amyleigh Hutchinson in 15.7 seconds. Kayleigh Readman finished her race in 5th place in 16.0 seconds. In the 200m Leah Ruther-ford finished 3rd in her race in 32.6 seconds, a time which Kayleigh Readman emulated in her race. She was followed by Isabel Forster in 33.4 seconds and Amyleigh Hutchinson in 34.1 seconds. In the Long Jump, Kayleigh jumped a PB 3.77m finish-ing 2nd in her string whilst Leah jumped 3.70 to finish 1st in her string.Isabel also produced a PB
jumping 3.55m. In the shot Isabel produced another PB throwing 4.48m. The 4 girls later put on a spirited display competing in the 4x100m relay finishing 4th in 60.4 seconds.In the U13 boys 1500m Adam Hanby finished 3rd in 6.09.01 whilst in the shot Adam threw 5.6m to finish 4th.In U15 girls 100m Rachel Bennett equalled the League record winning in 12.8 seconds, whilst Maddie Wells won her set in 12.9 seconds. Rachel later completed the double by winning the 200m in 27.5 seconds.In the U15 boys 100m Kyle Walton continued to make progress in his return from injury finishing 4th in 13.4 seconds, whilst in the 200m he finished 4th in 28.2 seconds. Charlie Dixon competed in the 300m fin-ishing 3rd in 44.9 seconds
and returned to the track to compete in the 800m where he finished 2nd in 2.29.0 seconds.In the U17 girls 100m Courtnie Mills celebrated victory in 13.5 seconds and repeated this feat in the 300m, finishing in 43.0 seconds. Lewis Marley was involved in two of the closest and most thrilling races of the afternoon in both the U17 boys 100m and 200m. In the 100m Lewis came from behind to finish quickly, crossing the line in an identical time to 2 other athletes but was awarded 1st place in 11.8 seconds. The 200m produced an identical finish to that of the 100m involving the same 3 athletes with Lewis again making ground up towards the finish with all three being given a time of 24.1 seconds, Lewis being awarded 2nd place.
An emphatic win over nearest title rivals Norton was marred by a nasty injury to Shildon’s wicket keeper batsman Adam Jenkins last weekend. Opening the batting, young Adam, who captains the club’s junior Under 18s side, went for a pull shot, only to top edge the ball through the visor of his helmet causing a large gash to the area around his right eye. Adam was taken immedi-ately to hospital by club sponsor and supporter John Pollock but, despite being released after treatment, the promising youngster needs to return to hospital as there is blood behind the eye. “We’re all very concerned for Adam and wish him a full and speedy recovery. Accidents like this happen now and then but we’re confident that Adam will soon be playing again,” said a club spokesman. Back on the field, the Rail-waymen seemed even more determined to beat the second placed club and the side raced to 330 for the loss of five wickets in only 45 overs. The Upton brothers just missed out on centuries with Bret 94 and skipper Greg 93 leading the way and a quick fire 62 from Michael Lumley helping the team to the mammoth total. Norton’s reply was solid and the team were obviously not
Injury mars victorygoing to lie down but would fight hard all the way, having 55 overs to bat.With 49 overs gone, the scoreboard showed 203 for 7 and, with D.Cochrane on 99, looking likely to see the game through to a draw. But then Cochrane played a wild shot and fell l.b.w. to Paul Robson. Wickets from Greg Upton and Chris Young then sealed an unlikely but thoroughly deserved win in the 53rd over and Norton were all out for 216. Shildon sit proudly top of Division 3 of the N.Y.S.D. Premiere Cricket League, 78 points clear of second placed Norton. Preston on Tees have pulled out of the F15 Competition and so last Wednesday’s game did not take place, which leaves “the boys in pink” Shildon Locos, spon-sored by Middleton Road Garage, to make their debut in the competition next Wednesday at Stokesley. The 2nd team returned to league duty with Sunday’s home game against Whitby and seven wickets by Peter Stanwix ensured victory, keeping the side in a top four place in Sunday Division 2. Saturday sees the first team at home to Wolviston and on Sunday, the second team visit Marske. On Monday the Under 15s are at home to Brandon and on Tuesday the Under 18s visit Tudhoe.
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Shildon AFC youth teams are looking to recruit more players to add to their current teams. Under 7s (current Year 1 at school) Under 8s (Year 2), Under 10s (Year 3/4), Under 11s (Year 5), Under 12s (Year 6)
and Under 15s (Year 9).For more information see the training times posted on the 'Shildon AFC Com-munity Football Centre' Facebook page or contact Chris Hughes on 07793 844 952.
Youth players wanted
Sunderland Supporters Close House Branch will be running a family-orientated coach to Sunderland games this season. Their first trip is away to Leicester on Saturday 8th August. New members are always welcome and arrangements can be made for pick-up points in the area.
For more information contact George on 01388 663716.
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Shildon AFC celebrates 125 years with Jeff Stelling
Sky Sports HQ Presenter Jeff Stelling (centre) with Ebac Northern League Chairman Mike Amos, Shildon AFC Vice Chairman Jeff Ridley, Shildon AFC Chairman Brian Burn and Compere Pete Sixsmith.
Shildon AFC celebrated 125 years since the club’s inception with an Anniver-sary Sportsman’s Dinner at Redworth Hall on Saturday
27th June. Guest Speaker Jeff Stelling, of Sky Sports HQ and Countdown fame, delighted guests as he talked about his life and
his beloved town of Hartle-pool. Shildon AFC plan to make a donation to Macmil-lan Cancer Support using proceeds from the event.
Shildon RAC host Youth Development League